Meet Our Screenwriters and Screenplay Editors
Working with The Editorial Department gives you access to a dedicated team of professional screenwriters ready to assist with a wide range of screenplay and adaptation services. From critique, editing and pitch writing to full-blown adaptations and ghostwrites (features and screen series), we’ve got you covered.
Our screenplay services division is led by John Robert Marlow. As a published novelist and Academy-honored screenwriter, John is uniquely qualified to help evaluate your story’s screen potential, guide your work—or perform the adaptation for you.
John literally “wrote the book” on adaptations: Make Your Story a Movie: Adapting Your Book or Idea for Hollywood (St. Martin’s Press), with contributions from authors, screenwriters, producers, and directors whose combined films have made over $50 billion.
More information on our screenplay services can be found here.
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