"How I did it," ([c1922])

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CHAPTER X. MARKETING THE STORY "Where shall I send my story? How can I reach the producers or stars who buy the stories of free-lance writers?" These questions are put to me probably more than any others concerning the writing and marketing of photoplays. I rarely try to answer either of these queries. But if you will absorb carefully the information I will give you here, I think you will be on a fair way to find the proper persons to consider the stories you desire to sell. In the first place, more than ninety per cent of American picture production is in Los An- geles, and Hollywood, which is really a part of Los Angeles—its northerly suburb, so to speak. There is very little production in New York or Miami, Fla. Of course, small units are scattered about, but it is of the larger con- cerns that I will advise you now. 136