So after a about a year of tossing the idea around in my head, I’ve finally started adapting my screenplay All Hallows’ Eve into my first novel. The story takes place one hundred years after the Salem witch trials of 1692 as a single mother battles terrifying supernatural forces while searching for her kidnapped daughter on the scariest night of the year.
The script was an award-winning finalist in the American Screenwriters Association’s 11th Annual International Screenplay Competition. In addition to having already been a finalist in Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s Next Great John Carpenter Movie Contest, the exposure gained from these high-profile contests led to several requests for All Hallows’ Eve from producers such as including Val McLeroy of Draizin Entertainment, Matt Battaglia of Blink Entertainment, and James Abraham of Daybreak Productions.
Ultimately, the cost of producing a period-piece thriller proved to be to a little too high and the producers passed on the project, despite the fact that they loved the story. But somewhere inside, I’ve always felt it would make a better book than a movie anyway. There’s just so much period detail that I could expand on in a novel and I’ve always wanted to take on the challenge of writing one. So here it goes. Time to nut up or shut up.