Alan C. Baird
Authored: 9TimeZones.com hardback/softcover screenwriting book - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738806137
Sold: debut student film to ABC-TV's groundbreaking cyberpunk series, Max Headroom.
Wrote: Merlinsky [American Zoetrope quarterfinalist, Writers Network quarterfinalist] Log line - Imagine the Lord of the Rings meets Harry Potter and they go back to the future.
Wrote: The Fall In Budapest [quarterfinalist and finalist] Francis Ford Coppola calls this script "quality stuff" and the Creative Screenwriting magazine review says it has "tremendous possibilities as a romantic thriller."
Wrote: BackslasherBlog.com [teen suspense/comedy] Log line - Surfing for romance in cyberspace can be murder.
Wrote: Vlad the Impaler - Son of Dracul [Many will assume this is just another retelling of the 'Dracula' horror myth... but Vlad's story is true.]
Wrote: Eleven Thousand Virgins [semifinalist]
Wrote: Azert is..! (Despite everything..!) [semifinalist] - Visit http://scr.9TimeZones.com for specifics on all scripts.
Served As: Online Editor for Palm Springs Life magazine, and wrote 631 articles in 9 months.
Wrote/Produced/Edited: ad/promo for HBO, NBC and UPN (now CW).
Designed/Taught: Blogging 101 course for the University of California.
Created: Award-winning screenplay formatting template - http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/scr2
Wrote: many short stories and articles published in dozens of anthologies and magazines, including PC, Playboy, and Britain's Guardian and Screenwriter. See http://b.9Timezones.com for details on this prizewinning writer.
Edited: Beneath The Shadow Of Perpetual Defeat for designer Faruk Ulay (literary translation of a book of essays, published in Turkey and America), Gambler's Guide (novel) for producer Carol Bertoia, and Floater (novel) for producer Gary F. Carr.
--Alan C. Baird, http://w.9TimeZones.com