SHORTS:
The Tattoos: Drama (Short Film)
Logline: When a Southern pizza parlor owner, whose life has been a train wreck, imparts her wisdom and rules on a shy young lady seeking a job, she discovers they have similar hidden tattoos for similar reasons.
Award: 2014 Semi-Finalist Kansas City FilmFest Short Screenplays
FEATURE LENGTH Screenplays
The Cuyama Rodeo Drama * Modern Western * Romance
A young woman loses her horse in bankruptcy, then destitute, finds a job in Santa Barbara where she meets a man who charters a sailboat. Coming from such disparate lifestyles, a relationship seems futile. Especially after she steals her horse and heads back to where she was from in Wyoming. But he is not a man who gives up easily.
Award: 1989 Writer's Guild of America, East, for a Novice Screenplay Writer
Riding With the Boys Indie * Dirtbikes * Escapism
When a single, popular model starts wanting a child, she tries to figure out what type of man would make the best father. She concludes there is no perfect man, but her top three choices are school buddies she used to ride dirtbikes with in the desert. So she sets up a vacation with all of them in Baja.
Award: First in Santa Barbara Screen Writers Association, 1989 Honorable Mention, Writers Digest, Scripts
The Valedictorian: Action ⋄ Crime ⋄ Thriller
Logline: When a mysterious drug lord abducts a beautiful Georgia farm girl after observing her deliver a Valedictorian speech on YouTube, he wants her DNA for his future children and has her abducted. Only he’s not prepared for her survival skills or her Vietnam Vet grandmother’s cavalry.
Awards: 2014 – Semi-Finalist CineStory Awards 2017- Top ten finalist Stage 32 Feature Film Awards, Finalist National Screenwriters Awards, Finalist Inroads Screenwriting Fellowships; 2018 Finalist Peachtree Village International FilmFest Awards, Best of 2018 StoryPitches Action Thriller, Honorable Mention, Los Angles Film Awards, Finalist Artemis Women in Film Awards.
Raven's Oath: Drama ⋄ Bio Pic ⋄ based on True Story
Logline: A poverty-stricken American Indian girl (Chocktaw) promises herself that one day she will own a home without the help of either a bank or a man, both of which she has learned not to trust.
Award: 2018 Semi-Finalist CWA (Creative World) Drama and Family
Jo Shelby's Last March: Adventure ⋄ Historical Bio Pic ⋄ True Story
Logline: In this true story, at the end of the Civil War, an undefeated Confederate general leads Southern statesmen and officers deep into Mexico to start over, only Mexico is embroiled in a civil war of its own. "Death to the Gringo's" rings out, meaning the white color of their skin marks them as targets along with the fact the sided with the French instead of the people of the nation.
Awards: 2015 Quarter Finalist Creative World Awards (CWA) and Nicholl Fellowships Semi-Finalist; 2018 Fade In Annual Awards - True Biopic
Deja Voodoo: Romance/Comedy *
After crossing paths in the ER, a busted-up over-the-hill biker must convince his female emergency room doctor that she was once his lover and stop her from making the same mistake she did a long time ago.
Award: 2015 Grand Prize for new writer- American Movie Awards
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Drama ⋄ Family ⋄ Opioid Epidemic
Logline: A divorced real estate agent gives up everything to save her teen surfing champion son's baby from its drug addict biker mother and a flawed Child Protective Service. (never submitted)
Annie With No Name rewrite of The Cuyama Rodeo Drama * Thriller* Romance
Logline: Ann wants to know why she was left as a toddler on a remote Wyoming ranch, but the Shoshone foreman won't tell her because he knows the answeres will get her killed.
Awards: 2021 Blue Cat Annual Screen Writer’s Contest - Quarter Finalist
NOVEL
Annie Without a Name is a contemporary fiction novel based on the script Annie With No Name. It is the story of a young woman who spent the first twenty-two years of her life on a monistic remote cattle ranch, never knowing who her parents were, what her real name is or why she was left there. An event occurs that forces her self-appointed guardian to make her leave with only an old truck and her horse to survive in a world she knows nothing about. When she loses her beloved horse due to a legality she doesn't understand, she steals the horse back and returns to Wyoming. When a sheriff, acting on a tip about a female horse thief, shows up at the ranch, mayhem and death engulf her. It's up to her alone to deal with the psychopath from whom she has been hidden all her life.
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