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Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	Writing Treatments That Sell, Second Edition How to Create and Market Your Story Ideas to the Motion Picture and TV Industry Kenneth Atchity and Chi-li Wong Holt Paperbacks A fully revised guide to turning your movie idea into a treatment that can persuade even the most jaded movie producers As Hollywood insiders know, the...

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Crafty Screenwriting

Writing Movies That Get Made

Alex Epstein Holt Paperbacks

"From the most elevated artistic concerns to the mundane details of how many brads to bind your script with, Alex Epstein shines the light of common sense and experience on this tricky, delicate, and profitable art. Every page sparkles with wisdom and wit. It is my new answer to the dozens of questions I'm asked by new writers eager to get it right."—Don Roos, screenwriter of Love Field, Boys on the Side, The Opposite of Sex, and Bounce

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Crafty TV Writing

Thinking Inside the Box

Alex Epstein Holt Paperbacks

A professional TV writer’s real-world guide to getting paid to write great television "No need for me to ever write a book on TV writing. Alex Epstein has...

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Writing Movies

The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays

Gotham Writers' Workshop Bloomsbury USA

"I read most of the new screenwriting books for my job teaching screenwriting and film production courses at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Writing Movies is the best book on screenwriting I've read in years. I can tell a good book by the number of pages I dog-ear. There is a fold on nearly every page. Writing Movies is the most refreshing outlook on screenwriting since Syd Field."—Professor Terry Linehan, Film Studies Department, UNCW

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Tools of Screenwriting A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay David Howard and Edward Mabley; Introduction by Frank Daniel St. Martin's Griffin In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles...

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How to Build a Great Screenplay

A Master Class in Storytelling for Film

David Howard St. Martin's Griffin

"David Howard's How to Build a Great Screenplay is a rarity—not merely a 'how-to' guide, but the most comprehensive and thoughtful examination of storytelling, and as close to an entire graduate writing program, as one is likely to find within the covers of a single book."—Adams Belanoff, writer and producer on Cosby and Murphy Brown, and writer on Wings

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The Savvy Screenwriter

How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out!

Susan Kouguell St. Martin's Griffin

The Savvy Screenwriter demystifies the film industry and reveals what aspiring screenwriters really want and need to know. From finding and working with...

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Secrets of Film Writing Tom Lazarus St. Martin's Griffin Most books about screenplays instruct on three-act structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that. Secrets of Film...

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The Art of Adaptation

Turning Fact And Fiction Into Film

Linda Seger Holt Paperbacks

Adaptations have long been a mainstay of Hollywood and the television networks. Indeed, most Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning films have been adaptations...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Creating Unforgettable Characters Linda Seger Holt Paperbacks In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Anatomy of Story 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller John Truby Faber and Faber, Inc. "If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."—LA Weekly

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	The Screenwriter's Handbook The Essential Companion for all Screenwriters Barry Turner, Editor St. Martin's Griffin "At last, all the essential information in one place"—Jake Eberts, Executive Producer of Dances With Wolves, Chicken Run, and A River Runs Through It