Script Magazine Editors - Writing Routine and Outlook

Jenna Avery is a screenwriter who redesigned her life to support her passion for writing. She is a writing coach and the founder of the Writers Circlean online Just Do the Writing accountability systemdesigned to help writers get the support, accountability, and inspiration they need to finish all of their writing projects and get their work into the world. Jenna blogs about writing, creativity, and life purpose at JennaAvery.com .

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is the editor and online community manager of Script Magazine and on Stephanie Palmers list of Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers. Jeanne consults with writers on how to build and strengthen their online and offline networks as well as face their fears in order to succeed in writing and in personal peace. More information can be found on her blog jeannevb.com .

Barri Evins is a producer whos sold to all the majors. She created Big Ideas to give aspiring screenwriters what it takes to break into the business by sharing methods she uses with professional writers. Visit her website to get a free Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down on the market potential of your script concept. Big Ideas offers an insiders perspective, reveals how to create stories that ignite industry interest, and enables you to develop screenplays faster than ever before.

Paula Landry, MBA, is a film producer and consultant. Ms. Landry creates media business plans and marketing plans, and teaches film business classes at NYU, School of Visual Arts, and Metropolitan College of New York in New York City. She co-authored This Business of FILM, Sell Your Screenplay in 30 Days, and is the author of Scheduling and Budgeting Your Film. Her films have debuted at Sundance and CineVegas and have won awards from Columbia Pictures Screen Gems, Time Warner Showtime Audience Award, and WorldFest Houston Film Festival.

Danny Manus is an in-demand script consultant and founder of No BullScript Consulting, and was ranked in the Top 15 Cream of the Crop Script Consultants by Creative Screenwriting Magazine. He is the author of No B.S. for Screenwriters: Advice from the Executive Perspective. He was the director of development for Clifford Werber Productions (Cinderella Story, Sydney White), a development consultant for Eclectic Pictures, and the DOD at Sandstorm Films, which had a first-look deal at Screen Gems and a development deal with Top Cow Comics. Danny is still attached to produce several projects independently. He also teaches seminars to writers across the country.

Hayley McKenzie runs Script Angel, working as a development consultant and script editor on feature films and television dramas in the United Kingdom and United States. Hayleys produced feature-film script-editing credits include Papadopoulos & Sons, Chakara, and The Watcher Self. Hayley was development executive at ITV Studios and script-edited prime-time UK shows Casualty (BBC) and Blue Murder (ITV).

Brad Riddell has written four feature films on assignment for Paramount, MTV, Universal, and independent producers. Brads first film, American Pie: Band Camp, sold more than a million copies in its first week of release on DVD and is now syndicated on TBS. His most recent film, Crooked Arrows, was released nationally in theaters in 2012 and is the first mainstream lacrosse movie ever produced. Brad taught MFA and BFA screenwriting courses at University of Southern California in Los Angeles for six years, and then undergraduate courses at State University of New YorkOswego for one, and now serves as an assistant professor at DePaul Universitys School of Cinematic Arts in Chicago.

Shawn Tolleson gives you the practical tools you need to accomplish your dream career. She is the premiere career coach for entertainment industry professionals of all disciplines. She has coached actors from being on the outside of the industry, looking for a break, to being working professionals who book TV, film, and commercials regularly and earn six figures as an actor. She has coached writers to landing TV staff-writing jobs, directors to attaching star actors to their projects, and producers to securing financing for their projects. Recently her clients have booked jobs working with James Franco, Julia Roberts, Tarsem, Peter Berg, Ray Liotta, and Jay Mohr, and on shows for AMC, TNT, Discovery, USA, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, and more. Her entertainment industry career includes climbing the ladder from production assistant to producer of commercials, music videos, and high fashion stills, working with some of the biggest names in the industry including the Rolling Stones, Jennifer Aniston, Steven Meisel, and Gwen Stefani on 100-plus projects. As a filmmaker, shes sold a pitch to Warner Bros., directed acclaimed theatre, won a screenwriting contest, attached A-list talent to her projects, and seen her films play around the world in film festivals. She brings her real-world experience to her work with her coaching clients. www.entertainmentcareerstrategy.com .

Brett Wean is a writer and actor who has studied improvisation at New York Citys acclaimed Upright Citizens Brigade and Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT), where he has taught improv as well as performed on several house teams. He has studied both sketch and screenwriting. He has appeared on television in various commercials, including New York Lotterys Little Bit o Luck campaign, on MTVs Weird Vibes and in the feature film Breakup at a Wedding, produced by Zachary Quintos Before the Door Pictures.