Screenwriter · Novelist · Playwright · Producer
Stories that
get made.
For over 30 years, Bart Baker has written for the screen, the page, and the stage — from Lifetime's most-watched movie nights to novels now becoming major motion pictures.
Based in St. Louis & Los Angeles
Bart Baker
On Screen
Film & Television
Two feature films, fourteen movies for television, and four episodes of series produced — including a 2024 WGA Award nomination.
Now Streaming
When I Said I Do
Lifetime Network · Premiered May 23, 2026
A widowed K-9 handler, reluctant to open her heart again, meets a rescue specialist carrying his own losses — and finds that love, like search and rescue, means never giving up.
Starring Sarah Drew & Eric Johnson, with Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black
Written by Bart Baker · Directed by Stefan Brogren
View on IMDb →In Post-Production
Honeymoon with Harry
Amazon MGM Studios · In post-production
Based on Bart's debut novel: days before his wedding, Todd loses his fiancée — and finds himself honoring her final wish by taking the honeymoon anyway, with her father, Harry, along for the ride.
Starring Kevin Costner & Jake Gyllenhaal, with Sarah Pidgeon, Rita Ora, Shaggy, Simone Kessell & Nicky Whelan
Directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa · Based on the novel by Bart Baker
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Released
Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers & Ours
Lifetime Network · Released November 1, 2025
Would you give up what could be your last chance at love, to give your child their first? A single father and the mother of the boy his daughter's dating find an unexpected, secret romance.
Starring Taye Diggs, Lesley-Ann Brandt & Aimee Garcia
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2024 WGA Award Nominee
Terry McMillan Presents: Forever
Lifetime Network · Premiered August 24, 2024 · Now streaming on Netflix
A veteran returns home to divorce papers — and an unexpected shot at love with the local policewoman who pulled him over. To win her heart, he must first win over her three daughters.
Starring Taye Diggs & Meagan Good
View on IMDb →Also Written For The Screen
- —DIRT (FX) — starring Courteney Cox
- —Children of the Bride (CBS)
- —Baby of the Bride (CBS)
- —Mother of the Bride (CBS)
- —Anyplace But Home (USA Network)
- —A Different Kind of Christmas (Lifetime)
On the Page
Books & Graphic Novels
New Release · 2026
Bitches Give Stitches
The B*tches Trilogy, Book Two
The sequel to Bitches Get Stitches: Deanna and the crew are pulled back in by a dangerous man named Martin Collique after witnessing a murder — forced into his world of crime, survival, and revenge.
Find it on Amazon →
Book One
Bitches Get Stitches
The B*tches Trilogy, Book One
Four women living near the poverty line steal sewing machines from a sweatshop to make counterfeit designer clothes. What could go wrong? Plenty of danger, plenty of humor, plenty of heart.
Find it on Amazon →
Book One · Now a Major Motion Picture
Honeymoon with Harry
Honeymoon with Harry Trilogy, Book One
Todd Cartwright's life is transformed by love — then upended by tragedy days before his wedding. What follows is a honeymoon he never expected, with the father-in-law who never wanted him. The basis for the Amazon MGM Studios film starring Kevin Costner & Jake Gyllenhaal.
Find it on Amazon →
Book Two
A Second Honeymoon with Harry
Honeymoon with Harry Trilogy, Book Two
Todd returns to the island of St. Carlos to confront his past when he learns that his father-in-law, Harry, is getting married — a reunion that reveals complicated emotions and secrets that threaten to change both men's lives.
Find it on Amazon →
Book Three · Series Finale
The Last Honeymoon with Harry
Honeymoon with Harry Trilogy, Book Three
The concluding book in the trilogy: as Todd navigates the pull between personal desire and responsibility, his estranged father Kent surfaces with a scheme to disrupt his life — and Harry is the one who sees it coming.
Find it on Amazon & Goodreads →
Graphic Novel
The Sacred Band of Thebes
Co-written with Glenn Rabney
The true story of the elite Theban army that ended Spartan rule — the army that defeated the '300' — brought to life as a 152-page full-color graphic novel with art by DAF and Ace Continuado.
Find it on Amazon →More Novels
- —What Remains
- —The Wedding Gift
- —The Virgin Daiquiri
- —I Promise You Pain (Cordon Finn Vengeance, Book One)
- —Human Wreckage (Cordon Finn Vengeance, Book Two)
For the Stage
- —Relay — Film rights acquired by Warner Bros.
- —Seacliff, California — Produced on stages worldwide
Eight plays produced worldwide.
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About Bart
Please note: this is Bart V. Baker, the screenwriter and novelist based in St. Louis & Los Angeles — not the YouTube entertainer of the same name.
Bart Baker has been making his living as a writer for over 40 years. A screenwriter, novelist, and playwright, he has two feature films, fourteen movies for television, and four episodes of series produced — including work on DIRT with Courteney Cox and the CBS Bride movie series.
His recent work for Lifetime under Terry McMillan's banner includes Forever (Taye Diggs, Meagan Good), which earned a 2024 WGA Award nomination for Best Screenplay for a Movie for Television or Streamer, and His, Hers & Ours (Taye Diggs, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Aimee Garcia). His latest, When I Said I Do, starring Sarah Drew and Eric Johnson, premiered on Lifetime May 23, 2026.
As a novelist, Bart is the author of ten novels, including the complete Honeymoon with Harry trilogy — Honeymoon with Harry, A Second Honeymoon with Harry, and The Last Honeymoon with Harry — as well as What Remains and the B*tches trilogy (Bitches Get Stitches and Bitches Give Stitches), plus the graphic novel The Sacred Band of Thebes, co-written with Glenn Rabney. The film rights to Honeymoon with Harry were acquired by New Line Cinema, and the film — starring Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal — is now in post-production.
He is also an accomplished playwright, with eight plays produced around the world, including Relay (film rights acquired by Warner Bros.) and Seacliff, California.
A father of two, Bart lives between St. Louis and Los Angeles.