In addition to a tight, killer script, every TV project needs a strong series bible or deck to help convey sustainability and its role in the marketplace. And execs commonly ask for pitch decks for features as well! So submit your Series Bible, Pitch Deck (20 pages max each), or both, and the exec will conduct a 30-minute notes call (1-hour if submitting both documents) to help you clarify and sharpen the supplemental material to help your marketing efforts.
Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
You can't over-prepare your pitch-- but once you're in the room, your pitch should flow like an unrehearsed, engaging, relaxed conversation. And take an acting class! It will help with nerves and eye-contact, as well as pacing and cadence.
My expertise is in drama and blended-genres for features and episodic streaming and premium cable. I can consult on how to navigate a writers room; what to do, and what not to do. And I have a lot of experience adapting books for film and tv. I have two decades of experience to share, so I would love to help emerging writers avoid some of the mistakes I've made.
Broadcast network dramas and procedurals, young adult and children's content, horror and multi-camera sit coms.
Robin left UC Berkeley in her senior year to become a playwright in New York City, where she studied dramaturgy, acting, directing, and theater production at The Barrow Group, Playwright's Horizons, and at HB Studios Studios. As a member of the Playwrights Foundation, Robin developed her first play, Shadow Boxers, that premiered at the Producers Club, with Drea DeMatteo playing her first role as the lead character.
Robin became the artistic director of FatChance Productions, a nonprofit development company for emerging playwrights, where she wrote, directed, and co-produced several plays and staged readings at The Ground Floor Theater in Greenwich Village. When her hit, all-girl rock musical, Prey for Rock & Roll was optioned for film, Robin wrote her first screenplay. PREY premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003, and was released world-wide in 2004.
Robin moved to Los Angeles to become a prolific feature writer. She joined the Writers Guild of America West in 2006 and the Writer's Guild East in 2017. She has worked for numerous studios and has had several original and adapted screenplays optioned. Robin has worked with directors, Peter Berg, Miguel Sapochnik, Taylor Hackford, Kaz Kiriya, Phil Alden Robinson, Julius Cevcik, and Dustin Hoffman. When Dustin hired Robin to adapt a novel by Scott Turow, he introduced her to David Milch, who hired her to write on LUCK for HBO, launching her television career.
Robin went on to work for Sony, Fox, AMC, and Lionsgate. She adapted Dirty Girl's Social Club, the best selling novel by Alisa Valdes, and sold the pilot to STARZ. Robin's feature adaptation of Marge Piercy's best-selling sci-fi novel, Woman on the Edge of Time is currently in development with Kathryn Grody-Patinkin and 90th Parallel. Kino Lorber is re-releasing PREY FOR ROCK & ROLL for the film's 20-year anniversary, currently in select theaters across the country, and will soon stream on Netflix and Amazon. Robin’s original screenplay, CAPTIVATED, directed by Dito Montiel, and starring Al Pacino and Katie Holmes is currently in pre-production and scheduled to shoot in Italy this winter.
After registering, you will receive instructions on how to submit your material in your order confirmation email. After submitting your material, please allow 3-4 weeks to receive proposed times for scheduling your consult with the exec.
PITCH DECKS: These are visually-driven documents (20 pages max) that use images and short paragraphs of text to demonstrate the tone, world, character insight, key plot points, stakes, and theme of the series or feature. If the Pitch Deck is for a show, it will use some of the same sections of text as your Series Bible, but will be less extensive. When creating a pitch deck, always make sure that you are using images of a consistent size and quality, and that you use the same font, color code, margins, and other design specifications throughout. Click here for a Pitch Deck example! Want more insight? Consider signing up for our Creating Professional Level Pitch Decks webinar!
SERIES BIBLES: These supplemental documents are text-only (20 pages max), and can get requested when marketing any sort of TV show. Among other things, they should demonstrate what makes your characters unique and captivating, the focus and evolution of their arcs, the rules of the world, the hook of the story engine, the intended tone and theme, as well as why YOU are the best person to write this show from this perspective. Here's example #1 and example #2. Note: The formatting and organization of Series Bibles has changed since these examples were created, but addressing these sections in your own Series Bible will be a great starting point to make sure you're answering questions before they're asked.
**Please note series bibles and pitch decks are each limited to 20 pages maximum. Please contact terra@roadmapwriters.com for pricing on a consultation for material exceeding 20 pages.
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Questions? Email terra@roadmapwriters.com
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel your registration for a refund or Roadmap gift card if you have not yet submitted your material for review. However, once your material has been received by Roadmap, your registration cannot be canceled. Having revised material or a desire to retroactively apply a discount or gift card code are not grounds for cancellation, refunds, or gift card credit. Once your material has been submitted, the only acceptable grounds for cancellation and a refund or gift card credit is an unforeseen, ongoing emergency on the part of either the writer or the exec resulting in more than 6 weeks without any scheduling update from the exec via direct contact or Roadmap, or a sudden change in the exec's ongoing availability. In the instance of an irreconcilable scheduling issue, the writer may still receive a written feedback report from the exec. In this case, the writer is not entitled to a refund or gift card credit as the exec has read the submitted material and provided written feedback in lieu of the call.