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Tips for Selling Your Story to Hollywood - podcast
Luke Sandler, literary manager with the Gotham Group, shares tips on selling a book to Hollywood. He explains what executives are seeking when considering buying a book as the basis of a film project. Before you send your book off to Hollywood, it's important to realize that a movie producer or agent is not going to read your book. You must do the work for them by creating a powerful, two-sentence pitch. It's also necessary to show that you have thought about the marketplace and how your movie would fit into a market.
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