News of all current works in progress
I have submitted the latest version of my Wooden Horse of Troy story, entitled Endgame to the BBC Writers Room. This was originally a completely different radio play, then a stage play (long-listed by Bristol’s Tobacco Theatre during their Script Space IV event) and now come full circle back into a Radio play again.
In the story, the spirit of Agamemnon’s dead daughter Iphigineia visits Odysseus in a dream and tempts him with a dark plan to defeat the city of Troy involving wooden Horses.
At long last, Remember My Name now available for Sony, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Diesel and… iTunes!
I had an interview at Bath Spa University this morning for a place on their very well regarded MA course in scriptwriting, and 4 hours later received an email offering me a place! So from September I’ll be a student again, albeit part-time!
My story ‘The Fourteenth Duke of Plimsoll’ after many years in development has made the shortlist for the 2nd Marza Story Circus Competition (Marza Planet are a Japanese Film company, part of the SEGA group). First prize is a 3 year option to turn it into an animated movie and 1,000,000 yen!
At long last, my first collection of short stories now published on Amazon for Kindle. Official launch to be next Thursday.
It feels quite sad not to have it around anymore – I won’t start revising until January at the earliest – but it’s a lot more straightforward a story than Crooked Usage, so is likely to be submitted to an agent/publisher/Amazon sooner.
Leaving Mallingry is going well – it’s day 18 and I have 38,162 words out of the 50,000 so far. On the spur of the moment I invented a woman to be irritating on a sofa and she immediately wormed her way right to the core of the plot, only to be bloodily despatched several chapter later, at the hands of the villain!
Leaving Mallingry is now in progress – on day 8 I have 13,483 words out of the 50,000 so far!
Cover for the collection now finally done, see here. I am aiming for the Launch to be at the beginning of December.
Spent a day at Gloucester Guild Hall with some fellow writers on an e-Publishing course. This was given by Jarek Adams and John Thorn and covered cover image, blurb, formatting plus marketing techniques.
A fascinating day, and a chance to meet, discuss things with fellow-minded writers.