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  • Dialogue

    The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen

    by Robert McKee ...
    The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling.Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his singular book, Story, which has defined how we talk about the art of story creation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Write Dazzling Dialogue

    The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript

    Series Book 5 - Bell's Knockout Fiction Series
    There is one sure-fire way of improving your novel fast ...You may know the fundamentals of how to write fiction. You may be more than competent in plot, structure and characters. But if your dialogue is dull it will drag the whole story down.On the other hand, if your dialogue is crisp and full of tension it immediately grabs the reader. And if that reader is an agent or editor, sharp dialogue ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Genres

    How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works

    by John Truby ...
    A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story, John Truby.Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren’t just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and books that people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III

    by George Lucas ...
    Series Book 3 - Star Wars - Legends
    EPISODE III–THE ONE AND ONLY OFFICIAL SCREENPLAY, available exclusively in ebook format, including scenes that did not appear in the movie itself!This is the complete, final screenplay written by George Lucas, as brought to life before the cameras by a stellar cast of performers and an unparalleled team of special effects wizards.Enjoy a rare and fascinating director’s-eye-view of all the action, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Writing Short Films

    Structure and Content for Screenwriters

    This new edition has been completely updated and revised along with the addition of several new chapters. Currently, this title remains the best selling university text book on writing short film screenplays. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement threatens to engulf the town.Three Billboards Outside ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Comedy Bible

    From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide

    by Judy Carter ...
    Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career.Do you think you’re funny? Do you want to turn your sense of humor into a career? If the answer is yes, then Judy Carter’s The Comedy Bible is for you. The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • H.G. Wells: Masterpieces

    The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Food of the Gods... (Bauer Classics)

    Series Book 42 - The Greatest Collection
    Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction".During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies

    The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told

    by Blake Snyder ...
    In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "Save the Cat!," author and screenwriter Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-up that proves why his is the most talked-about approach to screenwriting in years. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Science of Storytelling

    Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

    by Will Storr ...
    The compelling, groundbreaking guide to creative writing that reveals how the brain responds to storytellingStories shape who we are. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions and mold our beliefs. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. So, how do master storytellers compel us? In The Science of Storytelling, award-winning writer and acclaimed teacher of creative writing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Craft of Character: How to Create Deep and Engaging Characters Your Audience Will Never Forget

    Screenplay and fiction writing books

    by M Boutros ...
    “The most complete and comprehensive guide to character I've ever read." - Adam CroftCharacter is at the heart of every story. We love stories because we fall in love with characters, we want to see what happens to them and we want to see them experience hope and despair. Yet a lot of storytelling books focus on structure and plot, when those things are worthless without a character an audience ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Fifty Pages

    The Art and Craft of Unforgettable Endings

    “The first page of a book sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” –– Mickey SpillaneWhat are the secrets for writing a great ending for your novel? How do you leave readers so satisfied that they'll want another book by you—right now? What tools and techniques can shape your last fifty pages into a powerful, unforgettable experience?In this book, International Thriller Writers Award ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Kiss Me Like A Stranger

    My Search for Love and Art

    by Gene Wilder ...
    In this personal book from the star of many beloved and classic film comedies -- from The Producers to Young Frankenstein, Blazing saddles to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- Gene Wilder writes about a side of his life the public hasn't seen on the screen. Kiss Me Like a Stranger is not an autobiography in the usual sense of the word, and it's certainly not another celebrity "tell-all." ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rapid Story Development #5: The Moral Premise—How to Build a Bulletproof Narrative Engine for Any Story

    Rapid Story Development, #5

    by Jeff Lyons ...
    Series Book 5 - Rapid Story Development
    All the story experts talk about it. Screenwriters, novelists, short story writers—everyone—speaks about the importance of writing stories with a moral core, having characters who are flawed, creating heroes and heroines with relatable human foibles. But few if any of these experts talk about how to pull these things off in practice. The fact is, stories that lack a moral premise deliver flat, one ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inglourious Basterds

    A Screenplay

    From the most original and beloved screenwriter of his generation, the complete Oscar-nominated screenplay of Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglorious Basterds.From the brilliant writer/director behind the iconic films Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, comes Tarantino's most ambitious movie: a World War II epic starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Anatomía del guión

    El arte de narrar en 22 pasos

    by John Truby ...
    Translated by Elena Vilallonga ...
    Basado en las clases magistrales de John Truby, Anatomía del guión aborda conceptos y arquetipos extraídos de la filosofía y la mitología para transformarlos en una técnica actualizada para la redacción de guiones cinematográficos de gran profundidad narrativa. El método de Truby es tan brillante como práctico. Su desarrollo se fundamenta en el crecimiento emocional y moral de sus protagonistas, y ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles

    by Thomas Hardy ...
    Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Easy Riders Raging Bulls

    How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Save

    by Peter Biskind ...
    In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How Not to Make a Short Film

    Secrets from a Sundance Programmer

    Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?Wrong.Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about how not to make a short film. From the first draft of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Essential Screenplay (3-Book Bundle)

    Screenplay: Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenwriter's Workbook, and Screenwriter's Problem Solver

    by Syd Field ...
    Hollywood’s script guru teaches you how to write a screenplay in the ultimate three-volume guide to writing for film, featuring “the ‘bible’ of screenwriting” (The New York Times), Screenplay—now celebrating forty years of screenwriting success!This blockbuster ebook bundle includes:SCREENPLAY: FOUNDATIONS OF SCREENWRITING • THE SCREENWRITER’S WORKBOOK • THE SCREENWRITER’S PROBLEM SOLVERSyd Field ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Don Quixote

    Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote’s fancy often leads him astray — he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants — Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 10 pasos para escribir un guion para animación

    by Mospcorp ...
    Series Book 1 - Cómo crear animaciones en el mundo libre
    10 pasos para escribir un guion para animación ofrece el conocimiento necesario para ir desde la idea hasta un guion completo, bien escrito y con el formato apropiado. Siguiendo los ejercicios y consejos de este libro se logrará escribir un guion sólido y listo para producir.10 pasos para escribir un guion para animación está dividido en tres partes para familiarizar nuevos escritores con las ... Read more

    $2.92 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Not To Write Female Characters

    by Lucy V. Hay ...
    Female characters. When fifty per cent of your potential target audience is female, if you're not writing them in your screenplay or novel? You're making a BIG mistake!But how should you approach your female characters? That's the million dollar question … After all, women in real life are complex, varied and flawed. Knowing where to start in creating three dimensional female characters for your ... Read more

    Free

  • Writing Television Sitcoms (revised)

    by Evan S. Smith ...
    This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured - How to recognize changes in taste and censorship - The reality of reality television - How the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD