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DREW BAKER

Drew Baker


ABOUT :
Drew started writing at a very young age, using it as an escape and way of expression.

EXPERIENCE:
- Harrisburg Arts Magnet School
- Singer, Acoustic Guitar, Songwriter - There Are Others, The Seeker, Solo.
- Ad copywriter for local radio station WINK104.
- Founded and edited arts and entertainment weekly New Voices (Readership of 26,000 and a staff of 25.)
- Computer tech writer.
- Six articles published in national magazines, Kungfu Magazine and Long Riders Magazine.
- Bachelor's Thomas Edison State University, Psychology
- Taijiquan teacher since 2004.
- Drives street and racing sidecars.


SEEKING AGENT/PUBLISHER FOR:

PAN DANCES

Status: Completed
Genre: Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Length: 89,000 words


Ural Retro drawing
Art by Chloe Pittinos

Description:

The apocalypse is an asshole; you're going to need to find some family.

Non-binary, child of the woods, Pan loses their pants when a bear invades their fire tower camp. Clad in found, fur pants, Pan travels through the woods making friends with crows, chasing deer, and cooking backwoods pancakes as they travel to Virginia searching for surviving friends.

Bound and hungover, Galen wakes being literally drug to a trial for violating the High School Distillery's morality laws. Galen keeps going because he's trained to prolong life and to distance himself from the deadly betrayal that flushed him from his bunker.

When Pan crosses paths with Galen and his dog Vult, loneliness gets the better of them and they follow the sidecar crew watching from the trees until an ambush on the road forces them to reveal themselves.

Traveling through a landscape where 330 million died from climate-enhanced storms and distrust of each other, Pan and Galen band together creating a found family, because survival is impossible without trust and painful without love.

Pan Dances combines the starkness of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the hope of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven. Pan Dances weaves the Roman god legends of Apollo (Galen) and Pan (Pan) and a Taoist moral into a story featuring a non-binary title character, a bisexual main character, and timely social commentary.

CURRENTLY WRITING:

BACCHUS RIDES

Status: In progress
Genre: Science Fiction
Length: TBD
Ural Retro drawing
Art by Chloe Pittinos

Description:

Bacchus Rides is the pre-quel to Pan Dances.

We meet rock climber Pan and the aging Bacchus-like Greybeard as the events that bring America to it's knees begin.

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Drew singing
Drew in 1992
Drew with Triumph 2000
Chloe graduation 2015