Story for Screen is the companion journal to ARIGNI, an Aegean island romantic comedy mystery written as a book and a screenplay. Here you will find pitches, extracts, the print edition, and notes on the screenwriting journey.
The journey
After a working life among books, reviews, photographs and teaching, I have moved into screenwriting. ARIGNI is the first result: a romantic-comedy mystery written as both novel and screenplay, set on a fictional Aegean island.
This site is the living half of that work. The series bible can be found at arigni.co.uk.
From the ARIGNI screenplay
An extract
(holding the sunglasses)
CLAUD
You like them?
LINDSAY
Put them back on, they’re fab.
A pair of sunglasses and infatuation with a bookseller conspire to transport a young traveller from a life of calm withdrawal to one of excitement and anxious frenzy.
Book One · paperback
Print on demand
The novel will exist only as a physical book. There will be no ebook.
Ordering from this page will go live in a few weeks. ARIGNI 2 follows in early 2027, and ARIGNI 3 later that year.
When PrintLink is live, the button below becomes Order the book.
From the journal
Latest notes
- Another Taster 19 October 2026I have just posted another story taster to the ARIGNI Writing Room. I am pleased with the way material about characters from ARIGNI 1 has been accumulating. So far ...
- A Good Writing Week 11 October 2026I can report that I had a good writing week. Developing back-history stories for two of the characters in ARIGNI. These won’t necessarily find their way into the ...
- Storytelling360 2 October 2026Storytelling360 was founded by Zack Gutin (of ThinkAlike Media and a former Final Draft VP) in 2025 as an organisation that holds high-profile conferences and events in (so ...
- Stage 32 – A Good Place to Start? 19 September 2026So there I was — coming up to a year ago now — having just decided that Arigni, the novel I had been working on, was really a ...
- Two Big Editing Jobs Have Landed 15 September 2026As luck would have it, just when I would ideally be concentrating on ARIGNI 2 and adding content here on Story for Screen, two large editing jobs have ...
- Updates 10 September 2026There have been some updates on arigni.co.uk The screen snippets were originally photographs of sections of the script printout. They were OK but I decided it would be much ...
Later
Also suited for screen
In time this site will make room for other finished books and scripts that already feel built for the screen.