Ed Protzel

Author at Novelist/former screenwriter
Screenwriter

Saint Louis, Missouri

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About Ed

ABOUT ED PROTZEL

I'm a former screenwriter turned novelist with four published books under my belt. They include my Southern historical DarkHorse Trilogy (The Lies That Bind, Honor Among Outcasts, and Something in Madness), centering on the friendship between an abolitionist/hustler and a group of fugitive slaves. In The Antiquities Dealer, a scifi-laced suspense thriller, a Jewish gallery owner is drawn into a clandestine plot to clone Jesus Christ. (Dramatic rights available for film adaptation.)

Whether screenplays or novels, I specialize in creating complex characters caught up in challenging times, many of whom reflect my own background—a mixed-heritage Jew-Cherokee, who lived for a time in an orphanage and as a teen runaway. I have an M.A. in English/creative writing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. I've received acclaim from Readers' Favorite, Literary Titan, Missouri Writers Guild, Midwest Book Review and Missouri Playwrights Association. I am represented by Loiacono Literary Agency. My novels have been acquired by Open Road Integrated Media. I live and write in St. Louis.

Unique traits: Writes genre-stretching novels with deep, macro themes in the form of dramas-mysteries-thrillers-histories-science fiction.

Gender:
Male

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HONOR AMONG OUTCASTS (dramatic rights available): With Civil War raging, an abolitionist and a group of fugitive slaves flee Mississippi for Missouri, in 1863, where they join the Union Army, forming a Colored Cavalry Regiment.

THE LIES THAT BIND (dramatic rights available): In 1859 Mississippi, a lonely, down-on-his-luck drifter with big dreams but few resources befriends a group of fugitive slaves and, together, secretly embark on an scheme to build their own plantation they name DarkHorse.

THE ANTIQUITIES DEALER (dramatic rights available): A risk-averse gallery owner, seduced by his former lover into a conspiracy to clone Jesus Christ, must outwit a gauntlet of fanatical religious masterminds.

Videos

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Loglines

Earth Excursions Mystery ⋄ Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller In the near future, a disillusioned writer and the U.S. President’s idealistic daughter, tour guides for vacationing wealthy Aliens, discover that Earth's secret Big Attraction is humankind's worst nightmare.
The Antiquities Dealer (book-to-film option) Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller A risk-avers gallery owner and his former lover, caught up in a scheme to clone Jesus Christ, must outwit a gauntlet of fanatical religious masterminds. Pitch: A Hitchcock-esque everyman gets swept up in a Da Vinci Code-like quixotic quest.
The Lies That Bind Mystery ⋄ Romance ⋄ Historical ⋄ Drama A fugitive charlatan schemes with a group of stranded slaves in antebellum Mississippi to build their own egalitarian plantation, colliding with the region’s dominant family, threatening to expose secrets that could prove fatal to them all.