Well, shucks howdy, it seems that SWEET FEVER has been accepted into the 3rd Annual Web Series Festival Global!
NSI Totally Television phase two teams announced →
I’m very proud to share the news that my producer and I have made it to the second half of the NSI Totally Television program with our project - HEIRLOOM. I’d also like to extend my congratulations to the other team who got through, Ashleigh and Geordie!
NSI Totally Television boot camp 2016: students tell us what they thought →
Oh hey that’s me, so very, very bravely going against the collared shirt trend among the fellas in the program.
I am VERY proud to share the news that I and my producing partner JP have been accepted into this year’s NSI Totally Television development mentorship program.
This means he and I will be working with a variety of professionals to hone my story concept, Heirloom, for being pitched to all and sundry - including several broadcasters next May and everyone we can talk to at the Banff World Media Festival next June.
This is a tremendous professional opportunity which just may lead to a new television show with a very familiar name in the “Created By” credit!
I’m proud to say that a copy of my lil’ near-future horror novel has been accepted into Toronto’s own Merril Collection. Given that they have a first edition Bram Stoker’s Dracula, among many other rare texts, I reckon it’s in good company!
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While I’m certainly pleased for JUNKYARD LEOPARD to be included in this list of recommended books, I couldn’t help taking an extra bit of joy from discovering there is a book called OTTAWA: GATEWAY TO CARP (Carp being my hometown).
It’s about Canadian comedy brewing in the nation’s capital and the title alone makes me laugh, since I spent my teens and early twenties doing everything I could to go in the opposite direction, to get away from Carp and tunnel deeply into downtown Ottawa.
Juuuuust finished the last page for the first draft of my next novel, tentatively titled KENDRA. More news as this story develops…
Someone asked me if I dedicated Junkyard Leopard to my parents. No, but I can’t say as I have any regrets.
JUNKYARD LEOPARD - PHOTOSHOOT
If there’s one thing I’m glad I did, it was a photoshoot to create cover and promotional material for my first novel, including filming the trailer. You can see more in the Flikr album.
Model: Sidney Skinner
Make-up: Deborah Kryzuma
Assistant: Greg Winterton
Costumer: Victoria Lee Panos
JUNKYARD LEOPARD LAUNCH PARTIES!
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Come on down to check out JUNKYARD LEOPARD, a horror novel and the first of any kind by Toronto author & filmmaker Oliver Brackenbury.
Starting soon after 7pm there will be:
- A screening of the book trailer
- A reading of one of the chapters
- Oliver will A some Q’s from the audience
- Then he will sell and sign books, happily continuing to chat with anyone who wants to!
There will also be a limited supply of launch-only, custom bookmarks given away to those who buy or bring a previously purchased copy of the book!
This is NOT a private event, please feel free to invite anyone you like.
If you’d like to cover or promote one of these events, feel free to contact me!
JUNKYARD LEOPARD
JUNKYARD LEOPARD follows a young woman who’s unaware she’s putting on a costume and slaughtering corrupt Wall Street bankers.
She only wants to be happy.
This debut novel by Oliver Brackenbury offers gore-slicked catharsis for anyone struggling to get by.
AVAILABLE NOW
eBook | Softcover (CAN) (UK)
Press Kit
JUNKYARD LEOPARD will be available in eBook and softcover ten days from now, on June 25th, 2015.
You can also get a reminder with links to buy in your inbox, plus a free short-story-as-prologue to the book, by signing up for my bi-monthly newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/oliverbrackenbury
Otherwise, keep an eye on this space!
Hey hey, it’s the final cover for my upcoming novel JUNKYARD LEOPARD.
Release date and a book trailer are both coming soon (JUNE-ISH)!
Sign up for my bi-monthlyish newsletter if you’d like to get some special treats along with the release announcement. You can also follow me on Twitter or Facebook, if that’s more your style.
It’s on the publisher’s website, so I reckon I’m comfy sharing this tagline and very short description of my upcoming novel, JUNKYARD LEOPARD…the run up to which has officially begun!
I hate spammy, insincere #brand building stuff sooooo much. Just like you! But you gotta tell people about your stuff otherwise they’ll never know about it, so I’ve gotta find a comfortable middle between silence and babbling like a spambot. As part of that, I’m gonna try to make each place I talk about the book serve a unique purpose.
FACEBOOK
FB is good for discussion threads, so chatting about the book and its related subjects will a focus here. As I’ve done in the past on Youtube, I plan to respond to every comment and try to get to know people who are nice enough to enjoy my stuff!
TWITTER
Not everybody who’s on Facebook cares for Twitter and vice versa, so there’s that. This is my personal account too, so if you like a more varied, random, and frequent series of post then this is the place to go. Book stuff, cool re-tweets, thoughts about why Dick Tracy (1990) makes Batman (1989) look like A Fresh Turd (2015)…these can all be yours on Twitter dot com!
INSTAGRAM
Short film clips and images, but of course. I’m a big fan of #bookstagram and already share clips from books I’m enjoying as well as the never ending research that goes into my writing.
NEWSLETTER
Big Willie Style Guide has been going for a little over ten months with a reliable, once every two months release schedule. It features longer form updates on projects, curious research findings, hella interesting links, and a piece of original short fiction in each issue.
PINTEREST…MAYBE???
Like a lot of people, I’m still figuring out what Pinterest can do that isn’t already done well on Tumblr or elsewhere. Shall you join me on this journey???
I may eventually build a site just for the book, that’s still to be decided. I hope to release JUNKYARD LEOPARD features lots of kinetic, crazy scenes of murder, mayhem, and more. You can read an earlier draft of the first chapter by going here and I hope it shall make the release goal of Mid-June this year.
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