About Me
I'm a writer and have built an extensive résumé over the years. I've had a couple of screenplays optioned, and had articles and stories published. Here's my résumé:
SHARING IN THE COPING   *   NEWSPAPER ARTICLE   *   2008
Looks at practical methods to help deal with depression.
* Note: Published in the Preston and Northcote Leader Newspaper; 13th May, 2008.
IT'S A MENTAL BATTLE   *   NEWSPAPER ARTICLE   *   2008
An article which looks at the stigma associated with conditions such as depression, anxiety disorder, OCD, and other similar conditions.
* Note: Published in the Preston and Northcote Leader Newspaper; 6th May, 2008.
MY GENERATION - AMY   *   NEWSPAPER ARTICLE   *   2008
Profile highlighting the cultural differences faced by a young Chinese woman, Amy, following her immigration to Australia.
* Note: Published in the Preston and Northcote Leader Newspaper; 5th February, 2008.
FOR THE METHOD   *   NOVEL   *   PSYCHOTHRILLER   *   2007-2008
Mikey Cutter is a twenty-something method actor who's scored the lead playing a stalker in an indie thriller. As shooting progresses, the question becomes how far will Mikey take the method for the sake of realism.
KICK   *   WORKSHOP   *   DRAMA   *   2007
Participated in the writers workshop for the SBS Drama KICK.
BENNINGTON   *   FEATURE   *   SUPERNATURAL THRILLER   *   2007
Following the disappearance of his brother in the Glastenbury Triangle, Henry Entragen travels to Bennington to investigate.
* Note: Written for Silver Entertainment.
BENNINGTON   *   TREATMENT   *   SUPERNATURAL THRILLER   *   2006
Revolving around the Bennington Triangle, an area in the Glastenbury Mountains where people disappear without a trace.
* Note: Written for Silver Entertainment.
WITHIN THESE WALLS   *   TREATMENT   *   SUPERNATURAL THRILLER   *   2006
After the death of her husband in a hit and run accident, Jane Rennick escapes the horrors of the city by taking her two children, Katie and Sam, and moving to the idyllic small town of Mount Compass.  But Mount Compass has its own secrets, and Jane finds her new dream home has its own horrors.
* Note: Written for Silver Entertainment.
CANARD LURE   *   FEATURE   *   PSYCHOSEXUAL THRILLER   *   2006
Three women take out their frustrations over failed relationships by kidnapping an innocent stranger and tormenting him in an effort to find out what makes men tick. When the kidnapping goes wrong, they must each deal with the repercussions of their crime while denying investigating detectives. Revised draft.
OVERLOAD   *   NOVEL   *   AUTOBIOGRAPHY   *   2006
Autobiographic account of my experiences with anxiety, depression, and OCD.  Written in friendly prose and with the intention of being informative and comforting but without the technical jargon inherent in so many similar books.
MIDNIGHT’S DAWNING   *   NOVEL   *   FANTASY   *   2005-2006
When the Dark God Midnight was overthrown, the Sword of Power fell from his grasp and impaled itself upon the face of Mount Nëadrin, destroying any who would dare touch it.  Now, millennia later, Midnight stirs, and the fate of the world rests with a young slave boy, Arim, who not only has the ability to take up the Sword of Power, but to put an end to Midnight once and for all.  Fantasy epic in the genre of Lord of the Rings. Revised draft.
TREKKED OUT   *   ARTICLE   *   SCI-FI   *   2005
Article on Star Trek. Published in Frontier Magazine, which can be found at http://www.frontiermagazine.net/ .
TIME BOUNTY: "PARADOX"   *   TV PILOT   *   SCI-FI   *   2005
After a horde of criminals are accidentally scattered across time, Commander Ryan Chasse is sent to retrieve them before they can change history and rewrite the future. Third draft script.
STREETS OF FIRE   *   TV SERIES   *   CRIMINAL DRAMA   *   2004-2005
Originally written between 1995-1996 and now revised for a more contemporary audience, Streets of Fire involves the operation of six deep cover police operatives in Melbourne, Victoria.
Presently, the entire first season   *   a two hour pilot plus twenty-two one hour episodes, as well as character dossiers   *   have been completed. 
THE EXECS   *   SHORT   *   SATIRE   *   2004
Three studio execs discuss what's wrong with today's film industry, the piece dominated by the tirade of the lead, simply known as Mazar.  A dark satire with a twist.
HEREAFTER: PUNISHMENT   *   SHORT STORY   *   SCI-FI   *   2004
Set in a prison where the concept of rehabilitation has been replaced with punishment, inmates broken psychologically and physically, then rebuilt into individuals who can become productive members of society.  One of the quartet of self-contained stories involving Orwellian-like glimpses into the near future. 
HEREAFTER: DAY OF FUTURES   *   SHORT STORY   *   SCI-FI   *   2004
Teenagers are interviewed in regard to their professional aspirations and judged for their usefulness to future society.
HEREAFTER: LICENSE   *   SHORT STORY   *   SCI-FI   *   2004
A married couple apply for a license to have a baby. 
HEREAFTER: THE HARVESTER   *   SHORT STORY   *   SCI-FI   *   2004
Lucas finds a program on the Net which catalogues and classifies individuals through their browsing habits. 
TALES OF THE UNDERSEERS III:
THE UNMADE   *   SHORT STORY   *   FANTASY-HORROR   *   2004
Martin Kushner – an Agent from the FBI – is to sent to Australia to interview Simon Garrison, a man who’s seemingly immortal. Kushner, however, learns that immortality has come at the cost of eternal damnation.
The conclusion to a trilogy of self-contained stories about the foundation of Australia, the evolution of Australian Rules Football, and a curse laid upon the Collingwood Football Club.
TALES OF THE UNDERSEERS II:
THE FUGUE   *   SHORT STORY   *   FANTASY-HORROR   *   2004
Unfolding over a period of 150 years, looks at the foundation of Australia, the formation of the secret society known as the Underseers, and their attachment to the respective originations of Australian Rules Football, the Victorian Football League, and the Collingwood Football Club.
FINDING GLORY   *   FEATURE   *   DRAMA   *   2004
The lives of three friends as they unfold over four nights, Caesar trying to find some greater purpose to his life, the adulterous Ash fearing the imminent birth of his first child and the commitment that will bring, and Dylan considering his relationship with a much younger woman in the face of his pending transfer overseas.
KILLIN' TIME   *   FEATURE   *   DRAMA   *   2004
Suspended Detective Tyson Racine awakes to find a stranger in his house who identifies himself as Monty and claims to have participated in the kidnapping of Racine's fiancée, Jessica. What follows are a series of conversations throughout three settings examining Racine's life, his relationship, his suspension, and the reason for Monty’s presence.
SALVATION OVERLOARD   *   SHORT STORY   *   SCI-FI   *   2004
The Salvation is launched from Earth with the intent of colonizing Proxima Centauri.
TALES OF THE UNDERSEERS I:
13   *   SHORT STORY   *   FANTASY-HORROR   *   2004
Told in first person by the author as he experiences a number of mysterious phenomena in the wake of the Collingwood football team’s 2003 Grand Final loss. 
SHADOWS   *   FEATURE   *   SUPERNATURAL THRILLER   *   2003
Strange things are beginning to occur on Bodie Chennavasin’s Meals on Wheels route. While his mother battles the final stages of terminal cancer, eight year old Simon Marchant is developing an unhealthy obsession with the static on TV.  Seventy year old Timothy Farrow has become reclusive and cryptic. And, finally, there's the shadows Bodie catches out of the corner of his eye . . .
UNCHAIN MY HEART   *   FEATURE   *   BLACK COMEDY   *   2003
Skip Lago is an eccentric best-selling author. When his bored but obsessive housewife, Sherry, becomes involved in an affair with a young bar-owner, Bobby Rappaport, it becomes a case of who wants her most   *   and who doesn't.
PRODUCERS: "FIRST CURTAIN"   *   TV PILOT   *   COMEDY-SATIRE   *   2002
The story of four friends trying to be film and television producers.  Written in the vein of The Larry Sanders Show and Frontline.
NINE   *   FEATURE   *   WESTERN   *   2002
Based in colonial times during Australia's settlement, Bishop fights the tyranny of a corrupt British Officer, Major Calaban, his preternatural advisor, Lucian Gray, and the Empire they seek to create.
* Note: Written for Mondayitis TV, and in conjunction with/and for actor Tayler Kane.
PUNISHMENT   *   FEATURE   *   SCI-FI   *   2002
Set in a prison where the concept of rehabilitation has been replaced with punishment, inmates broken psychologically and physically, then rebuilt into individuals who can become productive members of society.
PRIDE   *   NOVEL   *   SUPERNATURAL DRAMA   *   2002
Australian Rules Football out in the country and the mystery surrounding the mercurial Aboriginal footballer Adam Pride. 
FOR THE METHOD   *   FEATURE   *   PSYCHOTHRILLER   *   2002
Mikey Cutter is a twenty-something method actor who’s scored the lead playing a stalker in an indie thriller.  As shooting progresses, the question becomes how far will Mikey take the method for the sake of realism.  FOR THE METHOD is a dark, edgy, and quirky thriller with comedic elements in the vein of the King of Comedy.
THE OTHER FILES . . .    *   FEATURE   *   COMEDY-SPOOF   *   2002
Parody of The X-Files, with Special Agents' Wolf Wilder and Jade Dully as they investigate a spate of abductions in a small logging town.
CANARD LURE   *   FEATURE   *   PSYCHOSEXUAL THRILLER   *   2001
Three women take out their frustrations over failed relationships by kidnapping an innocent stranger and tormenting him in an effort to find out what makes men tick. When the kidnapping goes wrong, they must each deal with the repercussions of their crime while denying investigating detectives.
TRUE BLOOD   *   FEATURE   *   SCI-FI ACTION   *   2001
Mase, an alien/humanoid warrior, hunts down a cadre of renegades who are searching for the True Blood, a human descended from a great interstellar empire who has been hidden upon Earth.
CADENZA   *   FEATURE   *   COMEDY-SATIRE   *   2001
Set entirely in a parked car, Cadenza follows the conversation of four friends as they discuss everything under the sun. Also known as What Happens to Jughead? and a feature redraft of the 1995 short.
ALL IN A GAME   *   FEATURE   *   SPORTS DRAMA   *   2001
In a post-apocalyptic future, baseball has become akin to a religion on the last known vestige of civilization   *   the small isle of Erasmi.
PRUDENCE   *   FEATURE   *   PSYCHOSEXUAL DRAMA   *   2000
The trials and tribulations of six groups of characters during a night in the club Prudence.
THE ADVENTURES OF TAZA BAX IN
THE SACRED ISLE   *   FEATURE   *   ACTION-FANTASY COMEDY   *   2000
Xena-like adventures of Taza Bax in a post-apocalyptic society.
ASHES & ENVY   *   FEATURE   *   SPORTS DRAMA   *   2000
The misadventures and successes of an AFL Club trying to rebuild their credibility.
FACE OF AN ANGEL   *   FEATURE..   *   CRIME-THRILLER   *   2000
Returning from injury, uniformed officer Taylor O'Donnolly is assigned the undercover role of infiltrating the Cini Crime Family.
SILVER MOON   *   FEATURE   *   HORROR-COMEDY   *   2000
Uniformed police officer, Lucy Vance, is shocked to discover her new boyfriend, Rollie Cooper, is a Werewolf tracking down a renegade member of another clan who’s hunting down and feeding upon humans in the city.
CHIMERICA   *   FEATURE   *   FANTASY ADVENTURE   *   2000
Two kids fall through a waterfall and into the magical land of Chimerica where Dwarves are at war with an Evil Wizard.
DARK RETURN   *   FEATURE   *   MUSIC SATIRE   *   2000
Threatened with dismissal from his plush position with Grimm Records, manager Buddy Valen, manufactures a band for success.
THE PROMOTER   *   FEATURE   *   SATIRE-DRAMA   *   2000
Vincent Rue-Mercer is hired by an old friend, Executive Producer Harvey Pollack, to help spice-up the low-profile sports on his cable network’s docket with themes and ideals taken from the world of pro-wrestling.
ARMADA   *   TV SERIES   *   SCI-FI   *   2000
Star Trek-like TV series centered around Captain Jake Kane and the battleship Iconoclast. The concept remains under development with American Producer-Writer John Ellis. Presently, the a second draft of the pilot, synopsizes of season one episodes, arcs for four seasons, and a story bible exist.
THE GRIND   *   FEATURE   *   CRIME THRILLER   *   2000
Roland Jade recruits best friend and killer for hire, Damiano “Spectre†Mastesë, as well as a motley team, to pull off a $10,000,000 heist for crime czar Ben Dolan, but everything isn't what it seems when the robbery goes wrong. Second draft script.
THE BIG PICTURE   *   FEATURE   *   BLACK COMEDY   *   2000
Four friends try to make a movie, but are unprepared for how far one of their number, Joey Sessa, pushes and manipulates them. A rewrite of Scene One . . . Take One, which was written in 1996.
HANDS OF GLORY   *   FEATURE   *   SPORTS DRAMA   *   2000
Coach Jack McGee forges a successful (American) high school football team from a group of misfits, which includes an Australian teenager starring as his wide receiver.
CAFÉ GOLD:
â€BOYFRIEND-GIRLFRIEND†  *   TV PILOT   *   SIT-COM   *   1999
Series centered around the locale Cafe Gold and the four friends who hang out there. Blatant Friends-like comedy.
TIME BOUNTY: "PARADOX"   *   TV PILOT   *   SCI-FI   *   1998
After a horde of criminals are accidentally scattered across time, Commander Ryan Chasse is sent to retrieve them before they can change history and rewrite the future. Second draft script.
MANY FACES OF AN ALIEN   *   ARTICLE   *   SCI-FI   *   1998
Article on Television & Feature Science Fiction written for Australian Sci-Fi Magazine Frontier, Issue 12: August-October 1998.
FACE IN THE RAIN   *   FEATURE   *   DRAMA   *   1998
Two dysfunctional people find one another when they're each at their lowest.
ALIEN REASONS   *   ARTICLE   *   SCI-FI   *   1998
Examining the motives of evil aliens in television and cinema. Written for Australian Sci-Fi Magazine Frontier, Issue 11: May-July 1998.
MATTER OF RANK   *   ARTICLE   *   SCI-FI   *   1998
Looking at the characters who've commanded in sci-fi television and cinema. Written for Australian Sci-Fi Magazine Frontier, Issue 10: February-April 1998.
A (VERY) LONG VOYAGE   *   ARTICLE   *   SCI-FI   *   1997
A scathing examination of Star Trek: Voyager, written for Australian Sci-Fi Magazine Frontier, Issue 9: November 1997-January 1998.
SEARCHING FOR ARNIE   *   FEATURE   *   MOCKUMENTARY   *   1997
The story of two friends on the trail to bodybuilding superstardom.
* Note: Feature rewrite for Foster-Gracie Films.
THE WILD GUNS   *   FEATURE   *   ACTION-DRAMA   *   1997
Contemporary update of The Wild Bunch but with bikers instead of cowboys.
* Note: Commissioned by Foster-Gracie Films.
SCENE ONE . .  .  TAKE ONE   *   FEATURE   *   COMEDY   *   1996
First draft of The Big Picture. 
PLAINCLOTHES:
"SWEET TOOTH"   *   TV PILOT   *   DRAMA   *   1996
Drama featuring female detectives' Claudia Penn and Shana McCullough as they investigate a rape and murder. First and second drafts completed, as well as synopsizes for the first eight episodes.
* Note: Written on spec for Foster-Gracie Films.
THE GRIND   *   FEATURE   *   CRIME THRILLER   *   1996
Roland Jade recruits best friend and killer for hire, Damiano “Spectre†Mastesë, as well as a motley team, to pull off a $10,000,000 heist for crime czar Ben Dolan, but everything isn't what it seems when the robbery goes wrong.
BANE: "THE DANCER"   *   TV PILOT   *   DRAMA   *   1996
Boxing drama which parallels the course of two men   *   newly-crowned champion Dixon Moses, and up'n'comer Mickey Bane. The next episode, Conflict of Interest, has also been completed.
TIME BOUNTY: "PARADOX"   *   TV PILOT   *   SCI-FI   *   1995-1996
After a horde of criminals are accidentally scattered across time, Commander Ryan Chasse is sent to retrieve them before they can change history and rewrite the future.
STREETS OF FIRE   *   TV SERIES   *   CRIMINAL DRAMA   *   1995-1996
Two hour pilot episode, twenty-two one hour episodes comprising the first season, treatment, and character dossiers written.
SPECIAL DETAIL 2:
"UNDER COVER"   *   FEATURE   *   ACTION-COMEDY   *   1995
Buddy-cop drama based in Melbourne, Australia.
SPECIAL DETAIL   *   FEATURE   *   ACTION-COMEDY   *   1995
Buddy-cop drama based in Queensland, Australia. Second draft script. 
CADENZA   *   SHORT FEATURE   *   COMEDY-SATIRE   *   1995
Set entirely in a parked car, follows the conversation of four friends as they discuss everything under the sun. Also known as What Happens to Jughead?
FINAL STAND   *   FEATURE   *   ACTION-DRAMA   *   1994
First draft of The Wild Guns.
* Note: Written for Foster-Gracie Films.
SPECIAL DETAIL   *   FEATURE   *   ACTION-COMEDY   *   1994
Buddy-cop drama based in Queensland, Australia. 
MIDNIGHT'S DAWNING   *   NOVEL   *   FANTASY   *   1993-1995
When the Dark God Midnight was overthrown, the Sword of Power fell from his grasp and impaled itself upon the face of Mount Nëadrin, destroying any who would dare touch it.  Now, millennia later, Midnight stirs, and the fate of the world rests with a young slave boy, Arim, who not only has the ability to take up the Sword of Power, but to put an end to Midnight once and for all.  Fantasy epic in the genre of Lord of the Rings. Revised draft.
THE WARRIORS' TRIANGLE   *   NOVEL   *   FANTASY   *   1990-1993
Paladin discovers he’s actually the hidden heir to the throne of King of Men, and must join the Wizard Eldanath to reclaim the Five Crowns, the only weapon which can help overthrow the Dark Lord Necrarc.  Book One in the series subtitled The Pawns of Wizards, a fantasy epic in the genre of Lord of the Rings. This is the second rewrite. 
