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What do you get when you mix the hard-nosed grit of The Shield with the emotional insight of Six Feet Under? Me.

Hi, I'm Editor/Director/Writer Luke Brown. Using keen empathy and brutal honesty, I create layered characters and tender relationships in tough, adverse worlds.

You've likely seen several stories about characters facing their fears, beating the odds and basking in their moment of triumph. You've clocked that exhausted smile on a character's face at the end of their long road to redemption felt inspired to take on a challenge of your own. That same smile, though, can mask the toll it took to get there. That's where I come in.

I'm interested in the cost of glory more than glory itself. When I think about milestones in my own life (trekking the Alps/scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef/roaming the Great Migration in Africa), my most vivid memories are of the journey, not the accomplishment. Instead of standing on top of the mountain, I see my feet stepping in front of each other on the way up. Why? Because that's where the time was spent. Because that's where the growth really occurred.

Exciting stories about the resilience of the human condition resonate with me because I've written some of my own, and I utilize the lessons I've learned as a storyteller. My life experiences have trained me to identify your character's divine flaw, challenge it with ferocity, nurture it with love and transform it into their greatest asset.

My creative calling is to inspire others to love the struggle and be their own personal hero. To me, heroes aren't super. They're us. And just like us, they're vulnerable. In every scene, in every story, I sculpt emotions toward that vulnerability.

I build strong characters through urgent plots. I create intimacy within chaos. I am the keeper of heart in your action drama.

So, who's your hero and how can I help you tell their story?

Jonathan Raimer was born on 30 December 1981 in Portage, Wisconsin, USA. Jonathan is an editor, known for Harvest (2006), The Blue Hour (2007) and Level Up (2012).

Writer Zona Gale was born in Portage, WI, on August 26, 1874. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1895. She had had an interest in writing from childhood (she printed and bound her first "book" herself at age seven) and after college she obtained work on various newspapers in Milwaukee. In 1901 she got a job s a reporter on the New York World newspaper. She continued to write short stories on the side, however, and in 1904 she had one of them published in "Success" magazine. After that she moved back to Portage (a town she she would later make famous as the locale for her "Friendship Village" series of books). She adapted her novel "Miss Lulu Bett" into a play that was produced on Broadway in 1920, and it won the Pulitzer Price that year (it was made into a film, Miss Lulu Bett (1921), the next year).