We’ve been background-building Aisle Seat Books for a while and now we’re going to launch it wide, starting with this Kickstarter.
As you’ll see in the two short videos, we’re all screenwriters. We range from produced WGA members and high-profile contest winners to talented unknowns. What we’ve got in common -- and what we want to find and publish widely -- are great scripts that will never otherwise gain the traction that they should.
We all know the numbers. This year alone there were 379 Nicholl QF’s and 1,000 Austin Second Rounders. Add in the great scripts that weren't even entered there, and then figure it across the last -- what? four years? five? ten? What’s the half life of an unsold script? -- and there’s no doubt that there are many hundreds, probably thousands, of well-crafted, entertaining, unproduced feature-length scripts out there.
And right now each of them has a paid audience of one person. Right?
We think finding those great scripts and publishing them as short consumer-friendly books is a win/win for everybody involved. The reader gets to “see” a movie in their head that they couldn’t otherwise experience. The writer gets a paying audience and earns book royalties. And if enough readers like and buy the book version, the screenplay’s chances of getting picked up by a prodco increase exponentially.
All good, right?
But first things first. First we've got to get it off the ground. The Kickstarter is where it has to start. So please help us spread the word. Better yet... well, you know.
Thanks.
EDIT: Re-read this after it was approved and went live. I should have made clear: We are an old-school, mainstream trade book publisher. We are not a vanity press, self-pub mill or anything like those. We select our authors; they don't select us. We pay standard -- and very high -- royalties.
Thanks.
As you’ll see in the two short videos, we’re all screenwriters. We range from produced WGA members and high-profile contest winners to talented unknowns. What we’ve got in common -- and what we want to find and publish widely -- are great scripts that will never otherwise gain the traction that they should.
We all know the numbers. This year alone there were 379 Nicholl QF’s and 1,000 Austin Second Rounders. Add in the great scripts that weren't even entered there, and then figure it across the last -- what? four years? five? ten? What’s the half life of an unsold script? -- and there’s no doubt that there are many hundreds, probably thousands, of well-crafted, entertaining, unproduced feature-length scripts out there.
And right now each of them has a paid audience of one person. Right?
We think finding those great scripts and publishing them as short consumer-friendly books is a win/win for everybody involved. The reader gets to “see” a movie in their head that they couldn’t otherwise experience. The writer gets a paying audience and earns book royalties. And if enough readers like and buy the book version, the screenplay’s chances of getting picked up by a prodco increase exponentially.
All good, right?
But first things first. First we've got to get it off the ground. The Kickstarter is where it has to start. So please help us spread the word. Better yet... well, you know.
Thanks.
EDIT: Re-read this after it was approved and went live. I should have made clear: We are an old-school, mainstream trade book publisher. We are not a vanity press, self-pub mill or anything like those. We select our authors; they don't select us. We pay standard -- and very high -- royalties.
Thanks.
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