The Read. Write. Play. blog was born out of an insatiable curiosity for the intersection of publishing, filmmaking and other media.
I’m Rochele Rosa, I have an MBA in marketing and am currently getting an MA in Multimedia Franchising. So, it’s no surprise that I’m a multi-passionate creative professional: author, filmmaker, public speaker and more.
Here, I share my insights into the publishing, filmmaking and game industry as well as the business of intellectual property that reinforces them all.
Genre Trends in Publishing
How to Build An Author Platform
How to Become A Literary Agent
How a Book Becomes a Movie
There are 3 things that have to happen before a book becomes a movie or TV show in production.
Books have to be pitched to a Hollywood agent
A studio or producer has to buy the option to be adapted into a script
The book has to be adapted into a script & greenlit by the studio for production
A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Author Rights
3 Ways to Publish a Book: Traditional vs Self vs Hybrid
An Incomplete Explanation of the 5 Key Pieces to the Book Publishing Industry Puzzle
There are hundreds of roles that bring a book to life, but today we’re going to start with the basics about the process of how a book gets from the writer’s hands to the reader’s hands.
Read. Write. Play. Your Way to Creative Disruption in Publishing, Media and Entertainment
So, I have established the general “what” and “why” of this blog. Now it’s time for a little more detail on the topics I’ll cover, which means breaking down the three parts of Read. Write. Play. into the industries, positions, tools and tech start ups I’ll cover here.