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Do novelists get more for successful adaptations?
When a novel is adapted into a film or television series, how does compensation to the writer of the original novel work?
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Writing from theme
“Theme” is a word screenwriters use without defining it clearly, but here’s a good way to think about it.
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How I Became a Famous Novelist
Steve Hely’s book is fast, funny, and will likely become the next movie I write and direct
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Selling novel rights
Steps a publisher can take to offer up properties to moviemakers.
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Glossary
ACT A collection of scenes forming one of the main sections of a script. In stage plays and teleplays, acts are explicitly indicated in the script (e.g. "End of Act One"); in features, they are not. One-hour TV dramas are usually broken into four acts, plus a teaser, coinciding with commercial breaks. Half-hour sitcoms fall into [...]
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Setting up a project without having the underlying book rights
If there’s a book you can’t afford to option yourself, it’s worth trying to get someone to option it for you.
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