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On the run, a young man recovering from a devastating car accident struggles to regain his memory as attempts are made on his life.

Tomorrow Waits For No One, written by Marcello Lanfranchi, debuted on the internet as a text-based series in 2003. Billed as the soap opera for people with ADD, each installment consisted of a few paragraphs of mostly action, punctuated by dialogue. However, within a matter of weeks, the characters' voices came to life. True to the daytime drama form, TWFNO characters talked about the action. Not to suggest that their lives were boring. The first 30 installments were filled with car crashes, amnesia, love triangles, murder attempts, forbidden love, embezzlement, a hurricane, deadly spiders, a faked pregnancy, a kidnapping, jilted lovers, a faked death, the mob, blackmail, stolen jewels...  Did we mention the deadly spiders?

As the months passed by, the number of subscribed readers climbed, eventually reaching a few hundred. In 2005, Lanfranchi took the first three installments and adapted them into the screenplay for Episode 1, "Who Am I?" In 2008, he placed an ad in the Asheville Craigslist seeking cast and crew to film the pilot episode. Filming commenced in October of that year and by the end of the following summer, production had wrapped. The pilot episode premiered at Asheville Pizza & Brewing on November 19, 2009.

Now, Santa Lorena Productions has embarked on a fundraising campaign to raise $12,000 to launch Tomorrow Waits For No One as a web series. Details forthcoming. Stay tuned!


Tomorrow Waits For No One is the story of Marcus Lazano. Chased by two thugs, Marcus is run over by Frank Cain's car and awakens in the hospital with amnesia. Romantic sparks fly between Det. Cole Washington and Marcus as the detective investigates the “missing persons in reverse” case. Frank is the only one who knows Marcus's identity (or is he?) but keeps mum as a fortune may be up for the taking.

Meanwhile, it appears that a love triangle is brewing between District Attorney Philip Benton his girlfriend Rhonda Lynn, and Nurse Gail Renwick. As the DA and Gail prepare for the wedding of his sister and her cousin, Gail has romance in her eyes—firmly planted on her soon-to-be cousin-in-law.

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I have the cutest 13-year-old puppy on earth. Her name is Nibbles, and we live in Asheville, NC.

I wrote the screenplay for the pilot episode of Tomorrow Waits For No One [http://santalorena.com], which premiered Nov. 19, 2009. We made it for $800, mostly with people who'd never made a film. Now, we’re raising money to re-shoot the pilot as the Episode 1 of a web series.

I love soap operas and have been hooked on them since I was a toddler. Back then it was The Edge Of Night. At about age 14, I began watching All My Children, One Life To Live, and General Hospital, as well as keeping tabs on about five others. No, really.

Having now lost three of my four favorites, and with the last on the verge of cancellation, it is important to me to continue the legacy online.

I’m co-owner of Anja Pottery [www.anjapottery.com], which produces edgy, elegant ceramics. And, can you believe it? I get paid to write synopses of General Hospital for [www.SoapCentral.com]. Truly, a dream job!

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