Writing Samples

  1. Corporate: Events

  2. Corporate: Messaging

  3. Fiction: Adult

  4. Fiction: Children’s

  5. Fiction: Short Stories

  6. Fiction: YA

  7. Gaming

  8. Graphic Novels

  9. Non-Fiction

  10. Scripts: Animated

  11. Scripts: Live Action

01—Corporate: Events

  • For a 10,000-attendee live event in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, for a New York-based Haircare company, the main show consisted of five vignettes. I was asked to write six video scripts linking the vignettes, taking us from one to the next. I ended up being asked to direct the shoot.

    You can see the scripts here.

    I wrote a (kind of) case study on LinkedIn here.

    You can see a few of the clips here and on my video page.

  • During lockdown, the Redken Symposium—typically the largest single brand live event in the beauty industry—was virtual. For the global recruitment event they did instead, I wrote a rags to riches script, and our team hired BBC green screen studios in Manchester to capture the show.

    You can see the script here.

    You can see the full show here.

  • During lockdown, the Matrix Connect even was virtual. For the global recruitment event they did instead, I wrote a meditation on their core pillars: Think, Believe, Dream, Dare.

    (It was a complicated shoot on a freezing December night, with social distancing in full effect. But it turned out great.)  

    You can see the piece here.

  • When a tobacco brand asks you to do a Health and Safety video, it’s game on. But seriously, their distribution is global and on a street level. So, I wrote a script that followed a motorcycle delivery worker for a day.

    The company loved the script and flew me to Cambodia to direct the piece.

    You can read the script here.

    You can see the finished piece here.

  • Now a good friend, this independent client approached me to help develop her TEDx talk

    You can read the script here.

    And you can see the TEDx here.

2—Corporate: Messaging

  • This is a script for the launch of a creative agency. The intention is to help clients better understand the noun (and product) “creative.”

    You can read the script here.

    You can see the final video here.

  • I loved this brand. My client sought a basic branding package for her faith-based children’s resources company.

    You can read the copy here.

  • A Venture Capital initiative, I worked with the founder to help her formulate her vision to create awareness and momentum for AI infrastructure and education investment in Africa.

    You can read the piece here.

  • A Venture Capital initiative, I worked with the founder to help promote her desire to seek the diamonds in the rough, the underdogs, the b-sides.

    You can read the piece here.

  • This is a “thank you” from my client to theirs, Autodesk. With their client being an architecture software developer, I approach this by drawing parallels between building relationships and building physical structures.

    You can read the script here.

    You can see the final video here.

  • More technical than I was used to, this website update required quite prosaic content. I still managed to insert a poetic flair.

    You can read the copy here.

3—Fiction: Adult

  • When Manni Vero, a leading Neovita Seria agricultural scientist based in New Jersey, is sent to Sri Lanka to tackle a plant mosaic virus currently devasting the country and threatening global food production, his concerns for his marriage and his increasingly distant wife, Charlie, must be put on hold.

    But Charlie’s distance from him conceals her fatal attraction to complex inner demons that thrust her into a seedy world of corruption, abuse, domestic terrorism, and global brinksmanship, and weave threads through Manni’s world darker than the mosaic virus itself.

    While the story's scope is global, the book is an intimate portrait of inner struggles. Rooted in science-fact, blended with real history, dressed in poetic language, and born of the cold, worst-case pragmatism of an author who is an agricultural scientist, the opening volume of this page-turning dystopian trilogy feels as gothic as it is personal.

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • Set in the idyllic, almost dream-like coastal town of Yokohama, Japan, everything Saraha Kapoor sees is through cherry blossom-tinted glasses. But as the cherry blossoms begin to fall, so, too, do the pillars of civility and freedom that held her spirit aloft.

    When her husband, Dev, returns home from work with some innocuous gossip about a colleague, their Japanese house of cards starts to shift inexorably towards collapse, setting off a chain of events that leads to global scandal, financial ruin, corporate and gangland menace, and, ultimately, a desperate escape from the torture cells of Kosagui.

    The Beauty of the Cherry Blossom is a complex story of corporate greed, corruption, shamelessness, intimidation, panic, and despair. Yet it is told with the poetic insight and emotional sensitivity of a woman who just wanted to protect her family, who innocently believed that faith, laws, authorities, and common sense would prevail, and who only now appreciates just how fragile those pillars of civility and freedom really are.

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • A collection of short stories for boomers. Sometimes funny, sometimes filled with regret, and sometimes reflective, this project was a joy to work on.

     

    You can see the work here.

4—Fiction: Children’s

  • A rhyming book about an elephant with low self-esteem.

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • A rhyming book about the adventures of a salmon. Beautifully illustrated

    You can see the manuscript here.

    And here is the illustrated version.

  • A book about pursuing dreams and never giving up. Flighty Katie keeps having dreams about flying that feel real.

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • The first in a series of fables aimed at addressing contemporary childhood challenges—this one focusing on jealousy of a newborn sibling

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • A series of four rhyming books about exploring the outdoors.

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • An illustrator approached me about turning her grandpa’s bedtime story into a rhyming book. I cannot wait to see her illustrations.

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

5—Fiction: Short Stories

  • Set on a deserted, dreamlike Caribbean beach, this story blends the nostalgia of 1950s Hollywood glamour with futuristic technology, mixing lyrical surrealism and dystopian unease. The narrative follows a stoic mother who allows her gifted yet delicate daughter to be escorted off the beach by a mysterious figure known as the Butterfly Mechanic. In his high-tech subterranean lab, he shows her his biomechanical butterflies, and from there, things get dystopian.

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • When Yorkshire-based artist William Moore finally receives national recognition for his restoration work, he and his new wife, Mary, look forward to a bright future.

    But, upon starting work on a dark canvas found at a local estate sale, Moore finds himself restoring a dark energy that soon flows through him, using him as a stepping stone through art, life, and time.

    For, every expression of art is an expression of emotion, and if we restore the former, we restore the latter. And in the case of The Yanus Portrait, some things should not be restored.

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • This psychological suspense explores long-buried secrets, aging, and the intricate and tenuous dynamics of friendship.

    The story follows seven septuagenarians from a small western Pennsylvanian town who, for the past 50 years, have met every Wednesday to play Bridge at the home of their host, Ellie Murphey—a carer they thought they knew. The group’s meetings began in the wake of an undisclosed tragedy that bound them together for life. Ellie’s warm tea and sympathetic ear fostered a deep, lifelong friendship among them. But as Ellie begins to exhibit signs of dementia, she inadvertently reveals devastating secrets about their past.

    You can read the manuscript here.

6—Fiction: YA

  • Set in rustic folklore, Baggily Bogwits is an anthropological baptism into the harsh realities of life as seen through the eyes of the ultimate outsider: a quintessential forest “sprite”—a feral girl who knows only her solitary, idyllic existence until the wider world begins to destroy all she has ever held sacred.

     

    Desperate to save her dying forest and protect the bliss of her secret life, Baggily is forced out of her seclusion to venture into a new world of “others”—rife with greed, vulgarity, and malice—seeking answers. Yet, in her quest to save her Wood, she becomes changed in heart and mind and is eventually forced to confront more personal dilemmas regarding her own roots. For, even if she succeeds in saving her Wood, what then? Should she return to her past or accept her new reality? Ultimately, she must ask herself: Who is she, and where does she belong?

    You can see the work … soon.

  • My client had always dreamed of a story involving a wolf runt rescued from a zoo and raised as a dog. My job was to make that happen for him.

    You can read the script here.

  • A New Zealand client with British nieces wanted to make a book for them that told a magical story of traveling around the world to meet up. The intention was to ensure his nieces knew he was always thinking of them: a lovely thought and a lovely project.

    You can see the manuscript here.

7—Gaming

  • This was a bizarre project: an interactive script for a showcase title on an iPhone app. I went with the idea of a sexy telemarketer.

    For interactive scripts, you have to develop a “decision tree” for all possible scenarios.

    You can see the decision tree here.

    You can see the script here.

    You can see the mood board here.

8—Graphic Novels

  • “The Khans: Sentience 7.0” is a wild mix of post-apocalyptic sci-fi, irreverent humor, and mind-bending narrative.

    The story starts when reclusive MMORPG developer Viren recruits a group of veteran gamers—known as The Khans—to beta-test the latest version of his post-apocalyptic game, 7.0: Sentience—all as a front for his darker intentions. The Khans eagerly upload their cerebral cortexes to the game’s virtual world, only to discover that death in the game results in the irreversible frying of their real-life consciousness. What starts as a gamer’s dream quickly spirals into a paranoid, death-defying race to survive—and escape—the nightmare, both virtual and real. But when one of the Khans is revealed as Viren, out to wipe financial and government servers, the stakes are raised, as well as the ingenuity at hand to escape.

    You can view sample artwork here.

9—Non-Fiction

  • This was a fantastic opportunity to go my ghostwriting thang while being honest about who I am. The book is a guide to ADHD, offering a roadmap out of the mental chaos of not knowing through diagnosis, self-analysis, hard personal work, and ultimately empowerment in knowing that we were not crazy after all and that we are actually unique thinkers.

     

    You can see the manuscript here.

  • This is dear to my heart: my first ghostwriting commission. It’s about men’s mental health. It’s vulgar and hysterical.

    Here’s the synopsis.

    Here’s the manuscript.

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10—Scripts: Animated

  • I was given the opportunity to write a pan-African PSA about FGM. The script was aimed at children, so it had to be very delicately handled.

     

    Here’s the script.

  • One of East Africa’s favorite kids’ TV characters. I had the opportunity to write an episode about self-esteem.

     

    Here’s the script.

  • Critkids is an online platform that helps kids develop their critical thinking skills. I wrote a series of ten episodes.

     

    Here’s one script.

11—Scripts: Live Action

  • When a tobacco brand asks you to do a Health and Safety video, it’s game on. But seriously, their distribution is global and on a street level. So, I wrote a script that followed a motorcycle delivery worker for a day.

    The company loved the script and flew me to Cambodia to direct the piece.

    You can read the script here.

    You can see the finished piece here.

  • A YouTube woodworker approached me to help him deepen the five-minute monologs at the start of his videos. “It’s not just a box” is a lovely example of how good writing can elevate a brand. His videos went from averaging 500 views/video to 20,000 on this one, and the comments went through the roof. This was a great result.

    Here’s the script.

    Here’s the YouTube video.

  • ‘elps and advicés from Francé’s numéro uno social média viral influénza.

    My favourite actress to work with, Hannah Tiffin, and I created this character as a spin-off from a feature we worked on together.

    It was an absolute blast to write. Hannah delivered it beautifully, and we are now shopping it around to see if it has legs.

    This video is one of nine clips we made, along with nine “‘ot tips.”

    The entire collection can be seen on Macherie’s Instagram page.

    Contact me if you would like to connect with Hannah, and I’ll pass on your info to her.