Bruno Martins Soares writes fiction since he was 12 years old, and his first book, 'O Massacre' (The Massacre), a collection of short-stories, came out in Portugal in 1998. It was followed by several contributions to newspapers, magazines and other collective books. In 1996, he won the National Young Creators Award for Writing, representing Portugal at the 1997 Torino Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean Fair, where his short-story 'Mindsweeper' was translated and published in Italian. His first novel 'A Saga de Alex 9' (The Alex 9 Saga) was published in Portugal in 2012, by publisher Saída de Emergência, within a series that features authors like George R.R.Martin or Bernard Cornwell. After that he published several books and short-stories in different media, in Portuguese and English, including the Scifi novels ‘The Dark Sea War Chronicles’ and ‘Laura and the Shadow King’. He worked in Project Development for Television, and was a journalist and a communications, HR and management consultant among other trades. He was also an international correspondent in Portugal for Jane's Defense Weekly and a researcher for The Washington Post. He wrote several plays, TV-pilots and short and full length pictures' screenplays, and he wrote and produced English-spoken Castaway Entertainment's full length feature film 'Regret', distributed in the USA and Canada in 2015. He lives and works in Lisbon.
On January 28th, Brodom Publishing will be launching at Amazon the LAURA AND THE SHADOW KING Box Set with both volumes of the series in an awesome deal. The set is already in pre-order and you can find it here.
Bruno and fellow authors Luis Corte Real and Luis Filipe Silva had a really nice chat with Joe Abercrombie, writer of the First Law series, and a few more impressive works. You can watch it here (never mind the first few seconds in Portuguese – the whole thing is in English):
After being prevented by Covid-19 from attending Comicon Portugal, both famous (and deservedly so) authors, Joe Abercrombie and Richard K. Morgan, have confirmed appearances at the vodcast Bangcast!, where they will be interviewed very soon by host Luis Corte Real and resident guests Luis Filipe Silva and our very own Bruno Martins Soares. Looking forward … More Both Joe Abercrombie and Richard K. Morgan confirmed at Bangcast!
At the first panel of Comicon Portugal 2021 on Thursday, Bruno joined award-winning newcomers Mónica Cunha and Jorge Borbinha, and host Carlos Silva, speaking about the new talents of SciFi writing in Portugal. Afterward, he signed some books from behind the plexiglass protection against Covid-19.
Because of Covid-19, both Joe Abercrombie and Richard K. Morgan, scheduled to record Bangcast! podcast episodes with Bruno and fellow interviewers Luis Corte Real and Luis Filipe Silva, canceled their appearances at the Comicon Lisbon – and will miss out Bangcast! episodes for the moment. Sorry about that.
Joe Abercrombie, best-selling Fantasy author of the First Law Trilogy, will be the guest of Bangcast! podcast recorded on December 12th at the Comicon Lisbon at 2pm. Bruno will join host Luís Corte Real and fellow resident guest Luis Filipe Silva interviewing the British author in a live venue.
Bruno was invited by the Theater Company Custom Circus to present the Portuguese version of LAURA AND THE SHADOW KING – LAURA E O REI DAS SOMBRAS following the great show ‘GOING CRAZY’ with a fantastic audience of several hundred people. Custom Circus emerged for the first time in 1988 on the plot of the novel A … More Presenting LASK at the Amazing CUSTOM CIRCUS
LAURA AND THE SHADOW KING-series’ first reviews are already coming in, starting with this 5-star-worth review by António Bizarro.
This year’s edition of Comicon Lisbon will happen from 9 to 12 of December and Bruno is set to speak with a panel on the New Values of SciFi in Portugal, along with young award-winning writers Mónica Cunha and Jorge Borbinha, on the 9th. He is also set for other public moments, so come on … More Comicon Lisbon is coming
The beautiful new issue of the SdE+FNAC magazine on the fantastic, scifi, cosplay, movies, music, comics, TV, and many other incredible things, BANG!#30, has finally come out to FNAC stores all over Portugal. In this issue, Bruno continues his series of articles on Writing Techniques, this time Part 1 of his Pscychology of Characters’ approach. … More Issue #30 of BANG! is here!
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