The Lost Kelly Gold (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511578530)

Growing up, Damien's favourite hiding spots were in the pages of a book or in the cinema. He took in the words, images and sounds and knew that this was what he wanted to do, these were the worlds he wanted to create and the stories he wanted to tell. But as with life, we often get side-tracked from our goals and Damien found himself playing guitar in various bands, a surrealist UV artist and painter and all-round hospitality and retail wiz. As a Goa and psychedelic trance DJ in the nineties, going by the name 'Psycorrumba', Damien learnt how to weave a journey with music and transposed that skill to the world of film. He was a grip / general hand on the 2000 feature film; "NARCOSYS", which went on to win best film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, a brief stint as the floor manager on RMITV's "Pluck TV" and camera and editing duties on SKA TV news. Then in 2004 Damien co-directed a seven minute short film; "Gotcha" using only mobile phone cameras, the first at that time, then edited, wrote and performed the music, mixed the sound and eventually fell in love with the process of writing. Damien set out studying the craft of screen writing, a demanding and highly involved discipline that combines mythology, psychology and philosophy and with the aid of screenwriting coaches such as John Truby, Bobby Galinsky and Michael Hauge, went on to complete the script and novel for "The Lost Kelly Gold" along with numerous other, soon to be released, works.