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…
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…
Howdy, fellow scribes! It is with enormous delight that we present to you our biggest and best manager panel ever for the upcoming GET REPPED NOW. Eight amazing managers from the top management companies in town. Want in? Sure you do! Without further ado, here they are: Jake Wagner, Good Fear Lee Stobby, Stobby Ent….
(Well, okay, maybe not all…) Howdy, fellow Scribadelic Warriors, Recently I sent out an e-mail to our newsletter list offering five free half-hour phone consultations with me to discuss whatever you want — the state of your career, what to write next, and so forth. Well, I got 127 replies, so needless to say, there…
Hi friends! My second “The Rep Sheet” guest blog (the spiritual successor of my old “Agent’s Hot Sheet” column) is now up on The Wrap. This time out, I grill five leading managers and an agent about how writers shoot themselves in the foot. Once you finally get signed, the last thing you want to…
Why Getting Coverage on Your Script May Be Just the Ticket By Jim Cirile www.coverageink.com We’ve all been there. We write “Fade Out,” and voila! — our shiny, new awesometastic masterpiece is done. Then we hand it to our respective boyfriends, girlfriends, and “it’s complicated” others; they love it. Mom adores it. We’re ready for…