Michele Wallerstein is an Author, and Screenplay, Novel and Career Consultant, whose work with writers includes helping them get their work into shape so that it is marketable for the Hollywood community and/or the publishing world. Michele’s career consulting also consists of private meetings and phone conferences where she can answer all of the questions that new writers have about their creative work as well as questions about the business side of their creative life.
Michele has been a Guest Speaker at numerous Film Festivals, Pitch Fests and Writer’s Groups and many more, all across the Country. She has presented seminars at USC, UC Davis, and Sherwood Oaks College and has taught her course at UCLA, titled “The Business of Your Writing Career”.
Prior to becoming a Consultant, Michele was a Hollywood literary agent where she represented Writers, Directors and Producers in Motion Pictures, Movies for Television and Television Series. She owned The Wallerstein Company and guided the careers of writers such as Randall Wallace (Braveheart, The Man In The Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers), Larry Hertzog (Tin Man, La Femme Nikita, 24) Christopher Lofton (Robinson Crusoe, Call of the Wild, Scarlett, True Women), Peter Bellwood (Highlander, La Femme Nikita), Bootsie Parker (Booty Call, Married, With Children, The Hughley’s), and many others. Michele served as Executive Vice-President of Women In Film and was on the Board of Directors for many years.
Michele is the author of: “MIND YOUR BUSINESS: A Hollywood Literary Agent’s Guide To Your Writing Career”