Media rights to select published works are available. Inquiries should be directed to David at dmsauthor@gmail.com.
SCREENPLAYS
Fun & Games: Screenplay by Jay Lender (original SpongeBob writer/director) adapted from the novel: “The funniest book about growing up Jewish since Portnoy’s Complaint.” (Spielberg’s Heeb Magazine) R-rated dysfunctional family dramedy.
Sparks: Dark YA adventure/fantasy/horror/mystery: Screenplay by Jay Lender: When a homebound seventeen year-old orphan spies on the fairy tale mansion across the road, its sixteen year-old “princess” comes after him, looking for trouble. Before they know it, the pair is on the run, pursued by a seemingly invincible killer, who will stop at nothing to prevent them from discovering the truth about who lives at Wolfgang Law’s Great Home for Good Girls and Boys — and why.
Mocha Cola High, R-rated fantasy/sci-fi satirical series: Screenplay by David Michael Slater & David Taylor: A globe dominating corporation is bent on eliminating independent thinkers from the population. (Heathers + Truman Show + Stepford Wives) Available: One Sheet. Feature Version, and series version with Pilot
The Georgia Diaries Multiple TV Series, Serialized Drama, based on fact. Screenplay by David Taylor based on a short story by David Michael Slater. The first season centers around John Wesley’s nearly ruinous attempt to become the spiritual father of the Georgia colony, where he got entangled in all kinds of sordid affairs before fleeing back to England, after which he changed the world by founding Methodism. Available: One Sheet and Pilot + series description.
PICTURE BOOKS
*Adaptation rights to most existing books are available.
Unpublished:
The Night Night Book of Monsters: a scary/funny story about a boy dealing with monsters in his room at night.
Mary-Annette: a puppet who saves her troop.
Skeletons in the Closet: a girl lies about what happened to her sister’s Halloween costume.
The Boy, the Book & the Bully: a wordless story about a boy and his best book teaching a bully the love of reading
A Fork in the Road: a fork shirks his culinary duties.
The Awfully Angry Alphabet: A annoys B, who bothers C, etc.
Dust Bunnies: The life of dust bunnies in a dusty house.
Candles: a father won’t give his blessing for his daughter’s wedding in the Old Country.
The Treasure (board book): a ‘zoom-in’ series of pictures that at last reveal that the reader is the real treasure in the book.
CURRENT PROJECT/S
Ugly: an adult tragicomedy about man’s inhumanity to woman. Library Tales Publishing (Distributed by Simon & Schuster) 8/7/25
Shocked, a musical based on the life of Stanley Milgram, engineer of the notorious Milgram Shock Experiments.