A Great Week - Film, TV, Comic Books And A Surprise Contact From The USA.

Earlier this week I was contacted out of the blue by Jeremy Kagan. Jeremy is the Emmy-award-winning director of Chicago Hope who has also directed a bazillion other TV and film projects including one of my favourites, The West Wing.
Jeremy saw my play 'The Example' at The Edinburgh Festival and appreciated my "insight, language and tension." He asked for a copy of the script to share with his graduate film directing students at USC. He also thought it would make a great short film and asked if I was interested in this... pretty amazing.

A huge thank-you to Nick Brice and everyone at Bite-Size theatre who obviously put on a great production.

Meanwhile, it looks like the TV series I was writing earlier this year is happening and, if all goes as planned, it could start shooting as early as November. Another series I've been working on also looks set to happen - unless it becomes a feature film instead. I'll give more details when I'm allowed... almost all of my working life is vague and secretive at the moment.

The film of A4 2 A3 is progressing well and I met with the producer, lead actor and director this week.

My play 'Drip' will be opening at the Carlton Courthouse on September 24 as part of Melborn '08 and the Fringe Festival. Drip is currently in the number 1 spot in the 'top 40' unproduced works over at Script Squirrel.

Most of my writing time has recently been given over to the writing of comic books. I currently have five different projects in the works, with the first to be published in January.
I also had a good chat about the future with DFC editor Will Fickling earlier this week. The DFC, based in Oxford, England, is a weekly comic book brought out by Random House. It would be fantastic to see something like this supported by a mainstream Australian publisher.
I've recently realised that writing comics is my dream job... it looks like that dream is coming true.

The upshot of all of this is I am on the brink of being a full-time writer. I'd like to give a huge thank-you to Megan and Finn for all of their support.

Thanks also to my editors and sounding boards, Megan and Kym, both of whom have had to listen to and comment on bizzare things for years while treading that fine line between criticism, support and just humoring me.

Lastly, I'd like to thank caffeine for all of its help with my writing between 12 and 4 in the morning.