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Pat Silver-Lasky is a novelist, author, movie and television screenwriter, screenwriting lecturer, and screenwriting and script consultant.

Pat's latest book, the erotic thriller RIDE THE TIGER is now available. More details of the book including where to get your copy, can be found here.

You've heard about Syd Field, Robert McKee and a few other 20th century screenwriting gurus. Pat Silver-Lasky has updated the art of screenwriting in her book: SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21st CENTURY.

The secrets to successful screenwriting can be found in SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21st CENTURY, but if you have any screenwriting comments or questions, do visit Pat's Screenwriting Forum, and Pat will do her best to give help and advice where she can.

As a team with her late husband, Jesse Lasky Jr., Pat wrote films both in Hollywood and in the UK and contributed episodes to many of the top TV series (see biography).

Pat has a new screenplay in development and a Hollywood history 'Memoirs of a Hollywood Mogul' in the works.

It unfolds Hollywood's history through an archive of some 450 letters from Jesse L. Lasky, who produced the first feature film, The Squaw Man in Hollywood in 1913 - written to his son, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., who was to become a screenwriter of over 50 films.

Pat was screenwriting consultant and lecturer at the London Film School for 8 years.

Listening to the things students really wanted to know taught Pat a great deal about teaching and lecturing. It led Pat to write SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21st CENTURY.