Books with author Kayla Miller

In The Hero Succeeds, veteran TV writer Kam Miller shows you exactly how to create your own TV series—from concept to writing a professional pilot script. Drawing from her career as a successful TV pilot writer, Miller shares her hard-earned knowledge about creating TV series that sell to Hollywood. She covers essential elements such as character, world of the show, story engine, tone, and themes for dramas and sitcoms. In this book, Miller introduces the groundbreaking character-driven structure that will help you solve even the most difficult script problems and create structurally sound, emotionally satisfying stories. Miller illustrates the practical application of her character-driven script structure in current successful TV shows, including Cinemax's The Knick, NBC's Hannibal, Amazon's Transparent, BBC America's Orphan Black, ABC's Modern Family, FOX's Empire, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, AMC's The Walking Dead, FOX's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, ABC's How To Get Away With Murder, Starz's Outlander, CBS's The Good Wife, Showtime's Episodes, and many others. The Hero Succeeds shares professional screenwriting expertise, tools, and techniques previously available only to Miller's students at USC's School of Cinematic Arts and Boston University's Film & Television program. Whether you write drama or comedy for broadcast, cable, or digital distribution, The Hero Succeeds is the guide you need to build or expand your TV career.

When Alya Drake left England and moved to America, she thought that she was leaving her troubles, along with her dysfunctional family, behind her. Upon her arrival in Maine, she meets Jordain, a strange yet intriguing boy. Her friends, her brother and even the voices inside her own head warn her of his dangerous and reclusive family. The more time she spends with Jordain and his family, the more she realises that something about them is indeed far from normal. Yet when they ask desperately for her help, she is forced to ignore her instincts and hope that there is a reasonable explanation for the web of secrets and conspiracy theories she is now embroiled in. Her efforts to uncover the truth lead her to a shocking discovery with unimaginable consequences...

Grace is an ugly duckling from a dysfunctional home who knows she's not worth a damn. She's not pretty, not popular, not fashionable, not smart. And she's been in love with the same boy since kindergarten. What she does today means her life will never be the same again - not her love life, her family life or even her relationship with her bunch of fellow misfit, ragtag friends. Read on your Computer, Smart Phone, Tablet or Kindle. This coming of age story is funny and, at times, heartbreaking. BOOBS is horrifically and hilariously honest and follows 'plain jane' Grace as she navigates through the strange rollercoaster that's called growing up... Love, loss, family drama, first dates, frenemies, betrayal and life with a bunch of misfit friends.-------------------------If Chris Rock and John Green had a baby... BOOBS would be born.*** GRACE - 13 YEAR OLD JAMAICAN-AMERICAN:"How can I ask Hasan out lookin like this?! When you've loved someone since kindergarten, you have to look boonoonoonoos when you tell them you want to be their girlfriend. Or else, instead of wantin to kiss you on the lips and put their hand down your shirt, they'll be rememberin that time you farted in the sleepin bag.I can't believe how obzocky I look. Funny lookin and not in a good way. My teeth are too big and my whole face just doesn't make sense. And why did I saka saka up my eyebrows last night???! Now I look like a alien. And my hair! Oh no! It needs... I don't know? A transplant or somethin. These two sticky out plaits make me look like a child! And there's nothin I can do about my clothes... Momma makes them. Whenever I ask for money to go and buy somethin cool all she says is, "I can make that".Today's the day I'm tellin him how I feel... I may not look good but if I smile, I'm real sure I'll look better. I've got three good smiles, I just need to choose one. I try:1) My happy, carefree Miley Cyrus smile with top and bottom teeth showin.2) My cool-as-a-breeze sexy Rihanna smile. With that one it's just your top teeth and not the full set, just like four or maybe six teeth showin.3) My no teeth smile. It's kind of mysterious. A lot of really beautiful women do this one. Not sure I can get away with it.I'm goin to go with the Rihanna smile. Sophisticated but still friendly. Hasan will eat that up."*** CELIA - 15 YEAR OLD PREGNANT, REDHEADED MATH WHIZZ:"A prime number is a number that cannot be dicked around. It's only divisible by itself and the number 1. It doesn't need a lot of company. No one really knows it. It's unique, complex and self contained. A freak of nature. Like me.I am a prime number.A year ago I could never have imagined I'd be here, doing this... Naked from the waist down. Laying on a doctor's examining table.From this angle, I can see the blue reticular veins snaking under the skin of my inner thighs. God I'm pale. Irish pale.Dr Papadopoulos is putting the speculum in now. It's metal. So cold and fricking unyielding. Hurts. Like glass breaking inside of me but I can't flinch. Ouch! Got a rep to protect... even when I'm bare assed with a board certified medical practitioner poking around inside of me. "

The day my life changed forever was a Sunday. A Sunday afternoon. 5:46 on the last Sunday in summer, if I’m being precise. Of course, I didn’t realise then that my entire life had altered, that my very understanding of the universe would soon be challenged completely - but I think I did feel a shift. A clicking into place. The ever so slight move sideways of everything, as though all the cells, atoms and molecules in the world had suddenly decided to dance, one step to the right.It was as though I’d always been waiting, without realising. Everything had been in a holding pattern around me and now it was all ready to land.But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ll start over.Cohasset Island is pretty, atmospheric and fog-bound but never exciting. Or so Eloise thinks. She's 17 and still waiting for life to start. But with the arrival of the new transfer from England, Eloise gets more than she bargained for. Oliver is beautiful, talented and sexy and, more importantly, interested in her. Her junior year looks set to fly by. But then there are the storms, the mood swings, the strange disappearances. As Eloise's future becomes inextricably linked with Oliver's she realises, perhaps too late, that she now part of a strange and wonderous world she had no idea existed. And that world is very dangerous.

Can the world be seen in black and white? Perhaps. Newborn feet ink birth certificates. Father's stethoscope hangs from the lab coat in his closet. Border collies look at the world in plain darks and lights, never marveling at the wonders of rainbows. Kate Miller explores our world through verse in this collection, finding in blacks and whites some of the most colorful images of everyday life. Her simple, inviting monotype prints will attract even reluctant poetry readers.