Entries open for comedy writing contest
chortle.co.uk – Sunday January 1, 2017
Entries have opened for the first comedy writing award set up in honour of Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs.
Comedy producers, performers and friends of the writer contributed to a memorial trust. which is now offering a £500 first prize to the winner of this competition.
Will Google ever reopen signups for its Google Play Books self-publishing platform?
9to5google.com – Thursday December 29, 2016
Google “temporarily” stopped allowing new publishers to sign up for its Google Play Books Partner Center more than a year ago, largely due to rampant piracy on the service. Now, a year and a half later (it was originally shuttered in May of 2015), the Partner Center still hasn’t opened back up…
Rob Carlson, Agent to Top Screenwriters and Directors, Joins UTA
sfgate.com – Wednesday December 28, 2016
Rob Carlson, a motion picture literary agent whose clients include Hasbro, Michael Bay and Jon M. Chu, has joined UTA, the agency announced in a Tuesday statement.
Carlson, who reps some of Hollywood’s top screenwriters, comes from WME, where he began his career in the mailroom and worked for 25 years. He spent eight years as a TV packaging agent before transitioning into movies.
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