Bruno Martins Soares

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.