Author Malcolm J. Brenner and his books got a brief write-up in Nimbus, the quarterly magazine of the New College Alumnae/i Association, #81, Fall 2017. The photo, which Brenner submitted, shows him with one of the residents of the Dolphin Research Center in 2005.
Fans of science-fiction and UFO’s can now read the first chapter of Malcolm J. Brenner’s newest novel, “Mel-Khyor: An Interstellar Affair,” for free.
The book is available on Amazon.com and will soon be available as an ebook from Smashwords.
Link to an audio interview with Malcolm J. Brenner conducted by Tamara Patzer with Business Innovators Radio Network. Length: 28:41. Brenner talks about the influences on, and audience for, his latest novel, the science-fiction romance Mel-Khyor: An Interstellar Affair, and why it took him 37 years to complete his autobiographical first novel, Wet Goddess: Recollections of a Dolphin Lover.
(L to R, Jeff Lindsay, Matt Duff, Jeff Parker (producers) and Malcolm J. Brenner.
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – Visitors to this city’s Ponce de Leon Park might have gotten an earful while they were wandering the mangrove boardwalks today. They might have heard Jeff Lindsay, the author of the bestselling “Dexter” series of suspense novels, interviewing Malcolm J. Brenner, who wrote and published his own novel, “Wet Goddess,” based on his 1971 love affair with a female dolphin.
Filming the conversation were camera operator Jeff Parker and director Matt Duff, both with Luau Studios, a small Los Angeles-based production company working on a reality TV show about strange and unusual people from Florida, the state Brenner and Lindsay both call home.
Co-producers Parker and Duff hope to sell the idea for the series to Critical Content, a new production company that has produced such hits as “Ice Lake Rebels,” “Late Night Chef Fight,” “Sex with Sunny Megatron” and “Catfish: The TV Show.”
Later, they were in Cape Coral, Lindsay’s home town, trying to film the man who danced on top of a police car last year, making Brenner one of only three subjects in the Luau Studios’ demo reel for this project. Duff couldn’t say when the reality show might get the green light, but he hoped it would be soon.
Brenner was also filmed by British TV personality Tim Shaw in June for a similar production from TV4, but hasn’t heard any word on it yet.
Malcolm J. Brenner, author of “Wet Goddess” and “Growing Up In The Orgone Box,” recently returned from a quick trip to England, where he shot a promotional video for a new television series on Channel 4.
The interview series, to be titled “Tim Shaw Sleeps With…”, features people who have had extraordinary experiences. The 10-minute video, called a “sizzler” in British TV terms, is intended to sell the idea to network video executives. Shaw (below) is a well-known British television and radio host, having worked at numerous programs over a 20-year career, during which he won several awards.
(Above: Tim Shaw, photo ©2016 by Malcolm J. Brenner)
“Tim is a bit of a character,” Brenner said, “but then, so am I. I was initially skeptical about this proposal, but after chatting with Tim a couple of times on Skype and further exchange of emails with his partner Christina Percival and other members of the production staff, I warmed to the idea.”
Shaw’s company, Boring Productions, paid for Brenner’s airfare, passport renewal and some tires for his car (so a friend could drive him to the airport in Tampa, Fla.). Brenner flew overnight to Chertsey, a small village near Runnymede outside London, spent one day recovering from his flight, then spent all day on June 27 filming.
“When I first arrived at the hotel I’d been booked into, it was 9:30 in the morning, and the desk clerk told me they wouldn’t have a room ready until 2 p.m.,” Brenner recalled. “However, when she realized I had nowhere else to go, she had a room ready for me in 20 minutes. They were very accommodating.”
Brenner took a walk through Chertsey, a pleasant village by the River Thames. Later that night, Shaw showed up. “We had a good, face-to-face talk over dinner, and Tim described the format of the program to me,” Brenner said. “It’s really quite original. It consists of Tim driving around in a camper van and interviewing his subject over the course of a day. We ate dinner together, and the last segment involved us bunking down for the night in the van.”
The teaser took a full twelve hours to shoot, but the crew wrapped up on time. Brenner was happy with his appearance, and Shaw said he did very well with the long and at times confusing interview. “Tim and I were on wireless microphones most of the time, so we would be talking about something else, like his car (a Nissan GT-R) and I sometimes wouldn’t realize filming had started,” Brenner recalled.
There were also technical difficulties. “The location Tim had chosen, in a camping park on the edge of town, was beautiful visually, but right under the flight path for Gatwick Airport, so it was rather noisy. We would have to stop filming about every three to five minutes because of a plane flying overhead! It must have driven Chris, our poor sound man, crazy. And Paul, the cinematographer, had problems with the rented tripod, which wasn’t quite steady enough, so he ended up shooting much of the footage handheld, which added to the spontaneity.”
(Left to right, Brenner, Shaw, sound man Chris Travers, cameraman Paul Robinson and Sparky the Wonder Dog! Photo by Christina Percival, Boring Productions.)
Portions of the interview were shot in the van, in the campground, an open field, and the bath house at the campground. Shaw asked questions about Brenner’s personal history that led to his zoophilia and about his experiences in the early 1970’s with Dolly the dolphin while attending New College of Florida.
“In the end, everybody seemed to be quite satisfied,” Brenner said. “I’m eagerly anticipating the results of this shoot, because if Tim gets the funding he said he’d be coming to interview me in the U.S.A. next time, and I look forward to introducing him to some wild dolphins in Charlotte Harbor!”
(Left to right, director Simon Tucker, producer Graham Stuart and interviewer Tim Shaw. Photo ©2016 by Malcolm J. Brenner.)
It’s official: “Wet Goddess” author Malcolm J. Brenner will be in London in late June to film the pilot for a new television interview series about people who have had extraordinary experiences. The host will be well-known British television and radio personality Tim Shaw, and the series is to be called “Tim Shaw Sleeps With…”, a reference to the fact that the show features a late-night interview in a specially equipped trailer, where the majority of the interview (and some drinking) will take place. The pilot episode will air on Channel 4, a commercial network in the United Kingdom, and may be broadcast at a later date in the USA. So Television Ltd. is the production company.
“I’m delighted to have been given this opportunity to tell the world about dolphins and my experience with them,” Brenner said. “In my phone conversations with Tim, he has been very cheerful and respectful, and seems sincerely interested in learning more about my relationship with Dolly the dolphin and what she taught me. I’m looking forward to meeting him and to our interview.”
Brenner was previously interviewed in 2014 by filmmakers Kareem Tabsch and Joey Daoud, of Miami-based Coffee & Celluloid Productions, for the short film “Dolphin Lover,” which won several awards. He has also appeared on numerous radio programs and podcasts, including “Bubba the Love Sponge” and “The Howard Stern Show.” But let’s not talk about that, shall we?
Wet Goddess author Malcolm J. Brenner will appear on Michael Haymans’ radio program Building A Zoo from 11:05-12 noon on Thursday, May 19, 2016. The program airs on WCCF, 1580 AM in Port Charlotte, Florida or at http://www.iheart.com/live/news-radio-1580-wccf-5229/http://www.iheart.com/live/news-radio-1580-wccf-5229/
Malcolm J. Brenner’s Wet Goddess web site and blog, which had temporarily succumbed to a dedicated denial of service (DDoS) attack, are back in operation again, following action by Dreamhost, the web hosting company.
The parties who launched the attack remain unknown. Brenner is a controversial author for having written and self-published Wet Goddess, an unabashedly autobiographical novel about a college student’s sexual relationship with a dolphin in the 1970’s. The novel has sold about 1,300 copies in paperback and about 100 as an e-book.
However, the sites may not be in operation for long, due to an outstanding bill with the company.
“I am currently archiving and saving six years of commentary from my blog,” Brenner said, “with the idea of re-starting it next year, when I am able to pay up the account.”
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