CONTROLLED

NOT BECAUSE IT'S CUTE

Because she saw the crash coming and still got in the car. Because she took the hit and now, she has the receipts, the rage, the wisdom, and the voice. Sarah Melland is your self-proclaimed “How NOT To” girl, the woman who does your stupid mistakes so you don’t have to, then turns them into viral dating blogs, savage scripts, and brutal one-liners that sting because they’re true.

SARAH MELLAND

Raised in Altoona, Wisconsin, Sarah was the kid who won every writing award her schools could invent. She went on to study Film Production at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before graduating Summa Cum Laude in Mass Communications from Arizona State University. Her talent earned countless creative writing scholarships, but it was her obsession with storytelling, the messy, magnetic kind that shaped her into the force she is today.

Her work spans every medium that can make you feel something: Books, films, blogs, and empires. She’s the author of The Breakup Band Aid, Practicing Love, A Single Girl’s Guide to IVF, Jane Austen: Unabridged, A Single Girl’s Ultimate Bucket List, The Anthology of Cinema Series, The Red Flag Translator, and the groundbreaking true-crime dissection Pattern Interrupted: How the Karen Read Trial Broke the Narrative Machine. Each project reflects her signature fusion of intellect, emotional truth, and dark humor.

Founder & CEO, Ripe Melland Media
Writer | Creator | Disruptor

In film, Melland’s journey reads like a screenplay of its own. After co-writing a raw, award-buzzed breakup script with her mother that drew the attention of Oscar-nominated producers, only for her writing credit to be nearly stolen, she did what every underestimated woman should: she built her own studio. That betrayal became the origin story of Ripe Melland Media, a white-label script and content company revolutionizing how screenplays are sold, credited, and produced.

Since then, she been contracted to write courtroom thrillers, biographical dramas, and adaptations including the upcoming true story of a UFC fighter’s escape from abuse and rise to the American dream. Each script is meticulously structured with the precision of Save the Cat, the depth of the 8x8 Story Grid, and the narrative mastery of Robert McKee’s Story.

Before launching Ripe Melland Media, Melland served as the Director of Marketing for the largest boat lift company in the world, where she somehow made industrial steel look sexy. Prior to that, she cut her teeth at a top Florida advertising agency, crafting brand campaigns and copy that turned small clients into household names. Those experiences honed her gift for merging art with strategy. A skill that now fuels her empire.

Through YourDatingUnExpert.com, she’s become the unapologetic voice of women burned out by modern dating. The site fuses entertainment and therapy with savage humor, viral video series (TrashTV+), and the upcoming Dating Survival Bible. She’s not here to coach you, she’s here to warn you, dissect the psychology behind your worst romantic decisions, and make you laugh until you spit wine on your phone.

At her core, Melland is a classic-cinema obsessive with a futurist’s brain, studying audience behavior, tracking media trends before they break, and blending vintage glamour with cutting-edge innovation.

• A pseudo-agency for screenwriters, offering NDAs, white-label scripts, and clean credit pipelines that bypass the Hollywood gatekeepers.

• A strategy lab for streaming platforms, using Blue Ocean Strategy to design disruptive campaigns and subscriber-magnet content.

• A branding and authorship incubator helping writers and filmmakers monetize their genius through books, MasterClasses, and cross-media storytelling.

• A creative studio that integrates literature, film, and affiliate media through QR-code experiences like the Anthology of Cinema and Pattern Interrupted series, merging entertainment with education and profit.

RIPE MELLAND MEDIA EXPANDS FAR BEYOND WRITING, IT'S AN ECOSYSTEM FOR CREATIVE DOMINATION.

COME VISIT US

Have a concept so bold you never thought it could be turned into a movie, a series, or a brand? That’s exactly where Ripe Melland Media excels. We don’t just write scripts, we architect them. From impossible premises to intricate structures, we transform wild ideas into commercially viable, cinematic realities. If you’re ready to build what others can’t even imagine, you’ve come to the right place.