About Gilbetron
WHO AM I?
I am from Winnipeg, Manitoba. In case you’re one of the many billions of earthlings unaware of that frigidly cool and generally unremarkable locale, it is in the middle of Canada (give or take a degree of longitude).
Currently I am a professional writer and work both as a manuscript copy editor and well as a ghost writer. I also enjoy a number of other writing pursuits, including screenplays and television pitches. Whether they’re big screens, small screens, or (most commonly) computer screens, my work will hopefully be plastered over them.
Along this line my current projects include an ongoing television series entitled Colony (look for it on the 2010 fall schedule) and a full-length feature (also intended for a similarly-timed premiere).
WHO IS GILBETRON?
Of course, I have not yet addressed the one fundamental question you are all asking. In fact, it’s quite possible is the only reason you clicked on this ordinarily forgettable link at all, and that is to find out: Who the bloody hell is Gilbetron? And is that his real name? I will endeavour to answer these things as fully and fastidiously as possible.
Gilbetron is both an online persona as well as a fictional character. The name finds its origins in the hazy days of my senior year of high school. I could not point to a particular day and say, “There, this was Gilbetron’s birth.” I would like to be able to do so; what a celebration we would have! In the absence of a birthday, once a year I host a much beloved festival called The Joyous Days of Gilbetron. The Joyous Days roughly correspond, at least calendarily, to “Christmas” (as a result, the term Christmetron has been coined).
It is a direct result of the Joyous Days that the fictional (at least, probably fictional) character of Gilbetron first emerged. At this very special time of year, I provide glimpses into a mysterious and long-forgotten historical text known simply as The Gilbetron Tales. Unearthed at various remote archaeological sites scattered throughout the Americas, these ancient stories (written in an unknown tongue that, bearing, remarkably, a striking enough resemblance to English, provides researchers with a reasonably accurate method of translation) recount the adventures of a young prince (Gilbetron) seeking his destiny in a land divided into a myriad of kingdoms ruled by his archenemy, Bobolonius. Since these stories, originally written on stone tablets some seven thousand years ago, are difficult to find and can only be obtained at risk of great bodily harm, they are released only twice a year.