How To Prove The Demand For Your Stories And Get The Attention Of Hollywood With Brooks Elms
About this episode
Brooks Elms shares insights on how to prove demand for stories and attract Hollywood's attention.
How can building an audience in advance help your stories reach the people who make movies? And how can you prove there's demand for your book or screenplay before you've written it? Brooks Elms shares his advice after more than 20 years as a WGA screenwriter. In the intro, what doesn't work for book marketing and what does [ Amy Chan SubStack ; Unsingle ; Rephonic ]; Goodreads giveaway for Bones of the Deep ; FutureVision XPrize . This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Brooks Elms is a WGA screenwriter with over 45 scripts, over a dozen sales, and he has directed two indie features. He is the creator of the Answer the Call system and has trained over 1,000 writers. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Note s How to see the…
People in this episode
Host: Joanna Penn
Guest: Brooks Elms
Topics covered
- audience building
- story demand
- Hollywood attention
- book marketing
- screenwriting
- indie film
Keywords
- storytelling
- screenplay
- audience engagement
- film financing
- WGA
- indie features
- book marketing
Sponsors
Kobo Writing Life
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: WGA, Goodreads, Patreon, FutureVision XPrize, Amy Chan SubStack
Books & works: Bones of the Deep
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