DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE ¿ A Crazy Little Thing Called Hollywood Logic ¿ What Agents, Producers, and Development Executives at Production Companies need in a script to make it worth spending money on. CHAPTER TWO ¿ "So, What¿s it About?" ¿ Which genres get produced, which genres don¿t, and why¿ Plus, the six best genres for first-time Spec Scripts. CHAPTER THREE ¿ Writing Your Feature-Length Spec Script ¿ How to transform an idea into a ¿market-ready¿ Spec Script while including all the ¿points¿ it needs to get past the ¿Reader¿s Desk¿. CHAPTER FOUR ¿ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Write for Television ¿ Understanding how to wedge yourself ¿inside¿ Hollywood¿s TV Landscape by building a valuable portfolio of Sample TV Spec Scripts and learning Television¿s real ¿Entry Points¿ for success. CHAPTER FIVE ¿ Close Encounters of the L.A. Kind ¿ Who you need to know and how to contact them; plus, how to fake confidence so you can pitch your script (and yourself) in the way Hollywood needs to hear. CHAPTER SIX ¿ To Live and Write in L.

A. ¿ Living the life of a professional Hollywood writer: protecting your ideas, negotiating your own contracts and managing your reputation. CHAPTER SEVEN ¿ Hollywood: And Beyond the Infinite ¿ Understanding where Hollywood is going and how to get ahead of the curve by following the principles of the movie business instead of chasing trends. APPENDICES Appendix I: Script Coverage Appendix II: The Non-Union ¿Writer-for-Hire¿ Agreement Appendix III: The Non-Union ¿Option/Purchase¿ Agreement GLOSSARY ¿ All the fancy (and confusing) acronyms that get tossed around and what they really mean. ABOUT THE AUTHOR.