Joel Mark Harris is an award-winning British-Canadian marketer, journalist, speaker novelist, screenwriter and producer. (Take a deep breath now.) He blogs about writing, leadership, creativity, and marketing and is available for hire for all your writing and content needs. You can also book him for a speaking gig for your next event.

 

Born in Vancouver, he graduated from Langara Journalism School in 2007 and worked for the Squamish Chief newspaper before freelancing.

 

At Langara, Joel got the idea to write a series of books about a journalist, the first of which is called A Thousand Bayonets. In the novel, a former war correspondent named John Webster manoeuvres through the seedy underworld of Vancouver, trying to bring a vicious drug lord to justice.

 

A Thousand Bayonets won an Editor’s Choice Award from Author Solutions and won the Pinnacle Achievement Award for Best Thriller. It also was nominated for 2012 Giller Prize Reader’s Choice Award. The screenplay for A Thousand Bayonets won Best Feature Screenplay in the 2013 World Music and Independent Film Festival.

 

In 2008, Joel went to British Columbia Institute of Technology for a public relations degree.

 

After doing various jobs in the PR field, Joel wrote and produced Neutral Territory, a film about Henry Huge, who must return to his crazy Swiss family after falling into money troubles. Neutral Territory won best foreign film in the New York Long Island Film Festival and best feature film at the Interrobang Film Festival. It is also an official selection of the Beijing International Film Festival and the New York International Film Festival.