“Unlocking the Secrets: Transform Your Screenplay into a Gripping Novel with Expert Joe Cornet!”
Ashley
And maybe we can talk about number one, how did you get in touch with these authors? Was it through a connection? Did you know someone? Did you go to a number of publishers and then narrowed it down to this person? Maybe you can speak to that process a little bit. People have a finished novel.
Joe Cornet
Yes, I had another publisher in mind. And because I had put a lid on this thing for a number of months, I have a close friend who’s a producer, documentarian, filmmaker, and he’s something of a historian and archivist of film in general. He’s known for his many commentaries on Blu-rays, on classic films, and some contemporaries. He’s a great guy, Courtney Joyner. And I met him through Craig Hammond, who is our in-house go-to screenwriter. And I met him, and we were having coffee in Burbank over at Priscilla’s, maybe you know that place. Oh, sure. He got there quite a bit. And so Courtney said, well, why don’t you contact Bruce Sivily over at Henry Gray Publishing? And I did. And I knew of Bruce because Bruce, along with a gentleman named John Cork, who is the premier James Bond and Ian Fleming historian and archivist. And John and Bruce wrote one of the definitive books, The Legacy of James Bond a few years back, and it still remains one of the… So the idea of, oh, my publisher’s the guy that published the definitive book on the Bond films. Yeah, let’s go. And anyway, I met with him, and he was very enthusiastic, and he’s been very supportive and helpful. And that’s how all that went down. And I was lucky.
