Empire Magazine online review of the 90 second film
Fright For Sale at Ravensbreath Castle

A Tim Burton-esque sense of the macabre pervades Leighx’s dotty story, doing it no end of favours. The low-fi animation serves Fright For Sale’s overall style well, while its healthy interest in bugs and critters makes for some interesting diversions to its story.

To see the review on the Empire website click here. You can view the other 20 semi-finalist's videos as well.
For Fright For Sale click on it in the list.

Motorola DIRECTORME competition Winner - - Beau Fowler, Brotherly Love - view here (The little ghosts can't compete with those standards).

But all is not lost for the rest of us. Empire magazine will be reviewing our films soon and Motorola will be compling all the semi-finanlist's films, both first and second clips, in a vodcast library.

Will post the review when available. Stay tuned.

Motorola DIRECTORME competition Final - - I uploaded the film Freaky Stinky made using only the MOTO Z10 phone 3 hours before the deadline of midnight of 13th June, on their YouYube channel.

Each finalist had to come up with their own logline this time and I had to think of something fast:

With the stench of defeat permeating their decomposed hearts the Ravensbreath ghost girls discover victory right under their nose. Title: Freaky Stinky. (view here) Not great but had to suffice.

CONGRATULATIONS! to me! - Motorola DirectorME shortlisted Fright For Sale... film (view here) in the competition with 19 others. We all won the MOTO Z10 mobile phone handset plus a £50 SIM card for plenty of call minutes. The MOTO Z10 not only shoots video and all the other great things phones do, but it also edits so you can make films. That was the next challenge. To make a flim using only the phone and we had one week to do it. The prize was £10,000.

Not a phone savvy person I spent awhile learning the phone, which really isn't bad especially if you know phones already. With a few short days left I made Freaky Stinky (view here) with the phone. Filmed - edited - added voice-over and music - transitions and upload all straight from the phone to YouTube. It is rougher than 'Fright' but not too bad made on a phone.

Motorola competition- DIRECTORME - for filmmakers to make a short - no more than 90 secs - video using one of their loglines. I chose this one:

It was only when the 'For Sale' sign came down, that they truly understood the horror behind that door.

(Judges include: Motorola, Ogilvy, FilmLondon, O2, Empire

Just thought I'd pop in to say that if you haven't notice anything new on the Ravensbreath site in a while it's because I've had my nose down to the page writing the novel Ravensbreath Island and have hardly even taken a moment to clean my house. Thank goodness my husband's well trained with a vacuum!

The only trouble with writing 14 hours a day is my bottom is growing wider than ever, even with a 3 mile daily walk, the garden is now a jungle and my 3 year old dog is turning into a lazy old man. Nevertheless I shall press on and hope all comes out well in the end.

Thanks everyone for your interest in the Ghost Orphan's story and Ravensbreath Island.

Thank you all for your support and interest in the Ghost Orphans and their story. I've found trying to produce the Ghost Dolls to sell and work on the novel Ravensbreath Island at the same time has become too much for one person to handle. The story needs to be completed first, I'm sure you can understand, so I've decided to concentrate on that. That doesn't mean there won't be dolls to own and collect, just not for awhile.

Meanwhile I will try to add something new whenever time allows.

In fact, here is a Special story that happened recently to one of the ghost children. Molly - Lost in the Haunted Valley. There are a lot of images so please give them time to download. Hope you enjoy.

NOTE to Maunufacturers. If your company would be interested in taking on my line of Ghost Dolls, please write: leighx@yahoo.com . Thank you.

GHOST DOLLS IN PRODUCTION The Ghost Dolls , Annabel Lee and her brother Percy are currently in limited production and will be available for purchase in the near future. Please check back here for further notice and information or write to be notified by email when ready.
The other Ghost Orphans will be released at a later date.

As each doll features in the larger tale, a small book will be included so the reader can learn their history before they became an orphan or indeed a ghost!

We welcome any comments or suggestion about the dolls, their story or this website, please write