As a multifaceted creative, Monty’s content ranges from books, a web series, kid’s travel world, to film scripts. He credits his diverse imagination with both travel and living abroad, where he learns stories from other cultures that provide a unique writing perspective. With children’s literacy and empowerment near his heart, he is creating a foundation that teaches storytelling to Tanzanian girls and dropouts.
Originally from Texas, Monty lives abroad with his wife, three children, and Welsh terrier, Calypso. His romance with his wife is a real-life romantic comedy, one he’s been inspired to write. Though his content company, Carltons Creative, has kept him busy for the last five years, he finds his work fulfilling. When he’s not working, he’s being a loving husband and hands on father with a joy to inspire his children to be strong readers, to chase their dreams, and never to give up!
The key differentiator between Monty and other creators—he creates content not to be consumed and forgotten, but designed to be lived...
Unique traits: diversely creative
The Carltons Series (Book 1) Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Experimental Friends say, “the couple, even when being driven crazy by them, leave one spellbind.” The Carltons Series is a compilation of vignettes within a continuous serial that peeks behind the lives of a cosmopolitan adventure set. In search of excessiveness and debauchery, the Swans and Stags, ten flawed characters lead by Charlotte Carlton accompanied by her husband John, embrace life after the pandemic... the New Roaring Twenties. Carltons Series --- The book, Italian Riviera, is now out ---
Big Three Networks - dramatic television series Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Historical When the head of CBS tv programming is murdered, his nemesis takes over launching a scorched-earth campaign at the company's president and competing networks.
Catch As Catch Can Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Drama A married detective's one-night encounter with an affluent femme fatale threatens to destroy his life when an unscrupulous trust-fund maniac begins to stalk and terrorize him.
Lancer's Down Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Drama After uncovering similar details in three prior plots, a Secret Service agent jeopardizes her life warning supervisors about the brewing assassination threats while trying to expose the culprits before Dallas.
Sunset & Fifth Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Music After meeting in LA, a young, struggling musician persuades a posh, suicidal female, twice his age, to see his dying and estranged father with him in New York.
Who Knew? Budget: $10M - $30M | Romance ⋄ Comedy When a Hollywood A-lister hits D.C., the life of cynically romantic press secretary dating a White House’s politico turns upside down.
Outcast Goes to the White House - children's book Budget: $0 - $100K | Adventure ⋄ Family When the manager of a toy factory discovers a plush otter with mismatched eyes, she tosses him into the rubbish bin. Thankfully, Timmy Carlton discovers the little fellow.
Lord of the Senate - dramatic television series Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Drama A ruthless Texas senator hires a Machiavellian maniac to build an empire for his three children through a clandestine network of unsavory characters and mobsters.
Adventures of Calypso - published children's book Budget: $0 - $100K | Family When a puppy is swept away in a locked train car, he must find his way home with the help of some unlikely of friends.
Demonical podcast & series Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery When a woman is almost murdered by her adopted daughter it sets in motion a chain of malevolent and supernatural events that reveal both are descendants of a Biblical bloodline, and an orphanage breeding Lucifer’s spawn the woman must destroy. * Currently being produced as a podcast *
Female Preferred (a serendipitous NYC love story) novel Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance When a struggling LA writer relocates to NYC, he moves in with a charming German banker he found on the internet, but will her three-month visa expire before he can pen the fairy tale ending? *Currently writing screenplay
The Realm of GoldOro - children's book trilogy Budget: $100K - $1M | Fantasy ⋄ Animation While riding his bike through the forest, a young boy discovers a mysterious tree house serving as a portal into an underwater civilization of fallen angels, which he must help to save humanity.
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My Brother
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King of the Corner
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Hope & Faith
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Just4Shorts 'Short" Competition - Winner - Demonical
(2022)
Double Recommend Stage 32 - Demonical
(2022)
Hot Springs Film Competition - semifinalist - LANCER
(2022)
Scriptation Showcase - quarterfinalist - SUNSET
(2022)
Emerging Screenwriters - quarterfinalist - LORD
(2022)
Just4Shorts 'TV' Contest - TV Series Winner - DEMONICAL
(2022)
Jaipur International Film Festival - quarterfinalist - LANCER
(2021)
Table Read My Script - Top 100 - SUNSET
(2021)
Screenwriters Network Comp - quarterfinalist - LANCER
(2021)
Page Turner Screenplay Contest - quarterfinalist - LORD
(2021)
Page Turner Screenplay Contest - quarterfinalist - SUNSET
(2021)
Santa Barbara International - quarterfinalist - WHO KNEW?
(2021)
Santa Barbara International - honorable mention - LORD
(2021)
Hot Springs Film Competition - 6th place - SUNSET
(2021)
North Europe Int. Film Festival - finalist - CATCH
(2020)
ReelHeart Int. Film Festival - semi finalist -LORD
(2020)
ISA Top Fifty Fellowship - LANCER
(2020)
South Europe Int. Film Festival - finalist - WHO KNEW
(2020)
Page Tuner Film Festival - semi finalist - CATCH
(2020)
Imaginarium Convention Screen Contest - finalist - LORD
(2020)
ReelHeart Int. Film Festival - finalist - SUNSET
(2020)
Big Apple Film Festival - semi finalist - SUNSET
(2020)
Page Turner Drama Film Festival - semi finalist - SUNSET
(2020)
Capitol Fund Screenplay Comp - "Hot 100' - SUNSET
(2020)
Capitol Fund Screenplay Comp - 'Hot 100' - WHO KNEW
(2020)
New Renaissance Film Festival London - SECOND PLACE - LANCER
(2020)
Scriptation Showcase - quarter finalist - SUNSET
(2020)
South Europe Int. Film Festival - Genre Winner - WHO KNEW?
(2020)
Romance Film Festival - Catagory Winner - WHO KNEW?
(2020)