Writing Scripts Hollywood Will Love

One of Hollywood's top script analysts--whose "discoveries" include Robocop and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure--shows script writers what buyers look for in a Hollywood screenplay and how to best present a script. Writers will learn what kinds of plot, characterization, dialogue, and more maximize the chances for success.

After getting an agent with her very first script, Katherine Atwell Herbert moved to Los Angeles and began working in the business. At DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, she was a script analyst and the executive assistant to the vice president of production. Later she became the development director for a production company at MGM Television and has worked with Backroads Productions preparing films for production.

She has also analyzed scripts for Fox Broadcasting, IRS Films, Carolco, and other, including Multimedia, Viacom-Showtime and Lightstorm–Jim Cameron’s company. Her scriptwriting includes episodes for Trial by Jury, Murder She Wrote, and Quantum Leap, among others. The writer-analyst has won several national and local awards for her work from the National Federation of Press Women and was nominated as an Outstanding Young Woman in America. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.