Your book should REALLY be made into a movie!

 

 

 

 

 

What a wonderful compliment from readers! Let's be honest; we've all dreamed of the one book we really wanted to write being swept up by a Hollywood producer and made into a Multi-gabillion dollar revenue producing movie with the writing credits flashing on the huge screen and our name dead center.

 

Ah yes, and I'll see 25 again in my next life. But wait! There may be a way to see if your novel could possibly be made into a movie without ripping a piece of your soul out and handing it to some shady character who claims to be a "producer, baby."

 

My husband and best friend have both harped at me from the moment they read the draft of "Dragons Among Us" that this should be a movie. It has all the drama, action and a touch of romance the pictures of this year are offering.

 

I can only smile and pat them on the shoulder so long before they realize I'm patronizing them. I know the premise for my book is feasible but the costs to produce the amount of computer graphics needed could fund a small country in Africa for a millennium. However, I did go searching the internet to see if there might be somewhere I could, at least, start to search and to my immense surprise there is an agency that scouts for new movie possibilities. Well what do you know?

 

Created by Hollywood 'insiders', Script Pipeline is in the business of finding scripts to help move good writers into the direction of movie production. They have a yearly contest where four scripts are chosen to be shopped to the movie makers by these gentlemen who are script writers and actors themselves.

 

Now, I'm a bit of a pessimist when I find anything that looks to be -- good. So I checked with the Better Business Bureau in the LA area and this business rates an A minus. Okay...let's move on. I scoured the site for possibilities to submit my book and, bingo!, there it was. Each year the agency has a contest called Book Pipeline Competition. All of the details are on the website so I won't go any farther than to give you the address so you can check them out yourself.

 

I balked a little at the $75.00 entry fee but my wonderful husband brought up the amount of money I'd spent on advertising possibilities which had vanished into dust producing no results. Okay, fine.

I believe one of the best parts of this competition is that EVERY entrant receives feedback on the possibility of their work being made into film. That alone can run into the hundreds with some agencies.

 

If you are playing with the idea of your novel becoming a movie, I really encourage you to visit this site. www.bookpipeline.com. I don't think you'll be sorry, and you might find a direction to shoot for you hadn't previously considered.

 

 

Sable Angel