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Jump-start your book by using the
storytelling tricks
of your favorite movies!
Alexandra Sokoloff's
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
workbooks and workshops have helped writers all over the world to write their best books and get agents and book deals.
Write your next great book!
Million-selling, award-winning author/screenwriter
gets you writing with video and text lessons from her internationally acclaimed Screenwriting Tricks For Authors workbooks and workshops.
You’ll start to learn how to use techniques of film writing such as:
- the Three-Act, Eight-Sequence Structure
- the Storyboard Grid
- the Master List of your favorite movies
- The Setpiece Scene
as well as tricks of film pacing and suspense, character arc & drive, visual storytelling, and building image systems—to structure and color your novel for maximum emotional impact, unbearable suspense and riveting pacing, no matter what genre you’re writing in.
Stealing Hollywood
I’d already written fifteen novels by the time I met Alex and discovered her unique approach to structuring fiction. She changed my entire writing process for the better. I couldn’t live without my three-act storyboard! Alex is a gifted and generous teacher and author, and Stealing Hollywood is a must-have book for new and seasoned writers alike.
—International bestselling author
Diane Chamberlain
Screenwriting Tricks
for Authors
Sokoloff is a generous mentor with the gifted ability to address a storyteller’s practical concerns while encouraging artistic integrity and every author’s unique voice. Recommended without reservation.
—Vicki Pettersson, bestselling author of the Sign of the Zodiac series
Writing Love
Believe it or not, story-telling is an art as well as a craft, and Alex Sokoloff’s Stealing Hollywood is the owner’s manual that belongs in every writer’s toolkit. Alex dissects the elements of story-telling with clarity, wit and wisdom. Don’t thank me—buy the damn book!
—Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of Ladies’ Night and Summer Rental