Serita - Author/Screenwriter

Some of Serita's Books

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Watch for a new dramatic show on TV based on Fornesic Nurse.

Awards

Dragon Seeds – Best screenplay the Cinema City International Film Fest
Murder Me Twice – Finalist ISA award, Best Screenplay Cinema City International Film Festival
Mother in Law – Cinema City Film Fest; Best Dramady – Broad Humor Festival, Geller Festival Finalist
The Unborn – Edgar nomination for short story and now a short film, soon to be a feature
Unholy Alliance – Best book for the Reluctant Reader by the American Library Association
Match Made in Heaven – Best Screenplay, Cinema City/ Best comedy Broad Humor Festival, Geller Festival finalist
Lightning and Fire – Best Biblical Romance RWA (now a screenplay.); Geller Festival finalist
Deceptive Desires – Best Western Romantic Suspense (now Logan’s Land screenplay.)
Unholy Orders – McCavity and Anthony Awards
Red Sea, Dead Sea – Anthony Award (now a TV pilot Golden Murders.)
Gangsta - Writers Boot Camp Fellowship Award

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Features

• Match Made in Heaven - when Charlie and Esther die on the same day and take the same bus to heaven, they defy heaven's rules and fix up their two very different earthbound children. Based on true events, this was a finalist at Broad Humor Festival and Geller Foundation Festival.
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• Simon Sez (formerly Little Bo Peep) - A teenage gymnast must defy the military to save her father from terrorists. Nick Robinson is set to star.
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• Lightning and Fire - a story of Judge Deborah (Judges 4/5). Based on award-winning novel
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• Dragon"s Seed – Jurassic Park meets Dracula – His head was separated from his body but can Dracula be resurrected again? Can his DNA produce a new form of horror? Best Screenplay, Cinema City International Film Festival. Sean McNamara is attached to direct.
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• Mother in Law –Cop Sara Epstein finds out that living with an obnoxious Jewish Mother in Law is hard, in death she’s impossible. Ghost Town meets NYPD Blues. Winner Best Screenplay Cinema City International Film Festival; winner best action comedy – Broad Humor Festival
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• Murder Me Twice – You were murdered once and now you must find the killer before he murders again – you. Best screenplay – Cinema City International Film Festival. Dead Again vs Heat of the Night.
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• Logan’s Land – Robber barons have taken over the town’s water supply. Elisa Edwards, searching for her missing brother, Special Agent Elliot Edwards, believes she knows who’s behind the water shortage and her brother’s death, but can she prove it. Best Western Romance RWA.

• Guilty Prey –You always thought your lawyers were blood suckers, now they are. Angel meets Boston Legal.

TV Series

• Golden Murders - The Nanny meets Murder She Wrote - based on the award winning grandmother mystery series from St Martin's Press.
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• Forensic Nurse - based on her book of the same name, Forensic Nurse explores how nurses help the police solve crimes.
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• Alex with a Z - Sitcom – A street wise Romanian orphan adopts a single mother and decides she must raise her.

• Gangsta – drama – (Southland meets Precious) Your life is on the line every day when you live by the streets. Neither gang banger nor cop is safe from the life of the gansta.
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• Mother In Law - dramady – Cop Sara Epstein finds out the hard way --In life your Jewish mother in law is obnoxious, in death she’s impossible. Guilty Prey
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• Our Son – drama – Arson investigators must discover who started the fire that killed their only son.

• Earth Sister – dramady - Being a novice shaman isn’t easy, especially when you’re a teenage girl.

• Yo Nun – dramady – Discovering a magical habit that can help her become other people in trouble, Sister Magadalena finds that keeping her secret isn’t easy.