No matter how much you've aged or how confident you may be in the dark, your fear will continue to grow roots in your mind. Strangest Fiction is back with the third installment of our namesake speculative fiction series. We've prepared a collection of bad dreams to haunt you, dear reader. You can't escape what's coming, no matter if it's a possessed doll, a ravenous swamp, or a flesh-eating creature from the deep. We hope you enjoy these intense tales from our talented storytellers. Stay s...

Chuck Kirkpatrick is an American musician and recording engineer who gained notoriety from working with dozens of popular acts in addition to being behind the recording console as an engineer for some of the most iconic records made in the 60's, 70's and 80's. growing up in a sleepy little beach town in South Florida and then hitting the motherlode with a record deal in Los Angeles, Chuck has seen it all. With a career spanning eight decades he has ridden in both the fast ...

Told from the perspective of a Hollywood executive with nearly 20 years’ experience professionally pitching and distributing film/TV projects, Mastering the Pitch reveals all the nuanced details of the pitching process.Readers will gain valuable insights into how the Hollywood system operates, improve their professional pitching skills and gain a competitive edge in getting their ideas from concept to greenlight. This book covers:how projects are packaged and...

Tailor your screenplay to sell. Find out what Hollywood script readers, producers, and studio executives want in a screenplay (and why) from someone who’s been there. Discover what it takes to begin a lasting career as a screenwriter.Peppered with interviews from established professionals, Writing for the Green Light: How to Make Your Script the One Hollywood Notices gives you a sharp competitive edge by showcasing dozens of everyday events that go on at the studios but ar...

In this second edition, author Scott Kirkpatrick draws from over a decade of personal experience in the distribution arena to provide a clear and up-to-date overview of the entire film, television, and new media distribution business.Readers will learn what fuels the distribution process and exactly how the distribution business works from beginning to end—not merely what happens to a film or television series upon acquisition, but how distributors develop, presell and broker deals...

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and t...

Story loves structure...and so do readers!Super Structure represents over two decades of research on what makes a novel or screenplay entertaining, commercial, original, and irresistible. Contrary to what some may think, structure is not a nasty inhibitor of creativity. Quite the opposite. Properly understood and utilized, structure is what translates story into a form readers are wired to receive it.And it is only when readers truly connect with your story...

A lifetime member of the Writer's Guild of America who has had three feature films produced from his screenplays, Akers offers beginning writers the tools they need to get their screenplay noticed.

Every award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on: Story and structure Ideas generation Plot and pace Screenplay format Dos and don'ts Eliciting emotion Dialogue and subtext Character design Protagonists and antagonists Character motivation and goals Conflict, obstacles and stakes Clichés and Stereotypes Beginnings, middles and ends Hooking the viewer Screenpl...

Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most inspiring books on screenwriting you'll ever read.Practical exercises will teach you the craft of writing for film and television, both mainstream and independent, the art of building your own plots, characters, dialogue and scenes. It gives you the skills you need to succeed and helps you critique your own work, meaning that at every step ...

This ultimate insider’s guide to selling a screenplay shows you how to crack open today’s movie and television markets.“An informative, engaging look at the inside of the dream factory. This is a terrific aid for screenwriters who are trying to gain insight into the Hollywood system.”—David Kirkpatrick, producer, former head of Paramount PicturesEverybody has a story to tell. Everybody wants to write the great American screenplay. But what ...

Conflict is the very heart and soul of drama, and Smith's latest work explores character conflict and the various ways to portray it both in scripts and on the stage.