Blake Snyder

He's made millions of dollars selling screenplays to Hollywood, and now screenwriter Blake Snyder tells all. Save the Cat is just one of Snyder's many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying—and saleable, including: The four elements of every winning logline The seven immutable laws of screenplay physics The ten genres and why they're...

This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, author and screenwriter Blake Snyder returns to hilarious form in Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies, in which he dissects 50 top Hollywood and Independent films from the past 30 years. "To paraphrase Jodie Foster in the hit movie Contact," Snyder writes in his Introduction, "this is an encyclopedia galactica, a...