Shannon Muir’s Take on the Animation World

Just like the book before it, GARDNER’S GUIDE TO PITCHING AND SELLING ANIMATION offers a selection of Spotlight Interviews from people in all aspects of the animation business.  The book is more than just my telling how it can be done, but gives the chance to hear from people in their own words how it has been done.

Look for spotlight interviews from:

* HEATHER KENYON, former development executive at Cartoon Network
* GREG WEISMAN, producer of SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN and many other credits
* LOUISE NEMSCHOFF, entertainment attorney (please note her information is general and does not constitute specific legal advice for any situation)
* STAN BERKOWITZ, writer of the animated JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER and many other credits
* MARV WOLFMAN, with numerous credits in animation, video games, comics and more
* JYMN MAGON, Story Editor for numerous series including many for Walt Disney Television Animation
* VIC COOK, director for SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN and many other credits
* JENNIFER UPTON, Producer at HIT Entertainment London
* BETSY MCGOWEN, former executive for KidsWB!
* KEVIN PAUL SHAW BRODEN, show developer and narrative illustrator
* ADAM BEECHEN, Story Editor for HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI and other animation and comics credits
* CHRISTOPHER KEENAN, former development executive for Warner Bros. TV Animation and animation development consultant
* STEPHANIE GRAZIANO, owner of Building Your Own Business and former animation studio executive

Get GARDNER’S GUIDE TO PITCHING AND SELLING ANIMATION now from various e-book retailers (who are mentioned in prior blog posts)!  Selected sites also provide a sample of part of Chapter One, which includes the Heather Kenyon interview.  Check it out now!

I’m finding even more ebook retailers offering GARDNER’S GUIDE TO PITCHING AND SELLING ANIMATION in Adobe PDF.   At any favorite book site you want to check, be sure to look it up by title not author as many places have it mis-listed by Garth Gardner as the author, who is only the publisher.

My latest find offering the book and a preview of Chapter 1 is:

http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=400844

An article I wrote early this year about Breaking into the Animation Writing Market (focused on writing for current series versus developing a series or producing yourself) is now available at WOW! - Women on Writing, an online magazine dedicated to women writers and editors from all disciplines.

 http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/20-FE3-ShannonMuir.html

Article, script samples, and personal photo are mine.  The rest was provided by the publisher. 

 People have asked how they can order GARDNER’S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION.  Major online retailers have it, as does anyone who can get it from Ingram (last I heard).  But also if you have a favorite bookstore who deals directly with this distributor that is the primary handler of all titles by the Garth Gardner Company (GGC, Inc) that’s even better.

Independent Publishers Group
Order Department
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago IL 60610

Phone: 800 888-4741
General Phone: 312 337 0747
Fax: 312 337-5985
email: orders@ipgbook.com
web: www.ipgbook.com
GARDNER’S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION

by Shannon Muir
Published by Garth Gardner Company

 People have asked how they can order GARDNER’S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION.  Major online retailers have it, as does anyone who can get it from Ingram (last I heard).  But also if you have a favorite bookstore who deals directly with this distributor that is the primary handler of all titles by the Garth Gardner Company (GGC, Inc) that’s even better.

Independent Publishers Group
Order Department
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago IL 60610

Phone: 800 888-4741
General Phone: 312 337 0747
Fax: 312 337-5985
email: orders@ipgbook.com
web: www.ipgbook.com
GARDNER’S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION

by Shannon Muir
Published by Garth Gardner Company

In all the information that’s gone out about GARDNER’S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION, one thing that hasn’t been emphasized enough is the Spotlight Interviews from professionals throughout the industry.  These people were gracious enough to give their time and expertise and I want to publicly thank each of them for their time.

 The full list of interviewees, in alphabetical order, is:

* Jack Angel, Voice Actor
* Monique Beatty, Line Producer
* Jerry Beck, Producer/Animation Historian
* Larry DiTillio, Story Editor/Writer
* Michael Donovan, Voice Director
* John Grusd, Director
* Marc Handler, ADR Story Editor/Writer
* Carl Johnson, Composer
* Bill Koepnik, co-owner of audio post house Advantage Audio
* Christy Marx, Story Editor/Writer
* Jan Nagel, Marketing Diva
* Josh Prikryl, Overseas Supervisor
* Sander Schwartz, Studio Executive
* Tad Stones, Producer
* Brooks Wachtel, Story Editor/Writer
* Greg Weisman, Producer/ Story Editor/Writer
* Robert Winthrop, Producer
* Tim Yoon, Production Manager

Again, thank you all for your contributions!

First off, the book is holding relatively strong on the Amazon charts for Direction and Production.  It’s moved down a few spots to 67 of 91, but I’m impressed it is there at all, not to mention that it’s beating over 20 books in the category.

Haven’t been around much because I’ve been part of the team shepherding AWN’s Media Center at media.awn.com.  The bigger draw right now, is AWN teaming up with fxguide to bring unprecedented coverage of SIGGRAPH via Netcast twice daily and I’m part of the behind the scenes team making sure this gets to you.  That’s not all though, you’ll also find lots of other videos to check out submitted from around the globe.

Later!

I just threw together moving in the boxes and haven’t really had any time to clean up yet, so please bear with me.

My hope is to use this blog to talk about my take on animated movies I’ve seen and tales from the trenches, bringing the best of the topics discussed on my Livejournal and TV.com blogs and more.

For more on my credits, see the box to the right.