Fiction & Nonfiction

ADAM NEMETT’s work has been published, reviewed and featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Lit Hub, Fatherly, Variety, LA Weekly, The New Yorker, Forbes.com, The Brooklyn Rail, C-Ville Weekly and Cornel West's memoir Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. An excerpt of his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL, was anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader, alongside Nathaniel Hawthorne, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Lynne Tillman, H.G. Wells and others.

Thunderbird disco Homestead

After 13 years of researching “doomsday preppers” and homesteading for We Can Save Us All, Adam realized he had none of the survival skills he’d been writing about. He wanted to change that. Without becoming a total weirdo. Adam and his family began preparing their home to survive a grid-down situation, and dove into homesteading projects to inform our new lifestyle. Follow their DIY adventures in collaborative homesteading, gardening, solar power, plant medicine, permaculture, and community preparedness at Thunderbird Disco Homestead.

Brand and Content Strategy

Adam is currently Director of Global Brand & Creative Studio for TELUS Digital, a global B2B technology partner specializing in digital strategy, product design and development (mobile and web), digital marketing, data and AI solutions. Adam leads the Marketing team’s creative studio, producing the rapid-prototyping docuseries, “2 Weeks To Better,” as well as podcasts, case studies, blog content, ebooks, webinars, and other audio/video work. Find him on LinkedIn.

CREATIVE DIRECTION

As Creative Director and Author for heritage-based marketing firm History Factory, Adam wrote award-winning nonfiction books for Brooks Brothers, City of Hope, Discover Card, Huntington Bank, Lockheed Martin, and Whirlpool, and directed campaigns for companies including 21st Century Fox, Adobe Systems, HarperCollins, New Balance, Pfizer and Vitamix. Adam also curated exhibits, built websites, and created video documentaries and advertising campaigns for some of the most influential companies and nonprofits in the world. 

Adam's work has won awards from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), American Business Awards (ABA), Axiom Business Book Awards, and the Shorty Awards. 

Nonprofit Leadership

In 2000, Adam co-founded the organization MIMA MUSIC, which has grown into an international NGO and 501(c)3 educational nonprofit with a mission to engage and enrich communities through collaborative songwriting. MIMA (Modern Improvisational Music Appreciation) has operated in 40 countries worldwide and provides ongoing music education opportunities to hundreds of K-12 students in NYC and Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Check out MIMA Music's video library, audio playlists and radio spots, and connect on Facebook.

Filmmaking

Adam served as writer/director/producer for the narrative feature film THE INSTRUMENT (2005), about an art school custodian who dies and leaves behind the blueprints for a new system of ritual worship -- one based on music. Seven students are selected to live together in his sacred space, which soon becomes a magnifying glass for the fantasies and horrors hidden in the human mind. Guest starring Cornel West and featuring an eclectic original score ranging from orchestral to electronic music, THE INSTRUMENT stands as a narrative portrait of musical meditation -- the spiritual power of Sound and of Silence.

"Damn near unclassifiable...a potent draft of vicarious pleasure."  --LA Weekly

"Slyly ambitious...a series of music-based rites that become increasingly compelling to watch." 

--Variety