Mary McNamara: Meet Shane Salerno, the 'Avatar' scribe who happens to be Hollywood's go-to book agent
LOS ANGELES — When the film series you worked on for years has broken all manner of box office records with its first installment, which is nominated for the best picture Oscar, you would be forgiven for wanting to talk about nothing else. Especially in the weeks running up to the Oscars.
Shane Salerno, who has story credit on "Avatar: The Way of Water" and helped develop the subsequent three films in James Cameron's saga (he will have screenplay credit on the fourth), is happy to describe the thrill of getting the job ("We had to submit four separate screenplays") and being part of one of Hollywood's most secretive franchises ("It was a locked room, no one was allowed in it besides us, we all
