The Screenwriter's Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Marketing Guide for Screen and Television Writers

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Written for both new and experienced writers, this comprehensive marketing guide offers advice and tips needed by writers to succeed in the film and television industries. Focusing on the business of writing, it gives writers the unabashed truth about the film industry, and advice on how to get scripts to the gatekeepers of the studios and read by agents. Comprehensive listings of contests, fellowships, grants, and development opportunities from an industry expert provide specific information on securing a healthy writing career. This extensive resource also includes guidelines regarding copyrights, sources for emergency funds, a listing of online resources, information on writers' colonies and retreats, and more.

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"A useful... resource guide for the screenwriter with product to peddle..." -- Booklist. "A source book that should have been published long ago..." -- Hollywood Inside Syndicate. "Puts useful information into the hands of screenwriters..." -- Library Journal. "Has all the contacts a budding screenwriter needs all organized into one handy reference." -- Writerswrite.com

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Michael Haddad