I am a novelist, screenwriter, producer. I write mostly in the Western genre, adaptations of my novels, mostly, though others genres as well. One of my scripts was optioned and a documentary I wrote and produced received one award. One of my novels, Deputized, for which there is a screenplay, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2022. This was the only time I submitted any novel for consideration of any award.
Short Rope at Dawn Budget: $1M - $5M | Western The true story of one of the most enigmatic characters of the west, who walked through and made history as a hero and a villain.
Operation Success Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller An idealistic CIA operative and his experienced mentor are set on a collision course with each other during the 1954 coup in Guatemala.
Deputized Budget: $1M - $5M | Western An itinerant cowboy is drafted into a deadly pursuit and must confront a brutal marshal, defy a murderous deputy, foil a clever con and expose a crooked sheriff or go to prison.
Not Like That Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama Lifelong enemies, aging, one retired from the police force, the other an ex-con. Both veterans, one does community service driving the DAV van, the other is taking chemo at the VA.
Shadow Soldier Budget: $1M - $5M | Western In 1865, he is seventeen and a traitor, broke and ashamed when he flees reconstruction to start a new life in Texas, but as he struggles to survive amid thieves and unscrupulous lawmen, he discovers his father's dark secret and must return to confront the man he adored.
Cowboy Budget: $1M - $5M | Action A reclusive hitter known only as Cowboy, completes an arduous string of hits, but leaves one witness behind that twenty years later threatens to expose his crimes.
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Semi-Finalist Filmmatic Screenplay Awards for Shadow Soldier
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