Active Projects

Select works are currently in circulation.

All completed works are polished and media-ready.

For full manuscripts, excerpts, or rights inquiries, please contact Hoiland Ames.

Completed Works:

Psychological noir novella. Darkness, grief, and a surveillance-driven descent into obsession. Suited for streaming adaptation.

Novella, 37k words, noir academic. Manipulation, control, and class sabotage. High concept, minimal-cast, ideal for streaming adaptation.

Short story, 11k words. A moody piece about betrayal and fate, structured for easy adaptation to a one-act play.

Poetry. A poem of place and deep longing.

Darkly comic CNF. An irreverent, brutal, and historically grounded retellling of Agrippina and Nero, with contemporary bite. Suited for podcast or print.

Works in Progress:

Novel in progress. An epic spanning two continents, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Bourbon Restoration, this novel captures survival, colonialism, and the cost of legacy in post-Medusa Senegal.

Creative nonfiction trilogy on feuds, (in progress.) Petty, vicious, the stuff of legends. Suited for podcast, audio-first narrative, or print.

Upcoming Projects:

Nonfiction biography. A piece centered on a true survival story at sea: 3 men, adrift in the Atlantic for 12 days.