IN THE WORKS

This section will include some excerpts from some of my upcoming work. I usually work on several writing projects at once. That slows me down a bit but, in the end, I hope it improves each of the finished works.

For the past few years I have been writing screenplays. I’ve been writing them because they allow me to jump from genre to genre in a relatively short amount of time. I enjoy exploring various genres and, frankly, find it difficult to stay with just one. Writing is a creative process and, while it is also a business, I have to follow my creative muse or it just does not work for me. But, after I write the screenplays, I put them away and move onto something else. I have not taken the time to explore selling in Hollywood as much as I probably should. I’m hoping increased exposure from Papa’s Problem will spur interest in some of my other work, including the screenplays. One of them, my first attempt at writing a screenplay, is The Boys Who Cried Wolf, a heist caper wherein a group of fire fighters rob an art museum (see synopsis). By the time I finished it was 185 pages long; much too long for a screenplay, and now I think it will make a better novel, so I am re-writing that. In the mean time, I’ll post some excerpts of some of my projects and see what people think.

My most recent screenplay is The Savants, a story about a behavioral scientist who brings several genius savants together to work on a common project. Something my research reveals has never been done. As the savants are working on their project, a cataclysmic disaster unfolds and threatens the eastern seaboard of America. Traditional science can find no answers for stopping the disaster but the savants believe they know how to halt its destruction (see synopsis).

Additionally, I am working on a couple of suspense novels which, I would say, are heavily influenced by the old Jim Thompson pulp novels. I’ll add those later as they develop. But, one of the projects I am currently working on is completely original as far as I know. It is a two-volume set of horror stories; one is a fiction novel called The Werewolf’s Analysis, the second is a non-fiction crime book, Blood Law, The True Story Of Gerard Schaefer, America’s Killer Cop. The reason I am putting them out together is because, one of the main characters from the Werewolf’s Analysis, a psychiatrist named Dr. Elizabeth Miller, will also be my co-author on the non-fiction Schaefer book. It’s a bit of a mind-flip, if you will, and it falls under the genre of transgressive fiction. Transgressive fiction is a small, almost cult genre that involves graphic and gratuitous violence and sex. It is not for everyone’s taste, for sure, but neither is serial killing and I think this genre bending will best serve the style of the story telling. Together the two-volume set will be marketed as Companions Of Horror.

Last, but not least, there will be another Emmet MacWain novel. This one will be Trouble For Tennessee and it picks up after WWII is over, in 1945, Key West. Pauline Hemingway and Emmet are still friends and she introduces him to the playwright, Tennessee Williams, whom has recently moved to the island. One of his friends, a homosexual whose lifestyle is not well received in this pre-enlightenment era, is murdered and MacWain is asked to help out again.

Please stay with me and let’s see where this career goes. As always, thank you for your support and interest.

The Savants (screenplay)

The Boys Who Cried Wolf (synopsis)

We can not control the wind
but we can always adjust the sails...