Mind Your Business: A Hollywood Literary Agent's Guide to Your Writing Career

Former literary agent Wallerstein, currently a screenplay, novel, and career consultant, provides advice to screenwriters on navigating Hollywood and how to get into the business, as well as the basics of writing a screenplay, writing spec scripts, rewriting, how to present oneself, pitfalls, networking, query letters, agents, deals and contracts, meetings, financial aspects, script consultants, and tips for TV movie and series writers and other topics.

About the author

Michele Wallerstein is an internationally known Screenplay, Novel and Career Consultant, and the author of “MIND YOUR BUSINESS: A Hollywood Literary Agent’s Guide to Your Writing Career.” Her work with writers includes helping them get their work into shape so that it is marketable for the Hollywood community and/or the publishing world. Michele’s career consulting also consists of private meetings where she can answer all of the questions that new writers have about their creative work as well as questions about the business side of their creative life. Prior to becoming a consultant and author, Michele was a Hollywood literary agent where she represented Writers, Directors and Producers in Motion Pictures, Movies for Television and Television Series.