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Sell Your Screenplay Today: The 2003 Screenwriter's Guide to Literary Agents, Managers and Producers

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Just a listing of companies with little in the way of guidelines or actual names of people at the companies. The positive reviews below are obviously either the author himself or friends of the author.

They are all written in the same 'breezy' 'informative' style that most reviews on Amazon do not contain. They are also the same length and tone. Also check out the dates- all written the same week (2 each on both separate days). These fake reviews are easy to spot.

I especially like "Mr. And Wouldn't you know I found an agent" - yeah right. A scant three months after publication of this useless book someone finds an agent from it? I don't think so. Save your money and buy Skip Press's book instead.

If you buy this book on speculation that it might help you, you're probably wrong. Not to say that some have been helped by it, but most of you (I presume) will be sorely displeased. Of the hundreds of listings, there are less than five that include contact names. And do you know what that means? That means if you send your query to these studios it'll probably end up in the trash., or at least take several months to get into the right hands, if ever. There are better works in the world.

This book did not live up to its hype. It parades as a helpful guide for screenwriters looking for an agent or management company. In fact, it's a giant list of names and addresses, with occasional one-line explanations of whether the agency is looking for new material or not, and even rarer one-line notations on what kind of material they're looking for. There's no table of contents, no index, almost no help at all for a screenwriter trying to match his or her work with an agency. It's a compilation of names, not a guide.

I had been searching and searching for some sort of compilation of contact people in the screenwriting industry. This is it! The book included names of production companies, agencies, and management teams. I found this very helpful. Also, I found that the book was written in an easy-to-follow format. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in selling his/her screenplay.

I just finished my second script and finally realized that I really can't break down any walls in Hollywood without a literary agent or some other kind of "insider". So what's a person to do? First, you have to find the agents. Next, you have to find out if they WANT your material. Lastly, you have to actually contact them. Well this book knocked out the first two steps and made it a heck of a lot easier to do the last step. All I had to do was compile a list of agents and producers who'd likely be interested in my script. Next step was easy! Just contact them. And wouldn't you know? I found myself an agent!

This book is an awesome guide for screenwriters searching for a literary agent... There's hundreds of names, and it saves the time and money of contacting every agent directly, because beneath each listing, it says whether the agency or production company is accepting new material. And everything is up to date. Not like other books that print the same info every year. I used a bunch of the e-mail addresses and actually got 9 responses the first day!! I highly recommend this book.

It's really all in there. Everything I needed. A truly wonderful resource which saved me the time and trouble of agonizing research. I highly recommend it.