Author | Writer
I make stuff and make stuff up.
The Double Life of a Single Girl
Logline – A woman shot in the back of the neck realizes if she had a dollar for every person who wished her dead, she’d have $42 & her life flashes before our eyes, exploring all the suspects.
Risk Aversion | Comps – Alice in Wonderland meets Fleabag meets Baby Reindeer meets Dying for Sex (2025) meets Baise Moi meets Kinflicks meets Jacob’s Ladder meets Bridget Jones’ Diary
Genre | Formats | Manuscript Word Length – Black comedy mystery | adult literary fiction | 120k words | 4x 1 hour TV series
Audience – Female 20-somethings – Generations X, Y, Z and millennials who love mystery, crime, scandal, & romance based on true stories. People who can’t believe they lived through deeply confronting, scarring experiences and the outrageous fun ones, too. People who have heard the words, “I wish you were dead.”
Taglines – Who shot Harper Black? – Based on many true stories – The more you know, the more you want to know
Status – Manuscript complete + 2 years of professional editing with the Flying Pants Editing duo. Seeking publisher & IP license or sale of screen rights
Rating | Tone – MA | Provocative & irreverent, raw & outrageous
Era | Locations – 1964 > 2004 | Sydney, NSW South Coast & regional Australia
Bedtime Stories for Big People
The video / audio / podcast of the Mandible Media rights catalogue & development slate is in early pre-production. It makes the stories available for audience amusement and a testing opportunity to see what people want to see turned into a feature film or screen series.
Ticketyboo: an Illustrated Story of Learning to Love Dementia (2022)
An easy-to-read ebook full of heartfelt, funny, relatable anecdotes with some tips about how to interact with a loved one living with a dementia diagnosis. There are loads of pictures of my dad’s artworks charting the change in his style as he went from realist oils to impressionist watercolors to crayons on sketch paper.
It’s a book for teenagers, adults and professionals seeking ways to communicate better when dementia becomes part of the family and friendships.
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