It'll get you meetings!
The Show Bible for TV Pitching is the first system ever developed to organize all of the information you need to lure producers, show runners, and attach stars to your show idea, and then successfully penetrate to the highest levels of the TV industry itself.
With a great show bible coupled with a written pilot, you'll have a powerful package that is a superweapon to obliterate the competition on the person's desk you want reading your show.
And once they do read it, they'll be amazed and call you in for a meeting. My career has changed since I developed this system. Yours should too.
Why does it work? Because I have developed a show guide for your TV show that works in the mind of the reader like that coffee table art book. It provokes thought and conversation.
When they just read your pilot or when you send them a treatment with episode concepts, they are seeing your version of the show in stone. That forces them to make a buying decision before they even get to know you. That's going to be a no most of the time.
But with your marketing show bible in their hands, they'll see your full concept, see that you've thought it out and have three to five seasons in mind. They'll think about the concept and come up with ideas on their own. Now they want to talk to you about it, collaborate with you and see if they like you and can do business with you.
And just like that you get a meeting!
Below you'll find chapters three through five of my book! I think you'll find the information handy, and if you get the entire book you'll get my entire system for creating a pitching show bible that will allow you to sell your television pilot the way I recently sold one of mine.
Good Luck! And contact me with questions and your stories -- both your success stories and also the difficulties you run into. The more information we share the better it is for all of us as we forge ahead with our dreams and our careers as professional tv writers.
The Show Bible
Now you can get The Show Bible for Television Pitching through Smashwords to download whatever format you prefer!
Epub for Apple iPad, Nook, Sony, Kobo and others.
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PDF, RTF, or LRF formats!
PDB for Palm Reading devices!
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Just follow the link and it'll take you right to it!
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What the Book will do for you!
If you are trying to pitch your original television show or web series to entertainment industry professionals - from producers and show runners to agents and directors, and especially to network executives -- you need a Show Bible.
All of the chapters you need to craft in your own show bible with examples from the author's own show bibles successfully optioned by producers.
Definitions of all of the team members you will need to gather in order to impress network executives and fill them with confidence your team can produce episodes.
The entire ten phase process from creation of your show bible and pilot and through the entire negotiation process until your show goes to series!
This book will help you
- Create an exciting read that will get you into meetings.
- Put the right team of professionals together to give you credibility in the meetings.
- Improve your understanding of the business from an actual negotiation the author is involved in.
- Ensure you end up on the team and make a full time income in the television industry.
Television writers get paid, based on WGA contractual standard $8,800 per episode for a half hour show and $17,000 per episode for a full hour show! And those are the rates for the non-prime networks. There is an immense amount of money to be made in TV right now!
What people are saying about The Show Bible for Television Pitching Book
"Alan Zatkow's new book, The Show Bible for TV Pitching, is THE book to get if you want to learn how to properly and effectively create the all-important series bible for your prospective TV series. There's been a void in the market for a comprehensive book like this and now Alan makes it easy to learn the right way to create your series bible.
The book has easy to read and understand chapters on each important section, with examples from Alan's own series bible, so this isn't a "theoretical" exercise, it's taken from an actual bible that led to a current series in development at a major network. That's proof of effectiveness and success right there.
What I found most illuminating of all is the section on what happens next, after your bible is complete; an insider's look at the current state of TV development, from all the major players needed to successfully get a series on TV to the actual money amounts being paid. If you want to break into TV, this is the most up-to-date information available.
After spending many months hunting for detailed information on crafting a series bible, both online and through a few, by now, outdated books, Alan Zatkow's The Show Bible for TV Pitching is the only serious book to get. There will be imitators but this book is the original and the best. I wouldn't be using it to create my own show bible if it weren't the case!"
George Perez - writer/co-creator of The Life
"Writers, if you're looking for a clear and comprehensive guide for putting together and pitching your next great idea for the small screen, you've come to the right place with Alan Zatkow. He explains each step of the process in detail, from the "artistic" to the "business" side of television writing, allowing you to be confident in each step of the process. I highly recommend this book."
Cary Patrick Martin