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ED TASCA
(1944 - )Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Delphinius Talent Management
Ed Tasca, born 25 April 1944. From 1990 to present, published fiction in the form of novels and fiction: Apocalypse Now. . . Grab the Karoake Machine (Aardwolfe Books). Comic thriller about a couple who inadvertently saves the world from a bioweapon attack. (September, 2011) the Fables of Leonardo da Vinci. (Roseheart Publishing). Ten fables fleshed in from annotations in the great genius's notebooks. For readers of all ages. (Available at Amazon.) Autobiography of a Worm. Novel. (Eternal Press) Man fraught with depression descends into murder and madness. (Available at Amazon.) Lub Dub. Novel. (Roseheart Publishing) Runaway donor heart is sidetracked when delivery team driver sees girlfriend with another lover. (Available at Amazon.) the Fishing Trip That Got Away. NovellA. (Roseheart Publishing). Comic misadventure in the wilderness that ends in redemption and discovery for both principal characters. (Available at Amazon.) Return of the Lost Horses. (Publish America) A metaphysical mystery and love story, taking place over several lifetimes. It embodies hope, love and spirituality, and explores the issue of coming to terms with demons from the past. (Available at Amazon.) First book, Good Morning - Why is Everyone Here Naked? A parody/novElla of Columbus and his discovery of America. (Out of Print.) Optioned Screenplays: Wounded, a full-length screenplay, optioned by Kaos Films (and Scala Productions in England, the people behind the hit film Crying Game and Little Voice); the Duesie, optioned by U.K.'s Dazed TV; Getting On - 1990 by Canada's Momentum Pictures; Off-Camera - 1992 comedy - Momentum Pictures; Most Dangerous Woman In America - DocuDrama optioned 1998 by L.A.'s Orly Adelson; and Rosebud (Comedy Short) sold - 1999 to L.A.'s Delonra Films. Awards and considerations: Recently awarded grand prize in the 2011 Screenplay Search Competition. Winner of the prestigious Robert Benchley Society Humor-writing Award for 2009, also runner up three years in a row--judged by Dave Barry). Also winner of humorpress.com awards, M. Culbertson's Life and Humor Award, Ojo del Lago Award for Humor. Work has appeared in humor publications in the U.S., Canada, England, Italy and Mexico. Anthologized in several humor publications: Laugh Your Shorts Off, American's Funniest Humor, 2006.
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Greatest Garden Story Ever Told Something Tells MeGreatest Garden Story Ever Told
Synopsis:
65-year-old-man in Mexico has a two-year old baby and the young mother leaves him with the child. Not knowing what to do, he contacts his ex-wife whom he left in Texas for the younger woman, and asks for her help in managing with the baby.
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Ajijic, Mexico 2007
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My submission is a two-act play, Something Tells Me, with four characters and a contemporary setting. Bess lives with her sister Marsha, with Marsha providing the income and Bess the house. When Bess invites her ex, Ray, to come and join them temporarily, a tension rises over who may or may not be after Ray. Marsha is a yoga instructor and meditator who has reached cosmic consciousness, a dreamlike state that new-agers believe is a higher level of consciousness. there, Marsha meets a flute player who, like an angel-demon prankster, plays with her conflicting motivations around her sister's happiness versus her own subconscious and unacknowledged interest in Ray. the narrative is about the tensions we create between our conscious and subconscious drives.
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