1 i:.' r WATKINS INSTITUTE UBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.0rg/details/howtowriteithowtOOOOpalm Palmer, Linda Film PN How to write it, how 1996 .P265 to sell it 1998 771.4 Pal C.2 ^ow to Write It, How to Sell It WATKJNs (Nsim/re LIBRARY other books by Linda Palmer Runaway! (as Linda Weintraub) Starstruck ^ow to Write It, How to Sell It Everything a Screenwriter Needs to Know about Hoiiywood LINDA PALMER St. Martin’s Griffin New York WATKINS INSTITUTE UBRARY P /^y A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK. An imprint of St. Martin’s Press. HOW TO WRITE IT, HOW TO SELL IT. Copyright © 1998 by Linda Palmer. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. Production Editor: David Stanford Burr Design: Nancy Resnick Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Palmer, Linda. How to write it, how to sell it: everything a screenwriter needs to know about Hollywood / Linda Palmer. — 1st ed. p. cm. “A Thomas Dunne book.” Includes bibliographical references. 1. Motion picture authorship. 2. Motion picture plays—Marketing. 1. Title. ISBN 0-312-18726-2 PN1996.P265 1998 808.2'3—dc21 98-11782 CIP First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: June 1998 10 987654321 WATCNS INSTTTUl^ UBRARY This book is dedicated to D. Constantine Conte and Mira Waters /. ‘ ,w n . ■' *’ a ■ ,i:- ■ •*!’:. ■'') * h f «QRMk ' V'.' I.M""■ I ■ •'» I Ilf- *»«(| • ~ • ■'. f>i :-r *,• **'.’ " ' •it'll . ^ 1 k 'I* • 1.» ■ - i.' , ' ’ ,ii'i >Tf . i I t- • 4 .1 . i