![]() ![]() So I think you’d be much better off finishing your book and trying to sell it to a publisher as a book. You’re going to spend a lot of time trying to market your book as a movie idea and it’s doubtful that it’ll ever pay off. My general advice is if you want to be a novelist spend your time writing great novels and worry about selling the movie rights later on once you’re an established writer. I know nothing about your story so I have no idea if the 12 months is firm, but think about this before you spend a lot of time making lots of submissions.Īlso, I want to be clear that I’m not recommending this as a course of action. Things move far too slowly and any seasoned producer is going to realize that. ![]() Then the producer has to hire a screenwriter, get a script written and polished, (probably at least 6 months) and then they’ve got to get the script to market or raise funds independently – all in less than 3 months! No producer is going to spend their time and money on a project if the story really does expire in 12 months. By the time you send your query letters, get a few responses back, send the book to a producer, he reads it, loves it, and gets back to you you’ll be lucky if three months haven’t elapsed. There’s virtually no chance that it’ll get made within the next 12 months (I’m sorry to say) so if your story has a firm expiration date of 12 months from now you may want to rethink your strategy. One big worry I would have is the 12 months you mention as the time frame that it needs to get made. But I’ve personally never tried this so I’m not really sure what sort of overall response rate you’ll get. I know that there are lot of producers out there looking for compelling stories and hiring a competent screenwriter to turn a book into a screenplay isn’t hard for a good producer. I’ve never tried this but if your story really is very compelling and timely I think it could work. ![]() You’ll want to make it clear that you are not a screenwriter and that you’re looking for a producer to hire a screenwriter to turn it into a screenplay. You’ll make it absolutely 100% crystal clear that you do NOT have a screenplay written and want to submit your story in book format. The only alteration you’ll make is in your query letter. Make sure your query letter and synopsis are concise, well written, and compelling. Just open up the HCD and start submitting. You’re going to be submitting to all the same production companies that every other screenwriter is submitting to, which is to say all of them. Buy The Hollywood Creative Directory (HCD), write a nice query letter and synopsis, and start submitting (hundreds of submissions is what’s going to be needed – literally!). You’re going to submit exactly the way I describe. Then, I would read my Selling Your Screenplay (in a nutshell) post, if you haven’t already done so, and start submitting using those guidelines. You must have something polished, clean and professional to submit. They may help.Īre there any agents out there that will look at a treatment?įirst, you need to finish and polish your book. Who would I be sending my query letters to – since I am incapable of writing a screenplay and it is going to be in book format?” Let’s say it is so timely – super timely – that it should really be in screenplay format because it should really be made into a movie in the next 12 months given its topic – let’s say all of that was really true and agreed upon by those in the business and not just those in my head – Let’s say that the book I am almost done with ( short one – maybe 200 pgs ) is truly good. ![]()
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