About – Book Pipeline

Book Pipeline
Team

Launched in 2014, Book Pipeline connects writers worldwide with publishers, agents, and the film industry.

Through two competitions—Unpublished and Adaptation—the company seeks both new and established authors.

Additionally, the Workshop helps fiction and nonfiction authors develop their manuscripts, query letters, and other materials, with consideration for lit agents in Book Pipeline’s network.

For over 22 years, Pipeline has bridged the gap between up-and-coming writers and the industry through a unique, long-term, hands-on facilitation process. The result thus far has been $8 million in scripts sold to studios and networks since 1999, several authors finding representation with literary agents and securing publishing deals, and hundreds of projects from emerging writers and filmmakers connected to industry. In total, across Film, Book, and Script Pipeline, approximately 25,000 pieces of creative material are reviewed annually, with over 4,000 entries submitted to Book Pipeline in 2021.

Learn more about Script Pipeline, Pipeline Media, and Pipeline Artists, a platform to educate and inspire creatives.

Chadwick Clough

Founder & CEO

In 1999, while working in feature film development, Chad saw a flaw in the process: hundreds of spec scripts would be left unread in production company and studio offices. He envisioned a matchmaking service between up-and-coming writers and film executives to better serve both parties. For the writer, their material could be reviewed by an impartial third party, while the industry could receive quality projects via a trusted filter. In 2000, Pipeline Media Group (formerly Script Pipeline Into Motion Pictures) was formed and has since offered annual writing competitions and other services to discover new writers for film and television.

Chad played a critical role in the funding of two independent features. The Living Wake, starring Academy Award-winner Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), garnered Script Pipeline's first production company credit and received critical praise, with Variety calling it a "stunning feature debut. . . . Eisenberg is note-perfect." A year later, Chad produced the action/comedy Operation Endgame, a screenplay originally submitted through Script Pipeline and later produced on a $5 million budget. The film featured an A-list cast including Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), Adam Scott (Parks and Rec), Ellen Barkin, and Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul). Chad has also served as a creative consultant on other independent films.

Over the last several years, Chad has been instrumental in creating a synergy between writers with proper representation and production contacts, such as Robert Nelms on the film Between and connecting Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman, Divergent) with manager Jake Wagner (Good Fear Film + Management). In total, Chad has assisted over 100 writers sign with agents, finds reps, and sell their scripts.

Beyond overseeing Pipeline Media Group, Chad wrote Creative Screenwriting's "Production Spotlight" article for six years. He has led seminars at the Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles, lectured on screenwriting and entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California and UCLA, acted as a USC mentor, and has been involved with the Big Brother program since 2002.

Through the Circus of Joy at the Hollywood Improv and other venues, Chad has promoted comedy shows across Los Angeles, which have featured Drew Carey, Daniel Tosh, Natasha Leggero, Chris Fairbanks, Brian Keith Etheridge, and actor/comic Craig Robinson (The Office). Circus of Joy was later rated one of the top monthly comedy shows in Los Angeles by LA Weekly.

With Script Pipeline, Chad's goal to assist the budding writer with an array of resources on how to improve their craft and give them exposure in a highly competitive marketplace continues, as the company is one of the leading outlets for writers to connect with Hollywood.

Matt Joseph Misetich

Senior Executive / Partner

Currently a Senior Executive and Partner at Pipeline Media Group, Matthew J. Misetich oversees all divisions, including Script, Book, and Film, as well as the management of Pipeline Artists and the implementation of future Pipeline entities. He began his tenure with Pipeline in 2006, working as a reader until early 2008 when he took over as manager. In that time, he’s helped launch the careers of several Pipeline writers, including Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman), Tripper Clancy (Stuber), Crosby Selander (Bring Me Back), and others who have turned to Pipeline for guidance in their creative aspirations. It’s estimated he’s reviewed over 30,000 pitches, screenplays, pilots, books, and short films over the last two decades. Which he believes has to be a meaningless record of some sort.

In 2020, just after the pandemic quarantine began, he created #PipelineWriters on Twitter. Meant to be a temporary online mixer, it soon grew to hundreds and is now the largest weekly virtual gathering of screenwriters on Twitter.

He’s based in Los Angeles and apologizes for whatever nonsense he posts on Twitter.

Ciara Duggan

Creative Executive - Book Pipeline

Ciara Duggan is an author and screenwriter, born and raised in a small town in Northwestern Connecticut. She received her MFA from Boston University where she later taught undergraduate writing courses. Her debut YA Fantasy novel, Awakened, was published in Fall 2021, and her debut poem, Of the Night, was included in Phantom House Press’s Exquisite Poison Anthology. Also being published by Phantom House Press is Ciara’s debut adult novel, a romantic thriller entitled A Fragile Woman, in April 2023. After placing as a finalist in Book Pipeline’s 2020 Unpublished Contest in the young adult category, Ciara joined the team as an editor for Book Pipeline’s Workshop services. She now acts as Creative Executive for Book Pipeline, is a contributor to Pipeline Artists, and is thrilled to be co-host for the Pipeline Artists Original Podcast, This Podcast Needs a Title. Ciara currently resides in Middletown, CT with her husband, brand new baby boy, and their pup, Briar. When she's not writing, reading, or watching movies, she loves to travel, indulge her sweet tooth, go hiking, and daydream.

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Erica Davis

Creative Executive / Editor

Erica Davis is a freelance editor, writer, and Tarot reader and co-host of the Pipeline Artists original podcast, This Podcast Needs a Title. In 2013, Erica quit a doctoral program in English Education and pivoted to publishing. She was hired as an assistant editor at Entangled Teen, then apprenticed at Fuse Literary before joining Pipeline Media Group as Creative Executive. She contributes to Pipeline Artists but her biggest flex to date is writing about grief and fandom for Nerdist. And not to brag but her fanfic based on the fictional diaries of a young Dwight Schrute has received nearly 13 “Kudos” on AO3.org. She lives in Florida with her husband, several dogs, and welcomes connections via Twitter @TheDavisGirl. Erica is represented by Haley Hiedemann of WME.

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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman

Executive of Operations

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is a Senior Executive at Pipeline Media Group and Book Pipeline, Editor-in-Chief of Pipeline Artists, co-host of the Pipeline Artists original podcast, Reckless Creatives, former Editor-in-Chief of Script magazine and a former Senior Editor at Writer's Digest, where she wrote the regular screenwriting column, Take Two, for Writer's Digest print magazine. Recognized as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers," her Script magazine column "Balls of Steel" was selected as recommended reading by Universal Writers Program. A compilation of her articles is now available, Balls of Steel: The Screenwriter's Mindset. She is also Co-Founder and moderator of the weekly Twitter screenwriters’ chat, #Scriptchat, and wrote the narrative adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. If you want a free Pipeline mug, you have to ask Matt. She doesn't have that much power.