Is your script collecting dust? Why are writers using adaptation to meet the high interest film and streaming studios have in multi-platform packages?

Having 2 options What is Adaptation?

• Adaptation of scripts or books is simply taking your existing script and converting it into a manuscript then publishing it as a book/novel.

What is a multi-platform package?

• It is a script presentation package submitted to film and streaming studios and includes... information about the marketability of your script and your book.

Note: Having a high number of sales is great for the author. For studio execs, it more about the number of followers your book has. For authors there are a number of options to allow readers to read part or all of your book. They're all design to help bring attention to their book.

Why are more writers adapting their scripts to books? Why are film and streaming studios interested in multi-platform packages?

• For writers: Adaptation gives them more than one option for submitting their project to film and streaming studios.

Simultaneously and under the writer's control, they can promote the book version of their script direct to the public and potentially bring attention to their work, their name as an author, and build a following.

• For studios. There is a strong demand for new and original content. Industry executives recognize that scripts they deem marketable and there is also a book version of the script, it can provide multiple options for creating new and original content from how the book is written.
• Book version of your script. Because of how books are written. Having both a script and book version of the script makes it easier to create new content based on the concept, storyline, and individual characters that are already outlined, developed and defined, in the book version of the script.
• This is why sequels and spin-offs to your original script is easier to write and produce in a shorter amount of time.

This is why writers like Spielberg, Steven King, authors, and many other writers have been using adaptation for decades? It gives them more than one option to promote and market their new and existing scripts.

• Click here, to speak with our EP for information and answers specific to adapting your script to a manuscript.

What's in it for writers: Adaptation of your script to a book.

• You have more than one way to promote and market your IP to both film and streaming execs.
• Regardless of the length of time or outcome of marketing your script to the studios may take. As a published author with having a book version of your script... is a separate business from submitting your script to the studios.
• As a published author, you set the rules for how your manuscript is written, when it's to be published, and its distribution.

In today's film and publishing industry using Adaptation to promote and market your IP, is easier to participate in, and can be done with or without assistance.

• If assistance is needed... Click here, to speak with our EP for information and answers specific to adapting your script to a manuscript.

What does it cost to adapt my script to a manuscript?

• Nothing if you do it yourself. Given you wrote your script. You've already completed the most important first step of the process.

I've read that books don't sell and it's a waste of time and money.

• That might be true depending on your reason for writing a manuscript, if the public or film execs like what you've written, and how well its marketed, etc.

Note: Just like not all scripts are box office hits, not all books are best sellers... but as an author, all books can be published!

• Writers like Spielberg, Steven King, credited writers and authors, write books as a part of their marketing strategy to promote their IP film execs, the book version for the public to read, and a direct approach to bring attention to their new scripts and/or build a following.

Is it true my book must have sold thousands of copies for industry executives to be interested.

• It helps! Having a following in large numbers always help. Execs like projects that come with a built-in audience.
• However, there are other factors that are critical to the process. Starting with the marketability of your script. What is the genre? What is the concept?

Keep in mind: Some books for example: "how to build a doghouse" or "how to exercise" can sell a lot of books... but are not what film and streaming execs are looking for.

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Best Regards,

Sophie