P James Norris (Screenwriter, screenwriter)

P James Norris

(He/Him/His)

Screenwriter

Website: https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php

Biography

James wrote four spec scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first of which, "Yellow Alert", made it into the top 10 of 110 scripts left for the third season producer by the second season producer--alas, "Yellow Alert" was not produced. But based on its strengths, he was allowed to submit three more scripts without representation, something nearly unheard of at the time. He's currently rewriting the fourth of which, "A Sense of Purpose", for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

More recently, he's written three spec teleplays: a back-door pilot for Supernatural, "Supernatural: Lucky & Gabby", two original fantasy TV pilots entitled "Project Ωmega" and "Powers & Glory", and is at work on an original science fiction TV pilot, "Enceladus". The finished teleplays have done reasonably on the contest circuit--you can see how well at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php.

He has five novels in various states of incompletion, one of which, The Order of the Brotherhood, is a work of dystopian fiction set in a prison which investigates the value of democracy in an America that has largely forgotten it and is the one he had hoped to finish during the 2023 NaNoWriMo, but... You read about his novels at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php.

In 2018 he started getting short stories published by the likes of Moon Magazine, Fantasia Divinity, Tigershark Publishing, and Rhetoric Askew. His "Izzy Tells No Lies", originally published in Fantasia Divinity's Feb 2018 issue, has been republished in B Cubed Press' Alternative Theologies anthology. A few of his short stories have placed in ScreenCraft's Cinematic Short Story competition--you can see which ones at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php.

In 2023, his adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's short story "Beyond the Door" was produced as an eleven-minute short and has done pretty well on the festival circuit--you can see how well at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php.

He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and an MS in Physics from Kansas State University.

He lives in southeast Idaho with his wife, two dogs, three cats, and three chickens. He can be reached at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php and https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjamesnorris/

He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and an MS in Physics from Kansas State University.

He lives in southeast Idaho with his wife, two dogs, three cats, and three chickens. He can be reached at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php and https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjamesnorris/

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P James Norris

Screenwriter

Website: https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php

Biography

James wrote four spec scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first of which, "Yellow Alert", made it into the top 10 of 110 scripts left for the third season producer by the second season producer--alas, "Yellow Alert" was not produced. But based on its strengths, he was allowed to submit three more scripts without representation, something nearly unheard of at the time. He's currently rewriting the fourth of which, "A Sense of Purpose", for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. More recently, he's written three spec teleplays: a back-door pilot for Supernatural, "Supernatural: Lucky & Gabby", two original fantasy TV pilots entitled "Project Ωmega" and "Powers & Glory", and is at work on an original science fiction TV pilot, "Enceladus". The finished teleplays have done reasonably on the contest circuit--you can see how well at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php. He has five novels in various states of incompletion, one of which, The Order of the Brotherhood, is a work of dystopian fiction set in a prison which investigates the value of democracy in an America that has largely forgotten it and is the one he had hoped to finish during the 2023 NaNoWriMo, but... You read about his novels at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php. In 2018 he started getting short stories published by the likes of Moon Magazine, Fantasia Divinity, Tigershark Publishing, and Rhetoric Askew. His "Izzy Tells No Lies", originally published in Fantasia Divinity's Feb 2018 issue, has been republished in B Cubed Press' Alternative Theologies anthology. A few of his short stories have placed in ScreenCraft's Cinematic Short Story competition--you can see which ones at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php. In 2023, his adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's short story "Beyond the Door" was produced as an eleven-minute short and has done pretty well on the festival circuit--you can see how well at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and an MS in Physics from Kansas State University. He lives in southeast Idaho with his wife, two dogs, three cats, and three chickens. He can be reached at https://www.ocetacea.net/pjamesnorris/index.php and https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjamesnorris/

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