Hooks That Sell and How to Pitch Them CD

Madeline Di Maggio is a writer and producer with Honest Engine Films. She produced Surviving Eden, starring Peter Dinklage, Jane Lynch, Sheri Oteri, and Michael Payne and the documentaries Stir It Up and Humble Beauty (released Sept. 2008). She has worked as a creative consultant and story editor to Paramount Studios and has written over 40 hours of produced film in: prime-time sitcoms, one-hour dramas, TV pilots, soaps, animation, and feature films. She co-wrote the M.O.W. Alibi, starring Tori Spelling, and the feature film If the Shoe Fits starring Rob Lowe and Jennifer Grey. Her book-to-film feature, Catherine Called Birdy with co-writer Pamela Wallace (Witness), was developed and sold to Ben Myron Productions, and the screenplay Murder with Privilege, a true crime, to Showtime. She currently has five scripts under option. Her books include The Everything Screenwriting Book for Adams Media and How to Write for Television for Simon and Schuster, the second edition (released Dec. 2008). She presents workshops throughout the U.S. and overseas. In 2007 she was hired by MediaCorp in Singapore to instruct in-house professional television writers. She was voted the Members Choice Award for Best Screenwriting Seminar and Script Consultant by the National Screenwriters Forum. She will conduct consultation appointments and present "The Hooks that Sell and How to Pitch Them," "Hush! The Character is Talking" and "From Words to Pictures."

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