Misdeed by Pia
Read by Macblade Productions : She and He Voice Overs

After a horrible accident a young man asks forgiveness from his girlfriend while nature closes in.

Short, Horror, Drama
Rated R for language and unsafe driving

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Better Days Episode 05.5 ‘ The Intruder’
by Robert G. Newcomer
based on the Series by Steven Cameron

What would happen if Jason, Barbara and Kenny and Danielle were taken hostage in the basement by a madman in a Powerpuff Girls mask?

Short Series – Comedy
Rated R (for language)

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Power Plays by Pia
Read by Macblade Productions : She and He Voice Overs

A congressmen scheduled for the witness stand before the senate investigative committee is target for all sides of the political spectrum.

Third place finisher in the April ’07 Movie Poet Writing contest.

Short, Thriller
Rated PG-13 for nudity

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Better Days Episode 05 “Three Ways to Hell”
by Steven Cameron

The new girl, Danielle and Jason hit it off when they find out they both love the series Banana Chan. Poppy becomes jealous of there friendship and decides to do something about it. Kenny finds a new friend in Casey.

Short Series – Comedy
Rated R (for language)

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I’ve posted a couple of the teleplays to the phenominal StrangerThings.tv science fiction video podcast. Thus far, I have have links to the premiere episode Sacred Cows and Discontent. I hope to have the later two in the series Sins of the Mother and One of those Faces soon. To get a better idea of the series, check out the teaser for the first four episodes.

WGA – Day 10 Deadline Hollywood Daily for news on the strike.

Thanks to Leon for the heads up on the lastest over on Daily Script – Monkeybone. This is a February 3, 1999 seventh draft by Sam Hamm (based on the comic book ‘Dark Town’ by Kaja Blackley and Vanessa Chong). Sam Hamm has written, in my opinion, some of the best unproduced scripts out there. A quick search of Sam Hamm in the Script Search shows he’s written unproduced sequel to Batman, as well as Planet of the Apes and Watchmen. Monkeybone, which came out in 2001, is about a cartoonist who finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone. The film starred Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda. Check it out over on the Movie Scripts page.

Thanks to “Tierney Cat” for his insightful posting on the discussion board on a breakdown of what a WGA writer might typically earn. I think this sums it up pretty well, I’m on strike for the future of my union, for my health insurance and my pension. Right now, it’s sadly not about the writing which I love but about the business of writing which always plays like black comedy. Check out the rest of his post here.

I’ve just finished listening to Bill DeSmedt’s Singularity and thought I’d share. You can listen to the book over at Podiobooks.com. You don’t gotta have an MP3 player to hear the story. You can listen to it right on your computer.

On June 30, 1908, there was a massive explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. It was called the Tunguska Event. The explosion felled an estimated 80 million trees over 830 square miles. Yes, it was a big boom. Against this back drop, Bill DeSmedt’s Singularity weaves a present day tale of an astrophysicist, a rookie agent and an analyst who unearth a scheme to capture the submicroscopic black hole that caused the Tunguska Event and use its awesome power to transform the world. If you enjoy Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton you will dig this taut, fast-paced thriller. It is well read by the author – voices and all with plausible near future science and technology.

WGA – Day 6 – Strike news and insight over at Diaretical Throw-Up by David Press

Precious Popcorn by Pia
Read by Macblade Productions : She and He Voice Overs

A young boy makes a wish to a couple of aliens, the wish turns into a burden, but redemption comes from the faith of believers.

Short, Sci Fi
Rated G
January, 2007 One Week Challenge entry.

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WGA – Day 5 – Excellent Strike insights on John August.com

…Gourdy.

As you all know, earlier this month we had the October One Week Challenge wherein participants were asked to write a 12 page comedy script about carving a Jack O’Lantern. We had 27 entries. The fine folks over at iScript.com were kind enough to select one script out of the group to be recorded. The selected script is Gourdy by Antonio Gangemi and Aimee Parrott.

A heartbroken farm girl dukes it out with kinfolk and yokels when she falls head over heels for her Halloween creation.

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the October One Week Challenge. – Don

…to introduce a new audio book, Playing For Keeps by Mur Lafferty.

Playing for Keeps, launching November 1st, …tells the story of Keepsie Branson, a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren’t strong enough to make a difference. Or that’s what they’ve been told. As the city begins to melt down, it’s hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

Playing for Keeps will be a unique podcast experience: you have the ability to subscribe to just the audio version of the novel or you can subscribe to the “PfK Experience”, where you will receive in the feed a PDF of the episode including art, links to content you can?t get on the audio feed, and a short supplemental podcast called “Stories of the Third Wave”.

Check out the site Playing For Keeps. The first espisode is available at Playing for Keeps.

Mur Lafferty is a North Carolina based writer who has written numerous short stories like my personal favorite, the funny and touching I Look Forward to Remembering You as well as the audionovel series Heaven.