Author and screenwriter

Tagg West writes cinematic stories about relatable characters in intense situations.

Arizona-based author of novels, pilot scripts, and feature film screenplays featuring rich characters, detailed world-building, and awesome entertainment.

Novel · Adventure Thriller

Under the Cold Sun

A government anthropologist is sent to study a hidden civilization on the most remote island on earth, but he's caught in a brutal coup, a rekindled civil war, and a conspiracy that could erase the kingdom forever.

Key art for Bright Things in Dark Places

Novel

Bright Things in Dark Places

A relentlessly sunny FBI rookie joins a cynical basement squad to hunt the Russian mob, clashing with a grumpy partner who doesn't realize her secret vendetta is tied to the very man using the elite art world to bankroll the American underworld.

Feature · Thriller

Tell the Devil

Selling a high school cheerleader into slavery was a fatal mistake. Nina returns to 1999 Arizona as a cartel-trained assassin to settle the score, forcing two childhood best friends to choose sides in a relentless clash of muscle cars and heavy firepower.

Sci-Fi Web Series

JijiColony

A hydroponics engineer on a one-way colony ship starts investigating why the crops are dying. The answer is worse than starvation.

Hour-Long Series

GoodBetter

An actress who can't get cast starts a PI agency to pay for acting class, hiring a classmate to play the detective while she runs the show from behind the scenes. Their best skill? Going undercover.

Hour-long series

Crownfall

A princess who never expected the throne is suddenly next in line after her sister is revealed to be illegitimate and her father is killed, just as her kingdom begins to collapse and a forbidden magic she can't explain starts waking up inside her.

Hour-long series

Kinder

A Latter-day Saint family from Salt Lake City moves to small-town Mississippi to build a temple. Someone dropped the ball and forgot to tell the local residents. They have some thoughts about it.

Hour-long series

Warlord

The United States collapses. A suburban HOA president discovers that keeping her community alive means becoming the kind of person she used to fear.

Comedy-drama series

Dreamless

A tech company's acquisition screws its chief product officer out of his payout. His solution? Build a completely fake department inside the company and siphon off the salaries. The only problem is the new security chief, an influencer who's faking her expertise just as hard as he's faking his department.