Principal Entertainment Aligns With Self-Publisher Author Solutions

COMMENTS (12)

• Interesting…

  Comment by ImInDaBiz — Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 10:05am PST  Reply to this post

• Very interesting. Great, classy company – -nice to see some people are thinking outside the box in this town…

  Comment by anonLA — Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 1:30pm PST  Reply to this post

• in all honesty…sounds like a way to find some new stories. I’m sick of recycled junk each year.

  Comment by DevAsst — Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 6:03pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Is this just another unsubtle way of relieving people of their cash? Does anyone have any intell

    Comment by Irish John — Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 6:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hallellujah – I’ve been traditionally and untraditionally self published and could write forever on there being opportunities to find great stories in both places. I also have 25 years experience in film so I know something about how the process of producing books and films. This is an exciting move by both companies…..
  CM Rubin http://www.cmrubinworld.tumblr.com

  Comment by Cathy Rubin — Thursday January 13, 2011 @ 6:32am PST  Reply to this post

• Exciting news, expecially since ASI commissioned authors to submit movie treatments for my husband’s WWII memoir, The Jew with the Iron Cross. Maybe this new development with be the next step in bringing this unique story to the screen.

  Comment by phyllis rauch — Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 5:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• I don’t think this is so great for Principal Entertainment. Author Solutions has a reputation of being a glorified vanity press, charging starving writers money upfront to work with their manuscripts. This is not considered a reputable practice.

  Comment by Cindy Chan — Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 1:49pm PST  Reply to this post

• Hopefully this is a positive move for quality writers who self-publish.

  Comment by C. Price — Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 10:01am PST  Reply to this post

• I am presently an author with Author Solutions, formally with Trafford. This offer sounds good, but am leary of paying for a service that has no guarantee. Are there better ways to get a book noticed by Hollywood? Or should this idea be put to rest?

  Ken

  Comment by Ken Davis — Monday March 28, 2011 @ 10:42am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I agree with Ken.
    We, the Authors are always asked to pay upfront for services that do not have any guarantee.

    By the way, can anyone tell me if Author Solutions is affiliated with Authorhouse?

    Thank you.

    Comment by Iona — Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 4:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The actual process is not mentioned. i.e., how are texts selected for screenwriting? Who reads and selects them? IF selected, who writes the screenplay, and has the author already abandoned all rights to it (and therefore any revenue)? IF written as a screenplay, how is a script then presented to producers, directors, etc? As mentioned by another, there is no guarantee, and the odds are stacked pretty high (maybe even greater than a potential sweepstakes winner). So, authors would pay a whole lot of money for . . . what???

  Comment by anonOH — Friday May 27, 2011 @ 6:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’ve (self) published three books with AuthorHouse.
  Toll of War/Vietnam, Mother Warned You, and Quiet Neighbors. The first title is non-fiction. The other two titles are fiction, adult action adventure. I specifically wrote each of the three novelettes in Mother Warned You to be made into movies. The latter is the one that I paid $750.oo up front to be presented to film makers. First, they submitted my work to a person who reads and reviews it. I was sent the reviews for those novelettes. It was obvious that the person selected to read was skimming as if speed reading and did not like my type of writing. There were inaccuracies in the review. Strong characters were made to seem
  ho-hum at best. Principal entertainment should provide their own staff of readers for review. Down the road, movies will be made from my book. AuthorHouse will feel foolish and Principal entertainment will be angry that they weren’t properly exposed to my work.

  Comment by Erick W. Miller — Sunday March 11, 2012 @ 9:13am PDT  Reply to this post