There are multi-hyphenates and then there is Riley! She has country music artist, actor, TV writer, songwriter, author and producer to name a few! She has starred in the hit TV movie, What About Your Friends, written for the television drama, Felicity as well as guest-starred as Story Zimmer. She quickly grabbed the attention of Touchstone Pictures and Television who signed Riley to an acting and writing deal. She then wrote and co-starred in the highly rated ABC television movie, Christmas at Water’s Edge. She went on to film a role in the horror film, The Cutting Room, created the hit web-series, Being Bailey, then wrote Dark Beauty, starring Elizabeth Berkley and Damaged starring Chris Klein, for Lifetime. Riley also wrote The Nanny Express and Always and Forever and Good Morning Christmas! And recently Bachelorette #1 for Hallmark. After work as an actor and writer, Riley added author to her hyphens! Her debut novel, before i go received 3 awards: an IPPY Award for Story Teller of the Year, the Grand Prize at The New York Book Festival as well as the top honor as Best Fiction and a Book Sense Pick Award.  Riley has already written the script and theme song, as well as recorded it, hoping to see it get made into a movie one day. Riley then traded Hollywood for Nashville! She has been extremely busy adding country music artist and songwriter to her already impressive resume! Riley has opened up for Lee Brice and Montgomery Gentry, performs at the famous Bluebird Café and the Listening Room in Nashville and writes songs not only for herself, but her movies as well. You can hear her music in a few upcoming movies on Great American Family as well as on the radio as her first Christmas CD is being released December 2025! Riley has been super busy writing and starring in more than a few upcoming movies! She wrote and stars in a new indie thriller, Blurred Lines, coming out in 2026. And, she has multiple movies airing on Great American Family and Great American Pure Flix, their streaming network. A Harvest Homecoming, which also featured one of her original songs (Road to You), is available on Pure Flix. This holiday season, you can watch 5 new Christmas movies written by Riley, and see her in one of them. As a writer, you can catch: Christmas in Midnight Clear, Christmas on Every Page, There’s No Place Like Christmas, Christmas at the Inn and Have We Met This Christmas? Are all airing/will be airing on GAF network this Christmas. Riley can also be seen in Have We Met This Christmas airing on Decemer 13 as Brooke Miller. Riley’s first Christmas album, Love of Christmas, is now available everywhere music is sold. You might also hear a few of the songs in the Great American Family movie, Have We Met This Christmas airing on December 13!