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"Seaspan" - A Fantasy Romance Novella
I’ve always loved movies and television and I grew up wanting to somehow be both Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett. I didn’t take that journey and went for a more traditional career choice: accounting. Driving to work one day, I decided I’d write a screenplay. Why not? I knew movies and I had an “idea”. Drive after drive, I worked out the plot in my head during my work commutes and then, one day, I knew I was ready-to-write! Each night after work, and after the kids were asleep, I’d sit down at my typewriter. One month later, I finished my first screenplay, Seaspan. My family gave me the thumbs up on the script so I decided to take it to the next level. I went to a writing seminar, got some basic information on script formatting, marketing, agents, etc. and I went full steam ahead. I signed with an agent.
I wrote more scripts and I had a couple optioned, I was a writer-for-hire and placed in a competition. My life evolved, but writing was on a backburner simmering nonetheless. Twenty-three years later, I’m still writing scripts and marketing them because I love the creation process.
After reading my latest completed script, my sister Pat told me I should make it into a book. Barney and Barry, The Hitchhikers. It’s a children’s story which I have now self-published. During this script to book to self-pulishing journey, I decided to take all my scripts and adapt them into novellas, one by one, and then self publish as eBooks. All the time and energy I had put into those scripts could now be morphed into readable material for the masses (not just producers, agents, script analysts). I was thrilled with my idea.
I debated whether this first novella should be updated to the present, but I feel part of the charm of this story is looking back and seeing how things were in the early nineties since it deals with time travel. I did add an epilogue and a new sentence in the story to accommodate the epilogue. For the leads of this movie, I had cast Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell who were just fresh off their OVERBOARD success.
I also chose not to increase the size of the scripts to make huge books. I think novellas are the way to go on these. We’re busy people and don’t always have time for a long, detailed read. Finishing a book in one sitting seems gratifying to me and I hoped for others, too.
"Seaspan" will be available as an ebook late August and paperback in September.
I wrote more scripts and I had a couple optioned, I was a writer-for-hire and placed in a competition. My life evolved, but writing was on a backburner simmering nonetheless. Twenty-three years later, I’m still writing scripts and marketing them because I love the creation process.
After reading my latest completed script, my sister Pat told me I should make it into a book. Barney and Barry, The Hitchhikers. It’s a children’s story which I have now self-published. During this script to book to self-pulishing journey, I decided to take all my scripts and adapt them into novellas, one by one, and then self publish as eBooks. All the time and energy I had put into those scripts could now be morphed into readable material for the masses (not just producers, agents, script analysts). I was thrilled with my idea.
I debated whether this first novella should be updated to the present, but I feel part of the charm of this story is looking back and seeing how things were in the early nineties since it deals with time travel. I did add an epilogue and a new sentence in the story to accommodate the epilogue. For the leads of this movie, I had cast Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell who were just fresh off their OVERBOARD success.
I also chose not to increase the size of the scripts to make huge books. I think novellas are the way to go on these. We’re busy people and don’t always have time for a long, detailed read. Finishing a book in one sitting seems gratifying to me and I hoped for others, too.
"Seaspan" will be available as an ebook late August and paperback in September.
