Alan C. Baird

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Alan is the Harvard Book Prize winner who coauthored a print/web/wap project entitled "9TimeZones.com," which was included in the Whitney Biennial. His work appears in a dozen-odd anthologies and in many periodicals, including Playboy, PC, and Britain's Guardian and Screenwriter. His Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter won a $3,333 cash award from Sun Microsystems, and he's written screenplays that finished in the quarters, semis and finals of various international competitions. Alan enjoys referring to himself in the 3rd person, and was inordinately pleased when ABC-TV's "Max Headroom" series purchased his debut student film, widely hailed as "the most uncommercial piece of ____ in Michigan State's history." Born down east, he now lives just a stone's throw from Phoenix... which is fine and dandy, until the stones are thrown back.

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Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul 22-Oct-2015

by Alan C. Baird

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Many will assume this is just another retelling of the "Dracula" horror myth... but Vlad's story is true. Hitler's Holocaust killed approximately 10% of Germany's people, while some estimates claim that Vlad exterminated more than 20% of his fellow Wallachians. A gruesome genre-bender with perverse humor, based on 15th-century history. Warning: graphic transgressive violence.

Merlinsky: The Sorcerer's Apprentice 12-Dec-2015

by Alan C. Baird

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Imagine the Lord of the Rings meets Harry Potter and they go back to the future. Based on the Arthurian legend and the ancient folklore myth of the sorcerer's apprentice.

Synopsis: The endless hordes of Hollywood tourists in the late 1940's are easy marks for a con-man magician like Harry Merlinsky. He knows how to sucker the rubes and flash the ol' hamster-outta-the-fedora every now and then, to baffle 'em and dazzle 'em. But he didn't expect a naive fan like Jake, who wants to learn Harry's Old Knowledge - "real" magic. Harry's archenemy obliterates Jake's girlfriend, forcing Jake to become a wizard, just to stay alive. Will Jake use his newfound powers for vengeance? The timeless myth of the Sorcerer's Apprentice unfolds against the backdrop of the Magic Castle and the Hollywoodland sign.

Lineage: 12th-century folklore myths begat The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which begat a tone poem by composer Paul Dukás, which begat Disney's Fantasia, which inspired Merlinsky, a magical action-adventure. [Completed before the Nicolas Cage film was released.]

Quarterfinalist in these competitions: American Zoetrope, Writers Network.

Côte d'Azur 22-Jul-2019

by Alan C. Baird

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There's nothing quite so romantic as spending one's youth in a foreign land. Eric is a 20-something American guy who's having the time of his life on the French Riviera. Or maybe Eric is the 60-something who's looking back on his earlier years with nostalgia and trying to alter the course of his life. This screenplay was inspired by Lawrence Durrell, and his experiments with metafictional techniques in The Avignon Quintet and The Alexandria Quartet.

Greed 7 Deadly Sins Vol. 3 09-Aug-2018

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prose & poetry by A.R. Abbott, M. Baer, A. C. Baird, G. Beck, P. Beckman, J. Bell, D. W. Bressack, H. Brown, M. H. Brownstein, I. Buckler, E. Buttimer, S. Carr, G. Castillo Oriard, C. S. Chesney, J. Chronister, L. M. Crate, J. E. Cricelli, T. Daly, J. Davies, S. DiFalco, W. Doreski, M. Driscoll, M. Estabrook, C. Feild, A. Fish, N. Ghosh, K. Gosse, A. Grenfell, S. Guthrie, S. Hough, M. Hudson, A. Iyengar, C. Johnson, J. Khan, A. Konchalovsy, J. Lambremont Sr, R. Lavalette, L. Lefkowitz, C. Leslie-Bole, M. Lewis-Beck, P. Lingard, JP Lundstrom, DS Maolalai, B. MacWilliams, B. A. Meier, K. L. Merrifield, T. Mico, J. Mills, M. Mittman, P. Nieuwland, E. O’Dwyer, C. P. Palmer, M Pauseman, M. J. Porter, M. Quigley, D. Rae, N. Reddick, E. Reilly, L. Rhodes-Ryabchich, C. Rose, R. S. Rosenthal, S. A. Sanders, R. Scotellaro, W. Scheer, J. Slusher, C. Smadja, L. Stice, F. Trecost, L. Tyler, L. Tyrrell, R. Walker, M. Webb, J. Weisman and C. H. Williams

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Gluttony 7 Deadly Sins Vol. 2 28-Jun-2018

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Edward Ahern/Alan C Baird/Elaine Barnard/Paul Beckman/Jon Bennett/Howard Brown/Michael H Brownstein/Mark Budman/Steven Carr/Guilie Castillo Oriard/Changming Yuan/Jan Chronister/Marcia Conover/Carolyn Cordon/Judah Eli Cricelli/Ruth Z Deming/Andrea Diede/Salvatore DiFalco/Michael Estabrook/Tom Fegan/Nod Ghosh/Ken Gosse/Roberta Gould/Steven Gowin/Noah Grabeel/Anne Graue/Jake Greenblot/Andrew Grenfell/Shane Guthrie/Jan Haag/Mark Hudson/Louise Hofmeister/Sharron Hough/Abha Iyengar/Bryan Jansing/Jemshed Khan/Linda Kohler/John Kujawski/John Lambremont Sr/Ron Lavalette/Valerie Lawson/Tracy Lee-Newman/Larry Lefkowitz/Cynthia Leslie-Bole/Peter Lingard/JP Lundstrom/Chuck Madansky/Karla L Merrifield/Marsha Mittman/Leah Mueller/Piet Nieuwland/Carl Papa Palmer/Melisa Quigley/Dorothy Rice/Joanne Rizzo/Ruth S Rosenthal/Sarah Salway/Shawn A Sanders/Rikki Santer/Wayne Scheer/Iris N Schwartz/Fraser Sutherland/Lucy Tyrrell/Marian Urquilla/Rob Walker/Townsend Walker/Rob Walton/Michael Webb/Jeffrey Weisman

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The Binnacle: Seventh Annual Ultra-Short Edition (Ultra-Short Competition Book 7) 15-Feb-2017

by Gerard NeCastro

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The Binnacle’s Annual International Ultra-Short Competition features the best works of narrative fiction and poetry of 150 words or fewer. Submissions are typically received from six continents and a couple dozen countries. From these hundreds of submissions fifty to sixty works are chosen for the annual edition, and among these a few receive cash prizes. Submissions are accepted each year via e-mail at ummbinnacle@maine.edu between December 1 and March 15. Notifications are made in early June. The publication is completed several months later. For more information, please visit The University of Maine at Machias at http://binnacle.machias.edu/.

This volume contains works by Emily Jiang, Toni Giarnese, Bunny Richards, Adrian S. Potter, Alan C. Baird, Anne Earney, Barb McMakin, Barbara Fleming Phillips, Britt Kaufmann, Caroline Michalicki, Christina Beasley, Colin Meldrum, Daphne Nichols, A Scots Limerick – David Jack, David Mohan, David Ochs, David Yost, Debbie Okun Hill, Diane Smith, Donna L. Turello, Ed Parrot, Ellen LaFleche, Emily Spreng Lowery, Fehmida Zakeer, Gay Degani, Geoffrey Hoffman, Graves Collins, Harold Bauld, Hema Raman, Jari Thymian, Jiayan Yu, John Gosslee, Josh Byer, K. S. Dearsley, Kathleen Rivera, Kelly O'Neill, Lori Pollard-Johnson, Lynda La Rocca, Margot Zucker Mindich, Max Speed, Meg Eden, Mimi Liberman, Mitchell Noel Kelly, Myra Merritt, Patti Jazanoski, Pervin Saket, Petra Angelen, Philip Sultz, Rachel Cordasco, Robert Craig, Russell Marsh, Ruth Almon, Samantha Priestley, Sue Ann Connaughton, SuzAnne C. Cole, Vanessa Gebbie, and Viccy Adams.

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Eleven Thousand Virgins: Hildegard von Bingen's Last Chants 19-Dec-2015

by Alan C. Baird

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"Field of Dreams" with medieval chant music in place of baseball.

Synopsis: Alex Barnett has a comfortable life in Los Angeles and San Francisco; it's probably too comfortable, although he can't quite admit to himself that an extended separation from his wife Nicole eats at his soul. An unusual set of seemingly unrelated circumstances impels him to seek out a centuries-abandoned monastery in southwest Germany, where he confronts the animate image of Hildegard von Bingen, the legendary twelfth-century mystic, prophet, and composer of ravishing liturgical chants. Although his friend Lars believes it's a bona-fide vision, much like the visions that fueled Hildegard's own creativity, Alex cynically distrusts his deepest instincts and drives himself to search for a more acceptable answer. His quest guides him on the path toward self-awareness, through experiences both sacred and profane. One man's inner and outer pilgrimages take him to the depths of uncertainty, and, almost inexorably, to the peak of actualization.

Background: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179 AD) composed many chants in honor of Saint Ursula (?-383 AD). According to legend, Ursula was a Romano-British princess who, at the request of her father, King Donaut of Dumnonia (SW England), set sail across the English Channel with 11,000 virginal handmaidens to join her future husband, the pagan Governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica (Brittany). Before the princess could arrive, all the virgins were beheaded in a massacre, and Ursula was shot dead. Modern research suggests the phrase "XI. M. V." was misinterpreted as "eleven thousand (in Roman numerals) virgins" rather than "eleven martyred virgins."

Genre: Spiritual drama. Warning: sexual situations and language.

Semifinalist in: Writers Network competition.

9TimeZones.com - an eMail screenplay collaboration between Hungary and L.A. (includes first draft script 'The Fall In Budapest') 16-Jan-2014

by Alan C. Baird , Aniko J. Bartos

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Imagine writing your script with a mysterious stranger who's half a world away. Brief phone calls reveal some of the puzzle, but a short-story-filled eMail exchange provides the real key. If you wanted to share this correspondence, what would you do?

This book is a how-to, showing rather than telling the art of screenplay collaboration online. The bulk of the text consists of communications between two widely-separated partners, as they solve the problems faced by all distance collaborators. The emails are interspersed with literary examples (short stories, etc.) that serve as teaching moments. The screenplay scenes are numbered, as they are completed, and the finished screenplay is contained in the appendix, with the scenes in numerical order. Some readers have described the book as "a master-class seminar in script collaboration."

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facebookworm: dispatches from a social networking junkie 25-Jun-2009

by Alan C. Baird

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During Facebook's early days, membership was limited to students, so a new Facebooker's initial impressions of social networking would have included discussions of keggers and panty raids. But after opening up to the general public in late 2006, the site finally began to reach critical mass. These days, most folks can easily reconnect with old friends, former colleagues and onetime classmates. The artificial barriers between celebrities and normal people are often lowered too, thanks to Facebook's granular privacy controls. In Alan C. Baird's latest book, "facebookworm: dispatches from a social networking junkie," he distills the essence of an egalitarian world currently evolving in cyberspace, using techniques ranging from wry humor to flash verité. [Keywords: creative nonfiction, web, internet, virtual communities.] Videos, samples + more: www.9TimeZones.com/fbworm.htm

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My Dad Is My Hero: Tributes to the Men Who Gave Us Life, Love, and Driving Lessons 18-Mar-2009

by Susan Reynolds

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Children often have trouble telling their father how much they love him. Fortunately, this book expresses those emotions for them. This endearing collection of stories about the everyday heroics of the contributorsÆ fathers, and father figures, will show Dad how much he means to his children. From the story of a fly fishing trip that bonded father and daughter to the one that saw a friendÆs imposing father turn into the contributorÆs own loving father-figure, this wonderful book brings together tales of heroic dads from all walks of life, and is a great way for his kids to show him how much they care. And it lets dads everywhere know that they donÆt need to be daring to be heroicùthat it can be the little things that mean the most to his kids.

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The Avian Quartet 01-May-2007

by Alan C. Baird

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Flying has always fascinated me, and I've often dreamed of the freedom of birds. Then I met four birds who changed my life: a courageous robin in Vienna, a playful seagull off the coast of Ireland, a sparrow-in-training who lived in a college town and a curious hawk, soaring effortlessly above the mountains of Tehachapi.

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