Join Screenwriter and Novelist Melinda M. Snodgrass and the Stagecoach Foundation in a one-day seminar on life in a Hollywood writers’ room. You’ll be introduced to the skills that are the foundations of creating a television show focusing primarily on breaking a story and how the give and take, debate and consensus of a writing staff combine to create a viable story that will ultimately become a script.
MELINDA M. SNODGRASS
Melinda M. Snodgrass studied opera at the Conservatory of Vienna, graduated Magna Cum Laude from U.N.M. with a degree in history and went on to Law School. After 3 years as a lawyer, she realized that while she loved the law, she hated lawyers, so she turned to writing.
In 1988, she accepted a job on Star Trek: The Next Generation and began her Hollywood career. She worked on Staff on Reasonable Doubts, Profiler, Legacy and Wild Cards as well as writing numerous freelance scripts for such show as SeaQuest, Strange Luck, Odyssey 5 and Sliders. She has written six television pilots two of which were filmed — one of which was the pilot for the new Outer Limits series based on a story by George R.R. Martin.
In the feature world she has written three feature films for Disney. She is currently an executive producer on an upcoming Wild Cards series for Universal Pictures and Peacock. Wild Cards is based on a shared world anthology series that she co-edits with George R.R. Martin, and she is one of the many writers contributing to the world of Wild Cards.
She is also a novelist in her own right. She has completed the fifth and final book in her space opera series, Imperials, is working on a fourth novel in the Carolingian series and a fourth novel for her White Fang Law series. All her books are available online, as audio books, and print-on-demand. Presently available — This Case is Gonna Kill Me, Box Office Poison, The High Ground, In Evil Times, The Hidden World, and Currency of War.
For fun she rides her dressage horses, plays video games and spends a lot of time in the gym.
