Who is he? | BTG Studios - the creative home of bestselling author, Bradley Trevor Greive

Attended and graduated from The Royal Military College, Duntroon
Military exchange with Royal Thai Military Academy and tour of Thai/Cambodian border military installations and refugee camps

Paratroop Platoon Commander with 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (Para)
Specialist Qualifications include: Airborne Operations, Air Mobile Operations, Survival, Mine Warfare & Anti Handling Devices (Instructor), Heavy Weapons – Direct Fire Weapons, Anti-Armour, Heavy Machine Guns (Instructor)

Gave up regimented life of the military elite to undertake a series of underpaid but creatively enlightening positions including stints in advertising, modeling and table waiting. Highlight was dressing up as a giant red M&M

Launched Fate cartoons in Manly Art Gallery and Museum Newsletter
Youngest Feature Cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald (Stay in Touch) with launch of Great Beginnings series

Launched Bradley Trevor Greive Cartoon Series (SMH – Stay In Touch)
Held exhibition, Laughing With A Mouthful Of Cheese and launched six postcards featuring work from this exhibition
Pitted himself against Members of Parliament at the 1995 Great Debate – and won

Creative Consultant/Writer for Godfrey Bigot’s political comedy sketches on Channel Seven’s Today Tonight program
Cartoons included in Phillip Adams’ contemporary Australian humour and satire anthology, Kookaburra, published by Penguin

Completed The Blue Day Book
Created, wrote and directed Agent Green, three-minute clay and cell animated pilot. Sold to Nickelodeon and launched worldwide (still screening)
Commissioned by MTV Aust. to write & produce 30 sec bumper Seagull
Released range of BTG wrapping paper & Valentine, Mothers’ Day, Fathers’ Day & Christmas cards (box sets) and gift tags

Secured international literary representation with Al Zuckerman, Writers House, New York
Completed Dear Mum
Finalist for National Greeting Card Art and Design Awards
Completed 60 new greeting cards and 8 new wrap designs

Dear Mum and Looking for Mr Right are released (#2 and #3 in BDB Series)
Won three publishing awards – ABA Book of the Year, APA Most Innovative Publishing Venture of the Year & NZ Best of the Best-sellers
Philanthropic and wildlife sponsorship plans grow beyond Taronga Zoo, Western Plains Zoo, & The Taronga Foundation, to incorporate cultural and environmental projects on most continents
Conducted a pilgrimage to the US universities associated with Nobel prize winner, Richard Feynman
Appointed as a Governor of the Taronga Foundation

#4 in BDB series – The Meaning of Life released
Won fourth publishing award – NZ Best of the Non-Fiction Best-sellers
Spent ten months on the road promoting books, including Priceless. The vanishing beauty of a fragile planet, collaboration with wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwago. All author royalties donated to the Taronga Foundation
Recorded voice talent for albatross in Pixar’s Finding Nemo
Autographed 23,000 books

#5 in BDB series – The Incredible Truth About Motherhood released
Has 5 operations as a result of training for The Australian Safari dirt bike rally championship to raise funds for the Taronga Foundation
Launches the inaugural Taronga Foundation Poetry Prize
Anthology of winning and commended poems, Poems by Young Australians 2003 published
Achieves the goal of being published in six continents #6 in BDB series – Tomorrow. Adventures in an Uncertain World released
Has a number of simultaneous best-sellers. BTG books are:
- #1, #2, #4 and #5 on US Bookscan Gift books
- #4 and #5 on New York Times ‘Advice’ Best-sellers
- #1 and #2 on the UK The Times & Sunday Times Best-sellers
- #1 in The Australian & Australian Bookscan
Worldwide sales of all books reach 6.5 million by mid year
Animated short film Show &Tell, written by BTG and produced and directed by Kapow Pictures, won Comgraph Animation Gold Award, Best Short Film at the US Telluride Film Festival and the International 3D Awards in Denmark. It was also nominated for an AFI Award

#7 in BDB series – The Book For People Who Do Too Much released
The Blue Day Book #9 on Italian best-seller list
Continued chairing and promoting Australia’s leading prize for young poets, The Taronga Foundation Poetry Prize
Undertook a free national lecture tour – Getting Published. The Ultimate Guide
Signed up artist and author Emma Magenta who publishes The peril of magnificent love
Great success on Brazil’s Best Seller list, with The Blue Day Book #5, Tomorrow #5, Dear Mum #2 and The Incredible Truth About Motherhood #4
The Book For People Who Do Too Much #1 SMH non-fiction and self-help list
The Book For People Who Do Too Much #5 NZ best seller list non-fiction
#8 in BDB series – Friends to the End released
Poems by Young Australians 2003 won APA Best Designed Children’s Non-fiction Book
Produced Sunny and Blue music track and film clip
Travelled to Antarctica to photograph and observe the rugged beauty
Undertook medical testing for Russian cosmonaut training at Star City Moscow
Poems by Young Australians Vol 2 released October 2004

Worldwide sales pass 12 million
#9 in BDB series – Dear Dad released
#10 in BDB series – The Blue Day Book For Kids released
Priceless: the vanishing beauty of a fragile planet won 2005 Skipping Stones Honour Award
Poems by Young Australians Vol 2 won Children’s Book Council Notable Book Award
Poems by Young Australians Vol 3 launched October
#11 in BDB series – The Simple Truth About Love released
The Blue Day Book For Kids won Mothers Choice Award
Armadillo Brothers written
Murdery Boo in development
Became French Polynesian rock lifting champion

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