BOOKS & SCRIPTS
DEBUT MEMOIR
OUT FOR AGENCY CONSIDERATION
The Key to loving who I am
is to stop needing
all the things
that made me
need you.
-Reed Cowan
Reed Cowan's first memoir, To Stop Needing All the Things, is a meditation on the practice of shame, the catastrophic costs of living a life practicing shame and the power of reclaiming dignity through authentic living. This memoir is Reed's search to find the origins of the practice shame in his family history, in the Mormon religion and culture of his birth, and perpetuated and practiced by Reed in response to a childhood secret, and religious abuses in his
rural Utah community that led to a beating that would change the course of his life forever.
ESSAYS & POETRY BOOK
OUT FOR AGENCY CONSIDERATION
SECOND MEMOIR
CURRENLTY IN FIRST DRAFT PHASE
Reed Cowan's second memoir Up and Running chronicles his work as a journalist in breaking news situations at the television station known for personifying the term IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS. Reed confronted a new PTSD diagnosis after the violent death of his four year old son, Wesley Cowan while also starting work for the top-rated US television station known for graphic breaking news content. This work is a mediation not only on how men grieve and process trauma differently than women, but also the story of a man whose work life and personal tragedy intersected in a work environment and culture that is often numb to the personal impacts of tragedies that befall the real lives of the people whose stories journalists tell.
STREAMING SERIES
CURRENTLY OUT FOR CONSIDERATION
THE 12 (WGA Registration Number 1711953) is an American television drama exploring whether an unchanging church wrought with secrets and steeped in tradition can long-survive in not only an ever-changing world, but also in a digital age where secrets don't last long. Set in Salt Lake City, Utah, the series exposes secrets unique to Mormonism in similar fashion to Dan Brown's THE DAVINCI CODE franchise. The rituals and traditions of THE 12 elderly men (whose seniority has afforded them ascension to the highest levels of leadership in the fifteen million member church) are exposed against the backdrop of modern-day issues, which threaten to shake Mormonism to its very core.
The 12 pits the patriarchy against two women united in a mission to expose secrets amidst the backdrop of a ticking clock, a PR engine, and an internal struggle for power.
HUFFINGTON POST CONTRIBUTOR
