This Business of Screenwriting: How to Protect Yourself As a Screenwriter

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Summary: Best book on this subject in print
Review: Do yourself a favor, READ THIS BOOK and forget all the junk telling you platitudes and wishful thinking and not hard, business reality, which is what we all need. I work in the business and I read scripts for almost 2 years and I've written 3 specs and I know stardust when it's being blown in my face. Not this book. This is the truth, like it or not, but it really tries to help you find a way into this closed club. Practical tips fill every page, conveyed in the clear, assured, tight prose of a working screenwriter-- with an easy, conversational style that probably came from all the teaching experience. About a third of the book covers the art of actually being a writer and surviving in Hollywood and crafting the kind of script that will attract industry attention, and the rest tells you how to protect your work (goes way beyond the register or copyright advice most books offer) in submission, all about agents and writing partners and the WGA and gives you a whole war chest of inside info that can really turn someone from a novice to a working writer. At least you'll know what the business is really all about. God, I'm sorry, but just flipping through the pages now, I have to tell you: I LOVE THIS BOOK!

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Summary: All You Need to Know for Surviving as a Screenwriter
Review: Wonderful book on the business of screenwriting, contains everything you need to know and then some. Tips on what pros look for in scripts they want to buy and sell, info on the business, points to make in the deal. Ron Suppa is a screenwriter, producer and teacher, and what he's learned can be transformed into valuable lessons for you. It's a great book for professional writers as well as beginners, to understand more of the process of selling not only your scripts but yourself in Hollywood.