Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson's Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing

By Jeffrey Stepakoff

Categories: Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs

Jeffrey Stepakoff's memoir of working as a television writer in the 1980s and 1990s, when networks were paying huge sums for scripts. It follows his career through network dramas and sitcoms to the Dawson's Creek writers' room, where a kiss he scripted gave the book its title. Along the way he explains how network TV writing worked and how cable and reality shows later changed the business.

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