You may be sitting on a huge source of income and not realize it. The adaptation of articles and books to TV and film is a lucrative and healthy market. Many television projects and award-winning feature films are based on true stories.

 

You'll learn about some successful nonfiction adaptations, the art of adaptation, and how writers can protect themselves when pitching their work for TV and film development. This is your opportunity to create more writing work for yourself and be paid as a producer as well.

 

You will also be given the opportunity to pitch a story and the presentation will be commented upon for the benefit of all. This course multiplies your potential revenue streams and emphasizes communication skills vital to selling.

How to Become a Successful Television Producer – Los Angeles (Seminar on January 29)

How to Get a Literary Agent – Los Angeles (Seminar on December 15)

Brad Schreiber is the author of What Are You Laughing At?: How to Write Funny Screenplays, Stories and More (Michael Wiese) and four other books. He's been an arts and culture journalist for Entertainment Today since 1995 and he has also written for Daily Variety, Huffington Post, and has won awards from the National Press Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, the California Writers Club and other organizations. Brad is Vice President of Storytech Literary Consulting, founded by Christopher Vogler, and teaches at writers' conferences in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He created the Court TV series North Mission Road, inspired by his book on the L.A. Coroner, Death in Paradise. In the past, Schreiber has been a writer-producer and executive for KCET-TV (PBS) and head of development for film/TV director Jonathan Kaplan. He has also written for the stage, radio, television, magazines, Web sites, and once had to write for a national phone line called Dial-An-Insult but is not particularly proud of that.

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