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Ellen Green is a veteran Hollywood screenwriter with produced credits including the feature films, “Three Wishes”, and “The Seventh Sign”, among others. Having also worked as a producer, she knows the ins and outs of screenplay development from both sides of the table.

 

 

 

 

NAGUAL, by Raul N. Camacho

 

Horror/Fantasy set in Mexico. Dirt poor and orphaned, Antonio has grown up suffering under the cruelty of the rich and powerful. After his wife and child are butchered and what little happiness he’d had is gone, Antonio hangs himself…but instead of dying finds himself transformed into a “Nagual” -- a mythical creature who sets out to avenge the wrongs committed against him.

 

 

WAKING UP ALONE by Kevin Smith

 

Supernatural Drama. 18 year old Todd Smith thought he had lost his soul mate – until she calls him the day after her funeral. Now he must struggle to uncover the secrets of their relationship before he loses everything. In this supernatural coming-of-age story, Garden State meets Memento and nothing – even true love – is quite what it seems.

 

 

ANNE BONNY – TALE OF A PIRATE LADY by Robert Q. Hoyt

 

Action/adventure. In the early 18th century, young Anne Cormack works by day for the British Governor but, seeking freedom and fun in the male-dominated society, by night dresses as a man, becoming “Andy” and not above a bar fight or two. But when her beloved Uncle is convicted of treason in a rigged trial and executed, Anne vows revenge on the British naval officer responsible – and takes to the high seas to exact it.

 

 

A GUILTY CONSCIENCE, by William Irving

 

Gritty crime drama set in Northern England. Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, Kenny’s a natural tough guy who does what he can to get by, most of it illegal. But when he throws his lot in with ruthless Jamaican kingpin, Rasta, he finds himself in over his head -- and about to lose the one person he loves, his sister Violet, who’s fallen for Rasta. 

 

 

LOST, LONELY AND LOCKED -UP, by Yolanda Cotton

 

True life drama as heartbreaking as it ultimately is uplifting. Teenage Yolanda looks for love in all the wrong places and winds up pregnant, on drugs and living with an abusive man she can’t escape. Her downward spiral ends with an attempted murder conviction. But prison is her salvation. Yolanda finally faces the truth of her life and finds inspiration in telling her story to help others avoid her mistakes. She founds a ministry in prison which she continues once released:  in saving others she has saved herself.

 

ISOBEL by Sheila Tibbs      

 

Psychological thriller. A young mother is haunted by a nightmare in which her foster daughter turns out to be a demon sent to avenge a horrible death. She questions her own sanity when her dream world suddenly becomes real and threatens everyone she loves.

 

 

THE 19th HOLE, by C.E. Larsen

 

Vietnam vet Kurt for the most part live down his ‘Nam experience but when one of his brothers dies, the group reunites on a journey to make sure his “after death” request is fulfilled. As searing a portrait of the walking wounded as you’ll ever read, the “19th haunting tells the story of men for whom life is harder than death.

 

 

THE LEMON DANCE, by Robert “Reds” Helmey

           

True life story of a super-patriot soldier who, having missed out on every U.S. war he's tried to join, hijacks a plane to Cuba, intent on single-handedly assassinating Castro for the CIA. Truth is stranger than fiction in this Cold War espionage black comedy.

 

 

CYBER KAT, by Carrie Bradstreet

 

Superhero/Action/Drama. When a reclusive, small-town Librarian is transformed by a lightning surge on her computer, she becomes the ultimate online voyeur.  And with the power to travel the Internet at will, this unlikely vigilante superhero tracks down online predators and exacts vengeance -- only to find her biggest threat is the uncle who molested her 25 years earlier.

 

 

OSSIAN and NIAM, by John O’Callaghan

 

When a mortal falls for a woman from the land of eternal youth, his return to Ireland tragically separates them in one of history's most beautiful and mythic love stories. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is truly a love story of the ages, for all ages