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Blake Snyder joined the family business at age 8 working as a voice talent for his father, Emmy-award winning TV producer, Ken Snyder (Roger Ramjet, Big Blue Marble).
Blake graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in English where he was Editor of The Georgetown Voice.
Blake began his career writing for the Disney TV series Kids Incorporated, penning thirteen episodes before turning to writing spec screenplays full time. Before long, a trade journal noted that Blake had become "One of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters."
Blake has sold many original scripts and pitches to the major studios, including two million-dollar sales (one to Steven Spielberg), and had two films produced. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Third Grade and Nuclear Family sold to Universal; Poker Night, Drips, Blank Check and Herbie Comes Home sold to Disney; How I Joined The CIA and Big, Ugly Baby! sold to Fox Family TV; and Alienators to Total Film Group.
Blake's first book Save The Cat! The Last Book On Screenwriting You'll Ever Need will be published May 2005. He will be teaching at UCLA this summer and appearing for book signings in Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco.
He lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Blake Snyder can be contacted at: bsnyder264@aol.com and for more information about his book "Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need" go to: mwp.com or Amazon.
Is Your Screenplay Structured to Sell?
Blake Snyder, is offering a class to make your script more saleable.
Structure! Structure! Structure
December 3rd and 4th , 2005
Westwood, CA (Near UCLA)
This special workshop limited to 10 participants will take you from movie
idea to 40-scene outline in a two-day crash course for serious screenwriters only.
- Learn the 15 beat outline secret behind hits like Wedding Crashers and 40
Year-Old Virgin.
- See how the Fun and Games section of any script reveals “The Promise of
The Premise.”
- Discover the Save the Cat! method Snyder has utilized to sell a record 13
spec screenplays to Hollywood (including two million-dollar sales).
For further information: Contact B.J. Markel at bjmarkel@aol.com or phone
323-270-9028
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