Exciting News: 1) My Female-Driven, Western TV Series Pilot Dance Hall Girls is a 2023 Semi-Finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition! It was also chosen as a Top 50 Finalist for the 2020 International Screenwriters' Association Fast Track Fellowship and placed as a Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 Southern California Screenplay Competition.   2) My Teen Horror Choose placed as a Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 ISA Horror & Thriller Genre Busting Screenplay Competition.  3) My Father-Son Buddy Comedy The Airbrush King placed as a Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 Southern California Screenplay Competition.   For my full writing background as a writer and editor in all mediums (film, TV, theatre, and book publishing), please visit my website: YourWritingMuse.com   In short, as a writer I have had:• 16 plays produced (all for teens, children, and family-based audiences)• 4 screenplays optioned (3 were romantic comedies, 1 was a "who-done-it" drama/thriller)• 1 TV show optioned (a news/doc. half hour show)• Animal Motions, a children's picture book and app published (book published by Indigo River Publishing, app published by Authorly)• Sergeant Stubby in the Great War, a historical fiction novella published for 4th grade and up • Have ghostwritten, edited, done research for, and helped market over 12 books with authors from Los Angeles to New York City (both fiction and non-fiction) • Worked in Los Angeles as a writer-for-hire for many independent producers and at studios (including Martin Sheen's ESP Productions at Warner Brothers Studios) • Was hired to write an animated feature film treatment (which included a lot of in-depth research)• Have had articles published in Script magazine, InkTip.com's newsletter, and Scriptapalooza's newsletter • Have been a judge in 2 screenwriting contests: CineStory's Screenwriting Competition in Chicago (for 2 years) and The Kingman Films International Screenwriting Competition in L.A. (for 1 year) • Have been hired as a ghostwriter, script coach, editor, and researcher in all mediums Other Work-Related Experience: • I was the Artistic Director for The Sheil Park Players Theater in Chicago for 5 years (I produced and directed 22 original shows, all from writing workshops I ran which helped launch several playwrights' plays that went on to N.Y.C. and London theaters).