Screenwriting techniques

Writing the Romantic Comedy is so much fun to read it could pop a champagne cork.

Get Started in Film Making is the essential guide for all budding film makers, empowering and inspiring anyone to unleash their creative side.

A woman for all seasons, tender and tough in just the right proportions The New York TimesTwo classic collections of uproarious essays from the late Nora Ephron, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing.

From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia) to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron was one of the most gifted, prolific and versatile writers of our time.

Rob Ryder made that pledge to his wife, and he was determined to stick to it.

Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards.

The first major biography (since 1983) of the great movie mogul George Lucas, whose marketing techniques have transformed the film business.

A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.

This guide is for anyone who has ever thought of screenwriting.

Comedy is serious business - and serious money.

Designed for people who want to tell a story their way, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Indpendent Filmmaking explains everything a budding auteur needs to know, from literary development and financial and organizational pre-production to principal photography production, post-production assembly, exhibition and distribution, and more.