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NN correspondent-turned-screenwriter Bryce Zabel has created five primetime network television series and worked on a dozen TV writing staffs. A produced feature writer in both live-action and animation, he has written and produced for nearly all major networks and studios and collaborated with talents that include Steven Spielberg and Stan Lee. He has worked for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, HBO, Showtime, Syfy, Sony, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Universal, Paramount, Hallmark, USA, and Animal Planet, among others.

In 2008, Zabel received the Writers Guild of America (WGA) award for writing his third four-hour Hallmark mini-series,
Pandemic
. He has received credit on other produced films and miniseries that include
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
,
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
,
Blackbeard
and
The Poseidon Adventure
. He wrote SyFy’s first original film,
Official Denial
, and the first film in the Unsolved Mysteries MOW franchise,
Victim of Love
. His end-of-World War II true story,
The Last Battle
, is currently in active studio development.

Zabel served as the elected chairman/CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the first writer in that position since Rod Serling. During his term, he was responsible for handling the post 9/11 Emmy awards, the negotiations which led to an unprecedented 250 percent license fee increase for the telecast, and the move to the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live.

He has been an award-winning on-air journalist for PBS (investigative reporter), CNN (correspondent) and NBC (local news).

In addition to the Emmy-winning
Dark Skies
(NBC), Zabel has received the WGA “created by” or “developed by” credit on
Kay O’Brien
(CBS),
M.A.N.T.I.S.
(FOX),
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
(SYN) and E.N.G. (CTV). His other series work includes Steven Spielberg’s
Taken
,
L.A. Law
,
Life Goes On
and
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
.

Besides two WGA nominations and one win, his work has been nominated by the Environmental Media Association, Mystery Writers of America, Golden Mike, Gemini and Emmy awards. He is a member of the DGA (Directors Guild of America), SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and the WGA. As an adjunct professor for the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Marshall School of Business, Zabel taught “Produce or Perish,” a graduate-level class.

Zabel is an often-featured speaker, moderator, keynoter and panelist, who has appeared in numerous TV interviews that include
The Today Show
,
CBS Morning News
,
Politically Incorrect
,
Entertainment Tonight
,
Access Hollywood
, and
Extra
, as well as being interviewed by news organizations that include
Time
, the
Washington Post
, the
New York Times
, the
Los Angeles Times
,
Daily Variety
,
Hollywood Reporter
and others.

His non-fiction book,
A.D. After Disclosure
, published by New York’s Career Press in 2012, was chosen by Barnes and Noble as a “New & Noteworthy” selection and was ordered to a third printing in 2013.

S
urrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?
is the first book published under the
alt.World
s imprint.

These are full-length books, combining the look and feel of non-fiction journalism and reporting with alternative and counter-factual historical concepts. This book you’ve just read, for example, uses the device of drawing on vintage newsmagazine coverage to write a fiftieth anniversary retrospective of the attack on President Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas.

There are other books coming in this line, also from author Bryce Zabel, and we’d like to tell you about them.

Next up will be
Across the (Other) Universe: What if the Beatles Stayed Together?
This work tells a powerful story of recovered memory from a mental patient who claims to have crossed over to our world from a parallel reality where the Beatles did not break up in 1969-1970 but continued to record and perform together through a large part of the 1970s. It will come complete with the albums and songs the band made famous that were not released as Beatles songs in our own world.

Following that Magical History Tour comes
In the Shadow of the Saucers: What if Truman Disclosed Roswell?
The historical pivot point in this work grows from the events of July 1947 where, in our timeline, a crash recovery in New Mexico was covered up by the U.S. military, and a policy of “deny and ridicule” regarding flying saucers was put in place. In this book, the military is twenty-four hours slower in responding to the fast-unfolding events, forcing President Harry Truman to confirm a saucer crash and turning the 1950s into an era of paranoia, not about Communists but about alien beings.

We hope you’ll continue enjoying the
alt.Worlds
brand for many years to come. It’s guaranteed to be a history course that you’ve never taken before.

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