Story Structure For TV Spec and Pilot Scripts (On sale from $30.95 to $15.95)         


Gearing Up For Staffing and Development Season (On sale from $24.95 to $12.95)


10% of the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders and Breast Cancer Research

One of the products you'll find on my new store page is particularly exciting. You can now pre-order my book STORY LINE: FINDING GOLD IN YOUR LIFE STORY for 34% off the retail price. The book will be out in March 2011 and you can learn more about it by watching this video promo:





ADVANCE BLURBS FOR STORY LINE
"I would recommend this book to any writer - experienced or new to the craft - who wants to learn how to deepen characters' emotions and raise dramatic stakes. Jen has a way of getting to the heart of the matter - the emotional truth of any story - and laying it bare."
- Vanessa Taylor, television and screenwriter, Tell Me You Love Me, Jack & Bobby, Everwood, Alias, Gideon's Crossing, Cupid

"This book teaches you exactly how to get to the heart of great writing - with a great story. Then it shows you not only where that story is going to come from - within - but also how to pull it out and put it on the page. Clear, concise, and not like any other book out there, it'll make you a better writer by this afternoon."
- Tracy McMillan, television writer, author, Mad Men, United States of Tara, Life on Mars and author of the memoir, I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway

NEW VENTURES ON THE RISE
I recommend the following two companies that I am involved with because we share a vision of wanting the artist to succeed and we provide a resource to help the artist get where they want to go.

VOYAGE MEDIA
Launching a career in Hollywood could be one of the most challenging and rewarding things you'll ever do.

And if there's anything I've discovered, it's that few things will help you more than professional guidance and feedback from those insiders who've succeeded in the business.

Enter Voyage Media, our team is made up of Hollywood insiders who have helped to develop hundreds of high profile feature film, TV and branded entertainment projects from THE BLIND SIDE and G.I. JOE to TRUE BLOOD and SOPRANOS.  Voyage has just recently put together a program to help you get constructive feedback on both your work -- AND strategy for your overall career path.

Most importantly it comes through one-on-one time with a highly experienced industry player who's actually had success doing what you want to do.

You can find out more details about this service by clicking here.  And receive an exclusive introductory discount-- for two weeks only--by clicking right here

 

Sincerely,

Nat Mundel

Owner, Voyage Media

EMovieBooks & Scripts
This company provides the writer with a new platform to get their material read.

Film and television director Hubert de la Bouillerie and has created EMovieBooks & Scripts(emoviebooks.com)as the first and only online store to sell works from Hollywood screenwriters for download to computers and mobile readers like iPad and Kindle. The site features EMovieBooks - screenplays that have been formatted to read like novellas - as well as traditional film scripts, teleplays, novels, and short stories. From his years in Hollywood as a director, writer, and editor, Hubert recognized the wealth of storytelling from talented screenwriters. He also recognized that, because of the difficulty of corporate Hollywood politics, the majority of screenplays go unproduced and unavailable to the public, and instead languish on studio shelves and computer hard drives. So Hubert, with his wife (former film executive and producer Debbie Robins), have created EMovieBooks & Scripts to give Hollywood writers a way to monetize their hard work and take their power back. Now the best of Hollywood storytelling is available to the reading public for download to iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Kindle, Nook, PC and Mac. For more information, go to emoviebooks.com.

RESTAURANTS
PASSIONS PASTRIES

4810 Fulton Ave
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Neighborhood: Sherman Oaks

(818) 506-8773I have to recommend this phenomenal bakery for the holidays. For Thanksgiving, I ordered mini Sweet Potato and Red Velvet cupcakes. They are honestly some of the best cupcakes I've ever had.  They will make your holidays very special!

FRIDAY NIGHT DRINKS
The next Friday Night Drinks is Friday, January 7 at the X Bar at the Century Plaza Hotel at 2025 Ave. of the Stars. 

PODCAST SERIES

 My upcoming podcasts include Peter Lenkov (HAWAII FIVE-O) and Jeff Melvoin (ARMY WIVES).  They will be posted in December.

 You can listen to all my podcasts on my website or iTunes. 

EVENTS AROUND TOWN

THE WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION

WRITERS ON WRITING SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION FOR DONORS

SOFIA COPPOLA, Monday December 6, 7:30 pm
At the WGF/WGA 7000 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90048

Q & A followed by holiday champagne reception with Academy award winning writer Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Somewhere). Open to Foundation donors ($50 or more) only. Donations assist Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library and other Foundation programs.

Donate Now ($50+) to be eligible to attend with a guest. Please include a valid email with your donation. All donors should RSVP to attend: 323-782-4692. Thank you!

 

HOLIDAY INTERVIEW: BEN AFFLECK
Friday, Dec 10 - 6:30 PST
Get Tickets & Info

 

TRANSMEDIA:

DEVELOPING FILM & TV AS MULTI-PLATFORM CONTENT

 

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

7:30 - 9:30 pm

WGAW 2^nd Floor Multipurpose Room

7000 West Third Street, LA 90048

 

The WGAW Writers Education Committee (WEC) invites Guild and Caucus members to a panel and Q&A with top industry professionals about developing FEATURE FILM and TELEVISION properties designed for TRANSMEDIA / multi-platform media proliferation including:  webisodes, comic books, videogames, etc.

 

 

WEC will examine creative considerations for writers within this realm, as well as discuss rights and compensation regarding the various platforms.  RSVP now!

 

WGA and Caucus members in good standing.

RSVP: sliu@wga.org with "Transmedia" in subject line

Consider your RSVP confirmed.

 

If you have an interest in how my business works, you will want to watch this promo video produced by Superneato Productions.

 

CONGRATS
Adam Hann-Byrd - for getting into the Warner Bros. Writing Workshop


QUOTE OF THE MONTH

Henry David Thoreau