Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Save the Cat | 2005 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 2 | Save the Cat Goes to the Movies | 2007 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 3 | Save the Cat!® Beat Sheet Workbook | 2009 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 4 | Save the Cat!® Strikes Back | 2009 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 5 | Save the Cat!® Blake’s Blogs | 2016 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 6 | Save the Cat!® Goes to the Indies | 2017 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 7 | Save the Cat! Writes a Novel | 2018 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 8 | Save the Cat! Writes for TV | 2021 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 9 | Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel | 2023 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
| 10 | Save the Cat! Writes Horror | 2025 | Jessica Brody | Buy |
“Save the Cat! started as Blake Snyder’s 2005 screenwriting guide and has grown into a ten-book franchise covering multiple forms of storytelling. Snyder wrote the original Save the Cat, Save the Cat Goes to the Movies, and Save the Cat! Strikes Back before his death in 2009. Jessica Brody continued the series with novel-focused adaptations starting in 2018.”
“The franchise now covers screenwriting, novel writing, TV writing, YA fiction, horror, and indie filmmaking. The core beat sheet method — breaking stories into fifteen structural points — has become one of the most widely used story structure tools in publishing and film. The workbooks and supplementary volumes give writers practical tools for applying the method to their own work.”