33 Ways to Sell Your Screenplay!: How to Get Your Screenwriting on the Market and Start a Career as a Screenwriter

Have you written a script? How many of us have written scripts only to have no idea how to get them sold, in the hands of someone who might want to buy them. In a very simple way Hal has set down the way to go about getting your script sold. He gives instructions on how to make yourself known, and how to use all the new media that comes up every day now.I have taken some of his classes through Screenwriting U. I wanted to write the best script possible. I found that once I started classes, I had an ongoing relationship with Hal and the other writers. I don't think I have ever met anyone who wants so much to make you a success. He offers free classes almost monthly. With this book he is makes it simple for you to know what is required to sell a script.It is important to understand Hollywood.It changes daily. Although I have worked in Hollywood for so many years and written my own book Hairdresser to the Stars, a Hollywood Memoir, I have so much to learn. First of all I must have more to do to make my own scripts the best possible so they will be read. This little book points out what you need to know on your way to becoming a success. Read this while you are not only writing but also creating a base from which to sell your script. Its a new world out there and Hal lets us know how it works.

As a beginning screenwriter, finding programs, books and blogs that bring out the best in you so you can be your best out there, let's be honest, isn't easy! There's so much, so where to begin? The courses, the personal coaching and now this book? ScreenwritingU keeps on delivering, just that! So why go on the Internet and 'search' when you can find all you need under 'one button'? Exactly, don't! But you don't have to take my word for it, I'm a newbie! The strategies bundled in this book, provide you a solid blueprint and serves as an opportunity to grow as a person and screenwriter and market yourself as a unique voice- as that's what the industry's looking for and you should want, look and exuberate that too! It even gives examples of how to market when you want to make your own movies, like me, or want to have the complete upper (and lower) hand in your production and create a webseries. These are the only critique areas where I would've enjoyed seeing more strategies, as this is upcoming and rising. Very helpful indeed was reading about how to avoid the pitfalls of enthusiasm and send out scripts before they're top quality, ouch! And having simply a proper etiquette, as people treat you the way you treat yourself, whether it's a top/ Indie producer whether it's an A/ B-list actor. We're all human and that's what this book talks about, being authentic by being, well, just your luscious, lovely human YOU! Enjoy!

Problem #1 - This book is too short. Indeed, it's more of a pamphlet than a proper book. Technically, the page count is 105. However, many of the pages contain only 2 or 3 sentences of text. Even the more "dense" pages feature generous amounts of white space. If you're a quick reader, you could blast through this whole thing in about half an hour.Problem # 2 - This book is vague. Writer Hal Croasmun offers up tons of generic advice, such as: "present yourself as a pro" and "you've got to write MARKETABLE screenplays" (the caps are Croasmun's, not mine). What Croasmun doesn't do, is provide specific guidance on how to write a marketable screenplay, or how to behave in a professional manner. The book contains few (no?) concrete examples of how to do things the "right" way.Problem #3 - This book exists to market the author's website. Over and over again, Croasmun offers up that vague advice on how to sell screenplays; but if you want specific advice, you need to visit his website and (here's the rub) sign up for an expensive screenwriting class. How annoying is this? I bought this book so I *wouldn't* have to sign up for a costly web-based program. Ultimately, this book is more of a marketing tool than a useful resource in itself.Anyway, here's a bit of context on me: I studied screenwriting in a graduate-level program, 10 years ago. At the time, I read two excellent books on screenwriting: "Writing Screenplays That Sell," by Michael Hauge, and "How to Write a Selling Screenplay," by Chris Keane. Both of those books are "proper" books, dense with good advice and insight. By comparison, "33 Ways to Sell Your Screenplay" feels like a quick cash-in, designed to convince aspiring screenwriters to part with a buck for little in return. This is not a proper screenwriting manual. Nowhere in its thin interior does the author convey any real love for screenwriting or cinema art, or any true insight into how to market a screenplay.In case you need more convincing - there's a typo on the back of this book. It reads as follows:"In this book, you'll learn...How to use industry events get your script read."Hey now - there's a missing "to" in that sentence ("[to] get your script read.") What astonishing lack of professionalism, in the editing phase, allowed that mistake to slip through? In response, I'm going to propose my own thirty-fourth rule for selling screenplays: don't omit critical words. The back cover of this book omits one critical word. The interior omits about 50,000 critical words. Avoid.

If you can’t join Hal Croasmun’s immersive ScreenwritingU’s Pro Series, “33 Ways to Sell Your Screenplay!” is a good first step. If, like me, you have gotten minimal help from writers groups run by amateurs, ScreenwritingU is the place to go. While nothing can replace the course itself (I can tell you from first-hand experience, it the BEST one in the business hands down), there are enormously helpful lessons in this slim volume. Where else can you get advice in just over 100 pages on MARKETING, NETWORKING, and get this – ADVICE ON CONNECTING WITH MOVIE PRODUCERS AND AGENTS/MANAGERS? Certainly not from the usual writers group or other books on screenwriting that are out there. There is a bigger world than that and this book tells you how to achieve your goals by CUTTING TO THE CHASE.. I can tell you flat out that just from listening to Hal’s webinars and from reading this book, I have been able to get TWO scripts read by TWO producers, one movie star, and one up and coming STAR. While the projects didn’t fly, I am welcome to return with revisions, and I thank Hal, his course, webinars and this book for these opportunities.

Full of positive practical insights for aspiring screenwriters

If you're serious about actually making money as a screenwriter, Hal Croasman is the guy you want to learn from. There's a lot of material out there that will teach you the craft of screenwriting, but the bulk of it stops short or is extremely vague about what to do next. In "33 Ways to Sell Your Screenplay," Hal gives you those next steps in the form of practical, actionable strategies that can help get you and your work noticed.

Comprehensively written from experiential background, yet clearly and simply written for comprehensibility. There is so much insight packed into this book, and so much to learn from those insights. Hal writes in a way that is personal, accessible and wise. Worth far more than its asking price. You won't regret this!

Excellent book, unbelievably low price! Invaluable advice for screenwriters everywhere, just like everything ScreenwritingU delivers.

A concise summary of the excellent sales and marketing advice that Hal provides on his ScreenwritingU courses.