Shannon Muir’s Take on the Animation World

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.