McCabe, Pete: Scripting Magic ©2007 Pete McCabe Hardcover, 454 pages

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Comments: 45 scripts, 13 essays, 7 interviews, and 1 flowchart to make you a better magician.

Contents (from book ToC, courtesy Najee Williams/Hocus Pocus Focus, updated Feb 2022):

2 You Already Script Every Trick You Do
4 How to Read This Book

8 Scriptwriting 101
14 Coins Across
15 The Vortex (Pete McCabe)
20 Torn and Restored Card
21 It'll Be a Miracle (Pete McCabe)
26 The Invisible Deck
27 It's the Future (Pete McCabe)
34 Super Powers (Pete McCabe)
39 My Tribute to Vernon (Pete McCabe)

44 Eugene Burger and John Lovick: a Theatrical Endeavor

55 Gypsy Thread
56 Cosmic Thread (Eugene Burger)
60 Human Thread (Eugene Burger)
63 Forming and Eternity (John Lovick)
66 The Handsome Jack Lovemeter (John Lovick)

70 Developing Character - How Do You Do That?
73 Card to Pocket
74 I Care (Pete McCabe)

82 Johnathan Levit - An Actor Playing the Part of a Magician

97 No-Script Scripting
99 The Add-a-Number Prediction
100 It Adds Up (Pete McCabe)
106 Marked Deck
108 The Human Galvanometer (Gary Ouellet)
116 Ecoes (Pete McCabe)
123 The Cincinnati Kid (Pete McCabe)
126 My Favorite Things (Pete McCabe)

131 John Armstrong - Going With the Flow
143 My Opening Act (Jon Armstrong)

144 Scripting for Effect
145 Triumph
147 All The Cards Turn Face Up (Pete McCabe)
153 The Trick That Fooled Einstein
154 Grandma's Purse (Paul Green)
159 The Southwest Miracle
160 This is Reality (Kenton Knepper)
167 Magician's Choice
169 Hotel 52 (David Regal)

175 Just Say Yes
181 The Self-Cutting Banana
182 Yes! (Larry White)

191 Max Maven - Scripting Tricks

203 Drama
207 Gemini Twins
208 Mate for Life (Pete McCabe)

214 Teller - Entering Uncharted Terrain

220 The Backstory
222 The 41-Cent Miracle
223 Grandpa's Coins (Michael Ammar)
228 The Open Prediction
229 The Cassandra Quandary (Guy Hollingworth)

237 Rafael Benatar - The Practice of Magic

250 Scripting Dealer Tricks
251 The Dark Card
252 The Magic Red Card of Mystery (Bob Farmer)
260 Hot Rod
262 The Birthstone Sampler (Pete McCabe)
269 Svengali Deck
270 Exhibit A (Jim Steinmeyer)
275 Chop Cup
276 Tomahawk Chop (Joe M. Turner)
282 The Fruit Cup (Pete McCabe)
287 The Koornwinder Kar
288 Joey's Hero (Bruce Barnett)

295 Michael Close - A Little Bit of Truth

308 Scripting and Repertoire
309 The $100 Bill Switch
310 - Double Your Money Back (Pete McCabe)
314 The Eleven Card Trick
316 - The Incredible Mystery of the Tenth Card (Eric Mead)
329 - I Must Be Cheating (Pete McCabe)
340 UnDo Influence
341 - Watching The Detectives (David Regal)
350 The Thumbtip Silk Vanish
351 - The End of the Rainbow (Eric Henning)
356 Wild Card
358 - Seven-Card Monte (Larry Jennings)

364 Scripting Counts
369 The Business Card Prophesy
370 - Fortune Cookie (Mark Joerger)
375 Two in the Hand, One in the Pocket
376 - Repeat (Pete McCabe)

379 I've Got a Surprise for You: Essay by Jamy Ian Swiss

391 A Hell of a Trick (Jamy Ian Swiss)
402 The Five Senses (Jamy Ian Swiss)
406 Should We Order a Pizza? (Vic Sussman)
409 What it Takes to Be Happy (Sean O’Neill)

414 Titles and Sentences
419 The Ace Assembly
421 - When Magicians Play Poker (Pete McCabe)
429 - Mental Cheating (Pete McCabe)
439 Out of This World
440 - Secret Powers (Pete McCabe)

448 Adaptation
452 Other Resources