Alexa's Publishing Chat
{ep. 45} Optioning Your Book: Film & TV rights & more: Eileen Cook
September 1, 2021
What does optioning mean? How do you get your book optioned for TV & film? Eileen Cook dishes out all the details on how your book makes it beyond the page. She also goes through different types of "rights" so that authors have a bigger understanding of all of the different rights that are available for you, including foreign rights.
Getting your book optioned for film is really a cool thing! But do you know what the process is or what it even means? Eileen Cook dishes out the details. She also goes through different types of "rights" so that authors have a bigger understanding of all of the different rights that are available for you, including foreign rights.

Eileen Cook is a multi-published, award winning author with her novels appearing in nine languages. Her books have been optioned for film and TV. She spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. She’s an instructor/mentor with The Creative Academy and Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio Program where she loves helping other writers find their unique story to tell.
Eileen lives in Vancouver with two very naughty dogs.

Check her out at eileencook.com