WRITER-OGRAPHY
Since 1973 I have been a professional writer and have been paid for original scripts, rewrites of others’ scripts, adaptations, polishing, and editing.
Besides the writer-for-hire projects a number of my own works have been optioned, with interest from major companies for some of them, including MGM and Eclectic Pictures.
Produced projects include short films [including an award-winning comedy short], many documentaries, science, industry, and military programs.
Original Scripts:
Aztec Highway – w/ Monty Hayes McMillan & Bruce Logan
*Blade – w/ Bruce Logan
**The Cuban Circuit – w/ Monty Hayes McMillan
Pockets Full of Sand – w/ Monty Hayes McMillan
* Portrait – w/ Monty Hayes McMillan
Racer – w/ Bruce Logan & Rick Gilligan
Star Pirates – w/ Bruce Logan
Sword of Alexi – w/ Bruce Logan
* optioned
** was under consideration at MGM until a regime change
Original Non-fiction
Books:
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: Other Powerful Mythic Themes
Inner Drives: Create Characters Using the Chakras [published by Michael Wiese Productions]
Power of the Dark Side, The [published by Michael Wiese Productions]
Romantic Comedies, a movie guide book [published by Michael Wiese Productions]
Show Me the Love! All Kinds of Love for All Kinds of Stories – w/Monty Hayes McMillan
Symbols.Images.Codes: The Secret Language of Meaning in Media [published by Michael Wiese Productions]
Articles:
DVD Files – movie and TV series reviews
Hollywood Film Festival
MYTHWORKS newsletters and articles
Op-Ed News
Savvy Authors
ScriptMag – F&W Media
StudentFilmmakers Magazine
Voices Magazine
Writers Store
White Papers:
“Ye Gods! – Mythos as Ethos in the Peloponnesian Wars” – American Military University
“Mythos as Ethos, a Tool of Deception in WWII” – American Military University
“Men Who Walk into Battle” – The Future of Land Warfare Institute
U.S. Army Advanced Warfighting Working Group – internal presentations
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Writing for Hire
Screenplays – original
(some from actual events-characters/client synopses)
The Big Beauty Pageant – for producer Jim Lawrence
Naga Saga – for Cannes winner Vikeyeno Zao, w/ Monty Hayes McMillan
Queue of the Serpent – for Kuri Productions
Adaptation
The Plague of Provence – by Nina Ungar
800 page historical novel adapted into a feature script with a limited-series synopsis
Rewrite existing screenplay
Joe Hand’s Blues – for David Parks w/Monty Hayes McMillan
The Last Jaguar – for writer-producer Gilberto Nunes
Demoniac – for Kuri Productions
The Legacy of Gaston Leroux: The Man Behind the Mask – for Lynn Santer
Polish existing screenplay
Prototype – for A. Carlson
The Irish Code – for Robert Chapman
The Lake of No Return – for Cannes winner Indrajit Rao
The Currency of Freedom – for Lynn Santer
The Wakening – for Suzanne Boisvert
The Land of the Free – for Lynn Santer
Books, Novellas & Short Stories
Golden Soul – for Floyd O’Gorman
Petra Volare: Scroll I From the Shadows – with Reece Michaelson
Skruffy the Teenage Polar Bear – with Janie Tate
Non-fiction
Pro-Kids – Advice for creating successful child actors by longtime Manager and SAG children’s advocate Michael Harrah
Weekly civil affairs TV show for Culver City CA
Translations – non-native English into American English
Out of Line – screenplay for Turkish writer Mehmet Sukoroglu
Homo Cosmicus – sci-fi novel for Bulgarian author Todor Borisov
Book Content Design
Richard Iron Horse – memoir
HUMAN INTERRUPTED: The Social Crime Against Humanity – Roshanna Sidney Evans