You'll have to come to the meeting to see what he really looks like:-)
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You'll have to come to the meeting to see what he really looks like:-)
JAMES DALESSANDRO
CRAFTING AND SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY TO HOLLYWOOD
"Listen carefully. That sound you hear is someone else writing (and selling) your story," James Dalessandro warns procrastinators. The success of the movie "Titanic" led him to write a treatment of his work-in-progress, 1906; it sold in 24 hours to Barry Levinson.
Dalessandro has been writing screenplays for 20 years, and has sold more than twelve feature length films and 75 trailers. In his copious spare time, he has also written and sold three books, Bohemian Heart, 1906 (Crown/Ballentine), and Citizen Jane (Dutton-Signet), and won the National Association of Broadcasters Award as writer for House of Blues Radio Hour for Dan Ackroyd. He also founded the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival in 1974 with Ken Kesey and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
A devoted multi-tasker, he sometimes writes 12-14 hours a day, works on multiple writing projects, teaches and still manages to read voraciously. His Ten Commandments of the Screenwriter end with "READ." As he says, "If you do not read books, you are trying to play poker with a short hand."
Dalessandro has been a member of the Writer's Guild of America West
since 1984. He is married, the father of one son and lives in Marin
County,
California.
The Ten Commandments of the Screenwriter
Read
how he describes his San Francisco Screenwriting Workshop (Careful -
the
dates are for 1999)
http://www.citizenjanebook.com/
A well done web site - animated pictures and photos of Jane Alexander
and
collaborator David Mehnert. Jane co-founded CITIZENS
AGAINST HOMICIDE to help victims find justice. A sister
organization,
JUSTICE
FOR ALL has a very detailed link list for crime and victims rights.
This book is out of print, but there are a synopsis and reviews here.
"The book has become a classic, a collector's item" - James Dalessandro
"Most beloved and original P.I.'s of the nineties." 'PEEKABOO' FRANKIE FAGAN
All Washed Up and Dead (An on-line Mystery) Click here
to read it.
by Ellyn Bache, Bill Crider, Helen Chappell, Dianne Day, James
Dalessandro,
Jerrilyn Farmer, Jean Heller, L.C. Hayden, Vicki Hinze and Camille
Minichino
(our own VP).
Lots of other tid-bits . . . proceed at your own risk!
http://www.mysteryreaders.org/Issues/SanFran.html
http://www.etimepulse.com/team.htm
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW99-00/09-0209/0209irtx.html
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