Author M. Rutledge McCall is one of the most experienced, widely acclaimed book ghostwriters and developmental editors in America. He also adapts books to screen, doctors film and TV scripts, and produces streaming and TV content.
He has been featured on TV shows such as “NBC Today,” BBC News, PBS, CNN News, KNBC News’ “Nightside Cover Story,” PBS/KCET’s “Life And Times: Thinkers, Shakers and Newsmakers,” “Larry King Live,” ABC News 9 Australia, and others.
McCall has worked on over 140 book and screenplay projects with clients around the world, including people named in Newsweek and Forbes magazines’ “Most Powerful People” lists, and he has worked with authors whose books have appeared on the best-selling lists of the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.
The first book he wrote, titled Slipping Into Darkness, was published in 2000 to critical acclaim and was optioned for film by David Sacks, Co-Founder and former Chief Operating Officer of PayPal. He has sold other screen options in the years since.
McCall writes in narrative nonfiction and fiction genres for a high-profile clientele that includes major book publishing companies, university presidents, elite athletes, theologians, investors, celebrities, scientists, cybersecurity experts, interactive story app developers, business owners, tech unicorns, CEOs, international thought leaders, Ph.D.’s, Fortune 200 executives, neurosurgeons, former members of law enforcement, the military, special forces and CIA field operatives, and many more people with important information to impart and great stories to tell.
Recently, he produced a half-hour reality TV pilot with prolific independent film producer Morris Ruskin, on which McCall was also Showrunner/Head Writer, and hired iconic modern American movies screenwriter W. Peter Iliff to co-host the show.
McCall served for several years as founder and CEO of a boutique Los Angeles-based literary career management and consulting firm, representing published authors and writers. Prior to that, McCall worked as Managing Senior Editor at a niche traditional book publisher in Pennsylvania. Earlier in his career, he worked in the one-hour drama writers departments for most of the American television networks and in production management for many of the major legacy US film companies, on some of the highest-grossing movies and top Nielsen-rated one-hour drama TV shows.
The books, screenplays, movies and TV shows McCall has worked on have collectively grossed over one billion dollars during his career, which is guided by a simple code: “Legends are not built by following the pack; they’re made by blazing a trail…so get out of your comfort zone and build your legacy.”
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