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  Wordsmith Academy and Andrew Buckley Author

  Andrew Buckley

  Andrew Buckley is a film school-educated writer, which means he’s spent most of his life with no money and a high opinion about bad movies. Sometime around the turn of the century he attended the Vancouver Film School’s Writing for Film and Television program, graduating with excellence. He pitched and developed several screenplay projects for film and television before turning to his chosen career of novel writing (this was due, in part, to his discovery that ‘professional mongoose wrangler’ wasn’t a real profession).

  
  

  As a writer, Andrew favors playing in the fantasy and paranormal sandboxes and is drawn to writing with a humorous and satirical slant despite being asked politely on numerous occasions to ‘please stop doing that’.

  
  

  As the co-founder and lead instructor at Wordsmith Academy, Andrew speaks to thousands of students each year about storytelling and writing through the delivery of interactive and engaging online and in-person workshops and presentations at schools, writing conferences, and comic cons. 

  
  

  At the time you’re reading this, Andrew is busy working on several new stories and attempting to bend time and space to allow for more hours in the day. He now lives happily in the Okanagan Valley, BC with a multitude of characters that dwell comfortably inside of his mind. 

  
  

  Andrew is represented by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management.