Scripts & Scribes

We talk to Archaia Editor-in-Chief, Stephen Christy about the process of evaluating submissions, Graphic novels vs. monthly titles and the differences between the big two comic book publishers Marvel and DC and Archaia Entertainment and more. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! Or Tweet it […]

We talk to screenwriters / authors / filmmakers, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton about  the key to making a writing partnership work, creating truly scary moments, writing a sequel to an established franchise and much more. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! Or Tweet […]

We talk to We’re the Millers and Dodgeball screenwriter and filmmaker, Rawson Marshall Thurber about  what being a writer’s assistant is like, adapting novels to screenplays, the challenges of developing established properties and much more. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! Or Tweet it to […]

We talk to YA author, Jennifer Bosworth about her debut novel Struck, how she came up with a character who’s a human lightning rod, transitioning from writing dark stories for adults to writing for teenagers, landing her agent after a pitch fest, and shooting a film-quality book trailer. Listen to the entire interview below. Have […]

We talk to award winning playwright, comedian and comic book writer, James Asmus about how performing comedy helps his writing, transitioning from playwright to comic book writer, Amelia Earhart – Jungle Princess and more. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! Or Tweet it to us […]

We talk to television writer, Marqui Jackson about  the Disney TV Writer’s Fellowship, working in a writer’s room, pitching TV episode ideas and more.  Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! Or Tweet it to us at @ScriptsScribes.

We talk to Soulfire and Captain Atom writer, JT Krul about the differences in working for a large vs. smaller comic book publisher, writing distractions and the process of writing a prose novel vs. comic book scripts. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! Or […]

We talk to Best-Selling children’s author, Sheri Fink about why she decided to self-publish, the process of self-publishing a children’s book, collaborating with an illustrator, the importance of word-of-mouth marketing, and what qualities make up a good children’s book character.  (10/3/12) Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? […]

We talk to Alice Bliss author, Laura Harrington about transforming a musical into a novel – and then transforming that novel back into a musical, the difference between writing for the theater and writing novels, that gray area between adult and YA books, writing about subjects that are close to home, and the importance of […]

We talk to Top Cow President and writer of Think Tank and Cyberforce, Matt Hawkins about ways to break into comic book industry as a writer, using science and technology in stories and the Top Cow Talent Hunt. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? Send us an EMAIL! […]

We talk with playwright and Los Angeles Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild, Larry Dean Harris, about starting his own company, Playwrights 6, producing his own work, writing monologues versus dialogue, how stepping away from your writing can sometimes help you to see it more clearly, and what the Dramatists Guild is all about. Listen […]

We talk to playwright, screenwriter and director Barbara Hammond about the differences between writing for the stage and writing for the screen, how acting and directing have changed the way she approaches writing, and her experience of following her single character play through to becoming a trilogy. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a […]

We talk to author Leonard Goldberg about the combination of medicine and politics in his latest book Patient One, how his medical career influences his writing, penning a series versus a stand-alone novel, balancing his medical and writing careers, transitioning between writing for the medical field and writing for a mass audience, and the importance […]

We talk to author Margaret Dilloway about researching in two different fields for her newest book, writing about subjects with a personal slant, how newspaper writing helped her fiction, how she landed her first agent, and why she likes to participate in book clubs. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing […]

We talk to journalist and author Nancy Mullane about how she came to know five prison inmates, the intricacies of researching within the prison system, how she organized four years of research into a manuscript, the role her publishing house Public Affairs played in submitting her book for the Pulitzer Prize, and how she landed […]