Sell Your Script

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Sell Your Script

Create a laser-focused strategic marketing plan that you can use to sell your script and advance your screenwriting career.

Assemble your seven selling tools and learn how to craft queries, one-sheets, and pitches. If you wish, you can practice your pitch on me. Explore a variety of selling opportunities and markets. Create a platforming strategy for yourself and an action plan for your screenplay. Specific sources of useful industry information will be provided. Names of companies and individual producers for your script will not be provided.

NOTE: Scroll down for the PERSONALIZED VERSION OF THE COURSE.

COURSE OUTLINE AND START DATE

Week 1 -- Pitches, one-sheets, and queries -- do you have a winner?
Week 2 -- Platforming, your marketing plan, and resources

Our class begins on June 3, 2022.

OUR CLASSROOM

This online course will be held in classroom forums where you don’t have to meet at a specific time. Simply “attend” when it is convenient for you 24/7.

You will have access to the classroom forums, course materials, and resources for three weeks after the end date of the course.

FEEDBACK ON ASSIGNMENTS

Assignments may be submitted early or late or not at all; you can work at your own pace. Here is a list of homework assignments:

Week 1-- Query letter or one-sheet
Week 2 -- Weekly action plan for the next week

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dave Trottier has sold or optioned ten screenplays (three produced) and helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He is an in-demand script consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of The Screenwriter’s Bible and seven other books. More.

CLASS BONUSES

One of the benefits of the course is a free query letter or one-sheet evaluation (your Week 1 assignment). My normal fee for such an evaluation is $125.

A free set of Screenwriter’s Bible worksheets, including the strategic marketing plan worksheets, comes with the course.

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REGISTER FOR THE COURSE

Registration Fee – Only $135. SOLD OUT!

The two-week course begins on June 3, 2022 and ends on June 16, 2022. Specific instructions and your password will be emailed to you after you register.

PERSONALIZED VERSION OF THE COURSE

The individualized version of this course includes all the above and you can start anytime you wish. Just click on "Add to Cart" above (the fee is the same). When you checkout, indicate in the "Comments" section (to the right of address info) that you are registering for the personalized version of the course, or simply drop me an email.

There is no classroom or class discussion, since it is just you and me. Thus, I will email you materials once a week for two weeks, and you can email me your homework and ask questions.

Required reading for both versions of the course –Screenwriter’s Bible

Email me with any questions about the course.