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Selling Your Screenplay Tips

How to option your screenplay using email and fax blasts

January 4, 2012

I recently optioned my baseball screenplay (co-written with Nathan Ives), The Unnatural, to Andrew Lauren Productions. You can read the announcement here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/squid-whale-producer-options-baseball-267184. A few people have asked me how I was able to get this option. I used exactly the methods I describe in the post How to Sell Your Screenplay (in a nutshell). [...]

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Screenwriting and salt and vinegar potato chips

September 16, 2009

When I was in 7th grade I used to eat salt and vinegar potato chips.  They were new on the market and no one else was eating them.   When I shared them most of the people thought they were disgusting. One day the coolest kid in the class, Craig, brought salt and vinegar potato chips [...]

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