LET'S GO GET RICH!
Author - Ed Tasca

Logline - Top ten proven money management guidelines for young people who hate being poor

Summary - While there are many guidebooks out there on how to get rich, this little volume is written especially for young people, those out of high school or university or twenty-somethings searching for useful advice as they begin to shape their financial future. Each of the ten chapters covers a fundamental of sound money management.

What distinguishes this project from any other book in the marketplace is the humor, the original way in which the material is presented, and the fact that it addresses the specific issues and problems today’s young adults relate to. While its intention is to provide a convincing set of guidelines for the young reader, the actual read is comic and entertaining, as well.

The book will become a requirement for young people who haven’t learned the basics of good money management in school or at home, because our society doesn’t foster such instruction. And the only way to make such dry information as money management readable is to make it entertaining.

SKINNY DIPPING IN A DIRTY POND

Author - Lis Anna

Genre - Drama

Logline - In a small southern town a little girl is raised in a house with two mentally ill uncles. 

Finalist - William Faulkner Competition

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WORM

Author - Ed Tasca
Genre - Mystery
PAGE COUNT - 400 pages

Logline - Murder mystery turned upside down: we know the killer, we don't know who the victim will be, or the motive for the killing.

Synopsis - Autobiography of a Worm is a murder mystery turned upside down. In the simplest terms, a killer admits in the first chapter that he has killed and gotten away with it - the perfect crime. We have a killer, and, as he recounts his story, we try to figure out who the victim will be. The killer teases us with possibilities, because he has severe problems with friends and lovers. But the project is also an incisive character study of someone wracked with depression and rage. It asks the question, are we not all driven in some way by forces we cannot control?

FROM FREIGHT TRAINS TO AIRPLANES

Author - Everett Gracey (www.everettgracey.com)

Based on True Events

Logline - The odds were stacked against him at birth. He was destined to be a horse thief, gangster, anything, other than being a success in life.

Synopsis - In the middle of the seventh grade at age thirteen, terrible abuse from his mother using a horsewhip. Confused and without leadership from schools or guidance from his parents, he dropped out of school to go out into the world to be a "cowboy." He traveled around the western part of the United States from 1935 through 1939 riding freight trains, looking for any work for a good meal.
(Manuscript for adaptation. 112 pages.)

An excerpt from the true story:
I was sitting on top of a boxcar, somewhere in California. I was fourteen years old at the time. It was getting dark, and as the train was slowly going by a town, I looked across to the houses. I saw Christmas tree lights and decorations around the eaves and in windows. I could see children playing. Tears ran down my cheeks, as I always wanted a happy Christmas Day when I was the age of those children.

Author Bio:
He married at age 18, (still married to Dorothy for 66 years) worked in canneries, drove trucks, was in the infantry in World War II, (Received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals) he was an insurance agent; sold cars; entered into real estate sales and finally became an entrepreneur in manufacturing products for the amateur and commercial radio market.