A Must-Attend Event For All Working and Aspiring Screenwriters

- Los Angeles, CA June 05, 2006 - Do you have a writing "horror story?" Do you have two minutes? Tell your tale to top Hollywood screenwriters and win a free book.

Thursday, June 8, 4:30, at the Barnes and Noble at the Grove, some of Hollywood"s most acclaimed scribes will gather to read and sign their new book, Doing It For Money: The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood (Tallfellow Press, ISBN 1-931290-58-X, $24.95, 288p, Hardcover, May).

Audience members will get the chance to tell their worst writing "horror story" in two minutes to the panel. The best "worst" storyteller will win a free book.

Meet and get your book signed by the writers of Ali, National Treasure, Alias, Air Force One, Traffic, Bee Season, Kate and Leopold, Chocolat, The George Lopez Show, Remember the Titans, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The West Wing and more (subject to availability).

Published in conjunction with the Writers Guild Foundation and lauded by Script Magazine as "a must-read for anyone working in or trying to break into the industry," Doing It features 48 top film and TV writers" first-hand stories of working in Hollywood. From the highest of highs ("I gave scores of interviews "til my head was spinning. I almost began to feel nostalgic for the many times on other movies when I was ignored." - Ted Tally, Silence of the Lambs) to their lowest of lows ("Then I went to the first screening and I wanted to...well, you know, slit my wrists while jumping out of the Empire State Building, after taking an overdose of sleeping pills, hoping to land in front of a bus going, say, 150 miles an hour." - Jim Kouf, National Treasure; Stakeout). What you"ll read is guaranteed to either scare you away forever or confirm that you were meant to be a screenwriter.

It"s a rare opportunity you can"t afford to miss!

Barnes and Noble at the Grove. Thursday, June 8, 2006. 4:30 PM.

For further information, please contact Claudia Sloan at (310)-203-3837.

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