SimplyScripts Radio – The Smoking Jacket edition: Interview with Jason Henderson, writer of Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising.

Rated PG for language

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Host Pia and panelists, Michael Cornetto and Don talk to author Jason Henderson.

Jason Henderson is the creator of several comic series, including Sword of Dracula. He has written for Electronic Arts, Marvel Comics, Activision, and more, and he is the author of Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising, his debut Young Adult novel.

Official HarperCollins Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising site
Alex Van Helsing Facebook Fan Page
Alex Van Helsing: The Blog

Show Notes

• Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)
• Sword of Dracula script and graphic novel excerpt.
• Final Draft Version 8
• Sword of Dracula
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Frankenstein
• The Vampyre
• Let the Right One In on imdb.com
• Books Consulted While Writing Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising
• Dewey Decimal System – Wiki entry
• The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
• Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

SimplyScripts Radio is produced by Michael Cornetto.

Music provided by Incompetech.com.

Interested in joining the panel? Send an email to radiosimply (at) gmail.com

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Over on the Movie Scripts page we have a number of scripts thanks to folks such as: My PDF Scripts, The Screenplay Database and The Script Collector.

You can find Clash of the Titans and Date Night and Remember Me, among others.

You will also find, Then She Was Gone – undated, unspecified draft script by Burleigh Smith – hosted by: Austrialian Short Films – in pdf format

Basil pursues Mia. But Mia is only interested in men who are masculine

Information courtesy of imdb.com

The One Week Challenge has come to a close. It hasn’t been without controversy. Some folks had a difficult time with the theme of a dramatic conversation between a vegan and a carnivore.

All the scripts are up with the author’s names revealed.

I’ve finally gotten the backlog of non-OWC scripts up on the Unproduced Scripts page.

Among the fifty scripts is Shawn’s dramatic thriller, Chernobyl.

On April twenty six, nineteen eighty six, Chernobyl reactor four exposed its molten deadly core into the atmosphere which forever altered humanity as the worst accident on earth. But was it an accident?

If that is not your bag, there are another forty-nine to choose from on the Unproduced Scripts page.

Episode 5 is available…This will be the last Computer Girl episode until after The Dark starts.

A web series about an electronic girl dealing with life’s biological problems.

In this episode: Sally and Carlton are untimely interrupted by Computer Girl. Carlton turns down Computer Girl’s proposal. And Miss Terry watches on in amusement.

You can also watch a 3D version of this episode.

Read the script for this episode.

All the scripts are in for the May 2010 One Week Challenge. They have been gathered in one location here. – Don

We take you away from your regular programming for this Public Service Announcement.

My friend, voice over actor DC Dougles, recently got fired as vo talent from Geico. No, he wasn’t the gecko

(Well, DC is not so much a friend, but rather about five or six years ago he sent me an email asking if I would exchange website links with his voiceover site MyVoiceOverGuy. We did. I was one of the first sites to exchange links with him since my link is, like, at the bottom of his links page. A few years go I asked him if he was interested in recording a script for one of our One Week Challenges. He said no, ‘cuz he was painting his house.)

Anywhoo, DC Douglas was fired from Geico after leaving a drunken voicemail at Tea Party HQ Freedomworks. He’s back with an important, moving PSA: Please, please, don’t drunk dial the Tea Party.

Check out some background info on the whole thing here.

Hey, DC. If you do get blacklisted and have a little time on your hands and would be interested in recording a 15 page script, give me a call shoot me an email.

Time is up for submitting scripts to the One Week Challenge. The OWC scripts will be posted starting Sunday, May 16 around noon edt.

Can you write a script in a week? Take the One Week Challenge. Write a script (properly formatted) 15 pages or less (courier 12 point font).

This month’s theme and genre:

Genre: Drama
Theme: A vegan and and a carnivore argue over their dietary philosophies.

The scripts must be received by Friday, May 14th at 11:59 pm e.d.t.. Please do not put your real name on your script, however, please use your real name and real e-mail address on the submission form below. (After the exercise closes you can either have your script removed or resubmit the script with your name on it). Please put “(c) Copyright 2010” on your script.

Please submit your script here

Jason Henderson, author of The Sword of Dracula, (you can read a script excerpt here) has a new series – Alex Van Helsing. The first in the series, Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson, comes out today from HarperCollins.

Fourteen-year-old Alex has no idea that he’s descended from the world’s most famous vampire hunter, but that changes fast when he arrives at Glenarvon Academy and confronts two vampires in his first three days.

When two of Alex’s friends are kidnapped by Icemaker, it’s up to Alex to infiltrate the Scholomance and get them back – alive. Assisted by the Polidorium, a top-secret vampire-hunting organization with buried ties to the Van Helsings, Alex dodges zombies, bullets, and lots – and lots – of fangs on his way to thwarting Icemaker’s plans and fulfilling his family destiny.

Take a look inside Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising

Alex Van Helsing Facebook Fan Page
Alex Van Helsing: The Blog

About the Author:

Jason Henderson is the creator of several comic series, including Sword of Dracula, which has been featured on NPR, PRI, CNN, and MTV. He has written for Electronic Arts, Marvel Comics, Activision, and more. Jason lives in Grapevine, Texas, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs