Michael Camp (Eagle River)

I've been around for a while, I moved to Alaska from L.A. back in the 80's but kept on writing. I have done a lot of things in my life time and have no regrets to speak of, or want to speak of that is. I love the art of writing and feel blessed to be a writer. I have written for magazines, sold many a magazine article, in fact that was my first paying gig as a writer and through the years it saw me through some hard times, but I never liked writing magazine articles, I could never get my heart into it. My first love, since 1977 the day I walked through the theater door and saw Star Wars was writing screenplays, and it still is. I have dabbled in writing novels and still do, it's a lot of fun (hard work) but fun because of the lack of rules compared to screenwriting. I love screenplays and love to talk with screenwriters everywhere.

I do consider myself a professional screenwriter, Personally I have written 23 feature length screenplays and several shorts, 4 of those features are Animations. I even took a dive into becoming an author and cranked out three novel length fiction manuscripts that I have not tried to market yet.

A few years ago I had the opportunity to read for a small up coming boutique agency (I don't know if they made it or not). I worked for them for about a year, reading screenplays and providing coverage I learned a lot from the experience. During my time with them I provided coverage on over 200 screenplays.

Since then I have optioned a couple of screenplays and I just had my Feature Animation "The King of The North" translated into Chinese and Robert Cain is presenting it to some Chinese film companies that have expressed a strong interest in the property. Fingers crossed we will make a sale in a short time.

I am currently working on a new novel and half way through the adaption screenplay of that novel, It is an absolutely unique story, and I am pretty sure it will get a lot of interest when it is finished. As for my personality; I get along with everyone always, and I am just one of those writers that has to be reading and writing all the time to be happy.

Avatar, The Hunger Games, Finding Nemo, Let Me In,

Syd Field, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Susan Collins.