Producing for TV and New Media, 2nd Edition

PREFACE

Producing as a career and a lifestyle grabbed me years ago, but like many of the people you'll meet in the pages of this book, I didn't start off as a producer. Writing was my passion. I liked the process, and was able to earn a living with feature-length screenplays (eight were optioned and one made…badly), short stories, magazine articles, movie reviews, educational curricula. Then, after moving from L.A. to NYC, I was offered a job at NBC as a writer/producer. I knew what a writer did, but a producer? I said yes immediately—I'd figure out the producing part later.

That simple yes was the launch pad for this journey called producing for television—and now, for new media—that shows no sign of slowing down. I've written and/or produced ...