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By Gatsby Books
Ever notice how The Great Gatsby and Sunset Boulevard end the same way—with a guy dead in a pool?
Save the Cat!
Blake Snyder
Paperback
$22.95
$21.34
When they made Breakfast at Tiffany's into a movie, they saved the cat. In the novel the cat was never seen again. There is a lesson here. Disregard it at your own peril.
Story
Robert McKee
Hardback
$45.00
$41.85
If you have a story in your head, but you can't put it down on paper, then you don't got a story. This book will either help you or disabuse you of illusion.
Screenplay
Syd Field
Paperback
$20.00
$18.60
In order to get this book's references, you'll have to watch movies from the 1970s—that alone is worth the price of this book.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
Hardback
$26.95
$25.06
With his life's work forever connected to the success of Star Wars, it was a tender mercy that Joseph Campell didn't live to see The Phantom Menace.
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
Jessica Brody
Paperback
$18.00
$16.74
Reverse engineer your unsold screenplay. Turn it into a novel. Sell the novel. Write the adapted screenplay.
Writing Down the Bones
Natalie Goldberg,
Bill Addison,
Julia Cameron
Paperback
$19.95
$18.55
Because writing should be as natural as breathing.
Dialogue
Robert McKee
Hardback
$35.00
$32.55
Discover what you're really trying to say—and leave it at that.