Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of three original screenplays lives and breathes New York City and is decidedly big on family, hence NYC3 KIN. These spec scripts have been invaluable to me. They got me topnotch literary agents; they were nearly bought several times, they led to script-doctoring talks with high-powered Hollywood producers, garnered semifinals and finals places in screenwriting competitions and served as the perfect calling cards that landed me commissioned gigs.*Specs are 'speculative scripts', screenplays written not on commission. Specs are labors of love, passion projects, screenplays writers craft to make an impression, get through a door, attract an agent, generate interest. Specs, most often, don't sell. They serve their purpose, as they have for me, and then end up on a shelf collecting dust. Traditionally, spec scripts never see the light of day. The three screenplays contained in NYC3 KIN have been on my shelf for twenty-five years. I'm now publishing them, because these characters deserve the opportunity to come alive - if not on screen, then in readers' minds. *BREAKFAST IN ATLANTIS: When a mysterious stranger returns to his home in Coney Island after many years, he unintentionally erodes the friendship of two orphaned street kids. The two boys are swept into a magical tale of good and evil, their friendship fading fast, as the stranger tries to fulfill an ancient promise.*OUT THERE: In this Christmas thriller, set in the world of New York City's fifty thousand homeless, a man named Nomad witnesses the brutal murder of an undercover cop. He disappears into the city's underworld and finds refuge with a mysteriously mystical bunch of misfits. With no trace of the witness, NYPD cop Scott Shaw goes undercover into the world of the homeless and, in a race against time and a ruthless killer, discovers the one thing he's never had ... family.*BOXMAN JAKE: 1958, New York City - Jake Rose, the finest safe cracker in the "industry", decides to call it quits for the sake of his family. Then his father is found dead under mysterious circumstances, his hothead young brother-in-law turns to crime, and two aging master thieves do everything in their power to get Jake to join in on the greatest heist ever ... one last job.
