Sell your book to hollywood

I found ken atchity, a producer who is totally in tune with both authors and movie production. Production companies are looking for ideas and if they like your concept, it is very easy for them to convert your book into a screenplay. Selling your books movie and tv rights what you need to know. Practice your movie pitch so you can convincingly sell your movie idea before going to the pitching session. When a friend told me she heard from a producer who wanted to turn her book into a hallmark channel movie, i went looking for information on how to sell your stor y to holl ywood. With input from our hollywood contacts, heres the 101 on how to get your book turned into a movie. So i think youd be much better off finishing your book and trying to sell it to a publisher as a book. How my novel carrie pilby became a netflix movie the atlantic. Submit your novel to contests like book pipeline that connect writers to producers. Writers pocket guide to the business of show business paperback october, 2016. The secret to selling your story idea to hollywood without. Youre going to spend a lot of time trying to market your book as a movie idea and its doubtful that itll ever pay off.

While hollywood has not yet made any of my books into a feature film. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sell your story to hollywood. How to sell your idea to hollywood, according to a producer. How to sell your book to hollywood angela breidenbach.

Buy the hollywood creative directory hcd, write a nice query letter and. How to secure, adapt, and sell bestselling books to hollywood. If you have a novel, you can sell your story to studios and networks while still retaining the rights of your book. In my experience, getting your book sold to hollywood is largely a fluke and not something you can really plan for. How to get your book turned into a movie selfpublishing. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. If you are seeing this message, then you do not have a browser capable of viewing this page. Tips it may also help if you write an autobiography of your life story as a book, which you can show as supporting material during your pitch. But that is because people dont realize that they are separate skills. Books are a completely different discipline to a movie script, in that they have interior voice, and this is where most adaptations fail. Through the expanding influence of the internet and the.

Many of the observations outlined in this book are simply about selling stories to hollywood. How to sell your story to movie producers our pastimes. This pocket guide will help you expedite the transformation of your. You dont need a screenplay to sell your story, all you need is a logline and a synopsis. Often, the process can be arduous and timeconsuming. This video outlines the pros and cons of how to sell your m. If filmmaking scares you, adapt your screenplay into a novel.

Getting your great idea on paper and getting it on screen are two totally different beasts. The secret to selling your story idea to hollywood without an agent. And of course continuing to write more novels, if thats your real passion and interest. How to turn your book into a hollywood movie youtube. If an idea was successful in one medium a book, a play, a comic, a movie. This webinar will illustrate the process for acquiring the rights to a best selling book, or a book that may have been overlooked, in order to package and sell it to in todays hypercompetitive hollywood marketplace. Hollywood is not going to tell you how to get noticed. Writers pocket guide to the business of show business. Your book gives you a distinct advantage as the story is already laid out and ready to develop. So i think youd be much better off finishing your book and trying to sell it to a. Besides, selling your script plus selling the rights to your book turns jack from a dull boy into a happy camper with a fat bank account.