Professional Writer
CurrentAs a freelance writer I have:- Written articles and reviews while conducting interviews and reporting on newsworthy events for newspapers such as Vietnam News, Saigon Guide, Saigon Giai Phong, Thanh Nien and more; magazines such as Ying & Yang and Vietnam Discovery; websites such as perpetualpost.com and patch.com, as well as other travel and leisure websites that cater to visitors of Southeast Asia.- From crafting articles for medical and business professionals for magazine features to putting together marketing material, catalogs, menus, professional correspondence, company policy manuals, non-profit grants, data reports and textbook resources as well as producing blog posts for various websites.- Over the last decade I have penned ten original film scripts ranging from heart-wrenching dramas to dark humor comedies and dying Earth sci-fi as well as two pilot episodes, one for a gritty drama and one for an irreverent mockumentary style comedic series.- More than two decades of literary experience have produced eight published novels, five about protagonist Julian Jakos, each a semi-autobiographical retrospective wringing out absurdity in some of life's grittier adventures as well as two pictorial autobiographies and a collection of sci-fi short stories.
