Leighton Gage

I have lived in lived in Australia, Europe, and South America, traveled widely in Asia and Africa. I've been a copywriter, an advertising creative director, a magazine editor, and a writer/producer/director of documentary films and industrial videos.

I visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke.
I'm fluent in three languages, and have a good working knowledge of three more. I've published a non-fiction work on television commercial production, ( O Filme Publicitário ), a book which became the standard for teaching film and video production to a generation of Brazilians and Portuguese.

During my advertising career, I won over 130 awards for creative excellence and was a jury member in all of the world's major advertising film festivals, including the Lions Festival at Cannes, The Clio Awards, The New York Film Festival and the One Show of the Art Director's Club of New York.
I've been a featured speaker in such widely diversified venues as Helsinki, Hong Kong, and Bombay.
I now write full time.
Sequels to Blood of the Wicked (Soho Press) are due for release in January of 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Check out my website at www.leightongage.com