The Three Faces of Bradley

2010-02-04T16:42:00.000-08:00

I am, first and foremost, a storyteller. Whether I'm on a barstool, behind a keyboard, or working with a client, the narrative is always my primary motivator.

The Writer

Pardon the cliché, but I've been writing for as long as I can remember. My parents instilled a love of reading in all of my siblings. At an early age that habit lent itself to creating my own stories. The bulk of my elementary school memories have me cribbing and twisting plots from books, movies, and television into my own tales.

By the time I graduated high school, I'd already written well over 100,000 words. By the time I left the Army, that total was probably closer to half a million. Now, I'm on the far side of the million word mark.

I've worked as a journalist, copywriter, and screenwriter. I've got about two dozen poems below my belt, two full novels which I know better than showing, and I'm working steadily towards the end of my first novel I feel fit for publication.

My primary genre is speculative fiction – both fantasy and sci-fi. I find working in genre to be freeing, allowing me to address the truth of issues without having to conform to pesky things like reality. The majority of my writing tends to address big issues – personal freedom versus the betterment of society, religion, capitalism, war, life, death, love. You know, the important shit.

The Blogger

I started blogging within my first week back from Iraq. Like this, my first blog was here at Blogger. I moved my personal site to Wordpress in early 2005, and I've been blogging ever since. My largest blogging claim to blogging fame is Fiction Matters, a blog I started in early 2009 to help other aspiring fiction writers.

I also maintain a personal blog, which can be found at my namesake domain, BradleyRobb.net.

The Strategist

My day job, if you will, has me running my own company – The Pandemic Group – which helps individuals and businesses form cohesive digital, multi-platform strategies. Sounds complicated, doesn't it? Really, it's very simple. I help people make the most of the current tools – websites, email, social networks – to maximize their communication techniques.

I actually fell into this line of work accidentally. Because of Fiction Matters, I'd been building contacts within the publishing industry, and one of those individuals contacted me about helping out authors – teaching them how to blog effectively, how to use Twitter, how to maximize Facebook. So, I started working with authors, teaching them how to use the services of today, but more importantly, how to understand digital communication. From there, things just started to pick up steam.

My goal with Pandemic clients is to teach them the philosophies behind digital communication so that they can use the technologies of today, understand the tools of tomorrow, and not surrender their lives in the process.

So far, it's been the best job of my life and though I've given up a lot to get here, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Miscellanea

I'm tall. Really tall. Like 6'4.
I served in the U.S. Army as a proud infantryman, including the better part of a year in Iraq.
I broke all of the Ten Commandments by the time I was 23.
I'm a Linux user, running Ubuntu as my primary OS.
That last sentence is a wordy way of saying “Nerd.”
When it comes to whiskey, I'll take a good bourbon over scotch, but won't turn most whiskey away.
I smoke cigarettes, deal with it.
I understand that the antebellum south is largely a myth, but I think that manners and respect are necessary anyway.
I live in the same city I was born in, despite having spent the vast majority of my life away from here.
I have well over a thousand albums.
I get along with most people, but I am quite aware that I can be polarizing.
Rachael Yamagata and I are not dating.

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The Three Faces of Bradley