Recently I received a question from a screenwriter who wanted to know how to write a query letter when they didn’t have writing credits. Below is my response, more or less. Also, I recommend checking out Ashley Scott Meyers’s piece: How to write a professional query letter for your screenplay. -Eric In my piece How […]
So you’ve spent months writing a script, and now you want to sell it. You’ve read my post How to Write a Query Letter and want to put the same care into your query letter as you did writing the script. Good plan. As a freelance script reader I not only get paid to read […]
A query letter is a letter or email – usually unsolicited – that screenwriters send to agents, managers, and producers to entice them into reading their scripts. If I had a nickel for every bad query I’ve read, I’d be a rich, rich, (did I say rich? I meant RICH) man. To help out screenwriters […]
Produced screenwriter. Veteran script reader. Yes, I have a Ph.D. But it's in History. Seriously.