Genre: Thriller/Mystery

Word Count: 104,000

Progress: Available on Amazon KDP 

Twelve years ago, Aaron Sawyer's dad dragged him and his mom out of town. A week later, his dad came back alone—and took his own life.

Now Aaron's twenty-two and back in Ferndale, hoping to finally understand what happened. But the town feels off. Smiles don't quite reach the eyes. Strangers know a little too much about him. And when Aaron uncovers a hidden cult tied to his father's death, he realizes he wasn't the only one waiting for him to come back.

As Aaron searches for the truth, he'll have to decide what he's willing to risk to stop history from repeating itself.

Genre: Drama/Mystery

Word Count: 144,000

Progress: Querying

Tom Marlow has become very familiar with feeling unwanted, powerless, and alone. As a baby, he was found in a crumbling cabin dying of hypothermia without even a blanket. Until he was seven, he lived with adopted parents who reminded him of that fact. But when his caretakers take things a step too far and die in a house fire that night, it feels far too convenient to be a freak accident. Soon, Thomas grows up noticing these little coincidences of death around his constantly dangerous life and realizes something. He has a guardian angel or an angel of death protecting him. And he plans to use that to figure out who had left him to die, why, and maybe even get some revenge.

For this assignment, I created a film newsletter analyzing American Fiction (2023) through the lenses of race, representation, and media studies. The newsletter examines how the film critiques stereotypical expectations of Black narratives in publishing and entertainment while advocating for more complex and authentic storytelling. Drawing on course concepts and scholarly sources, I explored themes of identity, family, satire, and representation, presenting the analysis in a professional magazine-style format designed to engage readers while communicating critical media insights.

For this creative assignment, I developed a pitch deck for an original television series titled Santiago Styles. Inspired by both my family's experiences and the British sitcom Desmond's, the project explores Dominican-American identity, immigration, family, and cultural belonging through the lens of a Washington Heights hair salon. The deck includes a logline, series overview, themes, character breakdowns, mood boards, a pilot episode synopsis, and a market analysis demonstrating why the series would be a strong fit for a streaming platform like Netflix. This assignment challenged me to combine media theory, storytelling, and industry pitching practices into a professional presentation.

Genre: Drama

In 2020, my friends and I made a game called Diplomacy, Discussion and Destruction. It is similar to Model United Nations, but all of the countries are our own inventions. Mine was called Adania, a democratic socialist state which acted as the biggest trader and innovator of the union. This website is a detailed description of my country's history, culture and inventions in its fictional world.