title: Writing Great Characters in the First Ten Pages (How to Adapt Your Novel into a Screenplay) (Volume 1)
author:  Frank Catalano 
description: Frank Catalano is a member of the faculties of the School of Dramatic Arts at the Universityof Southern California and Theatre Arts and Social Science divisions at Los Angeles Pierce College and Pasadena City College. He has served as an executive at Warner Bros, Lorimar Studios, Beverly Hills Playhouse, and Southern California Center for the Arts. He has written and performed in animated, live action television series and feature films including, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck for Fox Television, Digimon Digital Monsters, Super Pig, Bit The Cupid, Bee Bop Cowboy, the Sci-Fi series Robotech, Flint the Time Detective, Vampire Princess Miyu, Honey Bee Hutch and ABC television series including LA Law, NYPD Blue and Ugly Betty. He is currently featured in the new Robotech animated feature LOVE, LIVE, ALIVE.He currently is the president of The Creative Edge providing consultancy, coaching and speaking services for actors, writers and organizations including West Los Angeles College, San Diego State University and Celebrity Cruise Lines. His books include Art of the Monologue, The Creative Audience, White Knight Black Night, Autumn Sweet, The Resting Place, Rand Unwrapped - Confessions of a Robotech Warrior, Che Che and Short Monologues for Auditions.
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  Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](title.xhtml)
  
  
  [I](part1.xhtml#pt1)
  
  
  [Publishing as a Literary Genre](chapter1.xhtml#ch1)
  
  
  [II](part2.xhtml#pt2)
  
  
  [Singular Books](chapter2.xhtml#ch2)
  
  
  [A Letter to a Stranger](chapter3.xhtml#ch3)
  
  
  [III](part3.xhtml#pt3)
  
  
  [Giulio Einaudi](chapter4.xhtml#ch4)
  
  
  [Luciano Foà](chapter5.xhtml#ch5)
  
  
  [Roger Straus](chapter6.xhtml#ch6)
  
  
  [Peter Suhrkamp](chapter7.xhtml#ch7)
  
  
  [Vladimir Dimitrijević](chapter8.xhtml#ch8)
  
  
  [IV](part4.xhtml#pt4)
  
  
  [Faire Plaisir](chapter9.xhtml#ch9)
  
  
  [The Obliteration of Publisher Identity](chapter10.xhtml#ch10)
  
  
  [Aldus Manutius’s Fly Sheet](chapter11.xhtml#ch11)
  
  
  [Textual Note](texualnote.xhtml#tex)
  
  
  [A Note About the Author and Translator](abouttheeditor.xhtml#abouttheeditor)
  
  
  [Also by Roberto Calasso](adcard.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [I](contents.xhtml#c_pt1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [PUBLISHING AS A LITERARY GENRE](contents.xhtml#c_ch1)
  
  
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