THE MONSTER MAN OF HORROR HOUSE

Status: 2nd draft complete

Plot: Local oddball, John Coal is the town oddball. Old, crotchety, pungent and solitary, he lives in a scary old house that is almost as rundown as he and sees out his days shuffling around the streets harvesting his neighbours' skips for scrap metal.

The local kids take great delight in plaguing him morning, noon and night but they've chosen the wrong old coot to mess with because John Coal is no ordinary man. He knows where the bodies are buried. He's been to the outer limits. He is a keeper of dark secrets. Murder, monsters, demons and bi-polar vampires, he has seen them all and lived to tell the tale.

Now, if he is to rid himself of his woes he must dig into the deepest recesses of his past and use these terrible experiences to convince his tormentors he's not just an old man to be pushed around.

He is John Coal – the Monster Man of Horror House. (2010 ©)

THE NO.1 ZOMBIE DETECTIVE AGENCY

Status: 3rd draft complete

Plot: The world has been taken over by zombie. Small pockets of humanity remain. Cities lay in ruins.

But none of this can stop Jake Trundle from solving the biggest case of his career because Jake Trundle is also a zombie. And somewhere deep within the recesses of his long dead brain flicker the embers of the last case he was working on before the world turned to hell. Now Jake is compelled to work the case for all eternity, or at least until he rots away to nothing. He doesn't know why. He doesn't know how. And he doesn't know much when the smell of fresh meat is on the wind because Jake Trundle is a zombie. But he's going to solve this case anyway, even if it kills him all over again.

Jake Trundle is a zombie. But he was a detective first. And nothing can take that away from him. Not even the death. (2011 ©)

THE EXECUTIONERS

Status: 4th draft complete

Plot: Following a referendum, Britain reinstates Capital Punishment for the crime of murder. Third to hang is the notorious serial killer, Jammal Grey, alias the Dulwich Ripper. Acting Detective Chief Inspector Robert Bowman, the man charged with leading the hunt, becomes an overnight hero following Grey’s capture.

But then after the execution of Grey, the nation is stunned when Bowman’s own daughter is brutally murdered in what seems like a copycat killing. Who could have done this? How could this have happened? Bowman knows who. And he knows how.

Evidence crucial to Grey’s conviction was tainted; fabricated by the DCI to ensure a conviction against a dangerous killer who looked like walking. Only Bowman and his Sergeant knew of it. Only Bowman, his Sergeant – and the real killer of course.

For the Dulwich Ripper is still out there. And now he has a hold over the very man who was supposed to have caught him.

Bowman and Sergeant Hooper are left with no alternative but to hunt down the Ripper all over again, though this time they’re on their own. Using only their initiative, their experience and London’s underworld connections, they must find the killer before more young women die.

And before a grateful nation discovers the truth.

(* this book is a straight crime thriller, not comic fiction – 2008 ©)

MOVIES

TOP SHELF

Status: Optioned by Formosa Films until Nov 2011

Plot: Firebrand feminist tabloid editor, Christine Collins, launches a campaign against top shelf magaine, Bling, when she discovers her teenage son inflagrante delicto with a copy.

She hands undercover ace, Godfrey Bishop, the assignment of a lifetime when she send him in to dig the dirt as Bling's newest member of staff, but Godfrey's eyes are opened to more than he bargained for when he encounters former kiss & tell scandal girl, Wendy Pickles, working on the magazine's reception desk.

Godfrey is about to discover that when it comes to sleaze, porno mags have much to learn from their daily tabloid cousins – especially his own newspaper. (2010 ©)

THE DEVIL & ME

Status: Optioned by Mecum Porto Sia until Nov 2012

Plot: Juris is a street sweeper. He pushes a trash cart around the streets of Liepaja, Latvia) and helps keep them clean, but he is not respected. He is scruffy, unkempt and a loner. People don't like him. He co-workers don't like him. And Velna doesn't like him.

Velna – face of an angel, heart of stone.

Juris is destined for an unhappy and solitary life until a chance encounter with another loner – a profession assassin known in Russian mob circles as Dimitri the Devil.

Juris witnesses Dimitri executing his latest contract and unwittingly saves his life. Dimitri repays the debt by leaving Juris with his life, but when he returns to Moscow he realizes he has more in common with Juris than he first thought. No family, no friends, colleagues who mistrust him, and a job cleaning up after other people – Dimitri and Juris could almost be brothers.

Dimitri returns to Liepaja and makes Juris his special project. He follows him in the streets, monitors his life, watches his despair and resolves to turn Juris into a man.

Whether Juris likes it or not. (2010 ©)

REIGN OF BLOOD

Status: In development with an independent UK Producer

Plot: In a quiet, deserted countryside farmhouse, Britain’s vampires gather for a top secret council meeting. The Coven are bound by blood to meet once every ten years to discuss issues vital to their species. Territories, disputes, news from abroad, new threats and population control – all must be settled and adhered to if the 10-strong Coven are to continue to survive undetected on this small island.

For there are powerful organisations that know of their existence and continuously hunt them down with the sole intention of wiping them out. And this very night, one such organisation has tracked their newest and most careless member to this deserted location and surrounded the house with a detachment of special forces led by veteran vampire killer, Larousse.

If the Coven are surprised by Larousse, that’s nothing compared to Larousse’s surprise when he realises his target has unwittingly led him to an entire Coven. Now, with barely a handful of men, Larousse must fight to keep the Coven pinned down until reinforcements arrive. And the fractious Coven must put aside their differences and work together to escape. Or face complete and utter annihilation come sunrise. (2005 ©)

GOBLINS!

Status: Screenplay in development

Plot: A city boy property broker crashes his car in the middle of nowhere and finds himself stranded in an English country village and plagued by evil forces. Based on a story found within The Monster Man of Horror House (see above). (2011 ©)

THE NO.1 ZOMBIE DETECTIVE AGENCY

Status: Screenplay in development

ALSO IN DEVELOPMENT
(but with other writers writing the screenplays)

SCHOOL FOR SCUMBAGS

Status: Optioned by DM PRODUCTIONS until 2013

Plot: See School for Scumbags

THE HENCHMEN'S BOOK CLUB

Status: Optioned by DM PRODUCTIONS until 2013

Plot: See The Henchmen's Book Club

THE HITMAN DIARIES

Status: Optioned by an independent UK Producer until 2015

Plot: See The Hitman Diaries