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Bart Baker on Pitching Your Book to Hollywood

Bart Baker on Pitching Your Book to Hollywood

Update: 2025-11-19
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294 / Do you want to pitch your book to Hollywood? Screenwriter, playwright, and novelist Bart Baker shares how authors can position their books for adaptations. He also gives us the story behind Honeymoon With Harry, a movie deal twenty-plus years in the making, which will go into production in 2026, starring Kevin Costner and Jake Gyllenhaal for Amazon/MGM. 

  • Lessons from writing plays, scripts, and novels
  • What authors should know about adaptation and selling movie rights
  • When to get legal advice 
  • The business side: money management finding trusted advisors
  • Why following trends is unhelpful—and what to do instead

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Bart Baker on Pitching Your Book to Hollywood

Bart Baker on Pitching Your Book to Hollywood

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