We proudly present the eleven screenplays and pilots which scored a coveted ‘consider’ for writer as part of our Get Repped Now promotion in 2017. One huge heap of talented bad-asses right here! We’ll be blasting these scripts to our manager panel the first week of February. So let’s all pull for these amazing writers!…
Plus: the CI Query Letter Template! by Jim Cirile Coverage, Ink When someone opens a query email, you have ten seconds. You have to bring your “A” game and blow them away. The words you choose to paint a picture of both you and your idea are key. A lot of writers will tell you…
Fellow storytellers, 2017 is a wrap, and thank Jeebus. I mean, it was pretty much a trainwreck of a year as far as the planet is concerned. For me personally, it wasn’t so terrible. Made a lot of progress with business ventures and hell, made a movie (we just completed animation this week, yay!). Home…
By Jim Cirile Coverage Ink Ho ho ho, and a bottle of rum! Yes, it’s that most wonderful time of year, when we all spend money we don’t have on obligatory tchotchkes for our loved ones. But gulp – what if one of those loved ones is — horror of horrors — a screenwriter?…
Or, Where All the Women At? by Tanya Klein Once again, I feel a rant coming on. As you probably know, it’s currently Get Repped Now! time. For a certain period of weeks, anybody who sends in their screenplay or pilot for coverage and scores a “consider” for script will have their work read by…
Howdy, fellow scribes! I thought I’d share four observations that come from running Coverage Ink and Get Repped Now, as well as from my decades in the trenches (this is my 30th anniversary as a professional writer — I optioned my very first screenplay — for $500 — thirty years ago this month!) For, er,…
NO PRICE INCREASE! Plus: SECRET FINAL Extension just for CI Newsletter Readers Writers love deadlines. I learned this years ago when we hosted the late, great CS Open live writing tournament at the Screenwriting Expo. For those of you who never got the opportunity to partake, the CS Open was a unique, timed event…
by Jim Cirile www.coverageink.com Eight managers. Your script. Sound good? Of course, there is a catch — you have to get through the reader gauntlet first. Get Repped Now, a promotion from Coverage Ink, offers a panel of eight top literary managers who will read all the screenplays and teleplays which score a “consider” or…
Fellow scribes, Well, here we go again. Another Get Repped Now is upon us, everyone vying for that coveted ‘consider’ which will then move their advance their screenplay or teleplay to our manager panel. So I thought I’d share some tips from the managers, as well as our own experience, as to how to rock…
Like it or not, you probably need to save the damn cat. And, no, we’re not talking in a PETA sort of way (although that would be awesome, too.) If you’ve ever gotten coverage from us, there’s a good chance we may have mentioned Blake Snyder’s seminal work on screenplay structure “Save the Cat!” So…