Gini Graham Scott

The Big Con: Scams Target Writers, the Victims, and How to Avoid Becoming a Victim (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

THE BIG CON: The Story of a Book to Film Scam, The Victims, Other Writer Scams, and How to Avoid Being a Victim is about the discovery of a scam and meeting the victims. The scammers created an elaborate fraud, in which authors with dreams of turning their books into films were duped into believing a company could pitch their projects to executives at top film companies. As a result, the victims would pay more and more to write the material needed to make a pitch, such as a script, logline/synopsis, and show bible. But the scam was that the company used imposter executives at real companies, so their pitches went nowhere, though they might have real potential if presented to real executives.

The book describes the investigation that revealed the scam. Then, it introduces ten of the victims and their projects and discusses the many scams targeting writers and self-publishers. Finally, it discusses how to recognize a scam and avoid becoming a victim, and what to do if you are scammed, including possibly getting back any money you have lost.

THE BIG CON will be a documentary film featuring many of the victims, with half the proceeds going to compensate those victims.

The book has received many endorsements, including these:

"It's appalling that scammers dash the hopes and dreams of book and script writers, as well as take their money. And some books and scripts have real potential. I'm also appalled as a publicist that the scammers use what real publicists do to promote a fake scheme. The Big Con provides an illuminating look at this scam."

Jana Collins, CEO

Jones & O'Malley PR Agency, Los Angeles, California

"There are so many internet scammers these days. The Big Con does a great job of exposing some of them and featuring the victims of one of these scams."

Gustavo Sandi

Insights Online Digital Architects, Oakland, California

GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, PhD, JD, is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, and seminar leader, specializing in business and work relationships, professional and personal development, social trends, popular culture, science, and crime. She has published over 50 books with major publishers. She is the founder of Changemakers Publishing, featuring 150+ books on work, business, psychology, self-help, and social trends. She has worked with dozens of clients on self-help, business books, memoirs, and film scripts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Leadership Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201165963
• Artikelnr.: 62664400

Autorenporträt

Gini Graham Scott is a screenplay writer, executive producer, and TV game show developer, plus a nonfiction writer who has published over 200 books, 50 for traditional publishers and 150 for her own company Changemakers Publishing. She also writes, reviews, and ghostwrites scripts and books for clients.

She has written scripts for 20 feature films and has written and executive produced 11 film and TV projects. These include Me, My Dog, and I and Rescue Me, distributed by Random Media, Driver, distributed by Gravitas Ventures, Deadly Infidelity, distributed by Green Apple, Death's Door, a TV series based on a co-written book. At Death's Door, published by Rowman & Littlefield, The New Age of Aging, distributed by Factory Films, and Reversal distributed by Shami Media Group. Several other films have just been completed or are in production: Courage to Continue and Bad Relationships

She has recently developed a TV series The Neanderthals Return, based on a series of books about the Neanderthals coming back into modern society.

She has written and produced over 60 short films, including dramas, book and film trailers, TV show pilots, documentaries, and promotional videos. Her IMDB resume is at http://imdb.me/ginigrahamscott.

She is the author of four books on filming, including So You Want to Turn Your Book Into a Film?, The Basic Guide to Pitching, Producing, and Distributing Your Film, and The Basic Guide to Doing Your Own Film Distribution, Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project. and The Complete Guide to Distributing an Indie Film.

She has been hired to write over two dozen scripts for clients, adapted from their novels, memoirs, or script ideas. She reviews books for their film potential and writes treatments and scripts for three major companies that publish books and promote them for authors.

Her scripts include action/adventure scripts, suspense thrillers, psychological character films, and contemporary dramas. Some recent scripts are the sci-fi suspense thrillers Brain Swap, Dead No More, Deadly Deposit, and Reverse Murder. Other scripts include the crime action thrillers Rich and Dead and Deadly Affair; and the suspense thriller Bankrupt.