Non-WGA writer. One horror/thriller script sold as ghostwriter. Four screenplays optioned including prior Nicholl Semi-Finalist. Official Selection to both Marina del Rey Film Festival (3 Consecutive Years) and Austin Film Festival (Second Rounder). Author of six award-winning fantasy novels including a Gold Medal for contemporary fantasy in the Global EBook Awards. Has also authored a published short story collection. Member of the Scriptwriters Network and Dramatists Guild.
RING Budget: $10M - $30M | Romance ⋄ Fantasy Hurled into an alternate time line by the loss of his enchanted wedding ring, a desperate man must prevent the wife who doesn’t remember him from marrying a rival suitor.Comparatives are: 50 FIRST DATES and SCOTT PILGRIM SAVES THE WORLD. CO-WRITER: BILL LUNDY
OLD BUDDIES Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A comic book artist takes his revenge twenty-five years after walking out on the best friend who betrayed him.
LONER Budget: $5M - $10M | Western His gun. His law. To Hell with right or wrong. The town’s new Marshall delivers law and order... his way.
THE LAIR Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Reservoir Dogs with vampires.Bad blood between vamp mobs boils over.
CURSE OF THE SAMPIRES Budget: $10M - $30M | Horror When evil Nightwalkers conquer the Empire, the last Samurai battles to save his homeland and family honor.
DISTANT REPLAY Budget: $10M - $30M | Film-noir An irresistible beauty lures a seedy beach bum into repeating the spectacular crime he got away with twenty years ago.
MAGIC GUMBALLS Family The lonely new kid in town gets more than he bargained for when all his wishes come true
THE FAIRY'S TALE Fantasy ⋄ Romance ⋄ Comedy Condemned to human form and exiled to the mortal world, a mischievous Imp finds forbidden love with the daughter of the only man who can send him home.
SANTACLAUSTROPHOBIA Comedy There's no joy for a nice guy stuck on Santa's naughty list.
SPACEBOOK Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy The world's most desperate social outcast accidentally links into an intergalactic communications network.
TRENT LIVELY'S PARANORMAL DETECTIVE AGENCY Thriller ⋄ Action ⋄ Mystery ⋄ Horror ⋄ Adventure What if James Bond had become a Ghostbuster instead of a spy? A routine investigation lures a blackballed ex-cop into a showdown with an immortal serial murderess.
THE MAN WHO LIVED WITH THE CANNIBALS Historical ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Biography Based on the life and works of Herman Melville. Desperate to save his career, a once-popular author spins a tale of desertion and romance on a savage island to a skeptical audience.
A SNAKE IN PANTYHOSE Comedy It takes a real man to be a beautiful babe. A notorious Casanova poses as a female supermodel to nail the one woman who wants nothing to do with him.
WIZARDS Drama A glamorous age of power, wealth and lust crashes down around the masters of a technology suddenly out of date when the silent movie era comes to a startling end.
OUR BIG BLUE DIVORCE Action Two cops start trying to kill each other just a few days before they retire.
THE NOVA TRIALS
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Ghostwriter Lured into an experimental research program, a terminal cancer patient finds herself at the mercy of a fiendish pharmaceutical test.
Lazy Fairy
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Author The world’s most notorious imp confesses to bringing both the mortal and the magical realms to the brink of madness just for fun.
The Book Of Djinn
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Author A resplendent genie must face down the oppressive Over Evilords before the light of magic disappears forever.
Fable Us!
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Playright, Lyricist Freed from a life of slavery, renowned story-teller Aesop takes on a desperate quest to reunite with his one true love.
The Mermayden's Tayle
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Author An immortal earthly deity discovers how fleeting mortal love can be, while true magic lasts forever..
The Magic Touch
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Author Fantasy/Humor. A mischievous Fairy King attempts to wed a mortal woman as evil forces conspired both to thwart their love and destroy the world.
Troll Story
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Author Condemned to live out her days as a hideous Troll, a wicked ex-Fairy Princess seeks vengeance on her former consort.
The Fairy's Tale
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Author A foolish Fairy King is banished to the human world and given one year to earn the trust of a mortal, or find himself exiled from his own kind forever.
Curse Of The Sampires - Quarterfinalist - StoryPros Screenplay Competition
(2020)
The Aloha War - Quarterfinalist - Screencraft Drama Competition
(2020)
Curse Of The Sampires - Semifinalist - Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition
(2020)
Curse Of The Sampires - Second Rounders - Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2020)
The Aloha War - Semifinalist - Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Competition
(2020)
The Aloha War - Semifinalist - Filmatic Screenplay Awards-Drama
(2020)
The Aloha War - Semifinalist - Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition
(2020)
Lazy Fairy - Gold Medal - Contemporary Fantasy - Global eBook Awards
(2019)
The Lair - 2019: Finalist - 13Horror.com Screenwriting Competition
(2019)
Curse Of The Sampires - Finalist - 13Horror.com Screenwriting Competition
(2018)
Curse Of The Sampires - Hot 100 List - Capital Fund Screenwriting Competition
(2018)
Curse Of The Sampires - Semi-Finalist - Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall Competiti
(2018)
Curse Of The Sampires - Quarter-Finalist - ScreenFest Horror Screenplay Competition
(2018)
Curse Of The Sampires - Quarter-Finalist - Scriptapalooza
(2018)
The Mermayden's Tayle - Honorable Mention - Contemporary Fantasy - L.A. Book Festival
(2018)
The Mermayden's Tayle - Silver Medal - Contemporary Fantasy - Global eBook Awards
(2018)
Distant Replay - Quarterfinalist - ScreenFest Action/Thriller Screenplay Competition
(2018)
The Book Of Djinn - Honorable Mention - Contemporary Fantasy - L.A. Book Festival
(2017)
Wizards - Finalist / 2nd Place - MovieHatch Screenwriting Competition
(2012)
Sunrise Over Sunset- Quarter-Finalist - Writer's Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition
(2007)
Trent Lively's Paranormal Detective Agency-Quarter-Finalist-Writer's Network Screenplay Competition
(2007)
Trent Lively's Paranormal Detective Agency - Quarter-Finalist - Scriptapalooza
(2007)
Trent Lively's Paranormal Detective Agency - Quarter-Finalist - Fade-In
(2007)
Beyond Infinity -Semi-Finalist - Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition
(2003)
Bone Weary -Semi-Finalist - Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition
(2003)
The Right Tool For The Job -Semi-Finalist - Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition
(2003)
Wizards - Semi-Finalist - AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship Competiton
(2002)
Wizards - Semi-Finalist - Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting Competition
(2002)
Ohio University
(1970-1974)