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      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.      

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 ...

  High Concept Writing and Character Writing begin March 13.  One week left to register for those and then they will be closed to registration. CLICK HERE to register for March online classes.

Julie is one of my students. I would love to take credit for everything she has accomplished, but I can’t. I am her teacher, I guide. I’m a good teacher and a good guide. Hell, I’m a good writer, if it comes down to that. But. A guide can only guide someone willing to be guided who has drive to push through. I could be walking someone up Kilimanjaro, but   Read More ...

This is a guest post from John Robert Marlow, author of  Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood: 1 PITCH, 3 ELEMENTS, 10 SECONDS Everyone wants to sell a story. Almost no one can. Part of the reason is just that: people try to sell stories. But few (okay, no) working professionals have time to listen to or read every story that comes through the   Read More ...

This is from The Bitter Script Reader. It’s not just entertaining — and it is definitely entertaining — it’s also smart and accurate. Who knew puppets could be so smart?  Well, besides Craig Ferguson?         :::SEE MORE BITTER SCRIPT READER:::

I was over on the Done Deal forums today. I don’t go there often, but I stopped in, hit some posts, answered some, recoiled at others, put in my time. It’s the giving back phase and I had too much coffee so there I am. And I keep seeing this message spewed out over and over again over there: “If it’s ‘great,’ they will want it.” That’s not actually true.   Read More ...

Want to know how to get a $375 class for a hundred bucks?  Then this deal is for you.  Read on –   IF YOU BUY 3 DIGITAL COPIES OF MY BOOK FOR THE HIGHLY REASONABLE PRICE OF $9.99 each, I WILL GIVE YOU A FREE SIGNED HARD COPY when the book hits print in 2013 — all postage paid in the US. [Non-US peeps, sorry, I cannot predict roving   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 ...

This is a great blog post about scripts, films, and development by Geoff LaTulippe: Yesterday, in a forum on Done Deal Pro, I posted in a thread where the discussion had turned into theories as to why some movies that come out of Hollywood are so bad. A few aspiring writers postulated that (and I’m not only paraphrasing here, but including musings I’ve heard many times in the past) it’s   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 ...

If you still do not know about the book meme book giveaway (where have you been, under a rock?) over on the Facebook Page, hit the links. Here are more favorite book memes: Want to play? Come :::find out how::: it could win you a free eBook.