John Robert Marlow is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and adaptation consultant. He recently closed a Hollywood script deal--an adaptation he wrote and will executive produce, with an estimated budget of $60 million. John's nonfiction articles have appeared in the Screenwriter's and Playwright's Market and the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market (both published by Writer's Digest Books), The Writer, Writers' Journal, the Self Editing Blog, the Make Your Story a Movie blog, Backspace, Women On Writing, Writing-World, Fellow Script, Parade, The Huffington Post, and numerous other print and online publications. John is a two-time Academy Nicholl Fellowships finalist, and lives in Los Angeles.