Connecticut’s Conservative Capitalist Strikes Movie Deal

Danbury, CT- February 14, 2011– Author, Motivational Speaker, and former Radio Broadcaster Wayne Winsley has closed a deal with ScreenMagic Films to produce his unpublished novel, The Leprechaun Deception as a feature film.

Wayne Winsley, who began his twenty-year career in radio by showing up unannounced at a radio station with nothing more than a demo tape and a smile, has managed to land a movie deal for himself in much the same way.

In 2005, Winsley self-published a short first draft of his novel, The Leprechaun Deception, a suspense thriller featuring Connecticut FBI Agent Tony Grace. The book sold about ten copies. After completing two sequels, Winsley re-wrote The Leprechaun Deception and tried to publish it in the conventional manner using a literary agent and mainstream publisher. But finding an agent willing to represent his work proved to be much easier said than done and after a couple hundred rejection letters and emails, Winsley did what any frustrated, unpublished and unheard of author would do. He began shopping his manuscript to movie producers.

Enter ScreenMagic Films, an independent film production studio headquartered in Beverly Hills California. Company President Rick Jenkins says, “When it (The Leprechaun Deception) came across my desk I said this is hot, we need to grab this.” Jenkins adds that he is excited to transform the manuscript into a screenplay and begin filming. ScreenMagic also has an option to pick up the other two novels in the Tony Grace series, The Platinum Duplicity, and Delusion.

Winsley says he landed the movie deal the same way he has achieved everything else in his life. “When it comes to your dreams, never give up. You have to always be brave enough to fail.”