The Writer newsletter, including Launchpad manuscript competition

With full details of the competition and more:

Sponsored Message

The Launch Pad Manuscript Competition welcomes our 2020 Guaranteed Option partner Romark Entertainment and our latest class of Launch Pad mentors, Chase Pletts, Juliet McDaniel and Scott Thomas. Enter now for your chance to be considered for these prizes and more from our partners Energy Entertainment and Inkshares. Next Deadline December 19th CLICK HERE TO ENTER GUARANTEED OPTION PARTNER - ROMARK ENTERTAINMENT This year's Guaranteed Option partner is Romark Entertainment, who have set up multiple Launch Pad scripts around town, including MARIAN at Sony and Pascal Pictures and MATRIARCH at Paramount. From our past Manuscript competitions, Romark is attached to KILL CREEK, set up at Showtime with Scott Derrickson attached and MR. & MRS. AMERICAN PIE, which is set up with Laura Dern and Platform One. As in previous competitions, our guaranteed option partner will select a minimum of 1 project from this year's competition to option. To be eligible for the guaranteed option prize, all entrants MUST select the "Guaranteed Option" add-on at time of sign up. LAUNCH PAD MENTORSHIP PROGRAM As a part of our mission to help writers get their start in the industry, the Launch Pad is proud to offer exclusive mentorship opportunities for writers to learn from those who have been there before and have insight on the process of breaking in. For our manuscript competition in particular, navigating the worlds of publishing and film rights make this sort of guidance even more essential. That is why we are thrilled to have three former Launch Pad Manuscript writers on board to serve as mentors for this year's competition to share their experience and insight on the process. Our first mentor this year is Chase Pletts, whose Launch Pad manuscript THE LOVING WRATH OF ELDON QUINT is set to be published by Inkshares in January 2020. As a screenwriter, his projects have been featured on both the Hit List and Black List, and he was the 2017 Cinestory TV Fellow. Also on board as a mentor this year is Juliet McDaniel, whose first novel MR. & MRS. AMERICAN PIE was the Top Comedy in the 2016 Launch Pad Manuscript Competition. The book is currently in development as a TV series with Platform One Media and Laura Dern's Jaywalker Pictures. She also wrote the script for the indie rom-com QWERTY, and has worked extensively as a script reader and story editor. Our final mentor is Scott Thomas. He is the Stoker-nominated author of KILL CREEK, which reached the Top 10 of the 2016 Launch Pad Manuscript Competition and was selected by the American Library Association's reader committee as the top horror book of 2017. His second novel, VIOLET, was named by Library Journal as one of the Best Books of 2019. He is the creator/executive producer of Disney Channel's RANDY CUNNINGHAM: 9TH GRADE NINJA, BEST FRIENDS WHENEVER and RAVEN'S HOME. Scott was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his work on R.L. STEIN'S THE HAUNTING HOUR and a BAFTA for MALIBU RESCUE. As in previous competitions, each of our mentors or mentor teams will select a minimum of 1 writer each from this year's competition to mentor. To be eligible for the Launch Pad Mentorship Program, all entrants MUST select the "Mentorship" add-on at time of entry. The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. Over the past seven years, we've watched our Launch Pad writers go on to work on blockbuster franchises and Emmy-winning series, craft New York Times Bestsellers, and set up dozens of projects well beyond their original Launch Pad entries. Now, we're ready to steer the next great wave of success stories and help you launch your career! GUARANTEED SIGNING PRIZE Continuing the Launch Pad's long tradition of helping writers to gain representation, with more than 450 signings to date, we are thrilled to announce this year's Guaranteed Signing Partner as Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment. A close friend of the Launch Pad Competitions since the beginning, Brooklyn has been a judge for every competition to date and Energy Entertainment has signed more than two dozen Launch Pad writers over the years. One of the most prolific spec-selling manager/producers in Hollywood, he has been a part of many Launch Pad script sales and his clients frequently feature on major year-end lists such as the Black List, Hit List and Young & Hungry List. His clients include feature writers such as Rob Liefeld (Deadpool), Brad Ingelsby (Run All Night, Out of the Furnace) and Mark Mallouk (Black Mass), as well as TV creators such as Mickey Fisher (Reverie and Extant) and Anthony Cipriano (Bates Motel). We could not be more excited for this partnership! As in previous competitions, our guaranteed signing partner(s) will select a minimum of 1 writer from this year's competition to represent. To be eligible for the guaranteed signing prize, all entrants MUST select the "Guaranteed Signing" add-on at time of sign up. HOW IT WORKS So, what do you need to enter? Well for starters, you don't need to have a 500-page manuscript ready to go. In fact, you don't need to have ever written a book before. With the entertainment and publishing worlds more aggressively moving to acquire book partials over the past years, we're instead inviting you to submit up to 50 pages of your best prose (including a minimum one-page synopsis). Show us your best work, hook us with your best cliffhanger, and give us an idea of where your story will go following those opening pages. You can, of course, submit 50 pages of a book you've already completed, but there is no requirement to have a completed book to enter. So, if you simply have an idea, have always wanted to write a book, or simply need a deadline to get your work done by, give us a shot, and see what we can do for you. A CLOSER LOOK AT OUR JUDGES As always, our judging panel features two dozen heavyweights from across the industry, featuring representatives, producers and executives with experience in features, television and for our manuscript competition, publishing. With judges from companies such as Anonymous Content, CAA, UTA, Chernin Entertainment, Good Fear, Paradigm, Verve and more, we are proud to present an elite jury representing the power players of Hollywood and beyond. REAL NOTES = REAL FEEDBACK Continuing with our commitment to give writers as many ways as possible to get a leg up, we're thrilled to announce the return of our Feedback Notes Program. Rather than receiving a few vague disconnected sentences or paragraphs from other coverage services or competitions out there, we've struck a deal with our professional readers (reading for places such as Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Sony, Paramount, Universal, Anonymous Content, Circle of Confusion, CAA, UTA, Paradigm, Skydance and more) to provide 1-2 pages of in-depth notes on your competition entry. With an emphasis on initial thoughts, opinions and analysis, get an inside look at what is usually a behind-the-curtain process and get our readers' perspectives on the story, characters, marketability, and ideas for where the story could go. Was it a page-turner? Did we want to see more of a character? Was the dialogue believable? Get the actionable notes and insight you deserve.   Enter now to get notes on your manuscript! Next Deadline December 19th CLICK HERE TO ENTER TODAY!

Copyright © 2019 Madavor Media, LLC. All rights reserved. No reproduction, distribution, or transmission of any portion of this newsletter is permitted without the express written permission of Madavor Media, LLC. The Writer 25 Braintree Hill Office Park, Suite 404 Braintree, MA 02184 United States

Sponsored Message

Hello Writer Subscriber,   If you’re a good writer, you should be paid well (very well) for your services... You have a rare natural talent. Not everyone can do what you do...and not everyone wants to. So rather than accepting $5, $50, or even $100 for your time and talent, you should be writing for the thousands of companies who expect to pay you more… I’m talking about $250...$500...$1,000...even $2,000+ per assignment. Like I said, there are thousands of companies looking to hire good writers today. You just need to know what the projects are... I cover 9 of the best in my report: And you can get a copy of it free, right now, simply by clicking here. In it, you’ll discover the top 9 unique opportunities for writers...the standard project fees...the types of companies and projects you’ll be able to write for...and exactly how to get started. That’s NINE different ways to turn your incredible talent into a legitimate and lucrative freelance writing career. Getting paid well to write is not a far-off dream. (The writers you’ll meet in the report are proof of that.) If you’re ready to see what your talent is really worth...and position yourself to start writing from home, in your spare time, whenever and wherever you want... Simply click here, and I’ll send your FREE 9 Ways special report immediately.   To your success, Rebecca Matter President, American Writers & Artists Inc. Publisher, Barefoot Writer Magazine

Copyright © 2019 Madavor Media, LLC. All rights reserved. No reproduction, distribution, or transmission of any portion of this newsletter is permitted without the express written permission of Madavor Media, LLC. The Writer 25 Braintree Hill Office Park, Suite 404 Braintree, MA 02184 United States