BEYOND STRANGE LANDS
(Audible Original Podcast)
Beyond Strange Lands is an action-packed and fantastical multi-cast audio drama that journeys across the Australian outback.
“In 1982, the famous paranormal expert Grant Peters went missing while filming his TV show Legendary Australia. His wife Melissa was never able to find him. When Melissa herself disappears nearly forty years later, her daughter Fiona and grandson Ethan trace her to the small outback town of Boulia. There they discover a collection of old audio tapes that Melissa left behind: a set of clues they must follow if they’re to solve this mystery in time. Insidious forces will stop at nothing to destroy them, and an impossibly ancient menace lurks deep beneath the ground, waiting for the chance to strike...”
This Audible Original Podcast was developed and produced with investment from Screen Queensland. Free for members. You can download all 12 episodes to your Library now.
Wren Findley and the Call of the Pied Piper
(Upper Middle-Grade Novel)
“I don’t understand why I need to write an abstract for a field report. People can read my account… T-Rexes and paperwork. Sigh. Whatever. This thing is written by me, Wren Findley. I’m a teenage Time Thymus assigned to MR-1. This tracks our journey to unmask the douchebag kidnapper who calls himself the Pied Piper. Along the way, we battle Devil Frogs, robots, and ninety-foot Snake Queens. I discover I’m part of some prophecy and meet my Utahraptor teammates, Hans and Gomez. You’ll probably get frustrated with how much OCD comes up. It frustrates me too. Sadly, it’s part of who I am. Not sure what’s more complicated — dinosaurs, mental illness, or time travel. Maybe I’ll figure that out one day.”
Wren Findley and the Horror at the Tower of Babel
(Upper Middle-Grade Novel)
“Here I am again. Writing another abstract for a report that someone could just read. Yippee. Spin. Spin. Spin. Shake. Shake. Shake. The universe can crash and burn — T-Rexes will still lodge their taxes. This second book is written by me, Wren Findley. I’m a mentally ill teenage Time Thymus assigned to MR-1. This is the mission where we tried to stop the bad guys from tearing apart the foundations of reality. No pressure. It’s filled with crazed humans, confused dinosaurs, and fear itself. In the ancient deserts of the Bermuda Triangle stood the Tower of Babel. Here, humanity’s greatest artists were imprisoned. Their imaginations had taken physical form — and they were angry. To lead us through, I had to make a truce with my horrifying corporeal OCD. Because when the maestro’s scythe falls, only the broken will see true.”
PLUSHED
(TV Series)
Plushed is based on my struggles with OCD. Season one scripts are available. Screen Australia supported the project's development.
“Incapacitated by his Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a young man desperately accepts help from a talking toy dinosaur to overcome his illness before he ultimately gives up on life.”
RAPSCALLION
(Feature & Short Film)
A first draft of the feature script is available. A tonal short film is currently in post-production. I am co-writing the project with Purnima Padmanabhan for co-creator/director Siobhan Mulready. Toy Shop Entertainment and Kolperi Outback Filming are producing.
“After escaping an isolated, all-women cult, two teenagers must fight alongside fascinating creatures called “men” to survive a post-apocalyptic outback full of monsters.”
DEATH, LIFE AND EVERYTHING IN-BETWEEN
(Audio Drama)
In the spirit of the original ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ ‘Death, Life and Everything in Between’ is a narrator-driven, 10 by-30-minute audio drama that takes listeners far beyond the mortal veil, daring to answer one of life’s biggest questions: "is anyone listening to my prayers?
Simon is developing this project with co-writer David Peterson.
“After transitioning the souls of a ferry-load of children a disillusioned Grimm Reaper rebels and invades the seven layers of Heaven to reap sweet revenge on the big cheese herself... GOD."