News & Updates

This is one of those blogs every writer waits years to write. I’m pleased to announce that I am now represented by literary manager Alexia Melocchi of Little Studio Films. Melocchi and I have signed a one year contract, and she is working hard at getting my three most marketable scripts, Imprinted, Destroying Angel, and Girl in Trunk, into the right hands.

 Many of my friends have asked me how I managed to get to this point, so I thought a little summary would be in order. We all know that the two key steps to a writing career, is first, write well, and the second is to have people who can help you sell what you write.  For the last two years I’ve been focusing almost exclusively on the first step, honing screenwriting skills I’d developed as a playwrighting major at Catholic University, in the graduate film program at New York University, taking courses with John Truby, and reading numerous books by other screenwriting gurus. In the last two years I polished my skills by taking screenwriting courses at ScreenwritingU. Hal Croesmun’s courses help writers focus on specific techniques that address big picture issues and improve the telling detail. Most of all he gets us to professionalize, by training us to market our projects and to learn to address the needs of our target audience: the producers that will option our scripts or hire us for projects of their own.  

After doing some marketing research and collating remarks from various readers and coverage, we realized that the title "Heaven Sent" wasn't working for our award-winning female-driven horror thriller script. Too many other things online with that name and to some people the title conveyed something rather un-horrific.

It still amazes me that a script that is five or six pages long can place in contests and get its writer industry attention. But in the last month it's happened to me twice. This time my crime/thriller short, Sister Secrets, is finalist in the Mix International Short Screenplay contest. Sister Secrets is also Quarterfinalist in the Champion Screenwriting Competition.

This contest is a great opportunity because the festival does its best to match up writers and filmmakers for future collaboration.