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Athena Schultz

Writer/Editor

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Name: Athena Schultz

Last visit: May 14, 2008

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Books

How does one even begin to narrow down this list?

The House of the Spirits, The Kite Runner, The Scarlet Letter, Lolita, The Other Boleyn Girl, Anything on Queen Elizabeth I, The Color Purple, The Harry Potter Series, The Time Traveler's Wife, No Exit, On the Road, The Sweet Hereafter, The Virgin Suicides, The Bell Jar, The Passion, The Glass Menagerie, Waiting for Godot, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dubliners, I Know This Much Is True, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Smilla's Sense of Snow, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Delta of Venus, Life of Pi, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Middlesex, The River King, and so many more…

Movies

Heavenly Creatures, Elizabeth, Shaun of the Dead, The Thin Man, Bad Santa, Heathers, Annie Hall, The Big Lebowski, Die Hard, The Godfather, Mary Poppins, The Star Wars Trilogy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Shawshank Redemption, Clerks, Office Space, Lilo & Stitch, The Ref, Bridget Jones's Diary, Chicago, Bubba Ho-Tep, Moonstruck, The Color Purple, Forrest Gump, Grease, 9 to 5, Ghost World, Frida, The Phantom of the Opera, The Seven Year Itch, Walk the Line, Some Like It Hot, Viva Las Vegas…and on and on...

Television

I am a TV junkie! In no particular order…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Elvis '68 Comeback Special, Mad Men, Moonlighting, Cheers, Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, LOST, Heroes, 24, The Office, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty (y Betty La Fea), Absolutely Fabulous, Freaks & Geeks, Men in Trees, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Soap, The Sopranos, Family Guy, Friends, Animal Cops, Dancing with the Stars (yes, I admit it...), Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City, Survivor, Boston Legal, Entourage, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica (The New One), Wonderfalls.

About Me

Athena Schultz is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. She received her English degree from UCLA, and studied screenwriting and television writing at the UCLA Extension Writers Program.

She has worked with The Writers Store and Writers University for the last seven years, writing and editing the eZine, marketing collateral and various writing courses. Her current project is creating a Treatment Writing course for Writers University. She was also the Editorial Assistant on Producer Kate Wright's book, Screenwriting is Storytelling.

Professional Experience

Copywriter
Gap, Inc.
September 2007 - Present

Write and edit copy for the Old Navy website and marketing materials.

Writer/Editor
NPC
January 2006 - Present

Write and edit copy for the NPC website, online and print advertisements, direct mail pieces, marketing collateral, newsletters, and email correspondence.

Writer/Editor
Storylink
2006 - Present

Edit articles and website content for StoryLink.com.

Writer/Editor
Writers University
2004 - Present

Edit and create Writers University courses. Taught "Screenwriting Basics."

Writer/Editor
The Writers Store
2001 - Present

Edit and write copy for The Writers Store website and marketing materials including eZine, product descriptions, catalogs, direct mail and magazine ads.

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mary eliz.

Jan 5, 2008 7:54 AM

Hi Athena! You were the course instructor for the fist (official) Screenwriting
Course I ever took. It was online at Writer's University.
I have been busy writing teleplays and just finished a screenplay-comedy. Am hoping it is worothy.
mary

Lisa Murray

Jun 25, 2007 4:21 PM

I second that. Athena rocks!

Shane Scalisi

Apr 27, 2007 3:16 AM

Athena is awesome!