Vertical Drama Screenwriter · Bestselling Novelist
A.O. Esther
18 published novels · three sold-out series
Budapest, remote · time-zone flexible
Four complete vertical series — built to binge, ready to read.
All series WGAW-registered.
Four complete series, ready to read
Four WGAW-registered vertical dramas ready for option or development.
DM or email for full sell sheets and one-pagers.
REVENGE-THRILLER · PSYCHOLOGICAL MELODRAMA · 75 × 60–120S
Golden Bee
Some loves come back. So do some hatreds.
Sweet as honey. Back for the sting. · Revenge-thriller · 75 episodes · 9:16 · concept key art
Sweet as honey. Back for the sting.
When the heiress to the Golden Bee beauty empire is murdered with a bee from her own hives — and survives — she fakes her own death and returns, disguised as a wealthy stranger, to reclaim her company, protect her daughter, and destroy the husband and mistress who have been killing her family one "accident" at a time.
What's unique:
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The murder weapon comes from the victim's own world — she is killed with a bee from her family's own hives.
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A beauty mogul who resurrects herself through the very craft her empire is built on: the art of transformation.
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A twelve-year-old who works out the truth alone — and secretly protects her "dead" mother.
Status: Complete · Full 75-episode outline · Season 2 hook · WGAW #2346876
REINCARNATION ROMANCE · SUPERNATURAL MELODRAMA-THRILLER · 75 × 60–120S
Red Bird
Some circles were never drawn by nature.
Bio-horror thriller · 75 episodes · 9:16 · concept key art
Some loves come back. So do some hatreds. · Reincarnation romance · 75 episodes · 9:16 · concept key art
Some loves come back. So do some hatreds.
Two centuries ago, two inseparable witch-sisters poisoned each other over the same man — and their souls were cursed to circle the apple grove as crows. Reborn now as a glamorous Tuscan jewelry designer and her daughter, they fall for the same magnetic stranger all over again — and only a mother's love can break the cycle before the curse claims them forever.
What's unique:
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A genuine Slavic-mythology spine (Nav; the paradise Vyraj; souls bound as birds) — fresh in a market drowning in billionaires and werewolves.
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The Red Bird — the murdered mother's spirit across lifetimes — pays off as the heroine's jewelry brand and a final apple-blossom collection.
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A tragic engine no one sees coming: a mother who refuses to kill her daughter aims the poison at the man — and the curse makes the daughter drink it anyway.
Complete · Episodes 1–10 scripted · full season mapped · Season 2 hook · WGAW #2345721
Bio-Horror Thriller · Romance · 75 episodes · 9:16
Green Light
Some circles were never drawn by nature.
Bio-horror thriller · 75 episodes · 9:16 · concept key art
Some circles were never drawn by nature.
A young biologist uncovers the truth behind the world's most coveted anti-aging cream: its glowing miracle ingredient is a fungus grown on people buried alive — and the man she is falling for is the heir to the empire that killed her parents.
What's unique:
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An analog heroine whose paper notebooks defeat a digital empire.
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A visual signature — bioluminescent rings in fog — achievable entirely with LED and UV.
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A chain of overlooked witnesses through whom the truth survives.
Complete · Episodes 1–10 scripted · full season mapped · Season 2 hook · WGAW #2345721
Paranormal Romance · Werewolf × Mafia · 75 × 90–120s
White Wolf of the Amalfi Coast
Mates by fate. Enemies by blood.
Werewolf × mafia romance · 75 episodes · 9:16 · concept key art
Mates by fate. Enemies by blood.
A sheltered Alaskan painter inherits a crumbling villa on the Amalfi Coast and falls for a mafia don who is far more than human — only to discover she is the last heir of the white-wolf bloodline his family slaughtered… and his fated mate.
What's unique:
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An Apache-heritage heroine, giving her grief and identity real cultural weight.
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A scent-driven romance anchored to one unrepeatable object: wild-rose oil on a white shawl.
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Mystery told through props, not exposition — cheap to shoot, addictive to track.
Complete · Episodes 1–10 scripted · full season mapped · Season 2 hook · WGAW #2345723
The writer
A.O. Esther is the screenwriting name of Eszter Ordódy — a bestselling Hungarian novelist with 18 published books across three sold-out series, now writing exclusively for vertical drama, fast, across romance, fantasy, thriller and horror.
• Produced screenwriter — National Film Institute–funded feature Curtis (premiering 2027)
• IMDb credit — the short film Beyond the Road (2021)
• 18 published novels across three sold-out series
• Fantasy-writing instructor at SKVOT
Contact
One-page sheets and sample episodes for each series available on request. Open to original development, IP adaptation, and paid test assignments.
eszter.ordody@gmail.com · +36 30 318 2807
