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Buck Hunter in Manhattan

Advertising art director must embrace the hunting code her father taught her in order to survive the big city.


Bittersweet

A Hispanic Chupacabra falls for a African-American personal chef with voodoo ancestry and a knack for succulently bloody-food, but a supernatural cold-war strives to keep them apart in a bustling city of Raleigh.


Blind Ballot

3 words, 2 rejections, and 1 pregnancy test leaves a sightless MAGA blonde in internal  conflict after becoming the baby mama of a wrongfully convicted African American. Southern sounds, common values, and sensory dates trick the unlikely pair into casting a “vote” that could forever change both of their lineages.  


Fatal Pursuit

When a dedicated FBI agent pursues a violent killer cross country the chase ends with a shootout where duty and sacrifice collide. Based on a true story.


A Killer Performance

When an acting teacher tells a troubled drama student he'll succeed by playing a murderer, he begins a killing spree to master the role while detectives race to stop him.


Victory on Lake Erie

When Oliver Perry is sent to Lake Erie to build a fleet, he clashes with a British fleet and defeats them in a spectacular victory during the War of 1812.


THE PHOENIX PROTOCOL A Proof‑of‑Concept Primer for the PHOENIX Universe

Why This Booklet Exists (For Fellow Writers) When Dune was adapted in 1984, its creators faced a familiar problem: the world was too dense to fully explain on screen without slowing the story down. Herbert’s universe ran on systems—politics, belief, ecology, invented science—and forcing that into dialogue would have weakened the narrative. So supplemental material carried what the story couldn’t stop to explain. The Phoenix Protocol was created for the same reason. The Phoenix story spans 500,000 years and operates on defined physical and thematic rules. Rather than interrupt scenes with exposition, this booklet exists beside the narrative as a primer—optional for the audience, but grounding for anyone who wants to understand the logic beneath it. I’m sharing this here as a craft solution, not marketing. Curious how other writers handle dense worldbuilding without overloading the page, and whether tools like this help or hurt the storytelling.


Mum

During the war, an eight-year-old boy, witnessing how illness and hunger break his once strong mother, takes a deadly risk, believing he can save her.


Terms of Agreement Optioned

When you click on the Terms of Agreement, have you read and understood what you are agreeing to?


ONE WAY OUT

When a perfect heist goes wrong, the man entrusted to vanish with the money is presumed a traitor—until his crew discovers he’s been secretly detained, pushing their mastermind to risk everything to save him before the state turns him into a weapon.


Board of Directors 101 Optioned

Whether you’re on the board of directors, committee or entrepreneur, knowing how to play the game is definitely survival of the fittest.


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