... by Pat Winter



LOGLINE:

Only U.S. Grant of all Union commanders had the
guts to win the Civil War. But to get hired for the
job Lincoln’s bulldog general had to stay sober
until War's end. This is the never-before-told
story of how he did it.

COMPLETED:

"U.S. GRANT" mentored by and developed under handshake agreement without formal contract with legendary producer Charles W. (Chuck) Fries. Meanwhile back at the ranch... well at least the cabin in the Ozarks, I've finished 1st draft and seven polished chapters of the novel, feature act one, and fifteen of eighteen limited series episodes:

1. WAR! (Act One)
4. THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
5. THE BATTLE OF THE DTs
6. THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG
7. THE BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA
8. WE HAVE FOUND OUR HERO
9. THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS
10. THE BATTLE OF SPOTSYLVANIA
11. MRS. PRESIDENT, MRS. GENERAL
12. THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR
13. THE BATTLE OF WASHINGTON CITY
14. THE PETERSBURG MINE
15. THE BATTLE OF FIVE FORKS
16. MEXICO BEFORE APPOMATTOX
17. APPOMATTOX
18. PEACE!

Episodes Remaining in Treatments:

2. THE BATTLE OF SHILOH
3. THE MARCH ON CORINTH

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© Copyright January 2005
by Patricia DeGraw Winter
All Rights Reserved


Original astro-archaeological research supports this Arkansas rock art as the only known Native American documentation of Conquistador De Soto's 16th century massacre of Southeastern Indian tribes. Check out the treatment for a TV documentary and novel on...















































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Americana
JAGUAR KING
Prequel to The Madoc Saga... A warlord gives a doomed Maya Indian peasant her chance at star-crossed destiny with his team of royal ballplayers on the road to empire up the ancient Mississippi River. In-press with Amazon Booksurge, publication in July 2009 (ISBN 978-4392-1240-0)
MADOC
Book I in The Madoc Saga... To save his family a bastard prince flees the tyranny of the English King in a voyage to North America 322 years before Columbus. Bantam Books (ISBN 0-553-28277-80; Authors Guild Reissue (ISBN:0-595-16532-X)
MADOC'S HUNDRED
Book II in The Madoc Saga... To ensure his New World colony's survival Madoc must make new allies and provoke new enemies farther North in the Mississippi Valley Bantam Books (ISBN: 0-553-28521-1; Authors Guild Reissue (ISBN: 0-595-16536-2)
SONGS OF THE BIG CANOE
Book III in The Madoc Saga... Madoc returns to Britain for reinforcements while his New World colony faces new enemies on the Missouri River... 150,000-word-novel (WGA # 1169141)
WOMAN CALLED ARKANSAS
A French soldier of fortune and a Quapaw woman risk everything for love in the wilds of French Louisiana.Original Bantam Books title: RIVER OF DESTINY(ISBN 0-553-2586-9)Authors Guild Reissue(ISBN 0-595-14029-7)
Contemporary
ON AIR
A ballzy reporter is forced to confront her vulnerability and team up with a cop to stop a stalker who blames women for all his troubles. Complete 90,000-word novel (WGA # 230751) & 104-page screenplay (WGA # 172321) based on events at KFWB in Hollywood.
DRIVER
A commercial actress gets more than she bargained for when she hooks up telepathically with a TV star revived after near-death experience in a case of body-snatching 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
INSIDE MOTHER
Human orphans raised by a surrogate mechanical mother invent a religion to explain their circumstances. © 1970 under byline Pat De Graw in the paperback anthology "Infinity One" published by Lancer Books, Inc. The original story "Inside Mother" is one of the log entries stored in the mechanical mother's computer database that is the unpublished 150,000-word novel LOG OF THE DOG.
POLIMANDER'S MAN-THING
Published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Magazine © April 1973 under byline Pat DeGraw
MEMO TO SECRETARY
Poem bylined Pat DeGraw published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction © June 1966, Mercury Press, Inc.
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