Macedonia
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Peru
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Filmmaker's Dictionary, James A. Conrad co-author, with Emmy Award-winning producer-director Ralph S. Singleton. Over 5,000 terms; the film industry's largest reference dictionary. 2000; published by Lone Eagle Publishing, a division of Nielsen Business Media, owners of The Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage, Billboard, Adweek, Hollywood Creative Directory, the annual ShoWest film convention, and other properties.
The Model-Actor's Dictionary, James A. Conrad author. Over 1,700 terms from modeling, acting, television commercials, music videos, etc.; the first dictionary published on the modeling industry. 1988; Note: copyright interests in both dictionaries were sold to Lone Eagle Publishing, a division of Nielsen Business Media, in 1999.
Fiction and nonfiction writing projects:
Fairy Tale An expanded retelling of the Charles Perrault fairy tale La Belle au Bois dormant (1697) about a spellbound sleeping princess awakened by the kiss of a future prince. This version is set in England in the early ninth century and high-tech twenty-third century. Status: available.
"The Girl of My Dreams" Romantic comedy feature spec screenplay. The misadventures of two single L.A. guys on a road trip to Las Vegas to find the Internet bride who swindled them. Written by Anna Tkatch & Marc Olson & James A. Conrad. Anna Tkatch is a Writers Guild of America, West member. Marc Olson is an editor at The Los Angeles Times. 119 pages. Status: available.
"The Wizards of Roswell" A short screenplay. A mock documentary that presents an intriguing new theory about the famous flying saucer crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Sit-down interview format. Requires three dwarf actors, an actor in a period U.S. Air Force officer uniform, and a President Truman impersonator. Comedy. 21 pages. Status: available. Inktip shorts, Sci-Fi.
"Pick a Model, Any Model" A short screenplay. A street magician out shooting magic tricks with his television crew on a city sidewalk encounters a group of models from a reality show. Comedy. 9 pages. Status: available. Inktip shorts, Comedy.
"Supergirl Origin Movie" A feature screenplay writing sample. An adaptation of the DC Comics character (the original Kara Zor-El from Krypton). Initiated before the 1984 film starring Helen Slater. 137 pages. Comments from industry readers in the 1990s: "Highly entertaining and visually exciting . . . Action scenes jump to life, providing fantastic visual descriptions . . . am also impressed by your dialogue . . . Clearly you know your subject and it shows." film industry story analyst (studio/agency reader). | "You have a good visual sense. Your descriptive writing is excellent. . . . faithful to the comic books." produced screenwriter-director.
"Star Trek" media project A picture book or display project of up to 70 rare and never-before-seen color production photos from the classic 1960s television series Star Trek from my collection of nearly 1,400 35mm outtake and workprint clippings purchased from Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s. Includes clapboard shots, special effects, and actors on marks and post-scene. These are part of the same large group of film clippings mentioned in the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (1996) by Herbert Solow and Robert H. Justman.
Various nonfiction and fiction projects in development not listed here.
Making a few adjustments at the molecular level... there, got it.
Grab the camera. He's doing it again!! Connecticut, 1956, age 1 plus. Is this the photographic evidence that proves once and for all the strange childhood talent of psychokinetic plank stretching told in ancient stories? Do you doubt? (Not a telepathy test, but I knew what you were just thinking.)
To Stretch a Plank: A Survey of Psychokinesis by Diana Robinson, 1981, 277 pages. Meaning of title. (I am not in this book, but have exchanged emails with the author.)
Wearing my T-shirt for "Camp Xavier," a summer camp for gifted child mutants (possibly). Photo taken outside my home, age 7, 1962. That's "Kitty" the cat (really). At least that's what she tol--oops, not supposed to mention the talking part; sorry Professor. My parents are in the background to my right. Don't ask.
A hollow science fiction-themed display case that I constructed in 1978 in the basement workshop of my Connecticut home at age 23. Later it was donated to a youth museum in another state where, unfortunately, it was not roped off to protect it. Inquisitive groups of school children do like to press and kick things that look like fake rocks. Current whereabouts are unknown. Possibly it is deep underground in a landfill chamber somewhere awaiting the beam down of a starship captain.
A place where lights appeared late at night and things landed. A plant with red flowers grows in the middle of a paved intersection on a long-forgotten wilderness road. Photo: James A. Conrad, March 26, 2002