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Tessa Shaffer
***Tessa is currently closed to queries***
Tessa Shaffer is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter who searches for universal truths that bleed through any genre. Whether it’s finding the humor in the hurt, the evil in the good, or the strange in the familiar—her personal brand of writing focuses on multi-dimensional stories that leave audiences with a changed perspective. Recognized as an Indie Excellence Book Awards Finalist, Journey Awards Finalist, and by the Writer’s Digest Awards in 2019, 2018, and 2016, her work has also appeared in GirlsLIFE magazine, Authors Publish, and Indie Chicks magazine. Her drama pilot THE UNDERGROUND about the twisted world of human trafficking was a Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Finalist and a Shore Scripts Semi-Finalist. She also co-wrote a comedy feature with her husband based on their experiences with anxiety: FLAKING OUT won the Rome Independent Prisma Award for Best Feature Screenplay, was a Finalist in the 2020 Screencraft Comedy Competition, and a 2020 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. As a novelist and a screenwriter, she has a passion for translating books to film and is currently working on funding her first indie feature. She’s an accomplished writing coach with her past writing clients having won awards for both books and screenplays. As a Literary Manager representing screenwriters for Corvisiero Literary Agency, she's excited to find unique voices with strong stories to tell. Tessa's involved in the Stage32 Writer’s Room, Virtual Pitch Fest, and attends writing conferences and film festivals each year. |
Submissions
Film/TV:
Tessa’s looking for strong voices in the following genres:
Biopics, Comedy, Dramedy, Family, Romantic Comedy,
TV—half hour, TV—one hour
Books:
Tessa’s looking for multi-POV stories, YA, middle grade, inspirational memoirs, non-fiction, narrative non-fiction, family sagas with lots of secrets, time travel, and anything universally cosmic/spiritual that is also strongly grounded in reality.
Please do not query Tessa with:
Film/TV:
Tessa’s looking for strong voices in the following genres:
Biopics, Comedy, Dramedy, Family, Romantic Comedy,
TV—half hour, TV—one hour
Books:
Tessa’s looking for multi-POV stories, YA, middle grade, inspirational memoirs, non-fiction, narrative non-fiction, family sagas with lots of secrets, time travel, and anything universally cosmic/spiritual that is also strongly grounded in reality.
Please do not query Tessa with:
- Thrillers/Mystery
- Wartime/Military/Political
- Sci-fi
- Fantasy
- Picture books
- Historical Romance
