 In 2012, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special for his screenplay on Hatfields & McCoys.He also won a Writers Guild Award for Hatfields.Other writing 
credits include Night Ride Home with Rebecca DeMornay, Keith Carradine and Ellen Burstyn, The William Coit Story with Bonnie Bedelia and Neil Patrick Harris, The Price of Love with Peter Facinelli and Jay Ferguson, Gone in a Heartbeat with James Marsden, and Gargantua with Emile Hirsch and Adam Baldwin.