About

Author, editor, speaker, teacher, writer, and friend. Burbank.

Almost fifty books under his own name: four editions of the Writer’s Guide to Hollywood, four of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Screenwriting (including Russian), How To Write What You Want & Sell What You Write, and This Is My Song with Patti Page.

I help people find the theme of anything they are writing and build their story to a satisfying whole that is marketable.

He edited and sold The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing & Design. He co-founded Ask A Screenwriter on Quora (600,000 followers). He estimates his books and courses have helped half a million writers. Current serial: Chasing Mark Twain on Substack.

He sold radio, TV, and feature scripts, was Hollywood correspondent for Boys’ Life, staff writer on Algo’s Factory (UPN), and taught an online screenwriting course that reached about 1,500 schools. Silver Medal at the New York International Film Festival.

Sources: skippress.com · linktr.ee/skippress