You’ve written a book you believe might have screen potential.

Not because you’re chasing fame, but because something about this story feels bigger than the page. More visual. Like it wants to come alive.

And now you’re stuck in the most uncomfortable place an author can be.

You’re aware enough to know the screen world is real, and ruthless.

But not informed enough to know how to enter it without risking everything you’ve already built.

You don’t want to chase producers blindly, pitching the wrong thing at the wrong time.

You don’t want to embarrass yourself with materials that quietly mark you as an amateur.

You don’t want to ruin your IP, or your credibility, by moving too fast, too loud, or too hopeful.

But the other fear is just as heavy.

What if there is a real opportunity here...and you miss it?

What if the window opens briefly…and closes because you didn’t know how to recognize it, or what to do next?

So you sit in this strange limbo.

Carrying a story you care deeply about. Wondering whether you should protect it or risk it.

Unsure whether waiting is wise…or quietly costing you something you’ll never get back.

Most authors stay here...waiting...for years.

Not because they lack talent or because their story isn’t good enough.

But because no one ever explains how the cinematic world actually works.

So they guess.

They overproduce, hoping more effort equals more legitimacy.

They misread “interest” as momentum and silence as failure.

Or they wait forever, telling themselves they’ll know when the time is right.

It doesn’t magically become clear.

It becomes clear when someone finally explains how it works.​
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That someone is Alan Roth.

Alan is an award-winning screenwriter who has spent decades working inside the film and television world: writing, collaborating, and navigating the same systems authors are often left to decode on their own.

He understands both sides of the equation: the heart of a story that begins as a book, and the realities of what the screen industry actually requires to move a project forward.

In From Book to Screen: All an Author Needs to Know, Alan leads this live course with care, honesty, and deep respect for authors and their work. He explores both the traditional path of selling book rights to a publisher, but more importantly, provides authors with a turnkey way to kick-start the process themselves, from script to industry outreach.

He doesn’t promise shortcuts or outcomes.

He offers something far more valuable: a clear, professional understanding of how the cinematic world works and how to engage it without losing your story, your credibility, or yourself.

This is guidance most authors never receive. And it changes everything.