Jermaine Johnson and Ari Lubet are managers and producers at 3 Arts Entertainment.

Ep 139 - "Literary Management 101" with Jermaine Johnson and Ari Lubet, Managers, Producers, 3 Arts

Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now.
https://www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/1680571451/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1621627715&sr=8-3

Ep 143 - Alan Dean Foster, Author, Star Wars Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Over 130 Standalone Novels

David Jimenez-Katsman and Katrina Escudero are managers and producers at Sugar23, a newly formed management group founded in 2017 by Academy Award®-winning manager-producer Michael Sugar.

Ep 157 - "Management 101" with David Jimenez-Katsman and Katrina Escudero, Managers, Sugar23

Sara Nestor is a motion picture literary agent at Verve Talent and Literary Agency.

Ep 163 - "Literary Agents 101" with Sara Nestor, Motion Picture Literary Agent at Verve

Zoe Whittall is the author of the Giller-shortlisted The Best Kind of People, the Lambda-winning Holding Still for As Long As Possible, and her debut, Bottle Rocket Hearts. She has published three collections of poetry: The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life, Precordial Thump, and The Emily Valentine Poems. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Cosmonauts Ave, The Believer, The Cut, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail and more. She is also a Canadian Screen Award-winning TV and film writer, with credits on The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Schitt's Creek, Degrassi and others.
Zoe’s newest novel, THE SPECTACULAR, is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Spectacular-Novel-Zoe-Whittall/dp/1524799416
https://twitter.com/zoewhittall

Ep 166 - "Writing THE SPECTACULAR" with Zoe Whittall, Author, TV Writer, and Screenwriter

NEW EPISODE! Hannah Moscovitch is a Canadian playwright who rose to national prominence in the 2000s. She is best known for her plays East of Berlin, This Is War, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, and Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, for which she received the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-language drama.
Her newest project, AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, for which she is a writer and Co-Executive Producer, is now streaming on AMC, and it's first season's finale premieres on television next week, November 13, 2022!
https://twitter.com/moscotweets
https://www.amcplus.com/pages/anne-rice-collection?utm_medium=sem&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=interview-with-the-vampire&utm_keyword=&utm_content=&gclid=Cj0KCQiAmaibBhCAARIsAKUlaKSI7l8fttL3wcRKl4vKJ_G5Yz2Dy6h6sFqODLmtQ35_DioDYQgfA-EaAiPXEALw_wcB

Ep 170 - NEW! "Writing AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire" with Hannah Moscovitch, Co-EP

Sofya Levitsky-Weitz is a Brooklyn and LA-based TV writer and playwright.
For TV, she was a writer for FX's critically acclaimed The Bear and Hulu's The Dropout, and a writer for Starz's Gaslit.
As a playwright, her plays include this party sucks (on the 2019 Kilroy's List), Cannabis Passover (PWC Playlabs, 2021-2 finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference), be mean to me,  and Intuitive Men, and her musical Nostalgia Night (composer: Matt McCollum) was produced in Winter 2022. 
Sofya has projects in development with Lionsgate, her play this party sucks is optioned by Mark Gordon Pictures for the stage and film/TV rights and will be commercially produced next year, and The Bear Season 2 is expected to release in 2023.
https://www.sofyalevitskyweitz.com

Ep 171 - NEW! "Writing THE BEAR" with Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, TV Writer and Playwright

Originally released as Ep 114.
Gamal Hennessy is a comic book attorney and business consultant with more than two decades of experience. He is currently wrapping up a Kickstarter for his upcoming book The Business of Independent Comic Book Publishing, which is a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of the business of comic book publishing. It’s edited by Aftershock editor-in-chief Mike Marts and features a foreword from writer and Heavy Metal executive editor Joseph P. Illidge. When he’s not practicing law, Gamal writes novels and provides both business advice and legal representation for comic book creators and publishers.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/108912…book-publishing
twitter.com/gamalhennessy

Ep 176 - Writer Selects: "The Business of Independent Comic Book Publishing" with Gamal Hennessy

Originally released as Ep 86.
We went through our interviews with 4 literary agents for insights about the Query Letter process, and edited together their answers by question.
Erin Niumata is SVP at Folio Literary Management.
Marlo Berliner is an Associate Agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Andrea Morrison is a Literary Agent at Writers House, A Literary Agency.
Cate Hart is a Literary Agent at Harvey Klinger Literary Agency.

Ep 177 - Writer Selects: "How to Write a Query Letter 101" with 4 Literary Agents

Originally released as Ep 44.
Beth Schwartz is the Showrunner and Executive Producer of CW's Arrow. She has also written for Legends of Tomorrow, Heart of Dixie, Brothers and Sisters, and What About Brian. Intro with Alan Dean Foster, a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 120 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series.

Ep 178 - Writer Selects: Beth Schwartz, Showrunner and Executive Producer of CW's Arrow

Originally released as Ep 11.
Updated Description:
Mike Zagari was the principal figure at AMC Networks Publishing involved in bringing in Kelly Sue DeConnick, Bill Sienkiewicz, Brenden Fletcher, Tula Lotay, Kirk Hammett, Christine Norrie, Cecil Castellucci, and others to the new planned comic book publishing line, that intended to work with established and up-and-coming talent in developing, producing and selling fan-focused speciality books, comics, original graphic novels and more.
Series would have included Kelly Sue DeConnick and Bill Sienkiewicz's Parisian White. Nights of Lono, by Kirk Hammett, Marcel Feldmar and Christine Norrie, Oubliette by Brenden Fletcher and Tula Lotay, with those first three titles promising  a promotional edition comic debut at San Diego Comic Con 2023, followed by series launch later in the year. And a new original graphic novel, Miss Fisher's First Mysteries, based on the Acorn TV series adapted from the novels by Kerry Greenwood and written by Cecil Castelluci was to debut in 2023.
Original Description:
Mike Zagari is an Executive Director at AMC Networks. He formerly worked at Aftershock, Disney/Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars, Marvel Studios, and DC Comics. Mike has also self-published the comic book series Human On the Inside and Conscious.

Ep 179 - Writer Selects: The Art of Being a Creative Executive with Mike Zagari, Executive Director

Originally released as Ep 4.
Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now.
www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dea…1621627715&sr=8-3

Ep 180 - Writer Selects: Alan Dean Foster, Writer of Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

Peter Katz is a manager and producer, and CEO of the management / production company Story Driven, where he supports the vision of writers and directors for film, TV and emerging mediums. Most recently he sold the short story I AM NOT ALONE by his client Chris Hicks to Netflix, with Jessica Chastain starring.

Ep 181 - NEW! "How to Develop & Sell IP for Film & TV" w Peter Katz, Manager, Producer, Story Driven

Originally released as Ep 32.
Dorian Karchmar is a literary agent at William Morris Endeavor (WME).

Ep 182 - Writer Selects: "Literary Agents 101" with Dorian Karchmar, Literary Agent at WME

Ep 183 - Writer Selects: "How to Be a Comic Book Editor 101" with Joseph Illidge, Executive Editor

Originally released as Ep 96.
Gary Whitta is a Screenwriter, Author, Comic Book Writer, and Video Game Writer. His works include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars Rebels, The Book of Eli, After Earth (which he co-wrote with M. Night Shyamalan), Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead, Marvel’s The Last Jedi comic book adaption, and Abomination, Gary’s debut novel, among many others.
https://twitter.com/garywhitta

Ep 184 - Writer Selects: "Screenwriting 101" with Gary Whitta, Writer, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years experience, and the founder of Lucinda Literary, based in New York. Prior to founding her agency, she worked in the Publicity division of HarperCollins, where she assisted on the media campaign for Freakonomics among other New York Times bestsellers. She later worked as a marketing consultant for Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project), before launching her career as an agent. She has worked with all major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, and Scholastic, and currently represents New York Times and internationally best-selling authors in the categories of business, health, lifestyle, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction.
Her classes and coaching programs have been taught to hundreds of writers worldwide, and became the inspiration for Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; Penguin Random House; February 6th, 2024).
Learn more at:
https://www.getsignedbook.com/
https://www.lucindaliterary.com/
and follow Lucinda Halpern on Instagram and Twitter:
https://www.instagram.com/lucindaliterary/
https://www.twitter.com/LucindaLitNYC/
https://www.twitter.com/LucindaBlu/

Ep 185 - NEW! "Get Signed" with Lucinda Halpern, Literary Agent and Author, "Get Signed"

Get ESSENTIALS Here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1498784643/the-lab-press-presents-essentials-an-original-graphic-novel?ref=9nyn36
ESSENTIALS is an epic reality-hopping sci-fi adventure featuring art from Jason Howard, Vince Locke, Glenn Fabry, DaNi, MK Perker, and Andrea Mutti, with a cover from Bill Sienkiewicz. You can preorder ESSENTIALS on Kickstarter.
Mike Zagari is a 20-year veteran of the comics industry with experience at Marvel, Disney, Lucasfilm, DC Comics and AMC Networks. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Throughout his career, Mike has been deeply involved in every aspect of the comics industry. Mike is currently Chief Creative Officer with THE LAB PRESS. Their debut graphic novel is ESSENTIALS, written by Black Sails star Luke Arnold and Emmy-nominated writer/producer Chris "Doc" Wyatt.

Ep 186 - NEW! ESSENTIALS with Mike Zagari, Chief Creative Officer with THE LAB PRESS

Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now.
www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dea…1621627715&sr=8-3

Ep 4 - Alan Dean Foster, Writer of Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Jim Zub is a writer of Comics, including Avengers (Marvel), Dungeons & Dragons (IDW), Champions (Marvel), Figment (Disney/Marvel), Samurai Jack (IDW), Wayward (Image) and more!

Ep 9 - How to Write a Comic Book 101 with Jim Zub, Writer of Avengers and Dungeons & Dragons

Dorian Karchmar is a literary agent at William Morris Endeavor (WME).

Ep 32 - "Literary Agents 101" with Dorian Karchmar, Literary Agent at William Morris Endeavor (WME)

Erin Niumata is SVP at Folio Literary Management.
https://twitter.com/ecniumata

Ep 83 - "Literary Agents 101" with Erin Niumata, SVP at Folio Literary Management

We went through our interviews with 4 literary agents for insights about the Query Letter process, and edited together their answers by question.
Erin Niumata is SVP at Folio Literary Management.
Marlo Berliner is an Associate Agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Andrea Morrison is a Literary Agent at Writers House, A Literary Agency.
Cate Hart is a Literary Agent at Harvey Klinger Literary Agency.

Ep 86 - "How to Write a Query Letter 101" with 4 Literary Agents

Don Winslow is a New York Times Best Selling Author of over twenty crime and mystery novels, including The Cartel, The Force, and The Border, as well as many short stories and film screenplays. Every one of his books has been sold to a major film studio or network, some books two or three times, and several are in the works. His upcoming film and tv projects include The Cartel Trilogy, being adapted for a tv series by FX with Don, Shane Salerno, and Ridley Scott executive producing, as well as The Force with Matt Damon, director James Mangold, and screenwriter Scott Frank all attached. 
With the tour for his new book, Broken, which was set to begin on April 6, and included sold-out events at major cities across the country from NYC to LA, with major introductions by major authors like Lee Child, now cancelled, Don has launched a “virtual tour” strategy.
DON'S NEW BOOK, BROKEN, IS ON SALE TODAY, APRIL 7!
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062988904/broken/
https://twitter.com/donwinslow

Ep 95 - "How to Write a Novel 101" with Don Winslow, NYT Best Selling Author, Broken

Dan Carlin is a New York Times-best selling Author as well as the host of the podcasts Hardcore History, Hardcore History: Addendum, and Common Sense. His first book, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, is available now.
https://twitter.com/HardcoreHistory

Ep 101 - Dan Carlin, Writer, The End is Always Near, Host, Hardcore History

Robyn Meisinger is a Manager and a Producer for Anonymous Content. Formerly, she was the Co-Founder of Madhouse Entertainment.

Ep 105 - "Literary Management 101" with Robyn Meisinger, Manager and Producer, Anonymous Content

Krista Sipp is a Literary Manager, Producer and Co-Founder of First Friday Entertainment, a management and production company founded by Devon Byers & Krista, dedicated to showcasing fresh and unique voices.

Ep 108 - "Literary Management 101" with Krista Sipp, Literary Manager, First Friday Entertainment

Bard Dorros is a partner at Anonymous Content, as well as a manager and producer. Some of the projects he's worked on include True Detective, Counterpart, Spotlight, and many more. He's currently producing Midnight Sky at Netflix, he's also producing Worth, and also the upcoming Last of the Mohicans TV series for HBO Max.

Ep 113 - "Literary Management 101" with Bard Dorros, Partner, Manager, Producer, Anonymous Content

Olivia Charmaine Morris is Founder and CEO of Black Monarch Entertainment. Previously, she was Director of Development, Original Scripted Programming, for TBS.
instagram.com/olivia_charmaine
instagram.com/blackmonarchent

Ep 115 - "Introducing Black Monarch Entertainment" with Olivia Charmaine Morris, Founder and CEO

Tiffany is a writer and director originally from Cashmere, Washington. She's won both the prestigious Disney ABC writing fellowship and a Sony TV Diverse Directing Fellowship. She wrote the feature adaptation of Nancy Drew for Warner Brothers, and her sequel to the classic Adventures In Babysitting was nominated for both DGA and Imagen awards. Her first original short The Swan won Best Picture at the LA Live Score Film Festival, and was an official selection at Palm Springs International. In 2019 Tiffany wrote two original features, Turkey Drop for Freeform; and Holidate for Netflix and McG/Wonderland, for which she also served as Executive Producer.
Holidate is now streaming on Netflix:
https://www.netflix.com/title/81034553
https://www.instagram.com/thetiffanypaulsen

Ep 130 - "How to Write a Feature Film Script 101" with Tiffany Paulsen, Writer, Netflix' HOLIDATE

Paul Vidich is an author and former senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. His first novel, An Honorable Man, a Publisher's Weekly top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016, was followed by The Good Assassin and The Coldest Warrior. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Lit Hub, The Nation, CrimeReads, and elsewhere. 
Paul's newest novel, THE MERCENARY, is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Mercenary-Novel-Paul-Vidich/dp/1643136208
https://twitter.com/paulvidich

Ep 134 - "How to Write a Spy Novel 101" with Paul Vidich, Author, THE MERCENARY

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