Blog 3: January 1st 2007 Hello everyone and welcome once again to the perpetual, continual, everlasting gobstopper-like virtual jamboree that is Kieren Brown’s BBC space! I’m in high spirits today people, I’m soaring through the clouds for there is but one word and one word only that sums up the tone of this month’s blog and that word is: SUCCESS!
 | | Kieren Brown |
Yours truly is soon to become a certified, bonafide, electrified, published author of zombie fiction! Hell yeah! I’m so excited my heart is palpitating and I can barely see or think straight! Seriously, I’m not actually joking my eyes can’t actually make out the keys as I type and I’m relying solely on memory to guide my fingers square and true! Now just how did such a momentous occasion arise I hear you ask, well I’ll tell you. This is what happened... This all came about from the comics convention I attended earlier on this month I order to meet the esteemed artist Mr John McCrea. I met John and we talked, laughed and generally shot the breeze on options for me to take my comic writing, I gained plenty of valuable industry insight from him and pledged to stay in touch.
 | | Rough sketches - Keiron White |
What I also did however was take with me a plethora of sample scripts (at least twenty copies of eight different stories at an average of thirty pages per script, cost me a bomb to print) for the perusal of any publishers who might have been in attendance. Amongst many others I gave some of my work to Accent UK Comics and was lucky enough to be blessed with an email days later proclaiming that they liked my stuff and would like me to contribute a story to their upcoming graphic novel on zombies. Sacrifice Naturally I replied at light speed informing them that nothing in this world would make me happier and set about writing Sacrifice - a tale chronicling the final hours of Kate Austen. She's a soldier undergoing the painful transformation of becoming the undead due to a zombie’s bite, desperately striving to retain her humanity long enough to carry a newborn baby through the treacherous city streets back to the relative safety of the Global Defence Initiative. Click the link on the side of this page to download the script >> I was emailed back two days later by their representative a Mr Dave West who was nice enough to proclaim his love for the script and inform me that they’re gonna add the story to the graphic novel! To say that I had more than a few beers in celebration is a gross understatement. But I digress, back to business! Movie scripts and children's cartoons
 | | Rough sketches (detail) - Keiron White |
On the advice of my kinda somewhat but not really writing mentor Yvonne Brissett I emailed Screen West Midlands regarding the possibility of receiving either an access fund or lottery script grant for two of my movie scripts and my children’s cartoon series Captain Impulse Version 3.1. And I have actually brokered a meeting with them in their Custard Factory Offices on the 9th of January at 1pm Greenwich Meridian Time. Truth be told I’m feeling quite amped about this here liaison as I feel that there’s a really good chance of something happening with Captain Impulse (Screen West Midlands have funded cartoons in the past so they can fund mine dagnabbit!). What’s also cool is that I’ve found a brilliant artist (who answers to the name of Keiron White would you believe? Hmm if that ain’t a sign that the two of us were meant to find each other then I dunno what is) who’s working on the character designs as I type and you read. Rough sketches He’s already sent me a rough sketch of the main characters Reeyukee and Tivatt and it’s looking mighty impressive people. Mighty impressive indeed. You can view the character sketches here and check out Keiron’s artwork at www.funkyalien.vze.com.
 | | Kieren as a child |
With regards to my other scribistic endeavours; the writing of my feature film Real Love continues unabated, I’m now sixty pages into that mother so with a page of script taking up roughly a minute of screen time I’m just about halfway there. Another couple months or so and it’ll be completely finito and I can set about creating it and realising my dream of it bring joy and wonder to the hearts of the great British cinema going public! And finally My kinda somewhat but not really mentor Yvonne Brissett invited me to a screening of her own short film The Simple Truth earlier this month (which was pretty damn good I might add) and she proposed that I send her some short stories for possible addition in an anthology she’s putting together. I’ve sent her some stuff but in the three hours that have passed I’ve yet to hear a single word from her and am starting to worry. Will Kieren Brown become a published author of short story fame I wonder?
 | | Kieren Brown |
Will Captain Impulse Version 3.1 receive funding from Screen West Midlands, get made and captivate the hearts of today’s youth in the manner that Pokemon, Captain Planet and the Care Bears did for my generation? And will I save the life of a kindly middle aged multi billionaire businessman in a dramatic showdown with Ukrainian terrorists who’ll shower me with riches in endless and eternal gratitude? I cannae really say but what I can say for sure is that my story Sacrifice is set to be printed early next year through Accent UK Comics and that fact makes me happy as punch! Thanks a lot for reading guys, hope you have a great New Year!! Kieren. | 
