The name Taleswapper comes from the beloved character from Orson Scott Card's bestselling series, The Tales of Alvin Maker, who had a knack for gathering, creating, and telling stories that moved whomever heard them. The company aspires to do the same by bringing the works of Card, Johnson and Johnston to the big and small screens.

Orson Scott Card is a novelist, playwright, and poet. He is best known for Ender's Game and it's sequels Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, adult science fiction novels that are also widely read by younger readers. He remains the only author to win both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards in the same year and in two consecutive years with Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. His screenplay adaptation of Ender's Game is in turnaround from Warner Brothers and will be set up at a new studio shortly. Card also writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), and the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker. Card is also the author of more than 20 produced plays and musicals, hundreds of produced half-hour audio scripts, a dozen animated videos, and a book of poetry (An Open Book). In addition, Card has also directed dozens of amateur and professional theatre productions.

In the time that Niad Management has been working with Mr. Card, his film and television career has finally taken off. After languishing at CAA for more than 6 years, we moved him over to ICM. We introduced him to the people at Overbrook Entertainment (Will Smith's company) and was hired to write a comic book for the Will Smith film adaptation of the classic Richard Matheson novel, I Am Legend. Then, the Johnson-Roessler Company (The Initiation of Sarah; Barbershop) hired Card to write a television pilot entitled Crisis Point. All the while we were sending out his short stories, each one better than the last, and always looking for a way to move Ender's Game out of Warner Brothers so that it could be made as Orson Scott Card had always envisioned. Mission currently being accomplished. We introduced Mr. Card and his producing partners to the people of Odd Lot Entertainment, among many others, but who are now the lucky people to be left sitting at the negotiating table for the rights to ever sought after Ender's Game. And while those negotiations are in progress, Niad introduced Mr. Card to the people at Electronic Arts for whom he is now writing and consulting on a top secret video game.

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Peter Johnson has devoted much of his film career to producing and directing dramatic, richly textured, historically and spiritually based films. Karl Malden, former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy Award winning actor, recently said of Johnson, "If I were a producer and had a script that I wanted to do, the first man that I would hire to direct it would be Peter Johnson." Johnson has written, directed, and produced a variety of award-winning successful motion pictures. His credits include: as Director, The Mountain of the Lord, A More Perfect Union (regional EMMY and nominated for national EMMY), Man's Search for Happiness, The Restoration, Zion's Camp. Producer and Director of The Witching of Ben Wagner (Disney), Encyclopedia Brown (HBO), How Rare a Possession, Journey of Faith, The Incense Trail, and Between Heaven and Earth. Johnson was also the writer of Disney's 1988 top-rated Sunday Night movie, Thanksgiving Promise, with Blaine Yorgason. Other experience includes, The Sting, Part II (Universal), Twilight Time (Dan Tana Productions), SKAG (NBC), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (Irwin Allen Productions), Miracle on Ice (ABC), Word of Honor (CBS), and The Streets of San Francisco (ABC). He is a member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA).

Aaron Johnston is a writer and producer whose adaptation of Feed the Baby of Love was chosen as a winner in the 2004 LDS Film Festival's Screenplay Competition. His other writing credits include screenplay adaptations of Sarah and Orson Scott Card's short story Malpractice. Johnston's first novel, which he coauthored with Card, will be published by TOR in 2006