Writing

A Recipe for Disaster is an edgy, sexy, ½ hr comedy in which a risk-taking, ex-con stock broker stripped of his license is blackmailed to work as a high society catering chef for a client until he repays her the money he lost in a Ponzi scheme.

One day defrocked stock broker and ex-con Alan Bracknell walked out of one prison and into another without parole, threatened into chef servitude to pay off a deep debt owed to former investment client Rachel Golden. Joined by a posse of nomadic, disparate waiters at the crossroads of their lives, Alan is destined to sweat it out in the neurotic kitchens of the city’s Who’s Who working for Rachel’s company With Aplomb Catering. Alan’s dream to unshackle his debt is forever undone by his same ‘fly-too-close-to-the sun’ ways that first landed him in jail. But this time, it’s his wait staff and floor supervisor Conrad Sinclair who must take the heat when they are forced to put out Alan’s fires.

Head Hunter Charlie Rhodes becomes the unknowing mule for his firm’s secret sex trade cell. Rhodes sobering realization leads him deep into a ruthless world of commerce where lives put you in the black or red. If red, then dead!

The last thing Father Richard Jamieson needs after learning his mentor, Father Connolly was murdered in his confessional at Mount St. Jude Convent is a deadly mission for Agent Kennedy of British Intelligence.

But war neurosis and suffering a crisis of faith for causing the death of a Canadian naval officer are only the beginning of Jamieson’s nightmare when he is forced back to the convent to save CYNTHIA, a woman with whom he shared a secret life. To do this he must breach a Nazi spy ring, copy their codebook and manuals for the M4 Enigma ciphering machine, and prove Cynthia’s innocence of being a Nazi spy and Connolly’s murderer.

In a moment of truth, Jamieson’s faith collides with his heart where he must choose between God, or kill again to protect the one person he loves the most.

Charades is a wry comedy in which a writer grieving the loss of his wife battles writer's block, and finds unlikely inspiration from a stranger with a secret of her own who's been double-booked into the same remote cottage. What happens when refuge is no longer a place to hide?

Romance novelist Alan Sprite is no longer “at his finest!” Grief over his wife’s death nine months ago has blocked his creativity, he’s missed the deadline on his next novel, and he's spent his publisher's advance. Stuck on page 64 and not able to leap from it, Alan hides away in a coastal cabin where he and his wife spent many working getaways. Alan's plan crumbles when a stranger named Linda walks through the door seeking shelter from her own life declaring she's booked the cabin for the same dates. What happens when two strangers intersect at crucial moments in their lives? Is their meeting fate, or a charade dressed up as coincidence?

Crisis Actor is a dark, political suspense drama set on Diamante Island, a poor Caribbean country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship. When Prime Minister Selena Ramirez narrowly survives a fatal car accident and awakes from a coma with an erased memory her Chief of Staff, Rohan Rogers, steps up to lead the country while she recovers. (Think Donald Rumsfeld) As Selena heals from reconstructive surgery, she rediscovers a country rife with poverty as harsh international sanctions aim to break her dictatorship. She learns government critics mysteriously disappear, rebel groups threaten to overthrow the country, and she comes to the stark truth that her trusted confidants are playing a game of deception which could cost her life. Selina is forced to make a choice: escape her home country, or play her own treacherous game of deceit to subvert her foes, and fight for Diamante’s people who need her lead them to prosperity through democracy. Meanwhile in Toronto, Michael Williams searches for his actress friend Stella Vazquez who has disappeared without a trace. He soon discovers his missing friend might be masquerading as the Prime Minister of Diamante Island.

*Co-written: Gary Brennan, Steve Dykstra, Juan Carlos Velis