January 2026 Update

Happy New Year Everyone!

I finished several book projects in 2025. I completed Alien Times Series trilogy with Book 3, Retribution. I completed the audiobook version for Book 3 as well. I decided to create a KDP audiobook for Alien Times - Book 1, on Amazon to see how it compares to Google Play Audiobook. It was easy to create in KDP, but it only allows limited editing functions for now. The virtual voice choices are great, and I am pleased with the results. I plan to do more ebooks in the future using KDP audiobook tool. 

My writing plans for 2026 will include creating more audiobooks which I use to edit my earlier ebooks until I complete most of them. Then, I plan to write a prequel novella for Alien Times Series to use as a promotion tool. This will keep be plenty busy for the year.

My newest hobby is writing TV movie scripts for some of my novels. I took a beginning community college course on screenwriting to learn the basics. I bought Final Draft 13 and began my first script for my novella, G's Story. I thought a short story would be easy to convert. I soon learned there are many differences in writing novels versus scripts including the language needed, flow, action scenes, dialogue, present tense changes and more. It took me several months to cut the book chapters down to 26 Scenes/Beats, 3 Acts and less than 120 pages to qualify for screenwriting contests.

I finished my first script in December and have begun submitting the script to film festivals providing FilmFreeway pdf copies, Final Draft script files and adding a Screenplayer audio only script file for contest submissions. It's too early to see what happens, but it's a fun hobby if I don't spend too much money on future contests.

If you are interested in listening to the audio script, here is a link to Screenplayer: 
www.screenplayer.ai/screenplay-shared/cmjsw8lfg0559u028e26bh1st_share

Let me know what you think. I plan to work on my next screenwriter script in the summer using my full novel, The Formula. It will be challenging. I think this novel will generate more interest for TV movie producers.