Projects Page About Camille LaGuire I've been writing and publishing fantasy and mystery fiction for fifteen years now. My stories have appeared in magazines ranging from Handheld Crime to Highlights for Children, and reprinted in anthologies, overseas and in educational materials. But my first only real love was film, so now I'm writing mainly scripts. Have a look at my Bio and Publishing credits or read some of my Short Fiction. Home Page | Obligatory Pictures of my Cats | Guide to East Lansing Food for Clarion | Contact information email: camille@sff.net alternate email: toogie2@yahoo.com

Screenplays: SLAYER OF CLOCKS, Noir thriller. A crooked security guard matches wits with his heiress-client and her paranoid ex-boyfriend in a hunt for lost ransom money. This script was accepted into the International Mystery Writers Drama Festival, and will be performed live, "Radio Theater Style", at the festvial in Owensboro KY, on June 13, 15 and 16, 1007. It has also been optioned for radio/audio production. This script took second place in the Global Arts Film Festival screenwriting competition, finals in the Ohio Independant Film Festival and the Waterfront Film Festival, and a quarter finalist in the Annual Fade-In Awards . Read the opening THE SCENIC ROUTE, Comedy. Bank robbers LUTHER and SOL are already lost souls on the highway of life. Can't tell right from wrong, and more importantly, can't tell right from left. After a successful robbery, they take a wrong turn and find themselves more and more lost in stranger and stranger countryside. With the help of a retired showgirl and a runaway bride, they just might find love, acceptance and the onramp to the interstate. This script was a finalist in the Find The Funny comedy screenwriting contest, and second rounder in the Austin Film Festival. Read the opening THE LEGEND OF CASEY MCKEE, Western. CASEY is a teenaged girl sharpshooter who's never seen justice and has no use for it. Then she meets HARRY, a hard-bitten lawman who thinks of nothing else. With her hometown overrun with the very outlaws Harry wants to catch, they're going to have to find a way to work together. Read the opening Winner! Split-Screenplay Competition. (See other stories featuring Casey McKee on my page of published Short Fiction, as well as the novel exerpt for "Have Gun, Will Play" on this page below.) Working on: DEFROSTED, Action-thriller. A pair of runaway teens take shelter from frigid weather, only to find their shelter is a hideout for vicious kidnappers. Upcoming: BLINDSIDED, Thriller (very low budget). When a wife finds her husband's mistress ensconced in her remote cabin retreat, she recruits the woman in playing a vengeful trick: They lure the cheating husband to the cabin and pretend the mistress has murdered the wife. But as each character is blindsided in turn, alliances shift and the game escalates dangerously. THE PRISONER OF ZENDAMANN'S , Comedy Adventure. It's FARGO meets THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, as an actor doubles for his kidnapped half-brother in the midst of a battle for control over the family business in a tacky midwestern tourist town. Novels: Moon Child: Ready or Not A Young Adult Fantasy Adventure. Plot: You're the twelve-year-old Savior of the Magic Worlds, and all you want is to go home and do your job. But your Protector is dead, and you don't even know what your job is, because you've never even been to the Magic World. Now peasants want you to solve all their problems. The royal wizards want you to be perfect. A cult wants to burn you alive, and a very short evil wizard can't seem to make up his mind what he wants to do with you...if he ever catches you. Your mother can't even show her face because the human realm makes her sick. At least the cop is on your side.... Read an excerpt. Status: finished and slowly making the rounds of publishers. Very slowly. Have Gun, Will Play A Western Whodunnit Mick and Casey McKee, Range Detectives: He's young and inexperienced, and has much too sunny a disposition for a gunslinger. She's younger, meaner, less experienced, but a much better shot. When they met, it seemed only natural to get married right that minute. Then they introduced themselves and wandered off into the sunset together, looking for trouble. Plot: When Mick and Casey ride into town and clear up a gun battle, they find themselves with a job: protecting the daughter of a stagecoach boss--and her fabulous collection of toys. It seems like an opportunity to go someplace new, but after the wrong kidnapping, a murder, another wrong kidnapping, a couple of jewel heists and a few knocks to the head, Mick and Casey are left holding the bag of toys. Mick, however, is not as dumb as he seems, and as for Casey...nobody steals her gun and gets away with it. Read an excerpt. Status: finished, but currently waiting for more short fiction in the series to be published--since there is so much competition in the mystery field. I want to give it as much of a boost as I can before I start to market this. In the meantime I'm working on the next two novels in this series, Old Paint: Dead or Alive, and A Dark And Dusty Night. The Man Who Did Too Much Comic Romantic Thriller George Starling, a "recovery agent" for an international security and intelligence firm, has quit his job to take care of the woman he's rescued, and figure out whether he is actually in love with her. But while he waits for her to get well enough to know her own mind, he gets the call to take a small job--just check out a local handy woman who is reported to have been seen with a missing child of political importance. All Karla Marquette did was babysit for a frightened friend who she thinks is an illegal immigrant. When this guy in a trenchcoat shows up at her door, with a funny accent and a full dossier on her, she's not about to tell him anything about the kid. Unfortunately, George isn't he only guy looking for the kid, but Karla is armed with a pink flamingo and a Collectors Edition DVD of Casablanca, and she is prepared to use them. (No excerpt as of yet.) Status: The story just burst forth whole from my forehead. I'm in the process of setting up a plot arc for a multibook series. Last updated March 2007