Screenwriting

I write darkly erotic sci-fi and horror epics, about families torn apart by something terrible and how they learn to love again (or fail to) in the aftermath.

Loglines

CONCEPTION (Feature | Psychological Pregnancy Horror) — When a grieving widow gives birth to the evil reincarnation of her dead husband, she and her conflict-averse sister must confront their childhood trauma to escape his murderous protection. It’s SMILE by way of ROSEMARY’S BABY.

OKLAHOMA CLAY (Feature | Small-town Detective Creature Feature Horror) — After a massacre at a white supremacist compound, a bullheaded small-town detective must take down an otherworldly monstrosity that skins people alive—before it kills her son. It’s TRUE DETECTIVE meets PREDATOR.

LENORE (1-hr. Quasi-procedural TV | Sexy High School Vampire Drama | Premium Cable) — The lonely, last vampire in the world enrolls in a new high school to keep up her human appearances, but when undead monsters begin stalking her new community, she will have to battle the very forces that created her. It’s WYNONNA EARP meets BLADE.

KRONUS (1-hr. Serialized TV | Near-Future Dystopian Sci-Fi | Premium Cable) — After her father is denied a life-saving cancer cure, a traumatized scientist in dystopian LA finds herself working for the same corporation that created the cure, now designing a mysterious machine that could break the light barrier—and potentially resurrect the dead. It’s HALT AND CATCH FIRE meets ALTERED CARBON.

JOE HENCH (½-hr. Quasi-procedural Adult Animated TV | Working Man’s Anti-Superhero Comedy | Premium Cable) — When a milquetoast suburban dad loses his cushy insurance job, he must enter the gig economy as a henchman-for-hire for various supervillains-of-the-week to continue paying for his trans daughter’s hormone therapy. It’s BREAKING BAD meets THE TICK.

Fiction Writing

I have published fiction and poetry in publications like Simultaneous Times, Every Day Fiction, Leviathan, Blasphemous Tomes, and the Sand, Salt, Blood anthology.

RPG Writing & Editing

In 2017 I began work as a freelance writer and editor for tabletop roleplaying games. At Reckoning of the Dead, a blog that I co-wrote with Matt Ryan, we wrote weekly one-page scenarios and additional articles about roleplaying and horror. Over the next four years, I was lucky to write several scenarios with notable creators, and I edited several dozen products for publication. I’ve included a few highlights below.

For M.T. Black

M.T. Black remains one of the most prolific and influential creators on the DM’s Guild. Working with M.T., I copyedited 10 products between 2018 and 2022, including Mordenkainen’s Tome of Marvelous Magic, now an adamantine bestseller (the highest category that the DMs Guild offers—only 73 other products have that distinction).

I’ve recently edited two of M.T.’s enormously successful Kickstarter-backed projects, Fraternity of Ash and The Anatomy of Adventure, Second Edition.

Harlem Unbound

When the first edition of Harlem Unbound came out, it shook the world of gaming, bringing the issues of representation and racism to the gaming table in ways never seen before.

For the second edition, I was invited to contribute a scenario set in the Dreamlands, called “An Ode for the Lost.” (You have no idea how many permutations the title went through.) It was an honor to contribute to this project, and I’m still very proud of the result.

Miskatonic Repository

On the Miskatonic Repository, Chaosium’s online repository for fan-made scenarios and supplements, Matt Ryan and I released two scenarios.

Chaosium invited us to contribute “PLAGUE” as one of the first five scenarios released on the Miskatonic Repository, to drum up excitement. It’s now a silver bestseller on DriveThruRPG, and still one of my favorite scenarios.

The second scenario, “A Lark in a Cage,” was written by myself with additional artwork and layout by Matt. It’s now a copper bestseller.

Pelgrane Press

As the Publishing Assistant at Pelgrane Press, I wrote articles and blog posts, performed developmental edits on forthcoming products, managed the transfer of old articles from a former website to the current one, and spearheaded their expansion on YouTube and Twitch, growing the latter platform from 0 to over 400 followers.

Session Zero

Session Zero: An Introduction to the World of Roleplaying Games, written by John C. Byram and edited by myself, explains the world of roleplaying games to those who have never played and want to know what all the fuss is about. In 2020, the book won a Silver ENnie for Best RPG Related Product.

System Design

I’ve occasionally tried my hand at system design as well. Over at itch.io, you can find my game Ringtrees, where you play out the life of, yes, a tree, one year at a time, or Axylus, my game about the lovelives of giant robot pilots.