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Writing and Selling Drama Screenplays covers all aspects of Drama Screenplay writing, pitching and selling, with case studies including Saving Mr Banks, The King's Speech, Juno and many more. Exploring the ways in which drama and authenticity work, it empowers screenwriters to make their own story and character choices, so they can write and also package, finance and even make their own drama features.

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Delivers the stirring call to arms that writers must not only write, but take their work to the next level themselves, making sacrifices and taking risks if they want to see their stories on screen -- Chris Jones, Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Creative Director at the London Screenwriters Festival If you want to bring the drama to your pages, whether a screenplay or a novel, I would highly recommend that you add this book to your shelves, it is a brilliant resource and will see you right in all aspects of your writing -- Emma Mitchell * emmathelittlebookworm * A top-notch, cutting-edge guide to writing and selling, not just practical but inspirational. Lucy's distinctive voice infuses the entire journey. Quite brilliant. Here's the woman who'll help you make things happen -- Barbara Machin, award-winning writer & creator of Waking the Dead

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Lucy V. Hay is an author, script editor and blogger who helps writers via her Bang2write consultancy. She is the associate producer of Brit thrillers Deviation (2012) and Assassin (2015), both starring Danny Dyer, and has consulted on a huge number of award-winning films over the past decade. Lucy is head reader for the London Screenwriters' Festival and has written several novels, including her crime fiction debut The Other Twin (2017, Orenda Books) and two other books for the Creative Essentials series: Writing & Selling Drama Screenplays and Writing & Selling Thriller Screenplays. She lives in Devon with her husband, three children, five cats and a bunch of African Land Snails.

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