Larry A. Jaggard

Lawrence Anthony Jaggard is a Screenwriter, Photographer, and Website Designer. He has written 27 screenplays, 5 features ranging from 101 to 130 pages each, and 22 shorts of 2 to 45 pages in length. About 8 of those screenplays, 2 features and 6 shorts have reached as far as the finals in National and International Screenplay competitions.

Larry lived in Atlantic City, New Jersey as a young child in an apartment building just thirty feet from the Atlantic City Boardwalk and Atlantic Ocean during a major hurricane. This was the inspiration and setting for the short screenplay Rat's Bite. This was the first script he wrote as an adult.

Rat's Bite made a showing in a national short screenplay contest called American Gem shorts at only 13 pages, it went to the quarter finals and got a special mention. After some rewrites, it was a semi-finalist in Anything But Hollywood screenplay competition. After more rewrites and a title change it made it to the finals in the Writer's Place Short Script Contest. He started compiling and publishing his screenplays in books which can be found on Amazon.

Larry Jaggard has taken thousands of photographs, mostly of natural landscapes and wildlife. His photos can be seen on some of his websites and on the inside and cover of his books. His 240 + video slide-shows of these photos and live videos can be viewed on his YouTube channel. He has also created 40+ personal websites; All of those were designed by him and are listed on his sites.

View his new books at; http://journey.lixter.com

Loglines to the Five Story Screenplays in Journey through the Storm;

Lair of the Red Wolves: feature story: Remnants of the old Soviet penal colony menace an American family sent to manage Russia's new resort hotel in Siberia.

Saber-Toothed Cat: short story: A little tomboy's mother wants to rid the family of her daughter's beloved undomesticated cat until the mother faces the jaws of a vicious dog.

Black Cat Moon: feature story: A young independent spirited woman helps a stroke victim caught between the living and the dead bring his father's killer to justice with the aid of Halloween's favorite pet.

The Pixie Detective: short story: A pixie detective wannabe finds something quite unusual about her black cat when she stumbles on an illegal operation at the abandoned shipyard next door.

Rat's Bite: short story: An introverted little orphan boy must overcome a life threatening obstacle after the immediate aftermath of a powerful storm, leaving the seashore city he lives in gloomy and desolate. His curiosity proves near fatal when he is bitten by a rat scavenging among the rock jetties.