title: Getting Your Manuscript Sold: Surefire Writing and Selling Strategies That Will Get Your Book Published
author: Cynthia L. Sterling
description: You can learn to write fiction like a professional, get an agent and discover what they can do for you, find out what editors are looking for when they read your work and give publishers what they want. Written by an agent and an editor, GETTING YOUR MANUSCRIPT SOLD gives yet-to-be-published writers practical, invaluable information on how to craft a marketable novel or screenplay. You'll also learn how to work with an agent, editor and publisher, and how to market and promote your work.  GETTING YOUR MANUSCRIPT SOLD is full of vivid examples from professionals and student writers. You also get examples of media schedules, film treatements, chapter-by-chapter outlines, query letters, edited manuscripts and much more.
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  # Shooting Script
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Gavin Lyall  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Pan Books London and Sydney
  
  
  
  
  
  First published 1966 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published 1967 by Pan Books Ltd,
  
  
  
  
  
  Cavaye Place, London sw10
  
  
  
  
  
  7th printing 1979
  
  
  
  
  
  Matchlock Ltd 1966
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 0 330 02059 5
  
  
  
  
  
  Printed and bound in Great Britain by
  
  
  
  
  
  Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade
  or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the
  publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in
  which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition
  being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THEY CAME AT ME from high on the right, out of the afternoon sun. From just
  where they should have been. So perhaps I should have seen them coming.
  
  
  
  
  
  Once, I would have don