Last chance, folks! For those stragglers who didn’t make it in by our Nov. 15 deadline, we have our traditional 1-week grace period/extension. There is NO LATE ENTRY FEE or any of that nonsense. So if you haven’t gotten your script in to Coverage Ink’s Get Repped Now! yet, or if you were cranking to…
by Tanya Klein Would you like to live in a high-rise that had been built without using a proper blueprint? Would you want to be operated on by someone who lacks basic understanding of anatomy? How about an airplane — would you like to ride in one that had not been designed by people who…
Meet Adam Bertocci, our first Get Repped Now! consider for fall 2015 (so far.) Adam’s script HERE GOES NOTHING, an adaptation of certain play called MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING but restaged in a high school, had all the right stuff. His script will be sent to our manager panel with our recommendations at the end…
Coverage Ink’s Get Repped Now! October 12-Nov. 15, 2015 When we launched the first Get Repped Now! a year ago, we never expected it would have quite the response it has had. It’s not a contest; there are no prizes, per se. But what we all really need more than anything is access. GRN is…
Or, How Joey Ernand Dominated the Spring 2015 Get Repped Now! By Jim Cirilewww.coverageink.com We knew screenwriter Joey Ernand had the goods when his TV pilot RIFT JUMPERS scored a ‘consider/consider’ (consider for both writer and for script) in Coverage Ink’s spring 2015 Get Repped Now. That meant his script would automatically be elevated to…
Klatzker We are pleased to announce that Industry Entertainment literary manager Micah Klatzker has come aboard Coverage Ink’s Get Repped Now! manager panel. He has agreed to read all of the ‘considers’ we receive between 10/12/15 and 11/15/15. He joins managers Jake Wagner from Benderspink, Jeff Belkin from Zero Gravity and Chris Mills from Magnet…
Interview with TrackingB.com’s Founder by Jim Cirile There are two main reasons Coverage Ink has been referring writers to TrackingB.com for almost a decade now. Number one: TrackingB is a real, honest-to-goodness tracking board used by the industry. It contains a wealth of info useful to savvy writers keen to become students of the biz…
by Jim Cirile Fellow scribes, The Aug 31 2015 Scoggins Report just streeted, and to no one’s surprise, things pretty much suck out there. So far, 2015 is the worst year for spec sales in the past seven years — a full 30% lower than average. Now that’s pretty ghastly, but when I say to…
“Good in a Room” — as screenwriters, we’ve all heard this expression, which simply means “be engaging when you meet people.” Seems intuitive, right? Just be cool and tell a story well. Yeah, that’s not as easy as it seems for many of us. Enter Stephanie Palmer. A former MGM studio executive, Palmer founded Good…
In late 2014, we launched our very first Get Repped Now! It was a new kind of promotion — unlike a contest, there are no winners, no prizes, and you don’t compete against other writers. The concept was simple: send in your script for coverage, and if it scores a ‘consider’ (or higher for script…