Doug Miller

BIO
Doug Miller is a graduate of Cal State L.A. with a MFA degree in literature and music.  His incredibly checkered past includes stints as a producer of high security locking devices (very Mission Impossible), Vice President of a Media Buying Service (very accountant-boring), and an actor with numerous TV and movie credits (All in the Family, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Burke's Law, Maude, One Day at a Time, Carter Country and more) and numerous regional theater roles (Captain Von Trapp, the King of Siam, Alfred P. Doolittle, Daddy Warbucks and many others—not bad for a klutzy bald guy with big ears).

For the past few years, Doug has focused on writing. (Okay, he was first published at age twelve, but that was serendipity.)

He won one of the prizes in the Indie Producer contest in 2003, and was a finalist in Austin Heart of Film, and several others. He currently reads for a couple production companies and screenwriting contests, and moderates two 10-page SIGs through Alameda Writers Group not to mention the famous Zoom Out! story structure SIG. (If you want to figure out how to make your story work or why your current story doesn't work, this SIG is for you.)

CONTACT THE WRITER
Email Doug Miller or call 626/303-6289.

THE PROJECTS

Alternate Ending Romantic Fantasy
Sometimes, love just has to wait. 

When Benny Fuller, an imaginative window washer falls twelve stories and doesn’t die, he's taken under the wing of the ghost of a 1940's would be starlet.  She helps him become the next hot screenwriter in town, but he screws up, loses the contract, loses her and eventually figures out what he really needs—and what she never had—love.

Halley's Cove Romantic Fantasy
Dorothy said, “There’s no place like home.”  She never lived in Halley’s Cove.

When Gabriel Finnerty, a young wanderer with a mysterious past, finally decides to call Halley’s Cove home, he discovers Romy, his true love. Unfortunately, he also discovers her guardians: three elderly witches who don’t want him around, and that he must overcome a decades old curse or move on. Again.

Kira Young Adult Fantasy
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Fay Alice Nevan, a difficult eleven-year-old, finds herself the guardian of Kira, the last surviving female wood sprite, and the two of them go on a cross-country journey to find just the right magical spot for Kira's transformation into a full fledged sprite, only to discover that no one believes in wood sprites or in little girls, and that only by being willing to give up everything they hold dear will either of them become what they were meant to be.

Unnatural Selection Sci-fi Conspiracy
Our DNA is what makes us human.  Or is it?

His DNA has been tagged and it’s changing—changing him. Question is, who or what tagged him, and why?  When Dorian Coulter discovers he and millions of people in the last half century have been abducted, marked and their DNA harvested, he also uncovers an all-powerful secret consortium that has been in on this from day one.  Unfortunately when he stumbles on a simple way for anyone to disable their markers, he also ensures the destruction of planet earth. The mysterious enemy that caused all this?  Mankind.

Prior Sins Murder Mystery
The best of intentions can be deadly.

A young couple hopes to find a better place to raise the child they’re expecting, but instead they find a place with dozens of skeletons under the rose bushes, a sheriff who wants them gone, an entire town that has been covering up murders for decades, and a diabolical stranger who wants them to be the next bodies under those rose bushes.

Second Sight Thriller
If you knew when and how you were going to die, what would you do?

Terry Topping is a loser who works as a phony telephone psychic, and when his made-up predictions begin happening, he’s thrilled. Until he predicts his own murder. From his own sketchy visions, he has to deduce where and when his death will take place, who’s going to kill him, and how to stop it—a downward spiral into paranoia and insanity.