Can anyone recommend a literary agent that is signatory to the WGA? Asking for a friend who doesn't know how to use computers.
WGA signatory
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You're obviously not looking for a list - you can find that for your friend.
Are you asking for personal recommendation? Is there any info you could
offer that could narrow down the potential answers?
I'll post the list - the one you can find on the WGA website - but maybe
with a little more info I could offer a list that could be of use.
Are you asking for personal recommendation? Is there any info you could
offer that could narrow down the potential answers?
I'll post the list - the one you can find on the WGA website - but maybe
with a little more info I could offer a list that could be of use.
You're right, Rik, he's seen the list and it only shows one WGA signatory agency in Michigan and they won't return his calls.
He's a 20 year veteran police detective and has written a number of scripts. He is interested in getting them to television cop shows like Law & Order and CSI. I think his dream is to create a new television show based on his first script (The Tank, a short film I made for him with no budget). He has written several other shorts centered on the tank and many other police procedural-type scripts.
I told him to gather his best material in a portfolio and physically go to the one agent in Michigan, but I'm not sure that would get him any further than his un-returned phone call. Any advice or personal recommendation you could give I would pass on most appreciatively.
He's a 20 year veteran police detective and has written a number of scripts. He is interested in getting them to television cop shows like Law & Order and CSI. I think his dream is to create a new television show based on his first script (The Tank, a short film I made for him with no budget). He has written several other shorts centered on the tank and many other police procedural-type scripts.
I told him to gather his best material in a portfolio and physically go to the one agent in Michigan, but I'm not sure that would get him any further than his un-returned phone call. Any advice or personal recommendation you could give I would pass on most appreciatively.
For obvious reasons I can't give a personal recommendation
for a writer I don't know personally - or have at least read.
It is exceedingly rare (if not unprecedented) for an unproduced
writer to submit a spec TV series. It just doesn't work that way.
I suspect that's one of the reasons the agency will not return
your friends calls. And I suspect you are correct; if he walks into
the office no one will accept his material. Agencies just don't work
that way. I know my agent won't accept material that way.
Your friend might have to take a more traditional path. But it
won't hurt to contact agencies outside of Michigan. You both
have the list.
for a writer I don't know personally - or have at least read.
It is exceedingly rare (if not unprecedented) for an unproduced
writer to submit a spec TV series. It just doesn't work that way.
I suspect that's one of the reasons the agency will not return
your friends calls. And I suspect you are correct; if he walks into
the office no one will accept his material. Agencies just don't work
that way. I know my agent won't accept material that way.
Your friend might have to take a more traditional path. But it
won't hurt to contact agencies outside of Michigan. You both
have the list.
I assume this means, have his scripts produced into films independently until he has a body of work that speaks for itself?
If not, what would his more traditional path be?