Customer Reviews

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

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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)

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.

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!

It has been more than a year since someone gave me this book, asking me what I think of it. Now that I have read it, I wish I had waited another twenty or thirty years to read it.

Once again in this book the reader finds some pretty horrible advice regarding how to see manuscripts, mixed in with common sense advice that one would hope writers would have figured out by themselves if they have an average or higher intelligence.