Book Luver offers authors and writers the chance to get their book adapted into a screenplay to place in front of our film producer judges in the Page Turner Screenplay Award. You get a free entry for that screenplay in our next Page Turner Screenplay Award and can use the screenplay to enter any screenplay or screenwriting contest.
Novels Adapted To Film
Having a novel adapted to a screenplay is a very costly business. Many experienced screenwriters working in the film industry will charge anything from £5k up to £20k to adapt a book.
We have a team of screenwriters, all with different screenwriting skills and experiences. Depending on what your book adaptation requirements are (see below for the difference between basic book adaptations and creative book adaptations), we will place your book adaptation with the most appropriate screenwriter.
We have been extremely lucky to find an experienced screenwriter who has retired from Hollywood and now spends his time helping screenwriters to enhance their scripts. He will adapt your book to a screenplay for you, as a basic book adaptation or a creative adaptation, and he can do it as a ghostwriter, so you take the credit for the script, or you can offer to give him a writing credit.
For creative adaptations, we also work with skilled screenwriters on our sister site, Page Turner Awards. The screenwriting team offer script edits and book adaptations. These focus on editing dull dialogue and enhancing it to jump off the page - the type of dialogue that actors love. It also focuses on turning slow plots into a fast-paced cinematic flow. And it focuses on adding scenes where necessary for transitions or for plot plausibility and character development and consistency.
Either way, this is your chance to get your book adapted into a screenplay at an amazingly low price!
Book Adaptations now open for our summer schedule.
Claire Merchant had her book adapted to a screenplay and said this:
"Thank you for my book adaptation script. It's very surreal to read through my story in this format! It reads really well, and I'm really happy with it. Please pass on my thanks to the book adaptation screenwriter!
And Judy Lundquist said this:
The book adaptation screenwriter did a wonderful job of converting my book into screenplay form while having to condense so much story line. Very impressed with his talents!
See what Monique Singleton had to say when her book adaptation sparked the interest of a film producer.
Difference Between Creative And Basic Book Adaptations
A basic book adaptation is taking your book as it is, and adapting it to film, with very little cutting of scenes or dialogue, and very little additional scenes.
A creative book adaptation is taking your book and using creative adaptation to enhance dialogue, adding in a few additional scenes that may be short but desirable to transition the story, checking for plausibility and consistency issues while adapting the scenes to film. This also involves deciding if the body of work is better suited to a miniseries. Regardless of length, all stories are different and not all stories are suited for serialization.
A basic book adaptation will take up to ONE MONTH. A creative book adaptation could take up to THREE MONTHS, so please plan your timings for entering international writing contests or pitching to film producers accordingly.
When J.K.Rowling sold the Harry Potter film rights, she and Harry became household names. How? Why? Because seeing is believing. On the big screen, her fantastic world became reality, her memorable characters larger than life.
From book to screen, it's that simple. Well, not quite.
There's no magic wand, but there is an unseen hand that makes it all possible. The screenwriter. Shaping, moulding, tweaking, rearranging, creating, rewriting, giving the spark of life to your world, no longer just in your head or on paper but on film. If J.K.Rowling could do it (with a little help from a friendly scriptwriter), why not you?
Get your book adapted to script for £££s and $$$s cheaper than anywhere else!
To book for a book adaptation, transforming your novel into a screenplay, please make your payment below.
Adapt Your Own Books
If you can’t afford a book adaptation, but you’d love to see your story on the big screen, you may want to consider our Book Adaptation Boot Camp where you’ll spend a week of intense learning how to adapt your book to a screenplay. That way, you can adapt all your books, not just one. And if you have a trilogy or series, this is ideal to create a TV series. Find out more
