WRITER FOR HIRE

Treatments, synopses, screenplays and script doctoring — quoted by project.

SCREENPLAYS/NOVELS

THE BUTTERFLY SYMPHONY was a Semi-Finalist & Quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures. A Romantic Drama about a woman on the verge of international fame in the world of classical music, when a shocking event destroys everything that defines her. It's a story about passion, love and how the enduring power of music leads the human spirit to triumph over tragedy, in the vein of THE HORSE WHISPERER.

SUGARPLUM DESTINY. Teen Novel and Screenplay. A live-action Christmas Fairy Tale and was a two-time Quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship. In this reverse WIZARD OF OZ story, Arabella, the teenage fairy Princess of Destiny, mistakenly gets swept up in the Suparplum Christmas Eve Dream Mission and gets left behind in the human world. The evil Empress of Nightmares casts a spell and Arabella loses her memory. Now she appears lost to her kingdom forever. In her own Dorothy fashion, she must get back home before her twenty-first Christmas Eve or dreams and destiny will perish forever. A novella is in the works, the first in a series of books. SCRATCH FEVER. A Delicious Dark Comedy, top 10% of the 2004 Nicholl Fellowship, about a trio of girlfriends that actively fantasize about killing their philandering husbands. Fantasy crosses with reality and the husbands start showing up dead! FIRST WIVES CLUB meets WITCHES OF EASTWICK

PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE. Novel and Screenplay.

A Coming of Age Drama about a woman drowning in expectation buys a ticket on the next plane leaving to God knows where. She crash lands in Napa Valley and her path leads her to a twist ending no one expected. UNDER THE TUSCAN meets SLIDING DOORS.