SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Episode 523 – TikTok and Social Media for Writers With Jason Pargin
Author Jason Pargin talks about the importance of titles, how writers can use social media like TikTok to grow your brand, and how he got his start writing as a blogger in 1998 before the term blogging even existed.
In this episode, our host Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Author Jason Pargin.
Our guest Jason Pargin is the author of novels such as I Am Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom and John Dies at the End.
Topics include how John Dies at the End was adapted into a movie in 2012. They also talk about the importance of titles, how writers can use social media like TikTok to grow your brand, and how Jason Pargin got his start writing as a blogger in 1998 before the term blogging even existed.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Jason Pargin on Twitter
- Jason Pargin on Facebook
- Jason Pargin on Instagram
- Jason Pargin website
- Enter the SYS Six Figure Screenplay Film Festival Here.
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"

Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.