12Additional Paths to Breaking In

Query Letters, The Black List, Live & Online Pitch Opportunities

When conducting interviews for this book, there is one thing that was communicated to me emphatically, again and again: the industry consensus is that there are more avenues for discovery available to screenwriters today than in previous decades. Conventional wisdom is that if you do the work, if you write that outstanding script, there are more avenues than ever before to ensure that you will be discovered as your work—of outstanding quality—will rise to the top. But what are those avenues for discovery, and what sort of stock does the industry put in them?

Manager Scott Carr told me:

The unsolicited query route is a game changer in the world ...

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