The Shroud Underground

I'm a writer (a struggling novelist) and producer currently making a living in film/television. My original TV pilot "The Real Deal' recently won 1st Place for Best Original Pilot in Scriptapalooza TV. I've been Head of Development for several TV production companies before leaving to start my own indie film production company "Brothers Carr Productions." I am the Sr. Writer/co-Creator on The Learning Channel (TLC) series "Dead Tenants," and have developed original programming for MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, Spike! TV, The Scifi Channel, A&E, Discovery Networks and TLC (The Learning Channel), and just finished development on a reality tv series "The Mole People" for A&E.

But it's my indie work that I am most passionate about: I'm the creator/exec producer of the scifi film "The NUKE Brothers" (featured selection, DragonCon the World's Largest Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival) and writer of the tie-in comic book "The Continuing Adventures of Fat Man and Little Boy..." (available in comic book shops everywhere). I'm currently involved (as writer/exec. producer) in the production of an upcoming scifi feature film "The Men In the Moon", and am focused on my latest novel, "The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: A Reality Television Tragedy."

An avid writer since as long as I can remember, I've actually (after MUCH debate) recently decided to take 2008 off to focus 110% on my true lifelong passion: my novels.

I'm putting the finishing touches on my novel "Believer" (about a man addicted to cults---religious cults, UFO cults, new age, exercise, self-improvement, you name it---who channels his need to find something to believe in into a terrifying vision unifying the world's cults under one umbrella of global mass suicide...)

I'm 37 years old, very happily married with a 7 yo son Emmett and a 3 yo daughter Eden. My wife is a painter of abstract oils and still-life watercolors. We live in New York's Hudson Valley, in the Village of Cragsmoor (historically an artist community) on 6.5 acres of woods on a mountaintop in the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains and wildlife preserve, (locally nown as "Show'gum" and widely known as "The Gunks"). We can't see any neighbors from our house (which was originally owned by George Hansburg, inventor of the pogo stick---in fact, the next closest property is a renovated rural pogo stick factory now owned by a family of artists).

I'm an avid spelunker, love cooking (I'm a Foodie, and the spicier the better) and smoking my own meats, and am a lifelong die-hard collector of comic books, 1970s scifi and fantasy roleplaying and board games.

In my fiction, I lead a bit of a double-life: my short fiction (and indie film work) tends towards genre scifi and horror, while my novels fall more into the literary "John Irving meets Chuck Palhuniuk" category... this has been a bit of a challenge in placing my stuff, and I've seriously considered writing my scifi/horror under a pseudonym (any thoughts/advice on that would be greatly appreciated!) but that's a topic for another thread...

I'm glad to be here and eager to see this writer's site grow!!

Wow! Quite the resume, my man. Nice to "meet" you.

Wow, agreed! That is an impressive resume there. Love your topic title man! Now "I know your name and the nature of your game..."

Yeah, I'm a dork.

And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay

Scott, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule to join us!