How to Write What You Want & Sell What You Write is one of two books Skip Press has written for writers. He has recently completed the Writers Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors and Screenwriting Agents. His class in the UCLA Extension Writers Program has given his students a high success rate in selling their own works.
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A full-time writer who has "sold darn near every type of writing that exists," Press has named his "one stop" writing manual after an extension course he taught at UCLA. The manual is intended to be an "everything-you-need-to-know" book, covering all the major bases but none in great detail. Press admits that to start his career, "I wasn't picky about what I was paid to write," and this approach permeates the book, making the last half of its title more accurate than the first. However, the author is never dogmatic and names exceptions who succeeded. Covered topics include writing query letters; fiction from short stories to genre novels; stage and screen plays; greeting cards; writing for television and radio; business, advertising, public relations; and the emerging markets in online and multimedia writing. The book will be of interest to public libraries and some academic libraries as a companion to The Writer's Market.?Nancy Shires, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, N.C.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From technical writing to producing screenplays, this focuses on plotting a profitable and creatively satisfying writing career, revealing how writers can network and use business resources to create and foster writing efforts. An excellent writer's guide which tells how to blend personal with economic objectives. -- Midwest Book Review
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Skip Press (www.skippress.com) has edited a Hollywood entertainment magazine, produced and directed plays, made instructional videos, sold feature film scripts, served as the Hollywood correspondent for Boys Life, been a staff writer for a UPN kids show, published young adult novels and non-fiction series like Star Families, and taught an online screenwriting course that was available in 1,500 schools. He has published almost 40 books, including four editions of Writer's Guides to Hollywood, four editions of the Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting (including one in Russian). He had three books come out in 2009 including This Is My Song: A Memoir, by Patti Page with Skip Press. His most recent book (2010) is the Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Craigslist. His most recent screenplay consultation resulted in a director getting his first feature film deal with The Bubble Factory in Los Angeles. His first how-to writing book, How To Write What You Want & Sell What You Write, has been selling steadily for almost two decades. The latest version from Fall River Books comes out in the summer of 2011. Many of the books he ghost-writes and edits have hit #1 in their category on Amazon, such at the Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing & Design, which stays at or around #1 (Press sold the book and edited it).
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Pragmatic advice by someone who's been there.,
By fleetpublishing@home.com (San Diego, California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Write What You Want and Sell What You Write: A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Everything from Ads to Zingers in the Proper Professional (Paperback)
This turned out to be a helpful book by a guy who's been through the routine. Good, pragmatic advice. I was impressed that Skip Press had studied with John Truby, one of the best story structure teachers I've ever met. Skip, if you read this, I have a question regarding genres. How would you type Kurt Vonnegut or Tom Robbins or Ayn Rand? How would you pitch one of their stories? Charles Holloway (fleetpublishing@home.com)
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent.,
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This review is from: How to Write What You Want and Sell What You Write: A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Everything from Ads to Zingers in the Proper Professional (Paperback)
Skip Press has written a book that not only covers all types of writing (screenplays, non-fiction, novels, TV, freelance, etc.), but he does it in a very engaging, easy-going way. And he's not touchy-feely. Just good, sound, solid advice on what you can expect. You'll read it in one sitting, then you'll keep coming back to it. I've already read it three times.
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By Valmont Tassin "The Kirbster" (MS USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Write What You Want and Sell What You Write: A Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Everything from Ads to Zingers in the Proper Professional (Paperback)
I received this Skip Press book for Christmas. What happened to my Amazon Wishlist???!!! No wonder Skip's writing books about writing books; my cliche meter broke after page two. It's as if the breakfast cook for the catering company that worked for the production company that helped film Saving Private Ryan piggybacked off that job to hype some product. New writers, struggling writers: there are much better books out there about writing. Don't bite on this one!
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