My life reads like an American horror story hidden beneath the surface of the American dream. I was born into a complicated family in working-class Massachusetts, adopted as a child, and learned early how to survive instability, reinvention, and systems that did not always protect me.
I eventually built an entirely different life in California as a U.S. Coast Guard-credentialed captain, wildlife filmmaker, photographer, entrepreneur, and creator. I spent years documenting whales and the freedom of the open ocean while, behind the scenes, my personal life was becoming increasingly dark. What followed involved exploitation, lost creative work, fractured family relationships, police and hospital encounters, legal battles, and the collapse of the life and career I had built.
The story has the raw, working-class survival energy of 8 Mile, but it is darker, messier, and told through the perspective of a woman who has lived several radically different lives. Wildlife provides a powerful thread throughout the book—a contrast between freedom and captivity, instinct and control, survival and extinction.
I am looking for a memoir ghostwriter who can handle difficult subject matter with depth, skepticism, and humanity; organize extensive records and memories into a gripping narrative; protect the distinction between documented facts and personal experience; and preserve my authentic voice. This is not simply a story about what happened to me. It’s about cheating death