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This is very cool, it’s a new review of Excess Baggage by Anthony Moretta on Out of the Gutter. Anthony even made me like the film better and I have a few reasons to have grievances with it, though, you know, it’s my baby even if it’s not quite as pretty a baby as a I wanted so I love it no matter what: CLASSIC FILM REVIEW: EXCESS BAGGAGE (1997):   Read More ...

      This is the hot new book trailer for The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide, an AFW publication, book trailer created by the epically talented Christie LeBlanc of Trailer Works.      

On March 25, 2013, respected Hollywood screenwriter, best-selling author and lecturer Max Adams will lead two educational events at Scottsdale Community College: Visual Writing Master Class: Adams will teach a three-hour condensed version of the revered class she teaches through the Academy of Film Writing and The University of Utah. This workshop will provide SCC Film School Screenwriting students with very specific craft tools in the art of making writing   Read More ...

Join us for Indiechat 3/19 at 9pm EST! Topic: Screenplays March 19th, 2013 by Kate Tilton As many of you may know we took over the twitter chat #indiechat. #Indiechat is held every Tuesday at 9pm EST. You can check out our previous chat logs on BiblioCrunch Storify. This week on #indiechat Kate Tilton (@Froze8) will be will be hosting from the BiblioCrunch twitter account (@BiblioCrunch) with guest Max Adams (@CelluloidBlonde). Max   Read More ...

If you have not been watching the Banksy action on the book’s Going Banksy page you are missing out.  It is hilarious and fun.  Here are some shots from the Banksy action in Park City and Salt Lake City.

  Three Reasons Someone Might Not Read Your Script ~ by Max Adams ~ originally published on Bang2Write Many thanks to Max Adams aka CelluloidBlonde for today’s shot in the arm – I recognize everything she describes here, having probably done them myself years ago AND having been on the receiving end now! Go Max … Number One: You Have No Idea In Hell Whom You Are Talking To –   Read More ...

Aren’t you glad there are Do’s & Don’ts for surgeons?                           And for the Bomb Squad?                           And for pilots?                           Don’t you wish there were some for screenwriters?             Read More ...

Holiday month classes tend to be pretty small, January classes tend to be pretty full, that is when the U students are hitting the classes again. I would suggest, if you want to get on January classes, you register now. January Classes: The Art of the Pitch Visual Writing The Sex Scene   Register

Guerrilla Tactics:  Interview With Author & Screenwriter Max Adams ~ by Nancy Bilyeau In the middle of attempting to write my first screenplay, I bought a paperback called The Screenwriter’s Survival Guide: Or, Guerrilla Meeting Tactics and Other Acts of War, by Max Adams. It was a fast, smart read, very funny, with an insider’s wisdom about how to get off the ground as a screenwriter. Max, I learned, had   Read More ...

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, all book all the time. But if you just spent months of your life on a book pulling all nighters, you would kind of be all about the book too. And since this book helps you more than it helps me, get behind it. Jeesh. The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide is now available at Amazon on Kindle, at Barnes & Noble on Nook, at Kobo,   Read More ...

And the book is shipping.  The eBook for iPad and Nook shipped out today for all pre-orders.  It will be a few days before it shows up on the Barnes & Noble and iBook sites — they are loading but there is an approval and waiting process so — If you want the book right now, no waiting, go to the book’s website and order the book direct.  And it   Read More ...