This business of screenwriting
Subtitle: how to protect yourself as a screenwriter
By: Ron Suppa.
Publisher: Lone Eagle Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Motion picture authorship.; Television authorship.
Description: "This Business of Screenwriting is intended as a survival guide to help aspiring and experienced writers alike through that crucial stage where art meets business. Calling on his years of experience as both a buyer and seller of screenplays, Ron Suppa conveys a taste of what the real world of professional screenwriting is like, and thus helps the reader compete on an insider level in that world.

Practical tips on preparing for a writer's life, crafting a marketable screenplay, launching a screenwriting career, writing for television, and the use of screenwriter tools such as treatments, pitches, spec screenplays and adaptations blend seamlessly with chapters on protecting your work, representation, the marketplace, deal-making, and much more."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183).