I looked at the web-site that was being pushed when Shoshanna started plugging it about a month ago. (For the record, Shoshanna has put up 6 messages. 5 of them have been pushing '
www.scriptwritershaven.com')
It seems very dubious.
A couple of red flags:
* In the 'about us' section, they are very proud of the industry contacts and experience of the 'Senior Consultant' - but forgets to mention her name !
* In the 'about us' section, they are also very proud of the CEO's experience - but also forgets to mention his name. The REALLY bizarre thing, though, is that while they seem very proud of the CEO's experience - he has less industry experience than me! His claim to fame is that he wrote some QA documents once !!!!
Other websites that these people run include '
www.workingforthekingdom.org' - a fundamentalist Christian site.
It seems to be run by 'Natasha Moore' who used to use the name 'Tasha Ledbetter' and used to call herself the 'Literary Manager' of the 'Prime Mega Entertainment' literary agency - which was run out of a hotmail account !
If you Google Ms Ledbetter's track record, you won't find any announcements of her success in Variety - just free ads on message boards where she was trying to sell her own script for '$500,000 against $1,000,000' !!!!!
I put them in my 'scam to avoid' file ....
Mac.
(PS: My prediction is that the CEO is
Nathan Moore, and the 'Senior Consultant' is 'Natasha
Moore/Tasha Ledbetter'. I've emailed 'scriptwriters haven' as a courtesy (to give them a 'right of reply', rather than talk about them behind their back) so will see how accurate my guess was)
(PPS: This is even odder. Natasha happens to use the name 'Shoshanna' in another online group. (Ref:
http://www.meetup.com/member/2182558/. - she was marketing one of her scripts under this user name)
But we know that
our 'Shoshanna' can't possibly be Natasha, because
our Shoshanna was talking about how good Natasha's company is - and how
'after searching high and low, I found a company that did resume submissions for writers. I also found out that the lead consultant has many industry contacts and is affiliated well...'.
There are two possibilities:
* Our 'Shoshanna' is Natasha and has been lying about how she searched high and low before happening to find her own company.
- or -
* Our 'Shoshanna' happens to use the same username on message boards as Natasha.
I suspect the former. I hope the latter.
Shoshanna can tell us which.