It would be perfect for that. Is it hard to find people to convert it to screen play and would an agent think i'm a hack if i mentioned it at some point in time? Do most people convert their own books to screenplays if it gets that far? Has anyone here ever done it or had success with pitching a screenplay? So many questions!! AArgh!!
Make it really good, and make it feel movie-ish. In the Hollywood sense (if it's that kind of story).
All I have left are three chapters and my initial edit and the manuscript should be done. After that, I know there's tons of work when it gets all pulled apart and rewritten, but I wanted to start thinking ahead. It's a YA action/horror story that I think is exciting and would do well on screen.
It could be something to talk to your agent about when the book has an offer as screen rights are sometimes negotiated. I think most publishers like to hold them because it means down the line they can make more money - selling the rights and reissuing the book as a movie tie-in.
Novelists generally never write the screenplay, unless they are established screenplay writers as well. It's a completely different craft. make sure you retain the rights, and let whoever may want to make it commission their own writer.
Mostly that's true, although well-known authors can insist that a first draft of the screenplay is in their contract. Stephen King had that with The Shining. He wrote a draft, the director had other ideas and threw it out. I think that's why King isn't wild about the theatrical version of the book.
