Skip Press
Bio
My latest screenplay (filming February 2025) –
https://forbesswitzerland.com/rebeldogs-the-first-crypto-dogs-hollywood-movie-supporting-dog-shelters/
31 five-star reviews on Reedsy as writing consultant, editor, and ghostwriter – https://reedsy.com/skip-press
In the past, I’ve edited a Hollywood entertainment magazine and two others, produced and directed well-reviewed plays, sold screenplays and teleplays, written hundreds of articles, been a staff writer for a United Paramount Network kids show, published Young Adult novels and also non–fiction YA series, and for almost a decade I taught an online screenwriting course that was available in 1,500 schools.
For a year, I improved the English translation documents for Japanese media giant Kadokawa Corporation, who had established a Los Angeles office to sell remake rights of their properties to Hollywood studios.
As a book editor, my most profitable product has been the best-selling Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing & Design which I also packaged and sold to the original publisher, Lone Eagle Books.
I helped found the Hollywood Film Festival and for three years moderated a space on Quora.com that I co-founded. “Ask A Screenwriter” had over 600,000 followers from around the world with my involvement – we started with zero. Although no longer involved with that space, I still get around 3,500 reads every week of my Quora material.
As Communications Coordinator for a California company, I put on a convention for 2,000 people from 10 countries, put out newsletters and magazines with three writers and an art department working under me, and I wrote an award-winning company video that debuted at the convention.
I’ve written branded content, produced and voiced audiobooks, written and produced how-to videos and video apps, and created a four-hour long explainer video for prospective college students. I also wrote a five-hour video app about weight loss. Other projects include a book about stress management for a health company, the biography of the CEO of a Fortune 200 corporation and the 25th anniversary celebration book for the same company, and a ghost-written book about how to get six-to-seven-figure management consulting jobs at companies like McKinsey. I also wrote the “Business Computing” column for years for the USA’s largest regional computer publication, ComputorEdge.
I’m always exploring writing and editing trends, partly because thousands of people look to me for advice on same. Example – I created a Substack to support a client’s book – https://633project.substack.com/
The 50 books published under my name include four editions of the Writer’s Guide to Hollywood, four editions of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Screenwriting (including in Russian), This Is My Song: A Memoir by Patti Page with Skip Press, the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Money with Craigslist, and numerous editions of How To Write What You Want & Sell What You Write.
Dozens more books have been published that I either edited or ghost-wrote. Many won awards. Some hit #1 in their category on Amazon. Ask me about any of them and I’ll be more specific.
Portfolio (please send email for video samples) – https://www.pinterest.com/skippress/
Email skippress@gmail.com
Website http://www.skippress.com
Phone 8182614226
Location Southern California