Becoming a movie writer after 40 years

After discovering he was good at writing in college, Brian Ruberry dreamed about becoming a TV scriptwriter. He started writing screenplays after graduating from Loyola Marymount University in 1981. Unfortunately, he did not have much initial success with his writing; his scripts were constantly rejected, numbering at least one hundred times. His most prosperous script beforehand was a musical that ran for a month in Georgetown. After that, he gave up on his dream and switched to working in public relations.

In 2019, he tried to try writing scripts again, and he saw a different experience. Brian's first script he wrote since 2019 inspired him after a screenwriter told him it might be sellable. No one purchased that script, but the cable channel UpTV bought another script Brian wrote for the tv movie, The Attraction Test. So he kept on writing, and another work, Single and Ready to Jingle, became a Lifetime Christmas movie that aired in 2022.