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Aussie Author of Science Fiction Books and Limited TV Series Scripts for all age groups.
Children Of The Night (TV Pilot)
A dark tale of two Senior Detectives as they uncover a child prostitution racket with ties to Newcastle’s elite. They work on solving two murders as they try to find two missing boys. Ultimately, they find themselves .
Children of The Night is essentially four intertwined stories and their crossover points.
Story Arc 1: Senior Detective Sergeant Phillip “Phil” Dobson and Senior Detective Sergeant Li Ma “Turbo” Zhang are detectives with the Newcastle Homicide Squad. They are inseparable childhood friends, and an LGBTIQ+ love story for the ages.
Phil’s mother commits suicide due to her inability to cope with her own childhood sexual abuse. Phil is left feeling helpless and decides one suicide is one too many. He buries his feelings and is prone to emotional outbursts and Turbo is always there to help him explode in a controlled manner. His true love for Phil is unspoken as he is terrified of losing Phil’s friendship. Ironically, Phil’s outbursts come partly from burying his love for Turbo. Toxic masculinity rears its ugly head.
Story Arc 2: Levi (11) and Toby (6) Holbert live in Dunedin New Zealand with their physically abusive mother. When Toby suggests moving to Australia, she inexplicably agrees and they arrive in Newcastle to start a new life. Two days later their mother is killed in a car accident and the boys find themselves in the hands of a sexually abusive priest. They disappear into Newcastle’s underbelly, caught by a child prostitution racket, for Newcastle’s elite. Levi endures blow after blow after blow trying to protect his little brother. Iceman (See Story Arc 3) blocks them at every turn, even killing to keep the upper hand. The crescendo builds in this exhausting fight and ultimately costs Levi his own life. Toby finds himself alone in a foreign country, and part of a world he struggles to understand. The only thing left to hang onto and trust is Davina. (See Story Arc 4)
Story Arc 3: Ian “Iceman” Chase is the man that runs the racket along with his mentor and protector Judge William Jude. He suffered violence and sexual abuse at the hands of his father for ten years, and it has destroyed his humanity. He doesn’t care and the world is frightened of him. When his home life becomes intolerable his solution is to destroy the family home with his parents in it. He is ultimately responsible for more than ten deaths.
Story Arc 4: Davina Jacoby is a gender fluid Social Worker, also a sexual abuse survivor but uses her pain to drive her to help others. As a child she believed the abuse was actually normal behaviour and her favourite teacher used it to his advantage. The realisation that came in her teens almost destroyed her. With the support of the man that was to become her husband, she made it through. As Davina’s own life burns around her, she finds herself the foster parent of a very frightened, 8-year-old boy. She is a beautiful soul with a demeanour that belies her painful past.
This uniquely Australian work pulls few punches. Strong Language. Adult themes. Sex Scenes. Drug Use. Graphic physical and Sexual Abuse. Graphic murder scenes.
Child sexual abuse is inferred, rather than displayed, but the aftermath is not pretty.
ALIEN TRAITOR FEATURE
Two aliens believe the Earth has been destroyed by religious zealots. They discover one of their own is behind it. With Tasmania up for grabs, they activate a hidden team and the chess game begins.
Alien Traitor has been selected for an Honourable Mention at the Wiki: The Worlds Fastest Screenplay Contest DEC 21
The Visitors
Two time travelling aliens, Bjorn and Zorn, witness the destruction of the Earth in 2032.
They travel in time to collect a little band of misfits, to help them save humanity from its Religious Wars.
The laid back, Ptoni The Pteranodon, the Ladylike, Florence The Jersey Cow, the excitable, Penelope The Adelie Penguin, and the Chicken Nugget obsessed Dax the Maine Coon Cat, set off an adventure that sees them cross the galaxy and back again.
Their adventure is filled with drama, fun and chaos.
The local drive thru will never be the same again, and neither will Florence’s derriere.
Alien abduction can be fun!
ATHEISTIC CONCEPTS INCLUDED
"Interesting, intriguing, captivating and thought provoking." Greg
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The Visitors is an entertaining and insightful look at the world gone wrong from the point of view of two alien time travellers.
The book opens in the year 2032, with Bjorn and Zorn in orbit around earth witnessing the destruction of the planet.
Upset by what they see, they decide to travel back in time to collect a little band of misfits to help them save humanity from itself.
They encounter the laid-back Ptoni the Pteranodon, the lady-like Florence the Jersey Cow, the excitable Penelope the Adelie Penguin and the chicken-nugget-obsessed Dax the Maine Coon Cat and set off on an adventure that sees them cross the galaxy and back again.
Their adventure is filled with drama, fun and chaos, proving that alien abduction can be fun.
Behind the humour and rip-roaring narrative is a more serious message.
"The Visitors is speaking out against racism and homophobia and religious entitlement," Andrew said.
"I look around the world today and see a lot of worrying developments and I think the only way to effectively change things moving forward is to teach children to be more open and accepting.
"The book opens in 2032, with Bjorn and Zorn watching the earth being destroyed by religious wars so they decide to travel back in time, hook up with some locals, investigate the causes of the problems and come up with solutions to fix it.
"It's a lot of fun, there's a lot of lot humour and the story is character-driven, but at its heart are some serious messages that hopefully get through."
Australian Association of Authors member.
Australian Writer's Guild Member.
Andrew spent ten years as a serving member of the Royal Australian Air Force and is a grandfather to 10 children: nine girls and one boy.
He has a keen interest in marine life and the environment and is a qualified veterinary nurse and a champion for animal rights.
He encourages people to adopt from shelters and rescue groups. Dax, the Maine Coon Cat in his novel, was was based on an actual rescue adoption.
In writing The Visitors, Andrew was heavily influenced by seeing a young child in the Ku Klux Klan.
"He has been taught that, it doesn't come naturally and I want to teach kids that there is a better way to live, and I'm trying to do that through my writing," Andrew said.
The original story was written back in 2014-15 and after a familiar literary journey of knockbacks, UK-based publisher Austin Macauley agreed to publish it
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