“The book really hit the nail on the head. Good stuff. I ended up making my seniors get the book to read in conjunction with the writing of their thesis scripts and it has been a tremendous help to them so far this semester. Useful in particular is the section on the physical writing of the script. I spend so much of my time on story that I never get to go over writing the script as much as I would like. This has hit home with them because for the most part books don't go into the detail you do. In addition, it's good to get another voice reiterating what I say since a lot of kids don't want to listen.”
Nelson Chipman
Department of Cinema and Digital Arts
Point Park University
Pittsburgh

“I LOVE IT. I love that you have somehow found something new/different to say about screenwriting. I love that it isn't esoteric. I love that it is no-nonsense, practical and applicable. Most of all, I love that its arrived just in time for me to polish a script that I have to send to L.A. in a couple of weeks!”
Jonny Kurzman

GREAT BOOK! Unlike most of the other screenwriting books out there, this isn't a how-to guide for writers who have never before tackled a screenplay; rather, this is an in-depth checklist for writers who understand the basic tenets of screenwriting or, at the very least, have finished a draft of their script. It goes through, point by point, the 100 most common mistakes screenwriters make... making it super-easy to put your screenplay through a rigorous rewriting process so your script can be as tight, solid, and sellable as you can possibly make it. If you're serious about making it as a screenwriter, this rigorous rewriting bootcamp may not be able to sell your screenplay for you, but it'll whip you and your script into the best shape possible!
Chad Gervich, producer 

I have a fan in Germany! His review on Amazon.de...

“This book is wonderful. The information in Act Two is worth more than the book's price... I've read several books on screenwriting and I've written along with Syd Field's DVD workshop. I thought I had a great understanding about this mystery called screenwriting. I was wrong. I never expected to learn so much from another book. Many times while reading I thought, "Why wasn't this covered in any of the other books?"”
Michael Rivers

“I can’t figure out how I wrote without your book of witty, crazy, sarcastic sense of humor which kept me turning pages.”
Ayliah Cannon

... and this beaut, which a friend sent me for fun...

“If I had read Akers' book before I quit my job to write my screenplay, I'd still have a house and a wife...”
Nolan Havermann