Twitter & Nielsen are Partnering Up

…To record who’s tweeting about television shows. This is really going to put the pressure on the various series writing staffs because now they’re going to have to drum up followers and tweets as well as, you know, write episodes.

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Sounds like a job for…Entry Level TV Writers! The whole sordid business starts with the Fall 2013 season so start building your Twitter resumes now.  Look for openings at your local network. Better yet, call the offices of your favorite shows and volunteer for the (we predict) soon-to-be gigs. read article

The 2012 Black List is Out

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Click Here to Read/Download the Black List

The Background:

The Black List is where moviemakers find great scripts to make and scripts find moviemakers to make them.

It began as a survey. In 2005, Franklin Leonard surveyed almost 100 film industry development executives about their favorite scripts from that year that had not been made as feature films. That first list – many of which have been made since – can be viewed here. Since then the voter pool has grown to about 500 film executives, 60% of whom typically respond. read article

Kathy reviews “APE: How To Publish A Book–Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur”

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APE is available at Amazon.Com

Disclosure: I’m entering my 13th year as a novelist, with over 20 published books as of this writing. I am both pro-traditional publishing and pro-self-publishing. My review comes from a completely neutral viewpoint. 

Interested in self-publishing? Who isn’t now days? While the book publishing industry is undergoing major–and I mean major–upheaval right now, it’s never been a better time to be an author. Anyone can publish a book, which is the main idea behind APE. Guy Kawasaki is a case in point.

Basically APE is an amalgamation of information that’s readily available on the internet–for free. Kawasaki is about a year late with his entry into the Self-Publishing Guide genre, although he’s covered by stating that the info in this book can change at any minute, and how awesome is it that he can update his book at anytime? Just one of many benefits of self-publishing. read article

WGA West Announces Winners Of Diversity Program’s Feature Access Project

Found on Deadline.Com:

Los Angeles – The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) has announced its Feature Access Project (FAP) honorees, recognizing five members who competed in the Guild’s pilot diversity screenwriting program. They are:

· Chuck Hayward for Potluck
· Dwayne Johnson-Cochran for Bibi
· Vivian Lee for Eve at the Bar
· Zak Shaikh for The Ignoble Rise of Lord Rex
· Paula Yoo for Popular Science read article

Don’t Miss The DOCTOR WHO Advent Calendar

Hey, we’re just a bunch’a fanboys here, you know? And when it comes to warming fanboy, um, cockles, this is it:

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Doctor Who Advent Calendar 2 read article