Publisher's Synopsis
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 maketable screenplay, launching a screenwriting career, writing for television, and the use of screenwriter tools such as treatments, pitches, spec screen plays and adaptations, the marketplace, deal-making and much more.
