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W R I T I N G
Spooky LA, based in Los Angeles, originated in New Orleans as a collaboration between Marta (writing & photography)
and Tom Murphy (music, writing, & performance arts). Their video shorts received national attention for their strong political stance and controversial subjects.
Their world was one of art centers, galleries, raves, and cable. They won several cash awards at film and media festivals and
earned kudos at an international filmmakers symposium sponsored by the U.S. State Dept.
After exploring the realm of home-grown productions, the couple moved to Los Angeles, where they now work in entertainment.
Their creative services grew to include online media, music journalism, and art services for televison and film.
When Marta first arrived in Los Angeles, she was chosen for the WGA Writing Program, a paid internship with the writers at Star Trek Voyager. Most fun she's ever had in a day job.
Marta's latest novel, The Vatican Solution, Political thriller set in post-World War II Italy, was a semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship and the Chesterfield Writers Project.
Marta's second novel Acapulco Buds Adult political comedy. It's the late 1960s when love, war, dope, and Go-Go dancing commies crash head-to-head in Acapulco with a crazed CIA officer who imagines that Ché is still alive and hiding in a Mexican commune. 1960s— love, war, dope, the CIA... and Go-Go dancing commies.
Marta's first novel Spirit Land A novel of of love and horror. An entitled young guy inherits a vast Louisiana property of fertile bayous with a dark legacy. Awaiting his return is a vengeful female entity determined to birth his child, and taking his soul to
the underworld.
Marta's children's fairy tale, Angelita, is available to read
free online. On the eve of Dia de Los Muertos, a young boy buys a devil mask from a stranger with shiny silver teeth. The bewitched mask promises to give him the power to avenge his baby sister, killed in a drive-by shooting. But can he control the mask, or does the mask control him?
She's published two photography books: Carnival Dreams and
The House on Rue Burgundy.
Her newest novel— due Halloweent 2025 — is Bloodline, the Winter Child Adult Horror fantasy novel. The Infandum, (the Unspeakable) as they’re called by the Quaeren, are a mutation from homo sapiens that have acquired telepathy and shapeshifting powers. For millennia, they’ve interbred and coexisted incognito with humans, but when attacked, they morph into lightning-fast, lethal, terrifying creatures.
Quaeren, an ancient religious sect, sees Infs as an existential threat to the power structure of the human race, and have sworn to exterminate all—guilty and innocent alike. These highly-trained international assassins have wealth, science, and state-of-the-art weapons on their side, but when they begin experimenting on telepathic children, a powerful enraged Inf draws a line in the sand.
An early version of the screenplay was a quarter-finalist in the Chesterfield Writers Project.
Marta's novel in the works is The Dream Machine, a time-travel fantasy set in 1930s Hollywood.
Marta wrote Borderline, a crime drama screenplay set on the Tex-Mex Border.
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 Dark Comedy Novel
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 Dark Fantasy Novel |
 Political Thriller Novel
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 Horror Fantasy Novel
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 Short Story |
 Excerpt from Spirit Land
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 Mardi Gras Photography
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 Nude Infrared Photography |
 Crime Drama Screenplay
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