Having grown up in northern Minnesota, I started working with a Minneapolis-based independent film production company editing, acting and producing short and feature-length films. I founded and directed an independent film and screenplay competition – Underground Exposure Film Festival - drawing over 400 submissions in its first year. I have written three screenplays and just published by first novel - Seven Strange Years.

Seven Strange Years is a compilation of letters that tell the tales of a mad traveler buzzing around the country wreaking havoc wherever he lands, pieced together in jail as Johnny scours the letters for evidence that might save him from years in prison. And reading letters rife with tales of freedom and adventure is nothing short of torture when you're stuck in jail.

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Rube Goldberg - A 1950's tale about the orphan son of a wealth toy maker who creates whimsical Rube Goldberg contraptions to save his late father's toy company.

Rube Goldberg has been well received in the screenplay competitions and placed:

• Finalist: 2011 McKnight Fellowship Awards
• Finalist: 2011 Screenplay Search Competition
• Quarter Finalist: 2011 FadeIn Awards
• Semi Finalist: 2011 Inkwell Opportunity

Reel to Real - A film geek invents an extraordinary machine to restore old films and unknowngly stumbles into the world of a serial killer when a series of old films from 1950 seems to have predicted his sister's murder.

Preexisting Condition - Newlyweds, with only months to live, set out on a bank-robbing road trip across America to afford them the life they were too busy to live while they were working toward a future they will never see.

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