Tom Graves / Tetradian

I’ve now published the annotated version of my film-script ‘Wombat & Cockie‘ in book-form – see the Tetradian Books website here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book.

Set in the drug-gangs culture of present-day Melbourne, it’s an odd mixture of a cops-and-criminals black-comedy, merged with a Dreamtime motif in which all of the players enact the characteristics and character of the respective bird or animal Dreaming.

Of all my scripts, this is the one most likely to reach production: a colleague spent some time a couple of years ago developing it further, but I haven’t heard from her since. Not that it matters: it’s just a bit of fun, really, though there are some serious themes behind it, using fiction to explore the complexities of interlinked transactions of violence and abuse at a societal level.

My regular outing to make use of Lightning Source’s annual ‘free setup’ promotion, it’s technically vanity-publishing – but I spent at least six months writing the script, so it seems worthwhile to get something tangible out of all that work! It won’t be available in printed form, other than direct from me, but anyone is welcome to download the e-book for free.

Hope it helps, anyway: “Share and Enjoy”?

I’ve now published my sort-of film-script ‘Eureka!‘ in book-form – see the Tetradian Books website here for the book-info, and here for the free-download PDF e-book.

Set in the Australian 1850s goldfields (mostly), it’s best described as a comedy/satire about all the fuss and hype around the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade (1854, hence 2004), with a few (well, more than a few…) digs at present-day Australia politics and society.

Pure vanity-publishing, I know – but I spent at least six months writing the script, and probably much the same on the follow-up, so it seems worthwhile to get something tangible out of all that work! Don’t worry, I don’t ever expect to sell any, but they should make good visiting-presents or some such.

Gotta have some fun somewhen, ain’t I?