The Emissary Movie

11/11: Stewart Wafflequisp's luckiest day

You can’t just steal an alien machine lost since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and use it to power your dairy farm for thirty-eight years and not expect any consequences. Read more →

Gralphs in our movie and what they are

Tim (right) simultaneously gralphs his brothers Dave (left) and Paul (middle) Erskine Eagle-eyed viewers of the Emissary Movie might spy a motif. A common hand gesture used by Jim, Mark, and Andy. This gesture has a long history in the Erskine clan. We call it the gralph. I was first... Read more →

Detailed synopsis for book 1 of the Emissary trilogy

Poster art by Ram Rojas, for The Emissary, a movie that I helped create and produce, and on which my books are based. Synopsis for book one: The Emissary and the Time Bomb from Outer Space Living on Wisconsin’s scenic Door County peninsula, engineer Jim Morgen isn’t expecting a visitor... Read more →

A sneak peek at Chapter 1, book 1 from the (unpublished) Emissary Trilogy

(Updated, Nov 2023) Here's a sneak peek at chapter 1, book 1 of the unpublished Emissary trilogy. Book 1 is complete (currently seeking representation). Books 2 and 3 were complete, but my beta readers love a subplot I introduced into book 1 so much that I am now gleefully threading... Read more →

Gills Rock Fall Drive

We stuck our movie camera through our sunroof and drove around to capture fall colors for you. Enjoy! If you like, follow this up with an excerpt musing about a color battery from my book, The Emissary. Gills Rock Fall Drive Door County Take a fabulous fall drive through Door... Read more →

Synchronicity!

I love it when these things happen. Our hearts are warmed by this Madison, WI family who impulsively bought our DVD from Brew Coffeehouse of Door County. They watched The Emissary that night. The next day, inspired by The Red Putter Mini Golf scene, they even more impulsively decided to... Read more →

Wellsburg community church sermon discoveres the deeper theme of our movie

The FIRST MINUTE ONLY of this Youtube video has some stray audio to be ignored, hang with it! On the surface, our movie seems like a silly sci fi comedy. But as I've turned into a book, I notice a deeper theme: how to be grateful and mindful when we... Read more →

Peninsula Pulse Emissary movie review

Big thanks to Mike Orlock for reviewing our movie. As Koyper would say, we think he hit the button on the head. He captured it well. If it looks like we were having fun here, you would be correct. Lots of fun filming with dear, tolerant friends, lots of sleep... Read more →

Happy birthday to the inventor of my fiction writing.

Dec 26, 2021 If it weren't for my brilliant sweetheart Tim Erskine, I would not have been inspired to try writing fiction. Five years after we created a movie together, I have a finished draft for a 700 (or so) page novel based on that movie, that my editor says... Read more →

In celebration of my favorite planet

In celebration of Earth day, here's a wee snippet from my novel, The Emissary, currently undergoing editing by some wise and extraordinarily kind Earthlings. My mother Judy Wadyko, prior to her move to Wisconsin, walking through the Colorado aspens. “But… what about alien technology…I mean, it must be so incredible…”... Read more →

Knowing DMN well: The Emissary movie and the brain's default mode network

First, my husband and I made a science fiction feel-good comedy movie called The Emissary. Second, have you heard of the default mode network? Have you heard of the default mode network? It's relevant to three Emissary characters' mindsets. Lately, there is not a single day that goes by where... Read more →