Unsolicited

feature-length screenplay - horror/suspense thriller

Do you believe everything you read?

Logline: A grieving fiction editor receives a bizarre manuscript that seems to depict her life—and death—in the plot... and soon finds that her every move, every thought and every fear has already been written.

After losing her husband to cancer, Christine Bradley—editor at a major NY publisher—moves upstate to focus on her work and move on with her life. Early one morning, she finds an unsolicited manuscript submission waiting on her doorstep. As an afterthought, she decides to take a look.

The title is Unsolicited—a story about a woman haunted by the prospect of her own death. As she reads the synopsis, she realizes that woman is meant to be her: a grief-stricken book editor, living alone in the country. It even mentions the manuscript she just received—and the terrifying experiences that begin soon after its arrival, continuing up to the very moment of her death.

Enlisting the help of a local policeman, she attempts to track down the sender. But things only get stranger: ghostly encounters, cryptic nightmares—all of which the manuscript describes in haunting detail. Somehow, it knows. Everything. And to understand why, she must live out her worst fears, all the way to the last page.

Unsolicited was been a finalist in various international screenwriting competitions, including: The Screencraft Horror Competition and The Creative World Awards.

Progeny

FULL-LENGTH NOVEL - SCIENCE FICTION

Codename: NATO-66

A one-way mission into the depths of the cosmos.  Allied High Command’s last-ditch effort to preserve Western democracy.  Somewhere.  For Sophie Weiss, it’s a tough pill to swallow.  Not because it’s risky.  Not because there’s anyone she’ll miss.  But because she’s a soldier.  This war is all she knows.

Centuries pass.  The crew sleeps.  Finally, they arrive: an uncharted world, hundreds of light years from Earth.  But they’re not alone here.

Another spacecraft enters the atmosphere soon after they land.  There is little doubt of its origin: Earth.  The enemy had been planning its own expedition, all along.

For Sophie, things seem right again.  She was meant to fight this war.   A war that claimed her family.  Her childhood.  Her humanity.  But on this world, things are not as simple as they once were. 

There is something else here.  Something they can’t explain.  And it’s been waiting. 

For a very long time.

PROGENY explores the mystery of an unknown world through human eyes.  Tense, visceral writing pulls readers through a tightly wound plot, full of danger, drama and deceit.  All the while, ominous clues—hidden in the crumbling remains of a forgotten civilization—warn of a dark reckoning on the horizon.

PROGENY served as my master’s thesis for Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction program, and represents two years of intense, professionally mentored work, with further fine-tuning under the guidance of a literary agent.