With a multidisciplinary skill set, honed over 20 years of working in visual media, I have extensive experience leading, producing and directing creative campaigns across multiple platforms, a passion for storytelling and an excellent eye for detail.
A selection of my work to date.
Imagine, if you will, being 12 years old and finding out you’ve just inherited an old movie theatre from a distant aunt. Imagine exploring this long abandoned cinema and finding an old, mysterious reel of film locked away in a box, which, when shown, opens a portal in time. Imagine that a smart and beautiful secret agent explodes out of that time portal, escaping the horror’s of the first world war.
Written during the 2020 Covid 19 Lockdown, The Guiding Lights is pitched as a middle-grade title but would appeal to anyone who likes history and adventure!
To read an excerpt from the book go here: https://mkellercreative.com/writing/excerpt-from-the-guiding-lights/
After a climate disaster has reset the world to a pre-electronic age and rendered the planet inaccessible under a layer of thick impenetrable clouds, Alex and his Uncle James, along with their elderly cat Gaspode, live a contented life on their makeshift farmstead in a repurposed old observatory at the top of a hill, cut off from the rest of the world.
The only things they have to worry about are sunburn and the occasional lost sheep until, one day, an airship appears out of the cloud and brings tales of far off lands and a network of survivors who live and work in a sanctuary above the clouds…
When Union nurse Beatrice McDonald is rescued after a brutal assault near Fort Stedman, she finds herself tending to the dying in the last days of the Siege of Petersburg. Among them is a boy soldier who asks for stories from before the war — and Beatrice obliges, recounting a past shaped by two West Point brothers, Dante and Virgil Spears. Once inseparable, the brothers are now mortal enemies, torn apart by love, secrets, and war. One lies wounded in a Confederate hospital, the other forgotten in the hell of Andersonville prison. As the war barrels toward its bloody encounter at the Battle of the Crater, all three are swept into a reckoning not just with the war, but with themselves.
Sins of the Lion is a story of broken bodies, fractured loyalties, and enduring hope. Told through interwoven narratives of trauma and survival, it explores the moral collapse and quiet redemption of individuals caught in history’s bloodiest crucible the American Civil War.
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