Seven Sisters: The Voyage

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(Also available for Kindle and Nook)

Most movies start with a book, but the book of Seven Sisters started out as a screenplay.

I pounded out the screenplay of Seven Sisters in 18 months and found that it  was close to 300 pages long.  That's a minute per page, and if you do the math, you're talking a 5-hour movie.   So I cut and cut and cut until I had 240 pages.  Now I was down to a 4-hour movie.

Most Mormon filmmakers don't want to do an expensive, four-hour, historical epic/saga with an 1863  three-masted, sailing ship, that crosses the Atlantic Ocean with 800 extras on it, in period costumes, has sets of the London  and New York Docks, and a rather diabolical storm along the way. 

After getting the screenplay into the hands of LDS directors, producers, and several rich folk, I could see that it wasn't going to be made into a movie any time soon.

Then I started to get the impression that I ought to turn this screenplay into a book.  That way, I could write as many pages as I wanted to and could put the scenes back in that I hated taking out of the screenplay in the first place.

After writing sporadically for two years, whenever I had the time and the inclination, I am now very pleased to announce that I finally completed Seven Sisters: the Voyage and had it published on November 10, 2008!   

It can now be ordered at www.iUniverse.com; www.Amazon.com; or BarnesandNoble.com.

And when some filmmaker reads it, and says to him/herself--"You know, this book would make a dang good movie!" 

I'll just pull out my screenplay and say, "Hey, I've got a really great screenplay right here--already written!"

So Stay tuned, Friends.

Ta Pip,

Carolyn Hart Bennett

Rexburg, Idaho