Ed Protzel

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.