01/12/2011
Sunday Jan 16th, 2011, at the Writer's Room on Pico
Join us for, "5 Essentials to Great Scripts."
You'll learn:
* What Quentin Tarantino ALWAYS delivers that you MUST too.
* What Diablo Cody does that makes characters real.
* What Christopher Nolan uses in Inception that makes the audience want more.
* What PIXAR does every single time that has earned them billions of dollars.
2 Hour Screenwriting & Development Workshop: 5 Essentials to Making Stories That Sell
Join us for, "5 Essentials to Great Scripts." You'll learn: What Quentin Tarantino ALWAYS delivers that you MUST too. What Diablo Cody does that makes characters real. What Christopher Nolan uses in Inception that makes the audience want more. What PIXAR does every single time that has earned the
11/18/2010
Amazon adds "The Biz" to its wish list. Pledging $2.7 million for screenwriters & filmmakers. The first deadline is Jan 31st 2011. Get it done!
Amazon Media Room: News Release
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today launched Amazon Studios (http://studios.amazon.com), a new online business that invites filmmakers and screenwriters around the world to submit full-length movies and scripts to make money, get discovered and get their movie made. Through
10/29/2010
Blurb, a Self-Publisher, Sets Pop-Up Store in SoHo
Based in San Francisco, Blurb hopes to show that its customers’ books don’t look like something made at camp.
10/29/2010
The deadline for the 2011 Beatrice Hawley Award is December 1st, 2010. Previous recipients include Reginald Dwayne Betts.
Beatrice Hawley Award
10/26/2010
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes in the 21st century. Premiere episode on KCET this Sunday.
Masterpiece | Sherlock: Series I | PBS
Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman, The Office UK) is back in modern-day London after serving in the war in Afghanistan. His therapist, convinced that Watson is plagued by violent memories, urges him to express himself in a blog. But nothing much ever happens to Watson, and it's not that he's haunted b
10/24/2010
Free tickets for AFI Fest November 4 -11
Full schedule available October 25
AFI FEST 2010
AFI FEST 2010
10/24/2010
The author & illustrator of " Jimi Sounds Like A Rainbow" discuss the inspiration behind this engaging children's book. We've added it to our holiday shopping list.
Jimi Sounds Like A Rainbow: Hendrix For Kids : NPR
The guitarist's story is know to many adult fans. But now, the story of young Jimi Hendrix's is now told in a new children's book by author Gary Golio and illustrator Javaka Steptoe, called "Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix."
10/22/2010
Basquiat's Paris dream comes true – 22 years too late for him.
Basquiat's Paris dream comes true – 22 years too late for him - Europe, World -
At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat's short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream – to stage a major exhibit of his eye-popping, doodle-covered work in Paris.
10/18/2010
Grandma, what’s an independent bookstore?
Amazon's iPhone bar code scanner takes impulse buying to a new level | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews
Amazon Mobile for iPhone now has a bar code scanner that lets you see, scan, and buy products on the spot. Read this blog post by Jessica Dolcourt on iPhone Atlas.
10/18/2010
3D mania comes to publishing.
» Next Up for 3-D Upgrade: Vintage Sci-Fi Novels
It's not just movies like The Phantom Menace and Titanic that will be getting a 3-D upgrade in the near future. Five classic sci-fi novels will be reissued with
10/17/2010
http://www.pw.org/content/201011_moseley_fellow_in_creative_writing?destination=joblistings
2010-11 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing | Poets & Writers
The English Department of Pomona College in Claremont, California, seeks a novelist who enjoys a national reputation and has teaching experience to present an advanced fiction workshop in spring 2010; the fellowship award is $20,000. Previous Moseley Fellows include Janet Fitch, Salvador Carrasco, ...
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