"Beach Read" will mark Kuang's feature film directorial debut. "I wrote (the 'People We Meet on Vacation' script) and then they came back to me and were like, 'We liked what you did. Do you want ...

Producers initially rejected his sample script in 1996, but approached him seven years later to write the cliffhanger moment as Dennis Rickman made his debut. Mr Lloyd started out writing children ...

Toward the book's end, Riley incorporates all his lessons and suggestions into a section on the evolution of a script from first draft to production draft; appendixes offer sample script pages.