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For Immediate Release
Contact: Claudia Sloan
(310) 203-3837
Tallfellow@pacbell.net

So You Want To Write A Movie? Read This Book First!
 

Los Angeles, CA, May, 2006 -- Forty-eight top film and TV writers tell the real story about making it in the entertainment business…and it isn’t always pretty. Doing It For Money - The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood (Tallfellow Press, ISBN 1-931290-58-X, $24.95, 288p, Hardcover, May) offers personal essays and behind-the-scenes tips that will either scare you away forever or confirm that you were meant to be a writer.

To receive a review copy, schedule interviews with contributors or for further information contact: Claudia Sloan at 310 203-3837 or Tallfellow@pacbell.net

Should your life be threatened? (page 215) Should you be completely ignored? (page 186) Or how about living your childhood dream? (page 242) Be forewarned…they are all possible…and all true.

Published in conjunction with the Writers Guild Foundation, Doing It includes five writers who were recently named on The Writers Guild of America’s 101 Greatest Screenplays of all Time. They are: Marc Norman – Shakespeare In Love (#28); Ted Tally – Silence of the Lambs (#61); Phil Alden Robinson – Field of Dreams (#88); Joseph Stefano – Psycho (#92) and Frank Darabont – The Shawshank Redemption (#22), who contributed a quote for the back cover of the book (he liked it!).

Other contributors include Stephen Gaghan (Syriana, Traffic), Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean, Shrek), Leslie Dixon (The Thomas Crown Affair, Mrs. Doubtfire), John Sacret Young (The West Wing, China Beach) and many more. To see the book cover and for a complete list of the contributors, their credits and notable quotes from the book click here.
 
Doing It For Money, edited by Daryl G. Nickens, also features Insider Secrets (of the Hollywood Pros) on making it in the cutthroat entertainment industry.

About the editor: Daryl G. Nickens is a former chair of the graduate screenwriting program at AFI, and still teaches there and at USC. An Emmy, WGA and Humanitas Prize nominated screenwriter, he works in film, television and animation.

Doing It For Money - The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood
Tallfellow Press, Los Angeles
May 2006
ISBN 1-931290-58-X, $24.95, 288p
www.Tallfellow.com