The McKee Collection

What holds attention?

What earns emotion?

What leaves a lasting impression?

What moves people to action?

Robert McKee has spent four decades guiding creatives in every major storytelling medium, helping them navigate through these questions with clarity and purpose. His five books—Story, Character, Dialogue, Action, and Storynomics—offer a complete exploration of the writer’s craft. 

Whether you’re refining a screenplay, shaping a novel, developing a game or clarifying your brand’s voice, this collection equips you with the insight to make every creative choice count.

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STORYThe best-selling foundational guide to the craft. From inciting incident to final climax, learn how to apply the principles of story design to your own cinematic, theatrical or literary premise.Learn more about Story CHARACTERDeepen your insight into your protagonist’s hidden psychological depths, and discover what it takes to surround them with an entire cast of service and support roles to reveal that complexity.Learn more about Character » DIALOGUEAll dialogue responds to a need, engages a purpose, and performs an action. To say something is to do something. Learn how to create desire, intent and action beneath every line your characters speak.Learn more about Dialogue » ACTIONBeneath the spectacle, the best action stories resonate because they reveal character under pressure—who someone truly is when the stakes are life and death. Action stories, like all stories, are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer and more meaningful experience.Learn more about Action » STORYNOMICSBridging creative insight and commerical impact, McKee and co-author Tom Gerace explain the strategy and structure behind stories that sell. Learn to turn brand values into stories that earn attention, build trust, and move behavior.Learn more about Storynomics »