Pitching Your Book for Film and TV with Entertainment Attorney and Author Maggie Marr

Episode 116 / Do you want to pitch your books to Hollywood for film or television? Entertainment attorney Maggie Marr is here to share insight on how to find and vet and entertainment attorney. Plus she shares tips on negotiation as well as why now is a good time to delve into screenwriting, if you’ve always wanted to adapt your novel.

Intro links: InkersCon – Jami and Sara will be in Dallas in June. Connect in the WIKT Facebook group if you’ll be there.

Show notes:

Why you never finish learning as an author
Lessons learned around branding and genre hopping
How factors beyond your control (pandemic, economic downturn) may impact a book release
Why everything Maggie does comes back to story
Why authors need an entertainment attorney
How to vet a literary or entertainment attorney
Why negotiation is a good thing and why authors need to overcome their fear of negotiating
Why film and TV adaptations require the author to let go of some creative control
Why the need for content makes it a good time to adapt your novel into a screenplay