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A Family Gathering | Pulitzer Prize Fiction Nominee 2007
“Where Was God On May 15, 1974?”
Novel & Screenplay
Log Line
It was 1974—the South. She was 12; he was 16. She was black, the daughter of a poor Baptist minister;
He was white, the son of privilege. What happened on a hot day in May changed her life forever. His was unaffected, until the passing of 14 years of exile, a vicious murder, a callous display of arrogance and power, an unexpected visitor, and ‘A Family Gathering.’
May 15, 1974 was the last day of her first life. In 1974, in rural Reedville, Arkansas, Deborah Yvonne Davis was a precocious 12 year old, black schoolgirl in love with life. Loving memories of Gram d ‘lena, her late, paternal grandmother, guided her.
Then, during a walk home, on a sweltering Arkansas day, her world changed forever.
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“Where Was God On May 15, 1974?”
Novel & Screenplay
Log Line
It was 1974—the South. She was 12; he was 16. She was black, the daughter of a poor Baptist minister;
He was white, the son of privilege. What happened on a hot day in May changed her life forever. His was unaffected, until the passing of 14 years of exile, a vicious murder, a callous display of arrogance and power, an unexpected visitor, and ‘A Family Gathering.’
May 15, 1974 was the last day of her first life. In 1974, in rural Reedville, Arkansas, Deborah Yvonne Davis was a precocious 12 year old, black schoolgirl in love with life. Loving memories of Gram d ‘lena, her late, paternal grandmother, guided her.
Then, during a walk home, on a sweltering Arkansas day, her world changed forever.
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I Never Played Catch With My Father
“When Fame, Power, and Money Are Not Enough”
Novel
Log Line
A Texas-born, billionaire baby-boomer’s life-long love of baseball shapes his adulthood. However, his enormous success fails to erase memories of a childhood missing a ‘heart and soul’ relationship with a father now near death. In an effort to finally close the “broken circle,” he leaves New York and catches “the last train home.”
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“When Fame, Power, and Money Are Not Enough”
Novel
Log Line
A Texas-born, billionaire baby-boomer’s life-long love of baseball shapes his adulthood. However, his enormous success fails to erase memories of a childhood missing a ‘heart and soul’ relationship with a father now near death. In an effort to finally close the “broken circle,” he leaves New York and catches “the last train home.”
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Half Moon, Full Heart
A love story as they were once told.
Novel
Following a diagnosis of breast cancer, Rachel Marin’s film director husband abandons her. Though a successful, professional woman, her world collapses. She attempts suicide then struggles to lift herself from the basement of her life. On a road trip across country, she stops in a small, Texas town and discovers reasons to live forever.
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A love story as they were once told.
Novel
Following a diagnosis of breast cancer, Rachel Marin’s film director husband abandons her. Though a successful, professional woman, her world collapses. She attempts suicide then struggles to lift herself from the basement of her life. On a road trip across country, she stops in a small, Texas town and discovers reasons to live forever.
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The Widowmaker
John Roméo has an eye for beauty and a nose for murder.
Novel & Screenplay -WGA
Log line
John Roméo, a former LAPD homicide whiz, aids a baffled LAPD struggling with unsolved deaths of wealthy men, and their mistresses.
Extended:
A baffled LAPD struggles with unsolved murders of super-rich, super famous married men, including a renowned mega-evangelist, and a world-famous golfer. Each, and their lovers, are found murdered, victims of blasts from a .44 magnum.
Solution: Call John Roméo, a cocky former LAPD homicide whiz, turned multi-millionaire author. Roméo has an "eye for beauty and a nose for murder. But the hunter becomes the hunted. Roméo may not survive but he won't go down easy. And he won't go down alone.
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John Roméo has an eye for beauty and a nose for murder.
Novel & Screenplay -WGA
Log line
John Roméo, a former LAPD homicide whiz, aids a baffled LAPD struggling with unsolved deaths of wealthy men, and their mistresses.
Extended:
A baffled LAPD struggles with unsolved murders of super-rich, super famous married men, including a renowned mega-evangelist, and a world-famous golfer. Each, and their lovers, are found murdered, victims of blasts from a .44 magnum.
Solution: Call John Roméo, a cocky former LAPD homicide whiz, turned multi-millionaire author. Roméo has an "eye for beauty and a nose for murder. But the hunter becomes the hunted. Roméo may not survive but he won't go down easy. And he won't go down alone.
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Quietkill
ONE HUNDRED MILLION AMERICANS, DEAD!
“For over twenty years, they knew...and did nothing to stop it.”
Novel
September 11, 2001 was but a precursor to the real “American Holocaust,” an insidious attack set to begin on December 20, 2012, eleven (11) years after 9/11. The numbers in the date are intriguing, and prove significant. Only one man—a former CIA agent, long believed deceased—taken down by his own “Agency,”— has a chance to stop it. To do so, John Shannon, a.k.a. Sean Ryan, will have to risk his life, maybe even die...again.
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ONE HUNDRED MILLION AMERICANS, DEAD!
“For over twenty years, they knew...and did nothing to stop it.”
Novel
September 11, 2001 was but a precursor to the real “American Holocaust,” an insidious attack set to begin on December 20, 2012, eleven (11) years after 9/11. The numbers in the date are intriguing, and prove significant. Only one man—a former CIA agent, long believed deceased—taken down by his own “Agency,”— has a chance to stop it. To do so, John Shannon, a.k.a. Sean Ryan, will have to risk his life, maybe even die...again.
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Fire Night
Novel & Screenplay - WGA
“David” vs “Goliath,”
"Into the dead of night rode the twelve hooded horsemen, wielding Satan's savage sword. Now, may their wretched souls burn in hell's fire, 'til hell itself be self-consumed."
Log-Line
The Supernatural meets the Super Evil in this coming of age story of two, young, adventuresome New England brothers, circa 2007. Their family is confronted by citizens of an angry, economically depressed town, eager to force sale of their property to an Electronics Conglomerate. Their father’s life and death struggle is joined by spirits of victims of an 1707 mob lynching and burning who have been trapped for three centuries in nearby Devil’s Woods.
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Novel & Screenplay - WGA
“David” vs “Goliath,”
"Into the dead of night rode the twelve hooded horsemen, wielding Satan's savage sword. Now, may their wretched souls burn in hell's fire, 'til hell itself be self-consumed."
Log-Line
The Supernatural meets the Super Evil in this coming of age story of two, young, adventuresome New England brothers, circa 2007. Their family is confronted by citizens of an angry, economically depressed town, eager to force sale of their property to an Electronics Conglomerate. Their father’s life and death struggle is joined by spirits of victims of an 1707 mob lynching and burning who have been trapped for three centuries in nearby Devil’s Woods.
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Still Dreaming
"After All These Years"
A book of "Visual Poetry" in Full Color.
Pulitzer Nominated fiction author, and former Oprah guest Gene Cartwright is such a poet at heart, he places a poem at beginning of all his novels. This collection of stimulating, thought-provoking poetry stirs the imagination, heart, and soul.
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"After All These Years"
A book of "Visual Poetry" in Full Color.
Pulitzer Nominated fiction author, and former Oprah guest Gene Cartwright is such a poet at heart, he places a poem at beginning of all his novels. This collection of stimulating, thought-provoking poetry stirs the imagination, heart, and soul.
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Shadows In The Mist
Screenplay and First Film For iFOGO Films.
Log Line
Michael West, husband and successful young attorney with a bright future, struggles with then is blamed for the mysterious death of his former college lover - daughter of the principal of his former law firm.
Extended:
Michael West, a husband and successful young attorney with a bright future, struggles when he is blamed for the mysterious death of his former college lover, and daughter of the principal of his former law firm. He battles with a family who sees him as a traitor to his old South L.A. neighborhood. Michael’s wife is unaware of the nature of the past romantic relationship, and at a lost to understand her husband’s change in personality; the threat on his life, and their imploding marriage.
Screenplay and First Film For iFOGO Films.
Log Line
Michael West, husband and successful young attorney with a bright future, struggles with then is blamed for the mysterious death of his former college lover - daughter of the principal of his former law firm.
Extended:
Michael West, a husband and successful young attorney with a bright future, struggles when he is blamed for the mysterious death of his former college lover, and daughter of the principal of his former law firm. He battles with a family who sees him as a traitor to his old South L.A. neighborhood. Michael’s wife is unaware of the nature of the past romantic relationship, and at a lost to understand her husband’s change in personality; the threat on his life, and their imploding marriage.
Road To My Forever
Road To My Forever
Screenplay Treatment WGA
Starbucks, 125th and Lenox Avenue
Log Line:
A feisty eighty year-old grandmother and nursing home resident, (Betty White) shrewdly convinces her USC Film School student granddaughter (Lindsay Lohan), to forego a South Beach summer break, and join her in a cross-country road trip from Los Angeles to Manhattan, in a 1955 Buick Roadmaster convertible.
Screenplay Treatment WGA
Starbucks, 125th and Lenox Avenue
Log Line:
A feisty eighty year-old grandmother and nursing home resident, (Betty White) shrewdly convinces her USC Film School student granddaughter (Lindsay Lohan), to forego a South Beach summer break, and join her in a cross-country road trip from Los Angeles to Manhattan, in a 1955 Buick Roadmaster convertible.
Nowhere, Texas
"You Don't Really Want To Go There"
Novel
“San Antone? Now, how the hell you end up out here, this close to Nowhere, tryin’ to get to San Antone? You come off I-10 just after the 10-20 split outta Van Horn?”
Cyrus Lazarus Bender had no idea why the stranger in the red Mercedes sports car ended up at his 1950s era service station, on the day he was closing the place forever. What he was sure the stranger did not know, that unless he turned around, he was headed plum straight to Nowhere, Texas.
"You Don't Really Want To Go There"
Novel
“San Antone? Now, how the hell you end up out here, this close to Nowhere, tryin’ to get to San Antone? You come off I-10 just after the 10-20 split outta Van Horn?”
Cyrus Lazarus Bender had no idea why the stranger in the red Mercedes sports car ended up at his 1950s era service station, on the day he was closing the place forever. What he was sure the stranger did not know, that unless he turned around, he was headed plum straight to Nowhere, Texas.
The God Wars
Novel & Screenplay - WGA
“Highway to Heaven or Road to Perdition?”
A rural, Archer City, Texas preacher (Robert Duvall) risks his life, when he and his rag-tag group of young believers begin exposing the truth about two, warring Super Mega-Star evangelists: The Reverend Jonathan Paul Crystal, 33, and The Reverend Billy Ray Rose, 63. The two, Dallas-based evangelists are on dueling, rock star-style road tours, determined to secure dominance and the other’s destruction.
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Novel & Screenplay - WGA
“Highway to Heaven or Road to Perdition?”
A rural, Archer City, Texas preacher (Robert Duvall) risks his life, when he and his rag-tag group of young believers begin exposing the truth about two, warring Super Mega-Star evangelists: The Reverend Jonathan Paul Crystal, 33, and The Reverend Billy Ray Rose, 63. The two, Dallas-based evangelists are on dueling, rock star-style road tours, determined to secure dominance and the other’s destruction.
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Harold
“Psycho, Genius or Both?”
Novel & Screenplay - WGA
Harold Van Brocklin, a 39 year-old New York homeless man, and son of a wealthy New York widow, is released from a mental institution following the overturning of his conviction in a triple-killing. He is freed, awarded hundreds of thousands in compensation for wrongful prosecution, and quietly placed in a Brooklyn neighborhood. But will residents of the Big Apple, and especially defense attorney, Sandra Bluestein, live to regret it?
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Westchester Hospital for the Criminally Insane
9:40 p.m., Sharp.
Last medication of the day.
Six giant horse pills, big enough to choke a whore, and only half a glass of tepid water. Shit! Nine forty-five, lights out. No talking, no singing, no whistling, no beating off, and no pounding fists or slamming head into the wall. Paint is fresh. Blood would just cause more cleanup expense. Thinking is okay, as long as it’s not done out loud.
“Psycho, Genius or Both?”
Novel & Screenplay - WGA
Harold Van Brocklin, a 39 year-old New York homeless man, and son of a wealthy New York widow, is released from a mental institution following the overturning of his conviction in a triple-killing. He is freed, awarded hundreds of thousands in compensation for wrongful prosecution, and quietly placed in a Brooklyn neighborhood. But will residents of the Big Apple, and especially defense attorney, Sandra Bluestein, live to regret it?
More:
Westchester Hospital for the Criminally Insane
9:40 p.m., Sharp.
Last medication of the day.
Six giant horse pills, big enough to choke a whore, and only half a glass of tepid water. Shit! Nine forty-five, lights out. No talking, no singing, no whistling, no beating off, and no pounding fists or slamming head into the wall. Paint is fresh. Blood would just cause more cleanup expense. Thinking is okay, as long as it’s not done out loud.
The Baby Clause
Screenplay Treatment -WGA
When Grinch-like Ohio CEO, Barton Grimmacher, fires a pregnant Nicole Greenwood—the wife of an Afghanistan War serviceman—from her from her Mall Santa Christmas job, he lives to regret it.
Screenplay Treatment -WGA
When Grinch-like Ohio CEO, Barton Grimmacher, fires a pregnant Nicole Greenwood—the wife of an Afghanistan War serviceman—from her from her Mall Santa Christmas job, he lives to regret it.
A Quest For Angels
A Quest For Angels
Screenplay - WGA in PDF
Synopsis
Digital Page-Turn
There are wonders and miraculous events which surpass man's ability to accept or comprehend. They occur not as a result of cosmic accidents, but are glorious works produced by the never-ending Quest For Angels.
Log Line - "E.T. with four legs and a bark."
Melanie, a bright-eyed 6 year-old, battles illness but triumphs, inspires her parents, and experiences a healing, extra-terrestrial miracle, with the "active" help of 'Shasta,' her beloved but deceased pet Terrier seen only by her.
Screenplay - WGA in PDF
Synopsis
Digital Page-Turn
There are wonders and miraculous events which surpass man's ability to accept or comprehend. They occur not as a result of cosmic accidents, but are glorious works produced by the never-ending Quest For Angels.
Log Line - "E.T. with four legs and a bark."
Melanie, a bright-eyed 6 year-old, battles illness but triumphs, inspires her parents, and experiences a healing, extra-terrestrial miracle, with the "active" help of 'Shasta,' her beloved but deceased pet Terrier seen only by her.
A Quest For Angels
Where Angels Walk
Treatment
Treatment
Malcolm James Porter is a shy, retiring, 80 year-old Chicago homeless man, and WWII hero of regal bearing. With his life shattered, following the death of his last and "bestest friend," fellow WWII hero, Henry Chester Morris III, he discovers the power to heal lies in the touch of his weathered hands. In a world hungry for miracles, he becomes a reluctant miracle worker. But who will heal Malcom James Porter?
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