Donovan majored in Media Arts at the University of Arizona and put his marketing talents to work for companies such as PowerSport Research where some of his camera footage was used on Fox Sports and in DirtWheels magazine. Has worked in the Online Marketing field for over 15 years working in the areas of web page and domain monetization, SEO, SEM, link building, meta data(tags), website and blog management and optimization, newsletter, social media and ad campaigns, and lead generation and conversion with top online companies such as Book Zone, Go Daddy, Crexendo and Google. He’s effective at creating and optimizing Adword SEM accounts and campaigns and is Google Adwords certified.
As a writer, Donovan has experience writing website content, press releases, ezines and newsletters for authors and publishers across the country when he worked at BookZone and he has also written training manuals for Video Update, Jungle Jim’s Playland and Malibu Grand Prix.
Outside of marketing materials, he has written, sold and optioned several screenplays, including adapting two novels from popular thriller authors into scripts. Donovan was also included as an Honorable Mention in the Best American Mystery Stories 2007, edited by Carl Hiaasen, for a short story called, "Capacity to Kill" which is published in the Thuglit Anthology Hardcore Hardboiled by Kensington Press and can be found on Kindle released as Stories From Locker 13: Capacity To Kill.
Donovan, along with his twin brother Adam, formed a production company in 2004 and have produced and directed films which were screened in over 40 film festivals across the country. They won over 20 awards for their films and screenplays, and several of the films have aired on TV. Donovan and Adam won a Rocky Mountain Emmy® Award for "Reveille" on October 6th, 2007. Reveille can be found on DVD at Amazon.
Brothers' Ink released their first feature film on March 28th, 2014. Locker 13 is a thriller anthology movie and stars Ricky Schroder, Rick Hoffman, Jon Gries, Jon Polito, Bart Johnson, Curtis Armstrong, and Jason Marsden. Locker 13 can be found on DVD and Digital at Amazon and iTunes.
Look for Donovan's upcoming non-fiction book, "100 Years of the Best Movie Stunts", to be released to book sellers everywhere in 2015!