How can I find an Literary Agent!?
How wrote a little movie script and i need a literary agent. where can I find one.
Answers:
Go to Preditors and Editors (www.anotherealm.com/prededitors) and look around. They will provide recommendation on who is good and who to avoid. There are a lot of dead links, and I'm afraid the site isn't one maintained very well anymore.
Their is also the Absolute Write virtual dampen cooler, where you can get information on agents. There are other such review sites available. DO YOUR HOMEWORK before you approach an agent. Never compensate money upfront, not even a "reading fee." Good agents will only get salaried when the book sells, and even then they will only filch 15% of the royalties.
Good luck!
Rephrasing the other place I answered your question:
You don't want just any old literary agent if what you've get to sell is a screenplay. You need a literary agent who sells screenplays. Writer's Market, The Artists' and Writers' Yearbook, etc. are aimed at writers seeking print and online publishers, not the ones who necessitate agents who sell to movie studios and independent production companies. While some literary agents may sell screen rights, too, they are not who you want. Their connections are contained by publishing, not on movie making.
For screenplays, you want the Hollywood Creative Directory. It has multiple editions, so make sure you draw from the agents one. It's updated more than annually. It's not cheap (I think around $65).
I can save you a bunch of disappointment, though. Having one good script to put on the market is not enough. Even if it's absolutely terrific, you're not ready. You call for to have a minimum of three, all first-rate, in three different genre. You maybe have to write six, or ten, or twenty to get three that are really perfect.
Why three? Because while most of your queries to agents will get no response at all, conceivably an agent will ask to see the screenplay. You send it. If it's really, really, good, the agent calls you--and the conversation habitually goes something like this:
Agent: So, we read your screenplay. Good work there, nice story. Loved the end, but there's something with the same concept already in the works at Universal. What else you get?
You: Uh, I'm more than half way done with--
Agent hangs up.
It's much, much better to be capable of say, "I've got a romantic comedy with a verbs, and a coming-of-age piece set in the 1970s, plus an action-slash-comedy about Wall Street. Which one would you like to see?"
So step write another script, and another, and another.
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Go to Preditors and Editors (www.anotherealm.com/prededitors) and look around. They will provide recommendation on who is good and who to avoid. There are a lot of dead links, and I'm afraid the site isn't one maintained very well anymore.
Their is also the Absolute Write virtual dampen cooler, where you can get information on agents. There are other such review sites available. DO YOUR HOMEWORK before you approach an agent. Never compensate money upfront, not even a "reading fee." Good agents will only get salaried when the book sells, and even then they will only filch 15% of the royalties.
Good luck!
Rephrasing the other place I answered your question:
You don't want just any old literary agent if what you've get to sell is a screenplay. You need a literary agent who sells screenplays. Writer's Market, The Artists' and Writers' Yearbook, etc. are aimed at writers seeking print and online publishers, not the ones who necessitate agents who sell to movie studios and independent production companies. While some literary agents may sell screen rights, too, they are not who you want. Their connections are contained by publishing, not on movie making.
For screenplays, you want the Hollywood Creative Directory. It has multiple editions, so make sure you draw from the agents one. It's updated more than annually. It's not cheap (I think around $65).
I can save you a bunch of disappointment, though. Having one good script to put on the market is not enough. Even if it's absolutely terrific, you're not ready. You call for to have a minimum of three, all first-rate, in three different genre. You maybe have to write six, or ten, or twenty to get three that are really perfect.
Why three? Because while most of your queries to agents will get no response at all, conceivably an agent will ask to see the screenplay. You send it. If it's really, really, good, the agent calls you--and the conversation habitually goes something like this:
Agent: So, we read your screenplay. Good work there, nice story. Loved the end, but there's something with the same concept already in the works at Universal. What else you get?
You: Uh, I'm more than half way done with--
Agent hangs up.
It's much, much better to be capable of say, "I've got a romantic comedy with a verbs, and a coming-of-age piece set in the 1970s, plus an action-slash-comedy about Wall Street. Which one would you like to see?"
So step write another script, and another, and another.
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