Lopi spent the first seventeen years of his life in a haunted house nestled in the small logging village of Lake Cowichan, Canada.
He ran around the endless forests, living inside his imaginary worlds, connecting more with the trees than with the other children. He often developed new worlds and scribbled stories on old paper, and after he graduated high school, he enrolled in the Institute of Children’s Literature—which was written correspondence because the internet wasn’t much of a thing yet. During this time, he wrote the first draft of Truth of Two Worlds.
This draft got shelved while he moved between provinces and cities trying to find himself. He attended Camosun College with the intention of becoming a teacher. However, after only a year of schooling, he learned that people actually made an income developing video games. He quickly moved cities again and attended the Art Institute of Vancouver, where he discovered that scripting in Starcraft and Warcraft 3 wasn’t programming at all! He stuck with programming anyway, which led to nearly fifteen years in the industry.
During that time, he wrote the second draft of ToTW, which revealed itself to be far more than a single book. He also discovered that he didn’t know this imaginary world well enough, and he spent the next several years exploring and documenting it all as best he could. He attempted a third draft during that process, but it only revealed more mysteries in his world that needed answers.
While sifting through ancient manuscripts detailing long-forgotten battles and extinct races within this fantastical universe, he stumbled upon another world with his wonderful partner, Audra Auclair. Together, they developed this sci-fi world called Nen, eventually scripting a short graphic novel as a prequel to the main story. Unfortunately, the graphic novel was scrapped, but Lopi was feeling the hunger to explore more of these two worlds. He wrote several short stories based in each, which somehow led to several more stories based in entirely new universes.
He now resides in Victoria, British Columbia with Audra and their two beautiful fur babies, Nymbus and Chroma. Nymbus is the world’s cuddliest cat (certificate pending) and is deaf. Chroma thinks Lopi’s shoulders are her personal perches.
He’s currently rewriting the first novel in the Truth of Two Worlds series while also writing a short novel based in the ToTW universe, which is being released monthly on his Patreon.
