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Dear Writers,

It's been a pleasure to answer your question in this Q and A.

Let me know if you need any further help in the area of scripts.

You can always contact me at peterdavidmyers@gmail.com.

My services are:

Analysis---2-3 page synopses $75.00

---10-20 page treatments $150.00

---full scripts $250.00

Consulting is $50.00/hour charged against a retainer fee.

subjects for consulting: How do I get representation formy writing? How do I get started in screenwriting?How do I meet producers, directors and stars? etc.

Testimonials from my screenwriter clients can be viewed at:

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Happy writing!

Best,

Peter Myers

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Q&A with Black Rose Writing Publisher Reagan Rothe

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Q&A with Black Rose Writing Publisher Reagan Rothe

Who is Reagan Rothe?

Reagan Rothe is a small-scale successful author and the creator of Black Rose Writing.

Black Rose Writing is an independent publishing house that doesn't guarantee endless money spent on promotion or false hopes, we work with our authors and develop a personal relationship. Owned by Reagan Rothe, a small-scale successful author, we have the experience from the author's view, knowing the trials and tribulations. We understand the rejection, frustration, and stress marketing and promoting a novel can be. We will do whatever we can within budget for our authors, as they reach success, so do we.


We are a Print-on-demand publishing house. We are currently seeking most genre fiction and either war, how-to, or biography non-fiction. Reagan Rothe is the author of Dreams and Baseball, Give Wings to My Triumph, and the Misanthropy series.

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Join Us! Q&A with Writer/Producer and Script Analyst Peter Myers

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Peter Myers

Who is Peter Myers?

Producer:

In partnership with New York Film Group, Peter is producing the theatrical feature, VENGEANCE, from his own script. Principal photography: Winter 2008/2009. Director attached: Vahe Babaian, (After Freedom, winner, Audience Award, Method Fest). Budget $5 million. Distributor letter-of-interest: Artist View Entertainment. Seed money has been raised. Casting of major roles in progress.

Peter co-executive-produced "SPEAK TO THE WORLD," a pilot for an interview show for cable television. He also co-produced and co-wrote "DOUBLE CROSS," a half-hour suspense drama for cable, which was offered a worldwide distribution deal within a month of its completion.
Additionally, Peter was a founding partner and Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs of BlueSky Pictures, an Anglo-Dutch film company which, in concert with Creative Artists Agency, in Los Angeles, developed a motion picture package with Antonio Banderas attached to star, and Michael Cristofer attached to direct.

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Q&A with Writer/Producer and Script Analyst Peter Myers

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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April 3-30, 2009
"In & Out: Writing Believable Conflict"
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This workshop focuses on the art and craft of creating realistic, believable conflict for your character, both internal and external, and on weaving those conflict together in ways that are fresh, exciting, and powerful enough to catch an editor's eye. Topics include:

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* Applying conflict to each scene you write
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Sherry Lewis is a career writer with more than 30 published mystery, contemporary romance, and time travel romance novels to her credit. She loves sharing what she has learned since selling her first book fifteen years ago, and has given workshops all over the country. Sherry has also taught online workshops for several years.

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Interested in writing for magazines? Learn the process of creating an article, from coming up with an idea to how to sell that idea to a magazine and write your finished piece. This class will tear apart real examples of successful queries and their subsequent published articles see what worked, and what didn't work, and why. Topics include:

* Why fiction writers should also write for magazines
* Choosing the right magazine and editor to query
* Topics, research, angles, titles and hooks
* The knock-out magazine query letter
* How to get quotes & statistics and fact check
* Writing the article; sidebars and photography
* Word count, deadlines, contracts and invoicing
* Creating a portfolio and finding your niche

Julie Rowe has been freelancing for magazines for over five years. She's an enthusiastic instructor who enjoys lively discussion and encourages questions. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines such as Today's Parent magazine, Reader's Digest (Canada), The Canadian Writer's Journal, Writer's Digest, Canadian Living, What's Up Kids Magazine, the Romance Writer's Report and various RWA chapter newsletters.

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Best known for getting her clients chosen as two out of the total seven picks for the Kelly Ripa Book Club, Theresa Meyers spent over ten years working in public relations, garnering millions of dollars in media coverage for her clients, before she launched Blue Moon Communications. A former journalist and magazine columnist, she now focuses on strategic planning for her clients, media training and author branded media campaigns. Find her online at www.bluemooncommunications.com

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Remember Barry Eisler; For Readers

Remember Barry Eisler?

We did a SHALLA CHATS with him over at SHALLA Magazine several months ago.

Well, now he's got a new book!


Hi all,






Just wanted to let you know that Fault Line, my first standalone thriller, hits stores today.

I'll be on the road for the rest of the month promoting it, so if you find yourself in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Los Angeles (Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, LA), San Diego, Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto and San Mateo), Houston, Indianapolis (Carmel), Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Washington DC (Bethesda and Baileys Crossroads), or New York City, stop by and say hello!

--Barry Eisler

Insider’s Look at Publishing the Rain Series

SHALLA CHATS with NY Times Best Selling author,

BarryEisler

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Mystery Writing: Keep Your Audience Intoxicated

by Patrick Davis

A mystery, a compelling love story, a darkened enigma, and fragments of the past are elements of secrets. Secrets are powerful. Gossip is devious. A dark secret whispered through gossiping lips unleashes its intoxicating spell that will, for the moment, seize the hearers. Gossip, as powerful as it is, buys the attention of those listening. But if you harness the intoxicating power of secrets that reside within the pages of a captivating story, you have the potential of buying yourself the attention of the vast, book-reading population.

Blending your secret in with the story's setting

If you are thinking of writing of mystery novel but are not sure how, this is what you may want to consider. Within the opening pages of your novel, introduce your readers to a captivating secret. Allow this "hidden incident" be a fragment of a love story from another era. This will quickly lure your audience to read more. Or your secret may be an old discarded tool, but later discovered that it was a murder weapon. Or perhaps, there's something recorded within the pages of a diary containing a secret about someone else. Or suppose the diary belonged to a young lady during the Victorian era who knew of a secret romance that was forbidden. Perhaps this secret romance involved someone who was dear to her. And perhaps the author of the diary had no strength to destroy her personal journal; and it was too painful for her to keep it. So she entombed it within a secret hold residing in her lavished home with hopes that no one would ever find it.

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Get Your Novel Published Now by Shalla DeGuzman

Get Your Novel Published Now

by Shalla DeGuzman



So, you’re editing and polishing your novel with hopes of getting it published? There are many different steps you can take to get there, here’s one way that works more times than not:

1. Edit Your Novel You can hire a Freelance Editor to check your manuscript for you but this costs $$$. Last time I checked it’s about $1-$5 per page. Or you can read books such as: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne, Dave King and edit your novel yourself. It’s a great book, recommended by many Literary Agents

2. And what has worked well for me—Listen to Good Books-on-Tape. Listen to the way the words are put together into sentences. Listen to the rhythm, the smoothness of the sentences then record yourself reading your novel. Does it also sound smooth? Does it read well? Does it have a good rhythm to it?

3. Spell Check It If you’re using Microsoft Word 2007, make sure to proof your document using Spell Check and Grammar Check. Click on the Review tab and select Spell Check and Grammar.

4. Write a Query Letter This is the one-page letter you will send to a Literary Agent or an Editor, selling your book.

5. Querying a Literary Agent If you decide your novel is best represented by a Literary Agent, check the free lists of agents at Preditors and Editors and Agent Query. Find them at: http://shalladeguzman.com/ShallaAgentList.php

6. Querying an Editor Attend writers conferences where you can meet acquisition editors looking for novels to publish. For a list of writers conferences, check http://writing.shawguides.com/

You can also go to a publishing house’s website and find out what they are looking for and what their submission guidelines are. For example: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/daw/submissions.html
http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/avon/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx

Good luck! To your highly successful future as a published novelist!

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