Tom Grasty (born 1968) is an American screenwriter and novelist.
Grasty began his career as a political direct mail copywriter in Washington, DC during the 1988 election cycle. From 1990 to 1994, Grasty continued to work in the public relations and advertising industries before turning his attention to entertainment.
From 1994 to 1998 Grasty was a senior story analyst for HBO Pictures and DreamWorks SKG where in addition to evaluated material for the screen, he worked as a researcher on the Academy Award-winning Roman epic, “Gladiator,” starring Russell Crowe.
From 1999 to 2002, Grasty served as Head of Development for VH1 Motion Pictures for Television, overseeing creative development of all long-form projects for the network, including films based on the lives of Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Heart, MC Hammer, The Monkees, Ricky Nelson, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Def Leppard, and Studio 54 founder, Steve Rubell.
Grasty continues to produce programming for film and television and is the author of the novel, "Blood on the Tracks," a murder mystery set in the world of rock and roll. Several of his screenplays have been optioned for film, television and the stage.
Tom Grasty lives in Los Angeles, California.
Bibliography
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Screenplays
- "Every Purpose Under Heaven" (Finalist, Diane Thomas Award, 1995)
Plays
- "The Favour of A Reply Is Requested" (1998)
Other work
- Part-time Professor, Department of Radio, Television, Video & Film (California State University, Fullerton)
- Instructor, Story Structure & Screenwriting (UCLA-Extension)
Grasty began his career as a political direct mail copywriter in Washington, DC during the 1988 election cycle. From 1990 to 1994, Grasty continued to work in the public relations and advertising industries before turning his attention to entertainment.
From 1994 to 1998 Grasty was a senior story analyst for HBO Pictures and DreamWorks SKG where in addition to evaluated material for the screen, he worked as a researcher on the Academy Award-winning Roman epic, “Gladiator,” starring Russell Crowe.
From 1999 to 2002, Grasty served as Head of Development for VH1 Motion Pictures for Television, overseeing creative development of all long-form projects for the network, including films based on the lives of Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Heart, MC Hammer, The Monkees, Ricky Nelson, John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Def Leppard, and Studio 54 founder, Steve Rubell.
Grasty continues to produce programming for film and television and is the author of the novel, "Blood on the Tracks," a murder mystery set in the world of rock and roll. Several of his screenplays have been optioned for film, television and the stage.
Tom Grasty lives in Los Angeles, California.
Bibliography
----
Screenplays
- "Every Purpose Under Heaven" (Finalist, Diane Thomas Award, 1995)
Plays
- "The Favour of A Reply Is Requested" (1998)
Other work
- Part-time Professor, Department of Radio, Television, Video & Film (California State University, Fullerton)
- Instructor, Story Structure & Screenwriting (UCLA-Extension)
Abbakar Adam Ismail (1965- ) (also written Abakar Adam Ismail, Sudanese writer, a novelist and poet, was born in Labdda village, close to the town of El-dlennj in the Nuba Mountains region, He graduated from Khartoum University, Faculty of Dentistry in 1993, and currently lives in Canada.
Novels
* الطريق إلى المدن المستØيلة. (Al-tariq ella almoodon elmoostahella) , translated into English as: The Road to the Impossible Cities
* لطريق إلى المدن المستØيلة. (Aldifa Alokhra) translated into English as: The Other Shore.
Ismail, Abbakar
Ismail, Abbakar
Ismail, Abbakar
Ismail, Abbakar
Novels
* الطريق إلى المدن المستØيلة. (Al-tariq ella almoodon elmoostahella) , translated into English as: The Road to the Impossible Cities
* لطريق إلى المدن المستØيلة. (Aldifa Alokhra) translated into English as: The Other Shore.
Ismail, Abbakar
Ismail, Abbakar
Ismail, Abbakar
Ismail, Abbakar
Will MacKinley
Will MacKinley is an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio on May 12, 1970. His father, a Vietnam War combat veteran, and his mother, the daughter of Irish immigrants, met by chance on a blind date in 1967 and married shortly thereafter; they are still married today. MacKinley was their oldest son and the second oldest of nine children.
MacKinley attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and despite some disciplinary problems and minor brushes with the law in his teenage years, graduated in the top third of his class in 1988. He enrolled at The Ohio State University as a Journalism major, but his restless nature did not conform to the collegiate schedule, and he left before obtaining a degree.
MacKinley performed a series of odd jobs after leaving school, including a brief and unsuccessful stint as a treasure hunter, before settling down in 1992, when he began a career as a police officer. MacKinley held many varied assignments in his fifteen years in law enforcement, including undercover and detective positions, and was eventually promoted to the rank of Sergeant. His career was cut short, however, when injuries sustained in a line of duty accident forced him into early retirement.
Upon leaving the police department, MacKinley took his passion for writing and completed his first novel, Christmas Goose, which was published in September of 2007. The novel featured the fictional police officer Sean "Goose" Wallace and promised to be the first in a series of books featuring the character. MacKinley also completed his first screenplay in 2007, a horror-comedy titled Zombelievable.
MacKinley currently lives in Texas and continues to write on a daily basis.
NOVELS
Christmas Goose, 2007
SCREENPLAYS
Zombelievable, 2007
Will MacKinley is an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Columbus, Ohio on May 12, 1970. His father, a Vietnam War combat veteran, and his mother, the daughter of Irish immigrants, met by chance on a blind date in 1967 and married shortly thereafter; they are still married today. MacKinley was their oldest son and the second oldest of nine children.
MacKinley attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and despite some disciplinary problems and minor brushes with the law in his teenage years, graduated in the top third of his class in 1988. He enrolled at The Ohio State University as a Journalism major, but his restless nature did not conform to the collegiate schedule, and he left before obtaining a degree.
MacKinley performed a series of odd jobs after leaving school, including a brief and unsuccessful stint as a treasure hunter, before settling down in 1992, when he began a career as a police officer. MacKinley held many varied assignments in his fifteen years in law enforcement, including undercover and detective positions, and was eventually promoted to the rank of Sergeant. His career was cut short, however, when injuries sustained in a line of duty accident forced him into early retirement.
Upon leaving the police department, MacKinley took his passion for writing and completed his first novel, Christmas Goose, which was published in September of 2007. The novel featured the fictional police officer Sean "Goose" Wallace and promised to be the first in a series of books featuring the character. MacKinley also completed his first screenplay in 2007, a horror-comedy titled Zombelievable.
MacKinley currently lives in Texas and continues to write on a daily basis.
NOVELS
Christmas Goose, 2007
SCREENPLAYS
Zombelievable, 2007
Sito Jaxa is a Star Trek character, played by Shannon Fill, who is a Bajoran Starfleet officer in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of the show, "The First Duty" and "Lower Decks".
In "The First Duty," she was a cadet at Starfleet Academy and a teammate of Wesley Crusher in the Nova Squadron space aerobatics flight team. Sito was reprimanded and made to repeat an academic year after it was revealed that Nova Squadron covered up an accident that killed teammate Joshua Albert. In "Lower Decks," which portrayed the lives of four low-ranking crew members of the Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard revealed that he requested her to be assigned to the Enterprise-D following her graduation because he wanted to make sure she got a fair chance as a new Ensign. She was considered for a promotion from security to night-shift Ops, in competition with her friend, Ensign Sam Lavelle. Sito volunteered for a top secret mission into the Cardassian Union, willingly risking her life to save a Cardassian spy, even though she was a Bajoran. Ensign Sito apparently died while completing her mission.
The writers of Star Trek considered bringing back the character in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", but this never occurred, as the DS9 writers did not want to rob "Lower Decks" of its "great ending." She appears in numerous non-canon Star Trek material including books and fan-fiction. The mirror universe version of Sito appears in the DS9 novel of the Mirror Universe series of novels.
In "The First Duty," she was a cadet at Starfleet Academy and a teammate of Wesley Crusher in the Nova Squadron space aerobatics flight team. Sito was reprimanded and made to repeat an academic year after it was revealed that Nova Squadron covered up an accident that killed teammate Joshua Albert. In "Lower Decks," which portrayed the lives of four low-ranking crew members of the Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard revealed that he requested her to be assigned to the Enterprise-D following her graduation because he wanted to make sure she got a fair chance as a new Ensign. She was considered for a promotion from security to night-shift Ops, in competition with her friend, Ensign Sam Lavelle. Sito volunteered for a top secret mission into the Cardassian Union, willingly risking her life to save a Cardassian spy, even though she was a Bajoran. Ensign Sito apparently died while completing her mission.
The writers of Star Trek considered bringing back the character in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Hard Time", but this never occurred, as the DS9 writers did not want to rob "Lower Decks" of its "great ending." She appears in numerous non-canon Star Trek material including books and fan-fiction. The mirror universe version of Sito appears in the DS9 novel of the Mirror Universe series of novels.