Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Peru
Qatar
Réunion
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
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
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Filmmaker's Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 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 subsidiary of Viacom International Inc.
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, now a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc., in 1999.
Fiction and nonfiction writing projects:
"The Sleeping Beauty" — Feature spec screenplay. A spellbound sleeping princess is awakened by the kiss of a future prince in this fairy tale fantasy set in England in the ninth century and high-tech world of the twenty-third century. Seven Fairies. Two Hearts. Fourteen Hundred Years Apart. An expanded retelling of the Charles Perrault fairy tale La Belle au Bois dormant (1697). 135-page script, 1-page synopsis, 1-page story timeline. Status: available.
The Sleeping Princess by Scottish painter John Duncan (1866-1945)
Sleeping Beauty, 1899, by British painter Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920)
"The Girl of My Dreams" — Romantic comedy feature spec screenplay. The misadventures of two single L.A. guys who make a fun and quirky road trip to Las Vegas on a mysterious old highway in search of the girl who ran out on 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. 122 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.
"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.
"Presidential Briefing" — Story. Every year while attending an economic summit, the presidents of the United States, Russia, and China meet secretly for a shared intelligence briefing on the latest visual and audio evidence purportedly of the paranormal, UFOs, and cryptozoology. This year, however, one of the videos they will watch contains something extra. Status: available.
"Supergirl" — A comic book-to-movie adaptation writing sample. An origin story of the DC Comics character (the original Kara Zor-El from Krypton). Comments from industry readers in the early 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. | Script: 141 pages. Treatment: 3 pages. Note: This script is a comic book/graphic novel adaptation writing sample only.
"Star Trek" media project — A picture book or museum donation 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.
"The Sleeping Beauty" — Feature spec screenplay. A spellbound sleeping princess is awakened by the kiss of a future prince in this fairy tale fantasy set in England in the ninth century and high-tech world of the twenty-third century. Seven Fairies. Two Hearts. Fourteen Hundred Years Apart. An expanded retelling of the Charles Perrault fairy tale La Belle au Bois dormant (1697). 135-page script, 1-page synopsis, 1-page story timeline. Status: available.
"The Girl of My Dreams" — Romantic comedy feature spec screenplay. The misadventures of two single L.A. guys who make a fun and quirky road trip to Las Vegas on a mysterious old highway in search of the girl who ran out on 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. 122 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.
"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.
"Presidential Briefing" — Story. Every year while attending an economic summit, the presidents of the United States, Russia, and China meet secretly for a shared intelligence briefing on the latest visual and audio evidence purportedly of the paranormal, UFOs, and cryptozoology. This year, however, one of the videos they will watch contains something extra. Status: available.
"Supergirl" — A comic book-to-movie adaptation writing sample. An origin story of the DC Comics character (the original Kara Zor-El from Krypton). Comments from industry readers in the early 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. | Script: 141 pages. Treatment: 3 pages. Note: This script is a comic book/graphic novel adaptation writing sample only.
"Star Trek" media project — A picture book or museum donation of up to 70 rare and 
Various nonfiction and fiction projects in development not listed here.
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