In his 20-year career as a screenwriter and producer, Blake Snyder has sold, optioned, or been hired to write dozens of scripts, including co-writing Blank Check, which became a hit for Disney, and Nuclear Family for Steven Spielberg -- both million-dollar sales. Named "one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters," Blake continues to write and sell screenplays, most recently a 2006 sale of a horror-comedy.
His book, Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, was published in May, 2005, and is now in its eighth printing. It has prompted "standing room only" seminars and workshops in New York, London, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver, Toronto, and Barcelona – along with numerous sold-out workshops in Los Angeles, where Blake was also a STAR Speaker at Screenwriting Expo 5.
Blake's method has become the "secret weapon" of many development executives, managers, and producers for its precise, easy, and honest appraisal of what it takes to write and develop stories that resonate. Save the Cat! The Last Story Structure Software You'll Ever Need has codified this method in an easy to use CD-Rom that has sold over 1,000 units in the seven months since its introduction.
Blake has taught at Chapman, UCLA, Vanderbilt, and Rockport College. His book is the basis of screenwriting classes at Cornell, The New School, and many major universities in the U.S. and Canada. Apparently it is not quite the last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need, as the eagerly awaited sequel, Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told, will be published in October, 2007.
Blake has a B.A. in English from Georgetown University and lives in Beverly Hills, California. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, west. (www.blakesnyder.com)