Stephen Potts - Award-winning screenwriter and novelist
I'm an author of drama for the screen (big and small), stage and radio; and of novels for children.

I live in a small 18 century cottage in the Lammermuir Hills, part of Scotland’s Border country – where my ancestors plied their trade as cattle thieves and outlaws five hundred years ago. I share my home with my wife, our two young children, and two Labradors who stay fit chasing rabbits and deer. We spend our spare time on board Greylag, our old wooden yacht, on Scotland’s wild west coast.

NEWS

January 2012 My first book, Hunting Gumnor, was published in 1999. It's now my first e-book for Kindle.

January 2012 Guest blogging for a US website about my day job as a transplant psychiatrist

December 2011 I now have  a UK agent to complement my US manager. She's the lovely Janice Day at Smart Talent

October 2011 Trailer for TV pilot of Acting Raw released via Youtube

October 2011 Delighted my script Compass Murphy has been selected for David ("Finding Nemo") Reynolds' workshop at the London Screenwriters' Festival.

October 2011 My entry for the London Screenwriters' Festival 1-page screenplay competition (theme - recent riots) didn't make the cut. Here it is.

August 2011 Just signed option contract for my next feature film screenplay. Two production companies and a director on board.

May 2011 Selected as a writer for the 26 Treasures project at the National Museum of Scotland. Delighted to learn my assigned object is the Cramond Lioness

May 2011 First production companies expressing interest in On the Water

May 2011Acting Raw pilot shot and now in post-production, after much pitching at Cannes

April 2011 Selected as one of two writers for the pilot of Acting RAW

March  2011 Signed up as speaker at Turning the Next Page, a one day workshop for emerging creative writers.

February 2011 Contract signed for On the Water. Now to start implementing a strategy to get the pitch read !

January 2011 I've just confirmed a deal via the Dutch publisher, Amstel  to adapt HMvan den Brink's novel On the Water as a feature film.