Paid to find out why stories weren’t working.
I’ve published 13 novels under my own name and ghostwritten 36 more. I’m an award-winning screenwriter with three feature film credits and several TV series in development internationally, and I founded a musical theatre company whose productions have been performed in front of more than 80,000 people.
For fourteen years I worked as a creative development executive at Mediabiz International, developing original content for film and television — which meant reading other people’s stories for a living and being paid to find the reason they weren’t working yet. That is a very specific skill, and it is not the same skill as writing well yourself.
I taught screenwriting at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), and mythology at Humber College. Since then I’ve coached more than 200 private students across four continents, and more than 150,000 people follow my writing-craft videos. The same gap shows up every time, regardless of talent: writers are given craft theory and left to work out the order of operations themselves.
My job is helping you tell your story with characters who feel real, stakes that matter, and themes that hit readers where it counts.
