How to Get Exposure and Get Produced

There's one amazing fact that I can almost guarantee: if every single producer in the world read your screenplay, your screenplay would get produced. I'm not kidding. If you knew how to market your script   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career: Using stats to improve your sell

You already have the power and the ability to succeed in the film and television industries, though you might be missing some tools. Know that you are your own company, and you are your company’s CEO.   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career, Targeting - Finding more of the right hands

Controlling your career and your success as a screenwriter is reliant on you treating yourself like a business, and marketing your "product" to as many potential buyers as possible. If you've been reading my articles, you   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career: Creating Success by Building Professionalism

If success in the film industry is based on who you know, then who you know depends upon your professionalism: beginning with the first impression, carrying all the way through to   Read More

Your Screenwriting Career: Keeping Execs' Attention - The Follow-Up

Not only is your career completely in your hands, but in this article, I'm going to explain the one thing you can do to increase your chances of success nearly 10 fold. If there is any article of mine that you are going to take to heart, this needs to be the one.   Read More

To Market - To Market Without Any Agent

Just what is it that "they" (agents and managers) have that we don't? Why are they more successful in getting reads by the pros than us, the writers? It's frustrating, humiliating and all a bunch of "hog-wash." Or is it?   Read More

Get the Most Out of Your Literary Agent

It is natural for you to expect that your agent will aggressively market your screenplays and your writing and rewriting services when introducing your work to potential buyers, but there are a number of things you can do to facilitate your agent's efforts on your behalf.   Read More

See Your Script Through The Agent's Eyes

Once you have a well written, emotionally involving screenplay that has real commercial potential, getting your work read is essential to your success in Hollywood. But sometimes doing so can seem even more daunting than writing the script was.   Read More

Are Aspiring Writers Being Lured With Promises Fade In Can't Keep?

In the summer of 2007, Patrice Williams said she received a call from Audrey Kelly, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Fade In Magazine. Williams had won first place in the magazine's screenwriting competition, in the "Thriller" category, she was told. She would be receiving $750, script coverage by a WGA-affiliated writer, a subscription to Fade In and a Waterman pen.   Read More

12 Simple Tips for Entering Screenplay Contests

After reading hundreds of those attempts as a judge in two different contests over the past several years, I have compiled these twelve simple tips for writers to keep in mind before they sign all those hefty submission checks that tend to go along with entering many of these contests.   Read More