K. Stephens
Author/Screenwriter/Executive Producer
K. Stephens is a Maine freelance writer, an award-winning journalist, and a screenwriter whose debut lobstering novel, The Ghost Trap (Leapfrog Press, 2009), became a major motion picture of the same title in 2024.
Khanlarian Entertainment hired Stephens to adapt the novel into a screenplay and she also served as an executive producer on the project. With her friends, Spruce Head lobstermen, assisting in all aspects of the entire production, the movie was shot in Midcoast Maine and premiered at six film festivals around the country, winning three awards for "Best Feature." Dennis Perkins, reviewer for Portland Press Herald said: "The Ghost Trap achieves the rare feat of getting Maine right on film." Freestyle Digital Media acquired the North American rights to distribute the film, which is now available on multiple streaming platforms, cable, satellite, and DVD. Awards The Ghost Trap was a Finalist in the Literary Fiction category of the National Best Books 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News. The Ghost Trap movie won three awards during its film fest run: Vermont Film Festival's "Best Feature Drama," Valley Film Festival’s “Ten Degrees Hotter Best Feature,” and Vacationland’s (Biddeford, Maine) “Best of the Fest.” Book Trailer
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From Publishers Weekly
In her impressive debut novel, Stephens offers a rugged and tender tale. Jamie Eugley, a ninth-generation lobsterman in the port village of Owls Head has cared for his brain-injured girlfriend, Anja, for three long years. Jamie suffers deep guilt over her near drowning accident while aboard his lobster boat and her subsequent debilitating coma. Anja's medical improvement has been frustratingly slow, but Jamie continues to nurse his naïve, stubborn fantasy of marrying the recovered Anja. Meanwhile, he deals with a dangerous and violent trap war among the lobstermen and a romance with Happy Klein, a first mate on a tourist schooner up for the summer season who wants Jamie to come back with her to Key West. The bawdy humor, snappy dialogue, colorful local sea myths and rich lobstering details add to the immense appeal of this textured narrative about a superstitious but independent lobsterman's inward and outward struggles.
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