GEOFF HOLDER, AUTHOR
GEOFF DUPUY-HOLDER, SCREENWRITER
Geoff Holder writes genre novels, short stories & non-fiction books.
Geoff Dupuy-Holder writes genre screenplays for film & TV.
Both of them have won awards and often make a nuisance of themselves giving talks, or on panels at book festivals.
Two names, two parallel careers, the same person.
That’s just the way it is.*
*Probably as a result of a rift in the space-time continuum, or something.**
**Or it’s quantum.***
***It’s almost always quantum. Except when it’s not.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“What the Kaiju Leaves Behind” short story is in the Raconteur Press anthology CREATURE FEATURE. You’ll never think of Godzilla in the same way again…
“Last Woman” short story published in the fantastic anthology “When Vampires Save the Night”. Expect some Palaeolithic nastiness.
Short story “Blast Off!” published in the totally-serious Raconteur Press anthology “Mad Science“. Expect volcanoes put to unorthodox uses.
Also by Raconteur Press, “Wyrd Warfare: Band of Monsters” contains my story “Blood and Soil”. Expect an anti-Nazi WW2 vampire.
The “Skin and Bones” short story is in the “Gauges and Ghouls” anthology. Expect a most unusual mummy.
Another six short stories have been accepted for various fantasy, horror, sci-fi and mystery anthologies. Details soon.
“THE CROGLIN VAMPIRE” chapbook sells out in two days.
• My Good Reads page.
SCREENWRITING NEWS
Folk-horror feature script VRYKOLAX selected for the European Genre Forum and wins Special Prize at the Tallinn Blacks Nights Film Festival.
I’m hired to write the pitch bible for a six-part psychological thriller series with hints of the supernatural. Another book adaptation. Details under wraps because… TV.
THE BOY WHO BELONGED TO THE SEA (magical realism drama, feature) is in full-on development mode.
A SIX-GUN FOR THE DEVIL (supernatural Western, feature) optioned and doing the rounds in old Hollywood town.
UPCOMING TALKS
Friday 31st October “SCOTTISH FANTASY AND HORROR,” part of the stonkingly wonderful World Fantasy Convention in Brighton. My fellow panelists are (WOAH!) Maya MacGregor and Nick Binge, and the chair is Shona Kinsella.
Wednesday 19th November “THE GUIDE TO MYSTERIOUS PERTHSHIRE“, part of Folk Horror at the Library Festival, in the AK Bell Library, Perth.
NOVELS
I now have two novels out on submission: FIREBREATH (sci-fi fantasy) and PALEFACES (alternative-history vampires). A historical fantasy is currently being gently nurtured/bloodily birthed into existence.
INFO: THE SCREENWRITER
- Produced and repped screenwriter: feature & TV pilot Specs and Work-for-Hire, with many projects in development.
- Specialities of the House:
• Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, War, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Western, Period
• High Concepts
• Adaptations (lots of experience here)
• Problem Solving
• Drinking Tea - No misery memoirs or baseball movies, thanks all the same.
- Extensive experience with writing assignments – script doctoring, adaptations, pitches, rewrites, polishes, proofing, script consultancy.
- Other experience includes documentaries, VR shorts and various work-for-hire.
- WINNER of the Visceral Films International Horror Screenplay Competition
- WINNER of the Genre Summit Screenplay Competition.
- Highly placed in several other major screenwriting competitions.
- Completed the ScreenwritingU Master Screenwriter Certificate.
- Member of the Development Team for the ScreenwritingU ‘How to Write a Terrifying Horror Movie’ class.
INFO: THE AUTHOR
• Hugely experienced Author and Ghostwriter.
• 36 non-fiction books published under my own name, covering the paranormal, the mysterious, the murderous, the magical, and some very weird and bloody history.
• Member of the Society of Authors, the Writers Guild of Great Britain, the British Fantasy Society and the Folklore Society.
MORE STUFF
Both the Author and Screenwriter hail from Wales, and currently reside in a 300-year-old allegedly haunted house lost in deepest France. Long country walks with the dog are the order of the day. Also, tea drinking.