ghostwriter
roger@rogerjoyce.com +61 431 914387
I'm your Ghost.
I interview you.
I turn your answers into prose.
Here and there I'll add linking passages imitating your voice.
I write your story for you.
Memoirs
To be published 05 May 2021
"Twelve Rules for Living a Better Life",
by the Reverend Bill Crews with Roger Joyce, Harper Collins
A straight-talking, uplifting and inspiring guide to living a better life and becoming a better human being - through compassion, tolerance, acceptance and love - from one of our very best, most authentic and genuine people, the Reverend Bill Crews. Read more...
January 2021 Currently in bookstores
"Rise" by Mark Bouris
At a time of ultimate global disruption, whilst many people are having to re-set their goals and take a new path. Mark Bouris is a self-made man who knows what that feels like. He sees this as an opportunity to change what isn't working.
The founder of two hugely successful financial institutions, he's watched Australia's enormous potential be squandered as entrepreneurship has been ignored, ingenuity has been punished and our reputation for boxing above our weight as a nation has been torn down. It's pissed him off. And now, more than ever, he knows we all have to be our best self and not throw in the towel and think it is all too hard.
TVC Treatments
Writing the Winning Treatment for You
With a background in advertising (in agencies), marketing (as a client), screenwriting and having formerly owned a production company, I have the perfect skillset to write TV pitch treatment copy for directors, producers and production companies.
Film
Short Films
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'The Hungry Screenwriter' Blog
'The Hungry Screenwriter' was a temporary screenwriting blog that ran every day for 6 months. The journey of writing a feature film screenplay was blogged on a daily basis along with a 'Tip of the Day'. Here you can find every archived blog post.
Feature Film Screenplays
Commissioned to write 20 drafts of 7 feature scripts...:
Other Writing
April 24, 2014
The Hoopla
On a day in Australia when everyone is talking about war, I'd prefer to talk about love...actually. So began an article I wrote on a screenwriting blog, this day four years ago. I'm reminded of my own words, for it's ANZAC day again and for the twenty-seventh year in a row, there is a sense of disquiet on my Western Front. Read more...
October 07, 2014
I Knew Nothing. The Times of Israel.
Three years ago, my life changed. Three years ago, as a journeyman screenwriter here in Sydney, with a script I'd been on for ten years, languishing in "development hell" (is that a contradiction in terms, "languishing" in "Hell?"), I was given a brief for a movie, written on one side of a sheet of A4. If I'm glib, the central tenet of that brief was "to solve the problems of the Middle East in a film script".
July 15, 2014
Look At Me, The Hoopla
When this year's Tour de France ironically began with three days of cycling in England, idiocy rose to a new level of well...idiocy. Don't take my word for it though, here's how American rider Tejay van Garderen described the new craze that's sweeping Le Tour. Read more...