writer
*Kameleon Man is now available as as an e-book on Amazon*My critically acclaimed first novel Kameleon Man was a finalist for the Relit Award for best novel published by a small press, and the Ottawa Book Award. It was also selected for an anthology of great Black Canadian writing. In addition to fiction I also occasionally write book reviews and for several years I hosted a nationally distributed book review segment on television.
I'm a Montreal-born writer based in Toronto and I'm currently working on my second novel.
high fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all of these when he's suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into the garment jungle of today's Toronto. Stacey's part black, part white, and apparently on the fast track to fame, fortune, and all the women he could ever want, though at times it seems as if he's standing still. But does he really want the glitz? Deep down he hungers to make it as a serious photographer, but the gaudy lures and traps of male modelling never cease to tempt him. Kameleon is the hot new jeans-maker, and the guy models in town are clawing at one another to become the company's new face and body. But only one will snatch the crown... if he can survive the sharks that lurk behind the flashing cameras and megawatt smiles. At times hilarious and tart, at times savage and satirical, Kameleon Man launches a startling new voice in fiction, one that struts down the runway with electric panache.
Globe and Mail: "You know you are in good reading territory when you reach that point in a book where you balance on the delicious tension between wanting to see what happens next and wanting to slow down to make it last."
George Elliott Clarke (author of the Governor General's Award-winning book Execution Poems):"Brunhuber's novel is a cinematic tour-de-force of urban grit and urbane wit."
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buy Kameleon Man at your favorite book store or online. In the U.S. and worldwide, you can find the book at amazon.com.
reporter
I started my career at CBC Radio in Ottawa, then switched networks and media when I became a TV reporter for CTV. I worked as a local reporter in Ottawa, Halifax and Montreal, and as an award-winning national correspondent for the CBC in Calgary.I'm now the National's newest videojournalist, and I anchor The National on Saturday nights.
You can follow me irregularly on Twitter @kimbrunhuber.
I have a Bachelor and Master of Journalism from Carleton University.
My stories have been broadcast around the globe, and my articles and columns have appeared in newspapers and magazines in Canada, the U.S. and South Africa. Here's a sample:
(*apologies... I just switched web hosts and a few links aren't back up yet)
listen to a CBC radio story on the downtrodden Hazara people of Afghanistan--descendants of Genghis Khan--who are still being persecuted. Or see the two-part TV story on the same subject.
read a Globe and Mail article about clay eating in West Africa
see a CTV National story on a suicide bombing in Afghanistan
see a CBC TV story on Inuit in Timbuktu
see a CBC TV story on an innovative solution to the world's food crisis
read a blurb in the Globe and Mail on "survival tips" for desert travel
see a CBC TV story on ritual sacrifice in Africa
listen to a CBC radio doc on the tough life of journalists in Sierra Leone
read an article in the Toronto Star on Canadian soldiers trying to train soldiers in Africa... without bullets
read an article in Karma Magazine on the end of a unique Danish community where drugs are legal and anything goes...
read a column in Femina Magazine on being a single thirty-something
read a review in the Ottawa Citizen of Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads
read a review in the Globe and Mail of Mary Soderstrom's The Violets of Usambara. (June, 2008)
filmmaker
I have traveled to every continent except Antarctica to shoot documentaries and special projects for television and the internet.My photographs have been published in Canadian and American newspapers and magazines.
see a documentary on the challenges of campaigning in Nunavut--a riding that encompasses three time zones--I edited it on the road in one day... quite a challenge (October, 2008).
contact
kim@kimbrunhuber.comfor literary media inquiries, bookings,
and to order copies of the
Book Club/Teacher's Guide
for Kameleon Man:
Michael Carroll
The Dundurn Group
3 Church St., Suite 500
Toronto, ON
M5E 1M2
mcarroll@dundurn.com
