William Rabkin

When Shawn's enemies begin turning up dead, Gus, his best friend, wonders if Shawn's new sidekick, a beautiful woman who insists she's Shawn's psychic slave, is responsible. Original. (A USA Network series, starring James Joday, Dulé Hill, Corbin Bernsen, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson, & Kirsten Nelson) (Mystery & Detective)

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read

Psych

Conceiving and writing a pilot that can launch a series is a complex assignment even for a seasoned pro. This book will take you through the entire process, from your initial idea through the finished script.

Writing the Pilot

While at an exclusive club for professional magicians, Shawn and Gus are drawn into a murder investigation after seven-foot-tall "Martian Magician" P'tol P'kah disappears during a signature illusion leaving in his place a chubby corpse wearing a three-piece suit and a bowler hat. TV tie-in. Original.

Mind Over Magic

Lee Goldberg

The industry speaks out about SUCCESSFUL TELEVISION WRITING "Where was this book when I was starting out? A fantastic, fun, informative guide to breaking into?and more importantly, staying in?the TV writing game from the guys who taught me how to play it." --Terence Winter, Coexecutive Producer, The Sopranos "Goldberg and Rabkin write not only with clarity and wit but also with the authority gleaned from their years of slogging through Hollywood?s trenches. Here is a must-read for new writers and established practitioners whose imagination could use a booster shot." --Professor Richard Walter, Screenwriting Chairman, UCLA Department of Film and TV "Not since William Goldman?s Adventures in the Screen Trade has there been a book this revealing, funny, and informative about The Industry. Reading this book is like having a good, long lunch with your two best friends in the TV business." --Janet Evanovich "With sharp wit and painful honesty, Goldberg and Rabkin offer the truest account yet of working in the TV business. Accept no substitutes!" --Jeffrey B. Hodes and Nastaran Dibai, Coexecutive Producers, Third Rock from the Sun "Should be required reading for all aspiring television writers." --Howard Gordon, Executive Producer, 24 and The X-Files

Successful Television Writing

THE UNTOLD STORY...Aimee & David Thurlo's Ella Clah, a Navajo Police special investigator, is one of the most enduring and popular characters in detective fiction today. Ella's dedicated fans have long dreamed of the bestselling, critically acclaimed series coming to television...and it almost happened. In 2001, CBS commissioned a pilot script, a sample episode of a proposed series, from writer/producers Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin. Sadly, the Ella Clah pilot ultimately wasn't produced, and ever since, the script has been hotly sought-after by fans. Here, at long last, is that rare pilot script, along with the original sales treatment, six episode ideas, a foreword by the Thurlos, and a detailed account from Goldberg & Rabkin about how they approached their adaptation and what their plans were for the TV series. It's an exciting, must-read story for Ella Clah fans and aspiring TV screenwriters alike and a fascinating peek behind-the-scenes of network television.“One of the genre's most believable and empathetic protagonists,” Booklist "A tough, appealing heroine who faces personal conflict between professional duty and pride in her heritage," Publishers Weekly

The Pilot Script

Aimee & David Thurlo's Ella Clah

The popular tie-in novels to the USA Network series Psych When the Santa Barbara art museum unveils its newest acquisition, the long-lost masterpiece by Dante Gabriel Rossetti isn't the only surprise behind the red curtain-so is the museum's curator. Dead. The case has everything Shawn likes: it's bizarre, it's baffling, and there's a snack bar at the crime scene. But the investigation gets a lot less fun as he and Gus begin to realize that the clues are leading them towards a centuries-old cabal desperate to hide a terrible secret-and more than willing to kill the two detectives who are trying to reveal it.

Psych: A Fatal Frame of Mind

Based on the hit usa network series Shawn Spencer has convinced everyone he's psychic. Now, he's either going to clean up- or be found out. Murder and Magic are all in the mind... When a case takes Shawn and Gus into an exclusive club for professional magicians, they're treated to a private show by the hottest act on the Vegas Strip, "Martian Magician" P'tol P'kah. But when the wizard seemingly dissolves in a tank of water, he never rematerializes. And in his place there's a corpse in a three piece suit and a bowler hat. Eager to keep his golden boy untarnished, the magician's manager hires Shawn and Gus to uncover the identity of the dead man and find out what happened to P'tol P'kah. But to do so, the pair will have to pose as a new mentalist act, and go undercover in a world populated by magicians, mystics, Martians-and one murderer...

Psych: Mind Over Magic

While investigating the mysterious disappearance of a computer-game magnate, Shawn discovers that Gus wants a grown-up job and does not want to be a detective anymore until a murder occurs at Gus's new job and he needs Shawn more than ever. Original. TV tie-in.

Psych: Mind-Altering Murder

When they are forced to attend their client's bonding retreat in the wilderness to solve a case of industrial espionage, Shawn and Gus soon have more to deal with than the hazards of the wild when a fellow camper is murdered.

The Call of the Mild

Trained to be a detective by his father, blessed with astounding powers of observation and deduction, and cursed with a refusal to take anything seriously, Shawn Spencer has convinced everyone he’s psychic. Now, with his best friend, Gus, he’s either going to clean up…or be found out. It’s Psych’s coolest case ever—the founder of a computer game company has disappeared, and the only way to find him is to search for clues inside the game. But before Shawn can get to level two, he is shocked to discover his partner, Gus, has decided he doesn’t want to be a detective anymore and has taken a grown-up job in the real world. Is this the end of Psych? Or is it the end of Gus? Because when a fellow executive at Benson Pharmaceuticals turns up dead, he realizes there’s some bad business going on behind closed doors. Now Gus needs Shawn more than ever to solve this puzzle—before he’s forced to take an early, and permanent, retirement.

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