Goody & Grant • film and television rights

Big hooks. British chaos. Worlds built to return.

From Satan in suburbia to the civil servants managing the apocalypse, our stories begin with a premise audiences understand immediately—then build character-rich comic worlds with somewhere to go.

Audiovisual rights available More than fifty published books UK authors and rights holder

Priority properties

Four sharply differentiated propositions: two large returning comedy worlds, a character-led seaside crime engine, and a contained horror-comedy feature.

Rights file 01 • ten-book core series

Clovenhoof

Returning comedy • live action or animation
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Iain Grant – book cover

Satan loses his job and is exiled to a quiet English suburb, where he turns the lives of his long-suffering neighbours into an escalating collision between domestic inconvenience and cosmic chaos.

Series engine
Jeremy Clovenhoof attacks ordinary human life with infernal confidence and almost no understanding of consequences; the recurring ensemble must contain whatever he has enthusiastically broken.
Screen identity
Warm, fast and irreverent British comedy with a strong suburban ensemble, an expanding supernatural cast and a decade of source material.
19,000+ebooks for Book 1
6m+Kindle page reads
8,000+audiobooks for Book 1

Previously optioned for screen. That option reverted several years ago and the audiovisual rights are available.

Rights file 02 • multi-book series

Oddjobs

Returning comedy drama • 6 x 45
Oddjobs by Heide Goody and Iain Grant – book cover

The end of the world is inevitable. Morag Murray works for the secret government office responsible for making sure the apocalypse happens as smoothly, quietly and administratively correctly as possible.

Series engine
Every episode gives the team an impossible supernatural incident to suppress, a public body to placate and a form that should have been submitted last Tuesday.
Screen identity
Workplace comedy collides with monsters, dark gods and government absurdity: recognisable office politics inside a visually unlimited urban-fantasy world.

Rights file 03 • seven-book series

Sam Applewhite

Returning crime comedy • 6 x 45
Sealfinger, a Sam Applewhite novel by Heide Goody and Iain Grant – book cover

A resourceful security consultant with no visible boss and no useful job description keeps stumbling into crimes along the Lincolnshire coast—then solving them with help from a retired magician, a seaside junk-shop owner and whichever local eccentric has made matters worse.

Series engine
Sam’s gloriously vague assignments give her a legitimate reason to enter care homes, stately houses, tourist attractions and secretive communities where comic disorder conceals real danger.
Screen identity
A traditional British seaside seen from the service entrances: modern Vikings, psychotic seals, failing attractions, local schemes and surprising violence.

Rights file 04 • standalone novel

A Heart in the Right Place

Feature film • horror comedy road movie
A Heart in the Right Place by Heide Goody and Iain Grant – book cover

Nick wants one perfect weekend in the Scottish Highlands with his dying father. He did not plan to bring a dead neighbour, her dog, a body-part-collecting assassin, armed mercenaries, hungry boars or a werewolf.

Feature spine
A damaged father and son attempt to paper over the cracks in their relationship while a simple journey becomes a relentless chain of terrible decisions.
Screen identity
A contained British road movie with emotional purpose, escalating physical comedy, Highland scale and a clean beginning-to-end feature arc.

Further adaptable worlds

The wider catalogue includes additional returning engines and seasonal properties suitable for targeted development conversations.

Near-future satire

Big Tech

A different consumer technology transforms society in each darkly comic story. The opening property, Tech a Piece of My Mind (originally Jaffle Inc), follows a woman who discovers what humanity has surrendered after a brain implant accidentally gives her access to her entire mind.

Supernatural ensemble

A Spell in the Country

Three very different witches meet on a personal-development course in an English country mansion where students are disappearing, ghosts are multiplying and something enormous is moving in the woods.

Seasonal franchise

The Festive & the Furious

A garden-centre Christmas comedy trilogy involving sabotage, runaway reindeer, rogue Santas and rival festive empires. The authors have already produced a live-action proof-of-concept trailer.

Rights status

Audiovisual rights are available

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