Description: When my wife died, I began to post on Facebook about what I was going through in grieving her. The book compiles those posts along with reflections as I look back at them.
Status: Text complete, working on pre-publication details
Red Devils
Type: Feature screenplay
Genre: Monster-in-the-water horror thriller
Logline: Two families vacationing on a yacht must survive an attack by hordes of ravenous jumbo squid while an old secret comes to light that turns them against each other.
Status: Completed, listed on blcklst.com
Confession
Type: Short film
Genre: Hitchcock-style drama adaptation of a scene from Richard III
Logline: A ruthless CEO, having schemed his way to the top of his family’s company, faces the specters of all those he’s squashed and eliminated to achieve his success – before everyone comes after him.
Status: Development
Monkey Puzzle
Type: Feature screenplay
Genre: Supernatural thriller
Logline: When an obsessive young woman loses her job, her new preoccupation with an elusive botanical society uncovers a terrible occult plot.
Status: Second draft, rewrite in progress
What It’s All About
Type: Short film
Genre: Supernatural drama comedy
Logline: When a young woman struggling with her grandfather’s death finds herself trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.
Status: Development
Murphy’s Slaw
Type: Short story
Genre: Supernatural humor
Logline: Fiona Murphy tells the story of her complex and contentious relationship with coleslaw and its interaction with Murphy’s Law.
Status: Seeking publication
Nevermore
Type: Graphic novel adaptation of a parody of Poe’s “The Raven”
Genre: Parody
Logline: The raven spills the beans on what really happened that dreary December night.
Status: Fundraising for art
Rubbish
Type: Feature Script
Genre: Family sci-fi comedy
Logline: Two teen siblings, one a slacker, the other an overachiever, must overcome parental misunderstanding and their own conflicts to prevent aliens from using Earth as a garbage dump.
Status: Third draft, rewrite in progress
Reversing
Type: Feature script
Genre: Family drama
Logline: In the face of her failing marriage, a retired woman sets out to discover what happened to her older sister, who died at age 3 – and uncovers a terrible tragedy buried in the past.
Status: Script preparation
Voices from the Void
Type: Graphic novel sequel to H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness”
Genre: Lovecraft-style sci-fi thriller
Logline: Marisa, a young Latina who feels responsible for her sister’s death, seizes a chance to redeem herself by investigating a friend’s murder, but his trail leads inexorably to the conclusion that the past is a lie – and conceals an alien secret.