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The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out!

The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out!
By Susan Kouguell

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Excellent advice from a former studio reader.

Product Description

The Savvy Screenwriter demystifies the film industry and reveals what aspiring screenwriters really want and need to know.  From finding and working with agents, to insights about story analysts and movie executives, to understanding option agreements, to providing samples for queries, synopses, treatments, loglines, and outlines, to pitching, Susan Kouguell knows what works and what doesn’t, and gives practical advice on getting your screenplay sold.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #452617 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-06-13
  • Released on: 2006-06-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 288 pages

Editorial Reviews

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"Her thesis - that savvy screenwriters will do better than ignorant or misinformed ones - shines." -- Creative Screenwriting Magazine

"Kougell explains a difficult and perplexing process in language writers can understand." -- New York Screenwriter Monthly

"Kouguell's blunt and honest approach provides a sobering, insightful guide to the realities of the marketplace." -- Scr(i)pt Magazine's E-Zine

"The book is concise, well structured, objective - and a bit humbling." -- MovieMaker Magazine

"This much needed book is both extremely informative and surprisingly readable." -- Ira Deutchman, President, Redeemable Features

"[Kougell] . . . has quite possibly written the most comprehensive new book you will read this year." -- newenglandfilm.com

“If you make your living as a screenwriter (or simply hope to!) you need this book. -- Dan Brown, National best-selling author of 'Digital Fortress' and 'Angels and Demons'

“The Savvy Screenwriter is a remarkably comprehensive, enjoyably irreverent and practical guide to the realities of the film marketplace. -- Jeremy Pikser, Academy Award nominee for Best Screenplay \223Bulworth\2

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“A remarkably comprehensive, enjoyably irreverent, and practical guide to the realities of the film marketplace.  ”
-Jeremy Pikser, Academy Award® Nominee for Best Screenplay, “Bullworth”
 
“Kouguell’s blunt and honest approach provides a sobering, insightful guide to the realities of the marketplace.
            -Scr(i)pt Magazine
 
“A savvy book by a savvy writer and educator, written with clarity and wit, providing worthy insights into the diverse challenges confronting screenwriters…truly a worthy new contribution to the literature.”
-Richard Walter, UCLA Screenwriting Chairman
 
“With a sense of humor and intimate knowledge of how the system works, Kouguell explains a difficult and perplexing process in language writers can understand.”
            -Screenwriter Magazine

About the Author

Susan Kouguell is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, and associate producer.  As chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, she works as a screenplay and post-production consultant with a client base of more than 1,000 writers, filmmakers, production companies, agents, and studios including Miramax, Warner Bros., and Fine Line Features.  Kouguell teaches at Tufts University and Screenwriters Online, and presents screenwriting seminars nationwide.  Her website: www.su-city-pictures.com.