Summary: In 1999, T.R. Locke was a successful college administrator and real estate investor in Chicago who had dreams of pursuing his lifelong passion of screenwriting. The following year he wrote a screenplay that nearly won the Chesterfield Film Festival Writer’s Film Project sponsored by Stephen Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and Paramount Pictures. Within weeks he was flying out to Hollywood for meetings with agents and negotiating deals with producers to buy his screenplay. Fired up by this initial success, he moved his family to Hollywood. Within two years, he had a literary agent and manager and his writing had been praised by everyone from readers to producers to the Presidents of Columbia and Universal Pictures. He even got acting jobs. But then …. Well, his book “What I Wish I Knew Before I Moved to Hollywood ” is a fun, honest and entertaining look at how it all went to hell in a handbasket. Luckily for us the book is not just about how it went wrong, but why and what he learned from it all. More below the media player. Listen to T.R. Locke The Indie Author Life According to the bio page on his website, T. R. Locke’s first [...]Similar Posts:A Professional Tour Guide’s Best Hollywood StoriesWhat a Pain It Is, Being a MessiahGiving Indie Authors Their DueIn Johnson, Ohio a Star is BoredSweet Revenge. And Irony. And Humor. And Sarcasm. The post Don’t Let Hollywood Kill Your Dream appeared first on The Bookcast.
