Hollywood is hungry to find books to be made into films, TV shows, and limited series, including novels, short stories, nonfiction, biography, and in all genres.
This four-part seminar and private consultation series empowers you with everything you need to target Hollywood and grab their interest in adapting your material for film or television – including the biggest boost of all – a rare opportunity to have your query submitted directly to a top agent, manager or publisher!
Seminar will be held in Spring 2026.
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FREE WEBINAR!
A Taste of Books to Screen
A free hour-long webinar on what Hollywood is looking for, notable sales, and Q & A with an Entertainment Industry Attorney covering the ins and outs of making a deal, what it entails, and what to watch out for. Sign up for our newsletter for updates.
The Seminar
90-minute Live Webinar
We will cover what the film industry is looking for, how to craft your loglines and queries, and resources to target your letters. Submit your logline for a chance to be reworked during the class. Includes Q & A and will be available to view on-demand:
- Discover how to tell if your book is a candidate for adaptation.
- Learn what the industry is looking for, and how to convince them that you have it.
- Find out how to approach industry insiders to boost your success rate.
- Books have given us some of the greatest movies of all time. Identify the magic ingredient they have in common.
- Master approaching industry insiders to ace litmus tests and grab their interest.
- Gain Exclusive Access to the Webinar Handout and invaluable information to guide you in creating materials to market your book to the industry.
Submit Material for Reading
Choose One Option:
- First Three Book Chapters
- Up to 50 industry-formatted Manuscript Pages
- Book Proposal and First Chapter
One-on-One Consultations
45-minute Consultation: Following reading and reviewing your material, receive honest assessment and constructive advice in an interactive discussion to maximize book-to-screen potential. Uncover your hook!
30-minute Consultation: Craft your logline, submit and receive constructive feedback.
15-minute Consultation: Hone your logline and add a supporting paragraph, submit and receive productive feedback.
30-minute Consultation: Expanding on our work, craft your full query and submit to discuss how to hone, polish, and elevate.
Industry Connections
The Big Boost: Your Query Letter has the chance to go to a book agent, manager, or publisher who works with A-List authors.
Cold queries are often ignored and frequently deleted. The queries with the strongest elements for Books to Screen adaptation will be submitted directly to a top-level book agent, manager or publisher, specifically matching their personal preferences.
My personal submission ensures you will not get lost in the shuffle.
Plus, you are guaranteed to receive a response within one month of the submission!
Cost of the full Seminar: $895
Hollywood wants your book!
Stop dreaming. Make it happen.
Our Industry Pros
Recognized for her achievement in developing high concept, character driven, globally saleable, franchise-oriented entertainment, Fonda Snyder has written, developed and sold more than 50 projects for networks, streamers and major feature film studios.
With animated features at Netflix, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, and Sony and tv series at Disney, PBS and Netflix, she was hired by Global Toy Company, Maison Battat as Executive Vice President, to create an Entertainment Division for the Montreal based company. Prior, as President of Alchemy Ink, Inc., Snyder represented authors and illustrators, including Pulitzer Prize winning Berkeley Breathed, Suzanne and Max Lang and their #1 New York Times Bestseller, Grumpy Monkey, Hilary Duff, The Jim Henson Co. and Kevin Costner, and has written and developed bibles and pitch decks for brands such as Raggedy Ann & Andy, Encyclopedia Brown and The Phantom Tollbooth.
Snyder was hired as VP Disney Channel Original Movies, wrote the business plan for Technicolor to enter into IP development and has consulted for 9 Story where she sold Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum by NY Times Bestselling author Brad Meltzer, to PBS. She served as VP Development & Sales for Rainmaker where she sold Chris Tougas’s picture book Dojo Daycare to Dreamworks and developed it as a preschool series; Team Zenko Go —now airing on Netflix. After, Snyder developed Tougas’s concept for Farm Team into an animated feature film and sold it to Sony Pictures Animation where it has just been greenlit to production.
Early in her career, Snyder co-founded Storyopolis, a family entertainment company, encompassing development and production with a first look deal at Warner Bros., book publishing, art gallery, exhibition space and retail outlet, financed by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen.
Fonda’s Wish List: The genre that I work in mostly is: picture books – if the author is also an illustrator, first readers, chapter books with humor, and intriguing Y/A that includes some magic/fantasy.
Andy Ross opened his literary agency in 2008. Prior to that, he was the owner of the legendary Cody’s Books in Berkeley for 30 years. His agency represents books in a wide range of non-fiction genres including narrative non-fiction, science, journalism, history, popular culture, memoir, and current events. He also represents literary, commercial, historical, and upmarket women’s fiction, and YA and middle grade fiction and non-fiction.
Andy has participated and taught classes in numerous writers’ conferences including San Francisco Writers Conference, Kauai Writers Conference, San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference, Nebraska Writers Conference, and more. He has organized and conducted writing intensive workshops with Linda Watanabe McFerrin in Santa Fe, Provence, Kauai, and in Scotland.
Andy is the author of The Literary Agent’s Guide to Writing a Non-Fiction Book Proposal.
Authors Andy represents include: Daniel Ellsberg, Jeff Arch, Fritjof Capra, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan Griffin, Leonard Shlain, Gwen Strauss, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Anjanette Delgado, Mark Goldblatt, Tawni Waters, Randall Platt, Mary Jo McConahay, Gerald Nachman, Laurie Fox, Michael Parenti, Paul Krassner, Sari Bashi, Milton Viorst, Senator Jeff Bingaman, Michele Anna Jordan, and Scott Ostler.
Andy’s Wish List: In fiction, I like character and voice-driven stories about real people in the real world. Sorry. No zombies at the prom, thank you very much. For non-fiction, the agency looks for writing with a strong voice, robust story arc, and books that tell a big story about culture and society by authors with the authority to write about their subject.
Since 1995, Jason Dravis has gained a reputation for spotting and promoting exceptional material, specializing in family entertainment and representing some of the industry’s best writers. His clients have worked on top-rated and Emmy award winning programs. Fairly Odd Parents, Sofia the First, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Word Girl, The Backyardigains, Dan Vs., and Wolverine and the X-Men are a few of the many popular shows his clients staff. On the feature side, he represents the writer of Pixar’s Planes.
Some of the authors that Dravis works with include: two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo, two-time Newbery Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly, NYT best seller Suzanne Collins, NYT best seller James Ponti, Newbery Medal winner Donna Barba Higuera, NYT best seller Avi, NYT best seller Norton Juster, and NYT best seller Karen McManus.
Jason is also considered a leading agent in bringing books to film, notably: The John Newbery Medal winner, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate; The John Newbery Medal winner, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo; the smash hit, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins; Tom Barron’s popular Merlin series; and The Caldecott Medal winner and Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award® winner, Hugo.
Jason prides himself on working closely with and building the careers of his clients. Having a strong understanding of the constantly changing industry, he is able to provide his clients with a plan to achieve long term success.
Jason’s Wish List: I love authors whose stories are enjoyed and beloved by viewers and readers of all ages, but specifically in the preschool to young adult world.
Susanna Einstein began her publishing career in 1996 at Warner Books (now Grand Central Publishing), then worked as a book scout for Maria B. Campbell Associates before she began agenting in 2005. From 2015-25 she ran her own agency, Einstein Literary Management; in January 2025 she moved over to Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. She works primarily on upmarket commercial and crime fiction for adults, selectively on YA and MG projects, and idiosyncratically on non-fiction that has included biography, business, cookbooks, history and memoir. She grew up in Manhattan and now lives in New Jersey. Her clients include David Ellis, Jennie Fields, Rachael Herron, Sarah Seltzer, and Kitty Zeldis.
Susanna’s Wish List: I’m primarily looking for upmarket fiction these days – preferably contemporary, or for rom-com or crime fiction.
John Beach has over 25 years in the entertainment industry – starting in TV literary at Paradigm and later with ACME Talent & Literary, where he was instrumental in the sale of Oliver Stone’s WORLD TRADE CENTER w/ Nicolas Cage and YOUTH IN REVOLT w/ Michael Cera.
After ACME, John and 2 other producers created Fortress Features, where he aided in the raise of Fortress’ development fund. As the Director of Development, John sought out property for Fortress to acquire and develop into rich film/television projects.
After surviving cancer in 2015, John started Gravity Squared Entertainment, a Los Angeles based management/production company. Currently, Gravity Squared has over 400 books/treatment/scripts under their management, many being Pulitzer Prize winners and New York Times bestsellers. We have over 25 projects in various stages of development/production – including:; developing and producing a feature film with Mosaic & Skydance with Will Ferrell (TALLADEGA NIGHTS, ANCHORMAN) starring and Adam McKay (DON’T LOOK UP, VICE) producing; optioned NOT QUITE NARWHAL by Jessie Sima to DreamWorks Animation TV, which is about a unicorn being raised by a family of narwhal, and currently has 2 seasons on Netflix; producing a feature at Netflix with Marc Platt Productions (LA LA LAND, DRIVE) and Jennifer Lopez’s, Nuyorican Productions (UNSTOPPABLE, HUSTLERS) producing, which is based on Jonathan Stone’s book, PARTING SHOT, with a script by Derek Haas (3:10 TO YUMA, CHICAGO FIRE); and we’re currently in production on Judith Heumann’s memoir, BEING HEUMANN at AppleTV+, which we’re producing with Kevin J. Walsh (NAPOLEON, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA) and David Permut (HACKSAW RIDGE, FACE/OFF) and the Academy Award winning writer/director of CODA, Sian Heder, at the helm, writing and directing.
John’s Wish List: I like historical non-fiction, suspense/thrillers, and big action.
Rachel Miller is a founding partner of Haven Entertainment, a management and production company based in Los Angeles. Haven Entertainment is a dynamic entertainment company that has gained recognition by producing award-winning documentary and narrative feature films. The company also represents top writers, directors, animators and improvisers, and works with brands to develop cutting edge digital content.
Miller specializes in intellectual property (IP) development and has sold over two-dozen book titles to major publishers. Recently, she sold New York Times best-selling author James Frey’s book Insomniac to St. Martin’s Press, and subsequently sold the film rights to Fox 2000 in a six-figure deal. On the management side, Miller’s clients have worked across every entertainment platform and have sold numerous screenplays and television shows. Her clients have worked on such acclaimed television shows as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, House of Lies, and Family Guy.
Additionally, Miller produced the documentary Under the Electric Sky which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. This 3D film chronicles festival-goers in Las Vegas during the Electric Daisy Carnival, the largest music festival in the US. The film is co-directed by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, the team that produced Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, and directed Katy Perry: Part of Me. Focus recently released the film.
Miller is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Rachel’s Wish List: I am always looking for smart, female-forward material with muscular action and that isn’t too dark. For example, more Hanna, less Sharp Objects.
Susan Schulman Literary Agency LLC specializes in representing foreign rights, motion picture, television, and allied rights, live stage including commercial theater, opera and dance adaptations, new media rights including e-book and digital applications, podcasts, NFTs, and other subsidiary rights on behalf of North American publishers and literary agents. The agency also represents its clients domestically and internationally in all markets. The agency has a particular interest in fiction and non-fiction books for, by, and about women and women’s issues and interests.
The agency’s areas of focus include commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction, specifically narrative memoir, politics, economics, social issues, history, urban planning, finance, law, health, psychology, body/mind/spirit, and creativity, and writing, as well as non-fiction and fiction children’s books on all age levels. We work with authors including Marilyn Robinson, Louis Sachar, Walter Tevis, and Michael Ondaatje.
The agency was founded by Susan Schulman who, before establishing her agency, was an agent at International Creative Management in the Literary Department. Prior to working at ICM, Susan taught History of the English Language and Linguistics as well as Renaissance Drama and American Literature courses at the college level. Additionally, Susan served as Associate Publisher of Ohio University Press and acquired over 100 titles for the Press.
Susan’s Wish List: We would especially like to read drama, comedy, romance, or mystery.