The author of The Dramatic Writer's Companion offers forty-two new exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters explore, develop, and strengthen their work.Will Dunne first captured the workshop experience in The Dramatic Writer's Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn...

Spark your creativity, hone your writing, and improve your scripts with the self-contained character, scene, and story exercises found in this classic guide.Having spent decades working with dramatists to refine and expand their existing plays and screenplays, Dunne effortlessly blends condensed dramatic theory with specific action steps—over sixty workshop-tested exercises that can be adapted to virtually any individual writing process and dramatic script. Dunne's ...

"Together with The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Dunne's The Architecture of Story is part of the most thorough course in playwriting available in print." —Art Borreca, head of Dramaturgy Program and co-head of Playwrights Workshop, the University of IowaWhile successful plays tend to share certain storytelling elements, there is no single blueprint for how a play should be constructed. Instead, seasoned playwrights know how to select the right elem...

Discover the True Tale of the Strangest Heist in American History!Step into the shadowy world of 19th-century crime with The Roper, a gripping play by Will Dunne. When a small-time crook is recruited by the Secret Service to infiltrate an Irish counterfeiting ring, he thinks he's found an easy score. But as he delves deeper, he uncovers a plot more audacious - and dangerous - than he ever imagined, a scheme that will go down as one of history's strangest a...

From the world's #1 bestselling author, the story of the Kennedy family ... not the one you think you know.Now with a bonus chapter!“James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history ... re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style.” —PeopleThe Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthdayThis is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebrated—and elusive—public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching governm...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.**“Electrifying … A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the world’s greatest thriller writer." —**Daily MailIn life, Marilyn Monroe’s superstardom defies classification. ...

Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture i...

Was Albert DeSalvo Really the Boston Strangler?Handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape/murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he had raped an additional 2,000 women. His story became the subject of a bestselling book, a major Hollywood movie, and a Hulu docuseries. But DeSalvo was not The Boston Strangler.Author Susan Kelly’s detailed investigation shows us the true DeSalvo—a pathological liar whose...

An immigrant woman and her son are accused of murder and witchcraft in this powerful true crime story of corruption in 1930s Detroit .In 1931, the tensions of the Great Depression took hold of Detroit at every level—even spilling over into the investigation of a mysterious murder at the Delray boardinghouse. Amid accusations of witchcraft, Hungarian immigrant Rose Veres and her son Bill were convicted of the brutal killing and suspected in a dozen ...

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw’s 25th book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those closest to Kilgallen and secret go...

One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Farewell, My Lovely; and The Winds of War. Mitchum's powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new s...