AUTHORS: BEWARE of the Booktoscreenplay.com

You may have seen a Facebook post from Kathy Krantz Stewart, a former actress turned film producer, offering to turn your book into a screenplay. The https://www.booktoscreenplay.com/ website tells you:

This site includes our partial writer's portfolio and information about the services that we offer as?freelance Screenwriter Services. Do you have a fabulous STORY IDEA synopsis or OUTLINE, or a BOOK or EBOOK you want us to convert to a SCRIPT that you want to come to life onto screen in the movies? We will write you a Professional Screenplay for?Film or TV? Kathy and Colin, both award-winning IMDb listed screenwriters, would like to turn your novel, book or eBook into a potentially award winning script, maybe even a film, miniseries or TV, series if your script is purchased by a producer.??

There is a tiny input box where you fill in your information and Kathy Stewart will answer within 24 hours with a fancy email that extols the virtue of the Screenplay Factory, and numerous prizes their scripts have won.

Then comes the cost hook. Her email tells you:

We charge $5,000. for a professional 100-page script. Your book is condensed from an average size novel into a 100-page professional script format created via our artistic interpretation. The script is sent to you in a PDF document only, which is expected by producers and film festivals too. We haven’t adjusted our rates upward in 15 years to match inflation. We’d rather work and provide you a professional screenplay from your book.?

Your book can be over 100 pages, like many are. It is brought into PDF pages of a script format that producer’s and studios require and expect of a script. If your preference is a longer 110 or a 120-page script, then add a 110-page script is $5.500.00 or $500.00 for each 10 pages. You may wish to increase your script size to include more of your story. For example: 120 pages of script is $6,000.00 (or $500.00 for each 10 pages), 110 pages of script is $5,500.00. (Each 10 pages of script is $500., script is created from a book of 100-600 book pages long)?

Our book to script fees are very reasonable: WGA writers must charge union fees and are often charge more, like $100 plus thousand dollars lately, and even beyond $500 thousand. We are VERY reasonable for writing a professional screenplay written by an IMDb listed multi-award winning screenwriter and film producer. ?

The total charge for a 100 page script of our artistic interpretation of your book, written from one AVERAGE SIZE PAGE NOVEL of 100-600 pages with dialogue is only $5,000. We start the new 10 pages of the script when paid in advance for those new script pages. We work from 1 book to 1 screenplay, no additional supporting documents or additional books are needed or used. However, we often use the Internet for research.?

The thing is, once you have your book converted to a screenplay, the Screenplay Factory doesn’t want to know you. They have their money, and you are free to approach agents and filmmakers to option your screenplay, and hopefully turn it into a film. If you want to enter screenplay contests and pay more money to do so, that is your business.

I asked Kathy to tell mw which screenplays the Screenplay Factory wrote were turned into films. Her response: Do you own due diligence. That’s an open invitation to stand at the cliff’s edge and jump.

If a producer or director gets to read your book and likes it enough to consider it for a movie or TV show, they will option your work … and most often pay you for the option, but not necessarily, and that is not a scam from reputable producers. It is simply how business is done. You DO NOT need a ready screenplay to approach a producer. If they like your work, they will engage a screenplay writer to write one.

So, be wary of glowing credits that surround Kathy Krantz Stewart and the Screenplay Factory, and hold onto your money.

Read more about movie deal scams here: https://www.stefanvucak.com/beware-movie-deal-scams/