The year ahead

I’m a useless blog writer, leaving huge gaps between posts, but I’m still here and still working. Currently the two projects occupying me are ‘Cryptoqueen’, an 8-part TV series for Netflix based on Jamie Bartlett’s brilliant BBC podcast ‘The Missing Cryptoqueen’; and ‘A Little Madness’, also for Netflix, based on Horatio Clare’s memoir of his own descent into madness, ‘Heavy Light’. Both are at an advanced stage, and looking good. Whether they make it into actual production is yet to be seen. For me the rewards are already in: I’ve learned so much about crypto currency, and Multi-Level Marketing, and global financial scams; and about bi-polar conditions, and being sectioned, and what happens inside mental institutions. It’s work that is constantly enriching. Other projects, ‘True Believers’ and ‘The Big Three’, are treading water, but I live in hope. They come into the category I call Not Dead Yet. And waiting ahead is ‘The Greenhouse’, the eco-catastrophe story I’m developing, one of my most ambitious projects yet…