Query time!

It's almost time. You know, that time when you stop stockpiling scripts and start asking people to ask people to pay you for them. Of course I queried my very first script, just like everybody else, then realized after I'd embarassed myself that I'd poked my head out too early. That was four years ago.

But I don't know how to do it. There are a ton of posts and articles all over the internet about how to write query letters. The best one is probably this from Terry Rossio. But there's not much on how to pitch yourself as a TV writer.

Partner and I are revising a project we very much believe in. It's a spec pilot based on my teaching experiences. I've also written another spec pilot that needs one more revision pass and have two functional spec episodes, a House and a Supernatural. The House is really damn good. The only thing I've written with Partner is the one spec pilot, but we plan to continue our partnership with a feature. I'm also working on a feature by myself.

So how do I seek representation with this set of material? Should I even bother querying? Do I just talk about myself and mention the partner as a secondary thing? He has a nice, comlimentary set of skills, so maybe I should introduce us as a set and add that I have my own side projects. Should I concentrate just on the pilot and vaguely mention that I want to write features too?

I probably already know how to do this. I once had to write a letter to some dude to convince him to give me my teaching license even though the class I took wasn't exactly the one I was supposed to take. I got my license. But I wasn't competing with a zillion other people for the job; they kind of need teachers.

Maybe if I was a little less shy I wouldn't even need to write a query letter because I'd have wowed all the brilliant writers in LA with my winning smile and charming personality. Instead I'll just have to do this the hard way. Me and everybody else in America.