Author: Leigh :) Stark

  • Red One

    Red One

    Reality TV is everywhere, but it hasn’t yet left our planet… until now.

    “Red One” chronicles the exploration of the red planet and Earth’s next colony through the eyes of six men and women, showing the landscape and the mysteries that lurk there.

    Episode 1 written of a 12 episode season, with story arcs conceived and drafted for two seasons. Endings have been created.
    Secondary material also conceived as well as promotional concepts for internet applications.

    Currently unsigned.

  • Delta

    Delta

    There was a crash, then the lights flickered, and that’s all about anyone else could remember. The world went dark for a moment as something from beyond this planet collided with the buildings and grass that saturated our own.

    Then there were screams. The TV reported that people were being attacked, that they were falling over, convulsing, and shaking so much that they didn’t last long, couldn’t last long.

    It was all too much for most people to bear, so they did what everyone did best in times of emergency: they ran.

    The affected ran towards the hills. They crossed grassy tops and dark cemented roads, hightailing it to get out of there and somewhere else. Where ever was safe, because nobody knew what safe was anymore.

    Before this, the idea of alien life was science fiction. Now, forever more, it would be science fact, and while the governments could quell the situation, could put them down and say that no more would happen, every smart person knew that was a lie.

    So they came up with a smarter plan, one that could be taught, controlled, and made to help all the world unite to take on the possible threats.

    Expected finish date: October 2022

  • Taxonomic tracking: how to find articles by using site construction

    I’ve been a member of the technology media in Australia for over five years, and if there’s one thing I’ve seen from the journalism side, it’s that often members of the PR world don’t quite know how to quickly track what we’re doing in our realm.

    I can see how it must be complicated: we’re all writing tons of articles. I generally run the site I work for (GadgetGuy.com.au) by myself, and even I can’t remember half the stuff I’ve written. Tech journalists are always writing, generally at a frantic pace, and in some ways you could say we’re all pushing out so much work that it’s hard to keep up with it all.

    I’m sure I’m not the only one to get emails asking for links to stories, and for a PR trying to find the story for their reports, I can see why emailing a journalist could be fruitful. It doesn’t help that website searches can be very unhelpful, and much of this is due to the nature of website search engines just generally not being very good (apologies, we can’t all be Google).

    I’ve never worked in PR — a quick look at my wardrobe will tell you that — and I’ve heard that people who work in this field regularly have to make daily or weekly reports showing the client which media has written about the topic. Tracking all of this can’t be easy, especially when there are a good 50 of us working on random stories, forcing you to visit our sites and trawl through listings of articles until you come across the magic one.

    I understand that, and as a journalist who also codes websites, I can see how this can be a problem.

    However, there is a solution, and for a lot of websites across Australia — and no doubt the world — it’s staring at you right in the face, and most PRs (and I suspect journalists) don’t even know it.

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  • Go Forth and F**k

    Go Forth and F**k

    Years ago, Thom made a mistake, and while he now lives the life of a bachelor, it’s not quite what he imagined. Sure, there’s sex — lots of it — but does any of it even mean anything?

    This is Thom’s life in one week, as the twenty-something struggles with getting older, meeting people, and finding that one, even if he has to meet more women than he’ll ever see coming.

    One of the more adult novels I’ve written, this manuscript is finished, though currently unsigned.