Writers in action.
Writing fast. Winning awards. Selling stuff.
Circling development hell in a light plane with no navigational aids. No fear. Occasional cocktails. (Blaine and Honey even own part of a brewery in Mexico.)
Once upon a time, Honey Parker was a Senior VP Creative in the world’s largest advertising agency. She gave up all the glamour of long hours and overt sexism for the freewheeling lifestyle of a gun for hire on both coasts.
Honey is even an award-winning screenwriter/director. The film was a comedy short. The story was unexpected. It involved women with beards. (Good thing. The film was called: Women With Beards. Truth in advertising, please.) Other of Honey’s stories have won some of the biggest national awards in advertising.
Once upon a time, Honey Parker was a Senior VP Creative in the world’s largest advertising agency. She gave up all the glamour of long hours and overt sexism for the freewheeling lifestyle of a gun for hire on both coasts.
Honey is even an award-winning screenwriter/director. The film was a comedy short. The story was unexpected. It involved women with beards. (Good thing. The film was called: Women With Beards. Truth in advertising, please.) Other of Honey’s stories have won some of the biggest national awards in advertising.
Some of Blaine’s stories have won national awards for being on the biggest screen in the world: The one inside your head. As a Creative Director at a national radio network, he has twice won the Oscars of radio advertising. He also has dozens of other national awards for telling stories that inspire action and generate ROI.
In a way, advertising is one of the most intense laboratories for story. Advertising writers live and die by response to the stories they tell.
Together, Honey and Blaine have written for film and TV, advertising and documentary, books and magazines. They even wrote a book about the time Blaine “taught” Honey how to sail in a very small, very fast, very wet sailboat, then took her racing on a mountain lake in Elsinore, California.
The experience didn’t break them. But it was close. (If you ask her. If you ask him, he says, “What?”)
Separately, they’ve written various book projects. Honey had developed a TV series that didn’t sell, so Blaine suggested she write it as a novel. When she asked why, he said, “Because you have a blueprint for a house that nobody’s ever going to build. Write it as a novel, and you’ve built the house yourself.”
So Honey started writing. Then Blaine said, “By the way, you realize you need to write three novels, right? The third book sells the first two.”
The result is the hilarious Carful-ish trilogy, presently being shopped for TV development by Jane Rimer at Brilliant NYC. And the first in Honey’s contemporary vampire dramedy series is being shopped by Rick Richter at Aevitas.
In the meantime, Blaine has become an award-winning, #1 bestselling cookbook author. His book, Free The Pizza: A Simple System For Making Great Pizza Whenever You Want With The Oven You Already Have won the Living Now Book Awards for Specialty Cookbook, spent several minutes at #1 on Amazon, and has won fans across the nation. The sequel is in the works right now. (Free The Pizza II: Escape From New York.)
Together, Honey and Blaine have been telling stories for their clients across the nation and around the globe, from New Hampshire to San Diego, from British Columbia to the Philippines. They also each have the distinction of being uncredited punch-up writers on separate TV movies written by the Oscar-winning Pamela Wallace (Witness).
You've also heard Blaine sell you things on TV and radio. He has done voiceover across the nation and around the globe. A member of SAG/AFTRA, he's been a national voice of various brands you know and love both in the US and abroad. (Ironically, three of those brands have been fast-food pizza.) Honey likes to say Blaine has the voice of a much taller man.
And always, they argue. Maybe that’s why it works. That which does not break them makes the story stronger.