Editors, Writers, & Creative Writing Instructors: Scripts & Screeplays

Screenplays - Scripts

Editors

VIRGINIA CLARK has been an editor and proofreader of fiction and nonfiction for many years, working on more than 200 titles. She specializes in literary and popular fiction, detective/crime fiction, biography, self-help, history, music, and the visual arts, especially film. She was a staff copyeditor for Simon & Schuster in New York starting in 1989 for five years and has continued to freelance for them ever since, as well as for other presses including Algonquin; Duke University; Farrar, Straus, & Giroux; and the University of California. Fiction she has copyedited includes Richard Condon, The Emperor of America; Quinn Dalton, High-Strung; David Freeman, A Hollywood Life and It's All True; Kem Nunn, The Dogs of Winter; Kate Walbert, The Gardens of Kyoto and Our Kind; and Meg Wolitzer, Surrender, Dorothy. Detective/crime authors include Jan Burke, George C. Chesbro, Nick Gaitano, Alison Glen, Philip Harper, David Osborn, Ian Rankin, and Jan Roberts. She has copyedited autobiographies including Miles Davis, Miles; Faye Dunaway, Looking for Gatsby; Charlton Heston, In the Arena; and Neil Simon, Rewrites: A Memoir; as well as biographies such as Joseph McBride, The Catastrophe of Success: Frank Capra and McBride's Steven Spielberg. She has also worked on large collections including The Companion to 20th-Century Music, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, and The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. In addition, she has been proofreader/copyeditor for October Magazine since 1989, as well as for various other magazines such as for Condé Nast publications.

Copyediting
Proofreading
Developmental editing
Literary fiction, popular fiction, detective or crime fiction, true-crime, history, biography, music, film, television, visual arts, self-help, show business, humor, social science, psychology

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The award-winning writing of KAREN DAVIS prompted one of many loyal clients to call her his "secret weapon in attaining communications supremacy." She earned magna cum laude degrees in English and history and world-class journalism credentials from the London Times and Regional Newspapers. Since 1976 she has been an international correspondent and author of hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles; publishing house editor (several books won American Library Association Outstanding Reference Source awards); acclaimed advertising writer (First Place in the Pacific Northwest, direct mail campaign) and technical writer ($10,000 First Place in North America, engineering paper); director of publications and marketing; author of style manuals; university lecturer in writing; and published lyricist and poet. She brings clarity and conciseness to confusing language and organization to chaos..

Copy Editing & proofreading
Technical editing
Business, marketing, and advertising writing
Screenplays
Journalism and reporting
Writing instruction
Fiction: historical, mainstream, literary
Nonfiction: history, creative, literary, business

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TIM GRUNDMANN, is an author, playwright and TV scriptwriter and story editor with 25 years of experience. His books in the Doug Chronicles series are published by Disney Press. He was part of the creative team behind Pee-wee's Playhouse on CBS (for which he wrote the show "bible"), and developed the HBO comedy Norman's Corner with Seinfeld creator Larry David. As head writer and story editor for the Disney Channel's New Mickey Mouse Club and Nickelodeon's Doug, he guided scripts from concept to final draft. He's written episodes of Allegra's Window and Welcome, Freshmen for Nickelodeon, and was developmental writer for Mowgli and His Friends and WaysideSchool for the Disney Channel and ABC-TV. As house writer for Broadcast Arts in NYC, he wrote scripts, proposals, treatments and show bibles for TV shows starring Gilbert Gottfried, Madeline Kahn and others. Recently he wrote scripts for the PC game My Scene Goes Hollywood for Vivendi Universal Games.

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W. REED MORAN is a former Washington, D.C. lawyer who discovered that it was writing and teaching he loved, not corporate law. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he worked as writer on the staff of four network drama series: Simon & Simon (CBS), Sidekicks (ABC), MacGyver (ABC), and Hollywood Detective (A&E).

Reed also wrote and sold a number of network drama pilots, feature and TV movie scripts and animation, as well as episodes for such series as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Swamp Thing, Baywatch, Renegade, Silk Stalkings, The Watcher, and Hollywood Detective.

He was nominated for a CableAce Award (Best Writing On A Dramatic Series) for his work on Hollywood Detective.

His professional screenwriting work includes the genres of mystery, science fiction, action adventure, dramatic comedy, family drama, children’s programming, and animation.

Reed has published over one hundred articles as a medical journalist for USA Today online and many for other publications. In that capacity, he has interviewed scores of public figures in politics, entertainment, and professional sports, including: Gerald Ford, Norman Schwarzkopf, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Maya Angelou, Art Buchwald, Christopher Reeve, Andy Garcia, Jeff Bridges, Edward James Olmos, Joe Montegna, Mick Fleetwood, Charlie Daniels, Anjelica Houston, Angela Lansbury, Danielle Steel, Patricia Heaton, Mandy Moore, William Shatner, Kelly Ripa, Brooke Shields, Matt Groening, Della Reese, Katherine Heigl, Carl Lewis, Bruce Jenner, Donovan McNabb, and Wayne Gretzky.

He teaches creative writing in Los Angeles and English literature in the summer program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College and University of Virginia Law School, he served on the screenwriting faculty at California State University at Long Beach in 2007.

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KARL MORGAN is a book editor, script doctor, and writer. He has written for Epicurious, Thinkwell, and nerve.com, and his fiction has appeared in the Austin Chronicle and been read at Borders Books and on KUT public radio. Books he's edited have been singled out by the Chicago Review Press and Independent Publishers Group and have been praised by Deepak Chopra, Jim Belushi, and David Zucker (writer/director of Airplane! and Naked Gun). In 1997, he was named Boston University's Helen Deutsch Fellow--the school's most prestigious graduate writing fellowship. He edited the film industry book Reel People, the sports biography The Last Sure Thing: The Life and Times of Bobby Riggs (finalist for the Independent Press Best Memoir/Biography award), and the horror novel Wind Walker by Tom Chaney (screenwriter of Mosquito and director of Wrath of the Wendigo). He specializes in genre and mainstream fiction, scholarly non-fiction, and screenplays.

Academic/scholarly/reference materials
Fiction: mainstream and literary, science fiction, horror, speculative fiction, psychological thrillers, suspense, mysteries, fantasy, erotica
Non-fiction: memoir, biography/autobiography, works in translation, regional and world history, psychology, theology, physical and biological sciences
Screenplays: all genres

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