Recent work
- Joint police effort sees $1.5 million in drugs, 13 guns seized in Thunder Bay over past six months (CBC)
- ‘So many wild twists and turns’: film explores alleged forgery of thousands of Norval Morrisseau works (CBC)
- Phono Pony (The Walleye)
- Crab legs, bathtubs and booze: The final journey of the original Colonial Cup (CBC)
- ‘Practice and repetition’: Thunder Bay gamer earns real wins on virtual ice (CBC)
- The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer (The Walleye)
- Scorchbeast vs. photo mode – Fallout 76 (The Spooklight)
- No regrets for Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake (CBC)
- Research suggests lead poisoning wasn’t major cause of Franklin expedition deaths (CBC)
Screenwriting
- Co-writer, Cophenhagen Road short film (with Lee Chambers)
- Premiered Feb. 25, 2019
- Co-writer, The Sum of Random Chance feature screenplay (with Lee Chambers)
- Winner – Best Screenplay – Diamond Award, NYC Indie Film Awards
- Winner – Best Screenplay Feature, Los Angeles Film Awards
- Official Selection – 2017 Hoboken International Film Festival
- Third place, screenplay competition, 2017 Alaska International Film Awards
- Co-writer, Norbert and the Gnomes short screenplay (with Lee Chambers)
- Winner, best screenplay, Golden Film Awards
- Nominee, outstanding screenwriter, 2019 Northern Ontario Music and Film Awards – winners to be announced in May
Journalism
Entertainment/Music/Film
- ‘So many wild twists and turns’: film explores alleged forgery of thousands of Norval Morrisseau works
- Phono Pony (The Walleye)
- The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer (The Walleye)
- Luke Warm and the Cold Ones (The Walleye)
- My Son the Hurricane – Funk/Hip Hop Band Returns to Thunder Bay (The Walleye)
- Michelle Latimer – Thunder Bay-Born Filmmaker Preps Adaptation of Award-Winning Novel (The Walleye)
- Kutch – In Difficult Times, Colin Kutchyera Turns to Music (The Walleye)
- Character and theme in The Ritual (The Spooklight)
- Planb-Strik9 Gives Back (The Walleye)
- The Angies are Memphis-Bound (The Walleye)
- Everclear (The Walleye)
- Filmmaker turns camera to Sasquatch legend (CBC)
- “Where the birds gather…” (The Spooklight)
- Thunder Bay group working to boost film production in city (CBC)
- Classified (The Walleye)
Broadcast Audio
- Bee23 at the Oscars (CBC)
- Plunging through the Ice – Superior Morning (CBC Thunder Bay)
- Film Industry Growing in Thunder Bay – Superior Morning (CBC Thunder Bay)
- Thunder Bay professional wrestler Rob Hickman – Superior Morning (CBC Thunder Bay)
News
- Joint police effort sees $1.5 million in drugs, 13 guns seized in Thunder Bay over past six months
- Research suggests lead poisoning wasn’t major cause of Franklin expedition deaths (CBC)
- ‘I like the whole thing’ – How Jeff Goldblum helped a Thunder Bay hot sauce company’s sales heat up
- Northwestern Ontario’s UFO encounters the topic of new documentary (CBC)
- Explosion halts work on High Street retaining wall in Thunder Bay, Ont.
- Oscars trip a success for Thunder Bay-born entrepreneur (CBC)
- Lakehead Region Conservation Authority unveils new Sasquatch-themed T-shirt (CBC)
- Dealing with demographics (Northern Ontario Business)
- Thunder Bay Paranormal Society (The Walleye)
Sports
- Crab legs, bathtubs and booze: The final journey of the original Colonial Cup (CBC)
- ‘Practice and repetition’: Thunder Bay gamer earns real wins on virtual ice (CBC)
- No regrets for Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake (CBC)
- Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts talks wrestling, redemption (CBC)
- Groundskeepers in for long days during Baseball World Cup (CBC)
- Jake “The Snake” brings professional, personal stories to the stage (CBC)
- Pro wrestling a tough, but rewarding, business (CBC)
- Canadian Wrestling’s Elite Q&A with Hotshot Danny Duggan (The Walleye)
- Border Cats GM talks the art of baseball (CBC)
Gaming
- Scorchbeast vs. photo mode – Fallout 76 (The Spooklight)
- Video game industry demands flexibility, cooperation: writer (CBC)
- Mansion of Hidden Souls and the Art of the Jump Scare (The Spooklight)
- Under the Sea – Subnautica (The Spooklight)
- Wasteland Witch Hunts – Fallout 4(The Spooklight)
- On Sevastopol, Everyone Can Hear Everything – Alien: Isolation (The Spooklight)
- Blades of Woe on the Gold Coast – Elder Scrolls Online (The Spooklight)
History
- Mystery deepens around historic tugboat sunk near Thunder Bay (CBC)
- Mystery on Mount McKay! (The Spooklight)
- A Weird Tale of Courage on Isle Royale (The Spooklight)
- Another Tale of Courage on Lonely Isle Royale (The Spooklight)
- 1915 – Spies Target Northwestern Ontario (The Spooklight)
- With Bullet Hole Through Body He Paddled Six Miles (The Spooklight)
- The Disappearance of Captain J.C. Hasking (The Spooklight)
- The Mystery of Charlie Cox and the Acid-Throwing Schoolteacher (The Spooklight)
- High Strangeness in the Shabaqua Triangle (The Spooklight)
- The Lakehead Vs. The Flying Saucers (The Spooklight)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Proofs of Immortality (The Spooklight)
- The Ghost of Silver Islet (The Spooklight)
My experience includes journalism (print/broadcast) creative writing, scriptwriting (film, radio, television), speechwriting, and PR/advertising/marketing copy, as well as research and interviewing.
I’d love to discuss your project, and how I can help.
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