CONTACTING SCREENPLAY AGENTS

Pick up a copy of Writer's Market Guide to Literary Agents.

This is a book that every writer should have.

Don't market your first script yet. Get good notes on it first, if you haven't already, then do a rewrite (or several), if you haven't already. And then write at least one more script and get notes on it and do a rewrite (or several). Then come up with at least three more good concepts you can pitch if you have to. Because if you go out with your first script now, one of several things will happen:

1) It may turn out to suck (most first scripts do) and everybody will reject it, and they may also get the idea that you can't write and will remember that about you.

2) Someone may like it but not consider it marketable and may want to know what else you have, in which case if you have nothing you're screwed. "What else do you have?" is a common question you can expect to be asked. Word to the wise: have something.

3) It may be brilliant and somebody will snap it up right away. But the odds are against this.

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Keep writing, don't even think about marketing yet.

Ravenlocks gave you some real good advice. I'm not sure what all you've done so far in regards to the process of fine tuning your script or researching other screenplays and how they're written, etc. But having another one under your belt is only going to improve your odds.

Mike, have you had anyone read for you yet? If this is your first script, it's probably not a good idea to try to sell it.

Who were the four people? It was kind of them to take the time, but if none of them know anything about screenwriting, the value of their feedback is questionable. You might consider posting an excerpt, maybe the first five pages or so, in Share Your Work on this site. Password is vista.