the movie crowd hung out. I had no hook ups or connections in the industry on any level. Then by luck, through a friend, I was able to get my script in the hands of a real producer.
Who cares if it was a music producer that knew me through a friend of a friend, he was in the entertainment business. He read it, liked it, and referred me to a contact he had at The William Morris Agency (now William Morris Endeavor Entertainment), an elite talent agency. His contact sent my script to get coverage from the literary department. The comments came a few weeks later. They passed on me as a client. My ego was slightly bruised at having a script I wrote from the heart rejected.
Then I read the coverage notes. “Sharp dialogue”, “engaging characters”, “well paced”, and other positive lingo they use when covering a script in the literary department. The reader’s final