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Project concepts
Original work from this house, besides the memoir. Each concept keeps its own address. This page is a door, not a treatment.
This house is first for the memoir. Other original work from the same owner is named here so a reader can find it. A concept is not the book. It is not a license to copy, pitch, or attach the memoir’s sample, jacket, or stills to another title without a grant.
A film concept
Black Water
Florida’s Forgotten Storm
An original historical-fiction concept from this house. It is grounded in the documented 1928 Lake Okeechobee hurricane — Pahokee, Belle Glade, South Bay — and in the public record of what the lake did when the dike failed.
Black Water is not A Star Seed and A Witch. The memoir and the film concept share land. They do not share a plot, a sample, or a license.
The House owns the original story concept, campaign materials, and the titles as used for that work. It does not own the hurricane, the public record, or books by others.
Inquiries for a concept, like inquiries for the book, go through this house.
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