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Writer's Guide to Selling Your Screenplay
With the average screenplay selling for $100,000 or more, every writer knows that movies are where the money is. In The Writer's Guide to Selling Your Screenplay, veteran screenwriter Cynthia Whitcomb reveals everything today's aspiring screenwriter needs to know about selling a movie script to Hollywood, cable TV, or network television. Readers will find proven, award-winning strategies for getting the right people to look at your work, marketing a "spec" script, making a splash at pitch meetings, and much more. Plus, they'll discover what today's top agents and producers look for in a script, the types of deals you can expect to make, as well as an appendix of agents who specialize in handling scriptwriters.
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200 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2002
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April 8, 2010
After thoroughly enjoying Whitcomb's The Writer's Guide to Writing Your Screenplay: How to Write Great Screenplays for Movies and Television I was very anxious to open up her book on *selling* screenplays! I wasn't quite as impressed with this volume as I was the other, but it was still interesting and useful.
Two major things of note:
1) This book does discuss breaking into TV more than "Writing" discussed writing for TV.
2) While Whitcomb does discuss getting your work sold, a good portion of the book discusses what happens *after* your work is sold/you're hired to write another script. In one respect, this was very interesting/helpful because Whitcomb sheds light on areas that typically script-selling-books stop before (i.e. she discusses rewrites, screenwriters on set, producer notes, etc.). However, there was a lack (IMO) of information on getting to that point. Only a few pages were devoted to query letters, and had I not already read other books that discuss queries I probably would have felt rather lost.
SO, overall, I still really appreciate Whitcomb's books. I would, however, suggest that you pair this work with another, say, How to Sell Your Screenplay: A Realistic Guide to Getting a Television or Film Deal, to get an even better overview of the whole process, from idea to script to query to film.
Two major things of note:
1) This book does discuss breaking into TV more than "Writing" discussed writing for TV.
2) While Whitcomb does discuss getting your work sold, a good portion of the book discusses what happens *after* your work is sold/you're hired to write another script. In one respect, this was very interesting/helpful because Whitcomb sheds light on areas that typically script-selling-books stop before (i.e. she discusses rewrites, screenwriters on set, producer notes, etc.). However, there was a lack (IMO) of information on getting to that point. Only a few pages were devoted to query letters, and had I not already read other books that discuss queries I probably would have felt rather lost.
SO, overall, I still really appreciate Whitcomb's books. I would, however, suggest that you pair this work with another, say, How to Sell Your Screenplay: A Realistic Guide to Getting a Television or Film Deal, to get an even better overview of the whole process, from idea to script to query to film.
March 31, 2017
A bit outdated (the version I read was circa 1988), but clear advice is given on the business of screenwriting.
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