I'm married with two grown daughters. I have a BA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and have worked in a variety of industries, including public relations, the theater business, University education, municipal government as a computer network administrator, and as a WGA-Signatory Literary Agent selling to Hollywood studios and New York publishing. As an author, I have published 7 books, including 4 novels, 3 non-fiction books and authored/optioned/published numerous screenplays and articles. Currently, I have several screenplays in the works. I am currently working on another non-fiction book on my unique take on story structure.
Unique traits: Warped sense of humor. Large film book library--hundreds. Collects screen and stage plays in digital form. Huge library--30,000+ I went to college with Willem Dafoe and made a couple of amateur videos with him. As an agent, among many projects, I sold two STAR TREK scripts, one of which introduced the recurring character, Reg Barclay. And I worked with James Doohan on a short film.
THE DARK MAJESTIC Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller An ultra-rich businessman running a successful private space program recruits a disaffected former CIA Field Agent to “fake” a UFO crash in order to penetrate an ultra-secret Government UFO program once known as Majestic 12.
FOE Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror In a near-future world shattered by an alien invasion, a lone Special Ops soldier, unaware that he's the key to victory, stumbles on a group of disabled war vets holding their abandoned VA Hospital as the invaders lay siege.
THE JUPE Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror After a family, hunted by killers, hide in a small town, and re-open an old movie palace, as their pursuers close in, their fear awakens something worse lurking within the theater itself, and in a single night of relentless horror they find their survival depends on them alone.
OBSESSOR Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror After a man comes to a psychiatrist claiming to be pursued by a demon, unable to penetrate the man’s psychosis, the psychiatrist ignores his professional ethics, begins to investigate, and realizes his patient may, in fact, be telling the truth.
MYSTERY TOWN Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy When a government agent investigates a strange town on the loneliest road in America, he encounters the oddest collection of weirdos and a secret beyond belief, proving that in some places in the Universe, you can go home again.
DARKNESS CALLS ME Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery A “boy-wonder” film executive scams his studio for millions with a dummy script that the whole town believes is genius, sends it straight to “Development Hell” so he can walk away with the cash, only to find he’s not the only “shark in the tank”.
THE SLEEP OF REASON Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Horror After his bride disappears on their European honeymoon, Richard Renfield traces her to a castle ruin in the Carpathian mountains, and confronts its undead inhabitants, determined to restore her to life and bring her home.
THE PANDORA PLAGUE - A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. Budget: $30M+ | Historical ⋄ Thriller In 1902 London, famed American Magician, Harry Houdini enlists Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. John H. Watson, in a case that rocks the British Empire to its core.