HOW DO I SELL MY SCREENPLAY?

As a writing coach and teacher, the #1 question I get asked is HOW DO I SELL MY SCREENPLAY?  Or its companion question HOW DO I GET AN AGENT?

It’s a crapshoot.  Networking works, that’s how I got my first agent.  Sending query letters to agents, managers, and production companies, which has never worked for me, not once, but still worth a try.  Writing contests, which lacking any other options, might work if you enter the right ones and win them.  I even once tried the mythical throw it over a movie star’s fence idea, which led a big Hollywood agent to call and scold me for stalking her client.  The agent did eventually read my script.  I got two different managers from waiting tables at restaurants in West Hollywood.  Sold three scripts to studios from that method, believe it or not, and got in the WGA.
The best way to sell a screenplay or get an agent is to write something amazing.  Still no guarantee, but that’s your best bet.  That and timing.  The right project in front of the right person at the right time.  And alot of hustle and follow through.
I have a new agent as of the last couple months, a really good one.  How?  I wrote a great project, turned it into a really great podcast, which led to attaching an Oscar winning producer and A-list movie star, and a big three agency repping it.

Not bragging, it was a 12 year journey for that particular project.  And it’s not sold yet.

WRITE SOMETHING AMAZING! 

I can help.