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Good ideas live
in the gray area.

Russell Gray turns kernels, half-drafts, and complicated lives into stories that feel clear, alive, and inevitable.

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Work and development experience with

HBOA24MattelGaumontABC

Ways to work together

One storyteller.
More than one shelf.

The medium changes. The job does not: find the pulse of the thing, build the right shape around it, and make every sentence sound like it belongs.

01

Books

Memoirs, business and idea-driven nonfiction, and novels—from an early premise to a manuscript that knows exactly what it is.

  • Memoir
  • Business & ideas
  • Fiction
02

Screen

Features, television, and digital series, with particular attention to structure, character, and dialogue that earns its place.

  • Screenwriting
  • Script doctoring
  • Adaptation
03

Short form

Short stories, essays, articles, and sharp pieces of copy—small canvases without small ambitions.

  • Editorial
  • Essays
  • Brand voice
04

AI + experiments

Original projects that combine story sense, product thinking, and new creative tools. The point is the work—not merely spelling A.I.

  • The Jackal
  • Wilson’s Army
  • Redundont

Selected samples

Screenplay openings, complete short stories, and carefully chosen book excerpts. Ghostwritten work is shared with permission and anonymized.

01

Crime thriller pilot

The Lost Night

A frightened woman engineers her own arrest—and says she knows about a murder.
02

Southern crime-drama pilot

Palmetto

A private poker game meets a masked intruder with a meticulous plan.
03

Period legal-drama pilot

Big Shoulders

Ambition, marriage, and Chicago law collide in 1980.
04

Literary novel

Echoes

An ancient name, a dying man, and a contagion that survives by being remembered.
05

Commercial thriller

The Accusation

Two versions of a public scandal collide before either side understands the stakes.
06

Ghostwritten memoir

Between Two Worlds

A childhood divided between small-town Sweden and Cold War Berlin.
07

Ghostwritten business book

When the Product Becomes a Commodity

A practical framework for keeping value - rather than features - at the center of a sale.
08

Literary speculative story

Vanity

A city discovers what happens when every mirror disappears.
09

Dark comedy / crime story

Skosh

A recovering addict wakes beside a body and makes one questionable decision after another.
10

Commercial short story

Old Head

An aging Providence gangster gets one last chance to decide what kind of man he is.

About Russell

RG

A strange résumé.
A useful one.

Poker player. Advertising strategist. Television writer. Ghostwriter. Less a career ladder than a collection of ways to understand what people want, what they hide, and what keeps them turning pages.

Russell broke into television as a finalist in the Warner Bros. Writers' Workshop competition and went on to work with companies including HBO, A24, Mattel, Gaumont, and ABC. He has been represented by CAA and LBI.

Today, he collaborates with clients on projects ranging from memoirs and novels to screenplays, campaigns, and experimental AI products. He can help shape the idea with you—or take the reins and bring back a draft.

“I only take on projects I genuinely care about. If I'm not the right person for yours, I'll tell you.”

From ambiguous to inevitable

01

Find the center

What is the idea beneath the idea—the part a reader will actually care about?

02

Build the shape

Structure, voice, stakes, and pace: the invisible architecture that makes a story work.

03

Make it sing

Draft, revise, sharpen, and finish without sanding away what made the project yours.

Have a project in mind?

Let's make something
worth finishing.