Overview
Nothing excites me more than a great story. With 10+ years of success, I've written, developed, edited, and managed the production of over 500 books worldwide, including a self-help series with a NYT bestselling author and various genres—historical fiction, thrillers, comedic memoirs, inspirational—with Amazon bestselling authors. For fun, let's call it my side hustle, I adapt books to film and develop proposals and pilots for authors interested in selling to Hollywood; this has led to meetings and options with companies such as Sony, AMC, HBO, RicheProductions, M2M Entertainment. I have a knack for story structure and dialogue. My biggest strength is that I work on every project as if it were my own. I care more than the next guy! It's a privilege and pleasure to collaborate with authors and make their dreams of publishing a reality.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Inspirational
Parenting & Families
Religion & Spirituality
Self-Help & Self-Improvement
Sex & Relationships
Fiction
Christian Fiction
Humor & Comedy
Plays & Screenplays
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Young Adult
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Awards
- Winner of London, Paris, Los Angeles Book Festivals, Autobiography
- Foreword Magazine Romance of the Year, Silver Medal
- Southwest Writers Award, Best Short Story
- Winner NexTv Web Series and Indie Competition, 2012
Work experience
Self-employed
Jan, 2013 —
Present
• Editor and Writer with 15+ years' experience
• Founder/President of 529 Books
Although creative nonfiction defines 50 percent of the projects, I also edit fiction and a fair amount of projects that have film/TV potential, which is why I write (or coach writers) on how to create movie treatments, proposals, and scripts (see Story Merchant Books).
I've authored (and have had published) two books on Alzheimer's, a how-to on writing a story that sells, a romance, and juvenile fiction.
Co-author of Piece of Cake: My Wild Adventure from Banking to Baking, Educating Marston: A Mother's Journey with Autism, The Gift of Will, Lucky Number Nine (see gallery), and Through Fire and Rain: A Story of Love, Music, Modern Medicine, and Surviving Terminal Brain Cancer (Coming, Fall 2016).
• Alzheimer's Awareness Advocate
Story Merchant Books
Mar, 2012 —
Present
As a freelance editor, ghostwriter, and screenwriter at Story Merchant, I dedicate my energy, management, editorial skills, and visionary focus to helping writers move their careers forward. I also have the opportunity to be a liaison between authors and Hollywood producers—creating proposals, movie treatments, scripts, pitching and selling book rights where applicable.
Portfolio
The deadly actions set in motion by Collin St. Germain during the Gulf War created a catastrophic chain of events, resulting in an IED triggered homeland terrorist attack over a decade later. In 2008, Fort Bliss was targeted by one of its own: Army Captain Bur... read more
THE #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER WINNER Beverly Hills International Book Awards® Cross-Genre Fiction"Amazing, genre-defying story..."-Dandelions Inspired: Reading and Reviewing Amazing Books!In Book One of The Shooting Stars Series, Catch a Falling Star, bestselling a... read more
NEW, Fully REVISED and EDITED: The Fat Rules. There's even a new cover! This memoir is a MAY 1, 2015 Story Merchant Book Release. Reviews PRIOR to 01MAY2015 are on the OLD Version. We hope you enjoy the book! “Smart, witty, funny, painful, honest, brutal, forg... read more
“Love is stronger than hate.” That was a grieving dad's message to 1,000 people at his daughter’s funeral after she was brutally murdered in their home. Borne of this statement was Jessie Blodgett's legacy: The LOVE>hate Project. As I sat there with my face in... read more
Reviews "Project Nephili is a southern gothic thriller, but it is much more than that. Tim Farmer has gone all the way into America's heart of darkness and far beyond, and he has done it with a relentless honesty that I would call courage. He has also written ... read more
Tribe. Loyalty. Love.The year is 1932. Dr. John Rocklan, an arrogant trauma physician, attempts to bury the memory of a personal tragedy by disappearing into the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho. Seeking solitude, Rocklan purchases an old ranch deep in a remote v... read more
Six Passengers, Five Parachutes (A Hollywood Thriller—Book 2 of The Quintana Adventures)It's a race from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Mexico, culminating on a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean. Army Ranger reconnaissance photographer Stephen ... read more
"It’s almost unprecedented to have this type of regression with the currently approved therapy."-From TIME Magazine's March 2015 article featuring MaryAnn AnselmoIn 2012, MaryAnn Anselmo was at the height of her career, headlining at Chico’s House of Jazz—a pr... read more
Take a trip through the South Texas terrain through the eyes of drug runner, Toño Garcia. His distinctive South Texas slang adds a unique charm to this dark story, but the appeal and originality doesn’t stop there. This guy knows more about style than Carrie B... read more
Sometimes life sends you to the bottom, sometimes if starts you off that way, but nevertheless, you need to find your way out. That’s the story of Lucky Number 9, Rina’s incredible journey from living in poverty on a plantation in the jungles of Malaysia to ma... read more
The Inter American Geodetic Survey (IAGS) was one of those little known U.S. Army (and later U.S. Department of Defense) programs established in April of 1946. At the end of WWII there had been a shortage of mapping that had impaired military operations in man... read more
THE YEAR IS 2030. IN A DRAMATIC, final attempt to free her inner demons, twenty-year-old Daniela Delgado tempts fate and winds up on a strange farm in 1923. With an olive complexion due to her Mexican/Italian heritage and a fresh pixie cut, she is mistaken for... read more
“Personal experience has proven that my body has to do nothing short of screaming to get my attention. In my mid-thirties I was working sixty plus hours per week. I loved the opportunity, I wanted the money, but then came the back spasms…. And that was the ala... read more
Twenty-two-year-old Amelia Foster just can’t seem to catch a break. After surviving the sudden death of her father, she’s forced to drop out of college in order to support her alcoholic mother. Dealing with years of non-stop verbal abuse and strife, Mia decide... read more
This book was written for every hunter who wants close encounters with the nicest White-tailed bucks his/her hunting area has to offer. No sanctuary or game preserve deer are illustrated within. Every experiment was conducted on open to public hunting property... read more
The Picture Kills (A Hollywood Thriller—Book 1 of The Quintana Adventures) When you’re covered in mud, running from men with guns, and stuck in small spaces with very little clothing on, it’s amazing what you can learn about a person. Steven Quintana was once ... read more
ERIC HANSEN is a struggling artist who’s been running from a dark past for as long as he can remember. When he’s not covering a canvas with color or getting into trouble with the law, he clings to any distraction he can get his hands on—namely women. Whatever ... read more
My father-in-law asked me where I was going to college the first time we met. I hadn’t thought about it. That wasn’t the answer he was looking for. “In this house,” he said, “we go to college.” His conviction changed the course of my life. I wrote this book wi... read more
Mike was trapped in *Crazyland——that’s a term he’d coined for that place between marriage and divorce. He was spending too much time at the bars, in the beds of strange women, on “spring break” in Mexico…and in his own head. This thirty-six-year-old yuppie was... read more
You're Not Helping… Ryan Patricks is a self-described “guy’s guy,” and unlicensed chiropractor. His book, You’re Not Helping… is a collection of short comedy articles that guide you through his delightful, inventive, and often nonsensical take on everything fr... read more
Life goes from Hollywood to Michigan to Mars when Lisa and her family take in her grandmother who has progressive dementia. The Weaver family quickly discovers that she isn t the only one suffering. The comicals of Nora Jo bring a whole new realm of crazy to t... read more
