The 21st Century Screenplay

About the Author
Linda Aronson has won awards as scriptwriter, playwright and novelist. Primarily a working writer, she has over twenty years experience, with credits in feature film, TV series and serials, mini-series,  children’s TV, radio drama, stage plays fiction, and TV drama-documentary. Her fiction has been published in nine countries.
Linda teaches screenwriting and script analysis for leading film schools and film industry organisations all over the world and works internationally as a script consultant. Her award-winning book Screenwriting Updated (Los Angeles, 2001)  was widely acclaimed as being the first book to provide practical strategies for writing complex non-linear and multiple protagonist scripts and fiction.
The 21st Century Screenplay: a comprehensive guide to writing tomorrow’s films (2010)  sold out in the UK before the consignment of books arrived at the warehouse from the docks is, along with Screenwriting Updated, used by professional writers and film schools all over the world.
The book has been widely celebrated and bears endorsements from Andrew Bovell,  Robin Swicord and Linda Seger, who says of it, “A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.’
Other books by Linda Aronson on writing are TV Writing: The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom (AFTRS/Allen and Unwin, 2000)and Writing with Imagination (Macmillan Education). Linda’s contribution to ed Tom Jeffrey’s collection of essays for producers,  Film Business is ‘Script Mechanics: Understanding and Fixing the Script’
Linda is currently writing nonlinear multiple storyline short film pieces for immersive virtual reality applications.

Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Allen & Unwin (July 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1742371361
ISBN-13: 9781742371368