October 20 – 23, 2022

Pasadena, CA

Everybody Says My Book Should Be a Movie

It’s the number 1 thing I hear from book writers all around the world. But most are wrong.

This class covers ways to know if your book could or should actually be a film or TV series, how to look at your book in a new way, how Hollywood will look at your story, and the principles of adapting it into a script. We’ll cover the biggest mistakes and misconceptions novelists have about adapting, screenwriting and Hollywood. And using examples of books that have been turned into films, we’ll look at the difference between them on the page.