Brian Fitzpatrick is an award-winning author, speaker, and former Head Marketing Coordinator for the Film Arts and Hearts film festival.
Imagine being just 7 years old and accidentally watching the horror classic, Night of the Living Dead. For author, Brian Fitzpatrick, that’s precisely what happened. It became the catalyst for a life-altering path forward. After a week of sleepless nights, he became fascinated with the idea that he could be so scared, yet be perfectly safe. Fitzpatrick swiftly put pen to paper and has been creating horror and science fiction tales ever since.
Fitzpatrick keeps current with medical technology for his business career serving the telecommunication needs of local hospitals, investigates the paranormal with his team of ghost hunters, and has spent a lifetime weaving imaginative stories for table top role-playing games.
Fitzpatrick grew up absorbing the works of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, George Lucas, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker.
For over a decade, Brian turned his focus to screenwriting where he would go on to place in the quarterfinals in four of the biggest contests the industry has to offer: Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition, PAGE International Screenwriting Contest, the Screencraft Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenplay Competition, and most recently, The Script Lab 2019 Screenplay Competition.
He then converted his most popular screenplay, Mechcraft, into a novel. Inkshares published the book in February of 2018. Soon after the release, the Mechcraft novel went on to place quarterfinals in the 2019 Screencraft Sci-fi/Fantasy Novel Competition.
Fitzpatrick has also created a workshop for writers looking to publish in today’s ever-changing marketplace. With a desire to pay-it-forward, he hosts the workshop for free or a nominal fee to the venue. The workshop is a comprehensive 3 hour group discussion on the writing process, paths to publishing, and marketing methods.
