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A
wannabe
NYC fireman
finds his
warrior heart
in an ironic
sancturay
for his
fugitive
slave
father, his
captain's
widow and his
arch rival
during the
Civil War
Draft Riots
of 1863.
Formerly titled GRANT, 16-hours of this 17-episode
limited TV Series have been written in developement
with mentor and legendary producer Charles W. "Chuck"
Fries. The novel near second draft stage maintains the
over-the-shoulder perspective of the Union commander
while narrowing focus on the last critical months
of the War. In July 1864, Abraham Lincoln became the
first U.S. President to face enemy fire during an
artillery exchange between a Washington D.C. fort
and Confederate raiders.
Period photos, battlefield sketches, maps, newspapers,
paintings, magazines,carte de viste and etchings provide
the scaffolding for master scenes in the series and every
chapter of the novel-in-progress. Here's a sampling...
The Fort
was a mile
from the
Summer
White House
where the
First Family
was in
residence
the day
before
the raid.
Period
graphic
storyboard
of scenes
around
City Point,
Virginia,
Grant's
headquarters
from June 1864
to the end
of the War.
A student computer programmer discovers that her ancestors were born from gestation units inside an orbital habitat, just in time to save her little world from destruction. The completed 190,000-word novel spins out of the short story Inside Mother published in Infinity One...
Book IV in The Mississippi Saga... Madoc returns to Britain for reinforcements while his New World colony finds a permanent home among Lakota Indians on the Missouri River. Researched in Wales and completed on schedule, the 190,000-word novel was paid for on delivery under Bantam contract, then downszed in 1972 with reversion of rights to authors of about a third of Pubisher's quarterly list.
Proposed cover for the novel about KFWB All-News Radio in its hey-day.... A ballzy reporter is forced to confront her vulnerability when she teams up with a sentimental cop to stop a stalker who blames women for all his troubles. Complete, unmarketed screenplay based on the novel and a true story, events and experiences as a writer, editor and sometimes on air reporter for KFWB All-News radio when the Hollywood station was a true newspaper of the air.
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Book IV in The Mississippi Saga: Madoc returns to Britain for reinforcements while his New World colony finds a permanent home among Lakota Indians on the Missouri River. Researched in Wales, written and delivered on schedule, the 190,000-word novel was paid for on delivery under Bantam contract, then downszed with reversion of rights to the Author.
Book V in the Mississippi Saga originally published under the Bantam Books title River of Destiny (ISBN 0-553-2586-9), reissued by The Authors Guild under the Author's original title Woman Called Arkansas (ISBN 0-595-14029-7). A French soldier-of-fortune and a Quapaw Indian woman find love in the wilds of La Louisiane.
LOG OF THE DOG...
A student computer programmer discovers that her ancestors were born from gestation units inside an orbital habitat, just in time to save her little world from destruction. The completed 190,000-word novel spins out of the short story Inside Mother published in Infinity One...
Short story in Infinity One first published in 1970 by Lancer Books. Inc., It was a thrill to see the original Mother character-- She Who Walks in Silver as the cover illustration among all those science fiction stars including Asimov, Clarke, Lafferty, McCaffrey, Silverberg.
Inside Mother from Infinity One and stories by Asimov, Dick, Bester and Ballard were reprinted in the 1983 anothology for German students of English with a brief footnoted lexicon in “Fremdsprachentexte: Science Fiction Stories 1” edited by Herausgegeben von Dieter Wessels, Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart, Germany, Universal-Bibliothek Nr. 9156 [2] 1983/ISBN 3-15-009156-X
Pinnacle Books novel (ISBN: 0-523-41278-9) proposed reissue cover...
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Book I in the Mississippi Saga, available in hard-copy and Kindle at Amazon.
Book II in The Mississippi Saga... 322-years before Columbus, a Welsh sea captain sails west in the wake of the Vikings to save a remnant of his family from destruction by the Norman-English King Henry. Originally published by Bantam Books Inc. (ISBN 0-553-28277-8). Reissued by The Authors Guild, and on sale at Amazon.com (ISBN:0-595-16532-X)
Book III in The Mississippi Saga.... to ensure survival of his New World colony, Madoc joins Shawnee Indian allies, which provokes Iroquois enemies farther north on the Mississippi River. Original Bantam Books title (ISBN: 0-553-28521-1) is reissued by The Authors Guild, available at Amazon.com (ISBN: 0-595-16536-2)
Book V in the Mississippi Saga...A French soldier of fortune and a Quapaw Indian woman risk everything for love in the wilds of French Louisiana. Original Bantam Books title: "River of Destiny" (ISBN 0-553-2586-9), reissued by The Authors Guild under the Author's original title WOMAN CALLED ARKANSAS (ISBN 0-595-14029-7) Contemporary
A commercial actress gets more than she bargained for when she telepathically hooks up with a TV star revived after near-death experience in a case of stolen identity that ends in madness, murder and ironic new life for both of them. 109-page screenplay adapted from the Pinnacle Books novel (ISBN: 0-523-41278-9) Science Fiction
Short Story first published under the byline Pat De Graw in the 1970 paperback anthology Infinity One, by Lancer Books, Inc. with stories by Asimov, Dick, Bester & Ballard. Human orphans raised by a surrogate mechanical mother invent a religion to explain their circumstances. The original story Inside Mother, is the core story, one of 2-dozen log entries stored in the mechanical mother's computer database that is the unpublished 150,000-word novel LOG OF THE DOG, (See works-in-progress on the Home page)
Inside Mother was reprinted in the paperback anthology for German students of English with footnoted lexicon, “Fremdsprachentexte: Science Fiction Stories 1” edited by Herausgegeben von Dieter Wessels, Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart, Germany, Universal-Bibliothek Nr. 9156 [2] 1983/ISBN 3-15-009156-X
When human astronauts invade his asteriodal home, a telepathic creature steals a radio to connect his silent child with his commeunity. Short story published April 1973 in Analog Science Fact Science Fiction Magazine, under married name Pat DeGraw. |
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