How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer's Guide to Hollywood Representation from Focal Press provides you with insights to the world of Hollywood representation. This softcover book takes you through the inner sanctums of Hollywood's power-brokers so you can learn how they influence what pitches get bought, what projects get sold, and which writers get hired.
Chad Gervich is a television writer/producer, bestselling author, and award-winning playwright. He has written, produced, or developed shows for almost every major network and studio in Hollywood. In this book he shares tips from top-level executives, agents, managers, producers, and writers to help you get the most our of your own agent.
Format
Paperback
Contents
REPRESENT:
- No Vocation Without Representation
- Types of Representation
- Anatomy of an Agency
- Quick Overview of the Feature Business
- Original Material-Specs and Pitches
- Writers-for-Hire-Development, Open Assignments, and Rewriters
- A Quick Overview of the TV Business
- Staffing Season…or
- How Agents Help Clients Get Hired
- Development Season…or, Selling Your Own TV Show;
- Reality Agents
- Book Agents
- Theater Agents
- Video Game Agents
- Digital Media Agents
- Finding and Agent;
- Working with Your Agent
- Parting Ways with an Agent
- Networking in Hollywood
- Getting Your Own Job in Hollywood
- Glossary, Agency Contact Info, Professional Orgs and Associations
- Schools, Classes, and Workshops
- Contest and Festivals, Books & Periodicals
- Websites, Chatrooms, & Blogs