Ariel Archer

The Summer of '69. A summer when it all came together... and when a lot of things came apart. A summer of small steps and giant leaps... or ...

On July 1st, 1934, the PCA began rigorously enforcing the Hays Code, and a period of moralistic governance and censorship in the motion picture ...

Six short stories. Worlds of possibilities. The future, both near and distant. Alternate and plausible realities. Messages of hope and of doom. Fate, chance, and definitely choices....

Hollywood, the late 1940's. Actress and stuntwoman Alivia Chambers is brought in to the police for questioning on account of a witness observing ...

She made her debut as captain of the space vessel Valkyrie in 1951’s low-budget double feature Ultimatum from Planet Omega and The Sinister ...

A middle-aged World War Two veteran discharged with an injury and former LAPD cop who lost his badge and marriage due to the bottle, then went into business as a P.I. in Santa Monica. A young and savvy but rather unconventional recent graduate with a license to carry....

1979. President Carter was in the White House. Three Mile Island. Odd-even gas rationing. Pink Floyd released “The Wall.” The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of the UK. The Iran Hostage Crisis. And disco…lots of disco....

Dr. Richard Arden is a man of science, a renowned and respected forensic anthropologist who at the age of 80 and now afflicted with an incurable disease has seen a few things, had some unusual experiences, and done some “connecting of the dots”....

She was a stuntwoman in Hollywood during the Golden Age of Motion Pictures, a time when stuntwomen were few and far between. She doubled for some of the industry’s most famous leading ladies, appeared in some of the most popular films, and broke ground for women in entertainment....

1951. The Day the Earth Stood Still had just taken the world by surprise with Michael Rennie's portrayal of Klaatu. Motion pictures had seen a surge of female protagonists and heroines defying the norms of the time....

Julia Bancroft, a pioneer in Los Angeles top 40 radio as a woman DJ on KBRD (K-Bird) in the 1960s and early 70s. At a time when pop radio was still a "man's world," Bancroft (aka The Rockin' Raven) challenged the status quo and launched a legacy of women in radio....

Ariel Archer's debut into the world of serial story-telling (originally appearing on Kindle Vella), featuring iconic fictional Hollywood stuntwoman Alivia Chambers as Marshal Tessa Blaine in Sentinel Ridge Pictures Presents "Lady Lawgiver"....

She had the fiery feminism of Mae West, the blonde sex appeal of Jean Harlow, and the athletics of men like Yakima Canutt and Eddie Parker combined. Known as "The Horsewoman of Hollywood's Backlot", she was Alivia Chambers, a pioneer stuntwoman during the Golden Age of Motion Pictures....

Codrin Voinescu, a retired soldier, a man approaching 50, haunted by past choices, grief, loss, and a present that seems without hope and purpose. A return trip to his home village in Transylvania that ends up in one last unexpected conflict....

Julia Bancroft was a state park and forest ranger in Southern California who just happened to be at the wrong place...at the right time. The result was the launching of an eight-year career on the airwaves that would change the sound and scene of Los Angeles radio forever....

"...And here at the studios in beautiful downtown Bird-bank it's a rockin' 70 degrees! Now, back to the music with your Rockin' Raven on KBRD 1130 Los Angeles". Familiar words to those listening to Top 40 Radio in Southern California during the late 1960's and early 1970's....

Los Angeles, 1934. In the throes of the Great Depression, the motion picture industry is producing some blockbuster hits that will stand the test ...

Set in Wyoming around the time the territory was becoming a state, Brandy “Cheyenne” Madison is a woman with a troubled past, a turbulent ...