Michael Tierno

Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters By Michael Tierno Hyperion Creating Unforget- table Characters By Linda Seger Henry Holt and Company, Inc. How to Manage Your Agent By Chad Gervich Focal Press Making a Good Script Great By Linda Seger Samuel French Trade Successful Sitcom Writing By Jurgen Wolff St. Martin's Press The Art of Dramatic Writing By Lajos Egri Simon & Schuster, Inc.

I should make a full disclosure here and say that two of these books were written by close friends of mine: Hal Ackerman and Lew Hunter. Lew was my long-term partner at UCLA and we’ve been in the business together for 30 years. He’s now an emeritus professor living in Nebraska but he comes back to Westwood every winter to teach a 434. That’s the Film, Television and Digital Media catalogue number and the name of our meat-and-potatoes, bread-and-butter course. I’m into high-cholesterol metaphors.