Query Letters
When writing a query letter, keep it simple. All the industry cares about is the logline – we’ve got enough emails to write, scripts to read, and calls to make. So keep it quick and easy: No bio, no why you're sending to them. Just a professional greeting, a great logline, and a professional close. You’ll be their new best friend if it takes them 5 seconds to read your letter.
"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."
~ Nora Ephron
A former Hollywood Lit Manager, Michael Ferris started ScriptAWish.com as a way to help other writers get their foot in the door and has helped several writers sell their scripts (like Travis Beacham of PACIFIC RIM) and set up projects with producers like Academy Award Winner Arnold Kopelson. The mission of ScriptAWish.com is to help aspiring writers get their scripts into shape and then get their foot in the door. His new venture is a collaboration with several professional screenwriters called StudioGhostwriters.com and is intended to help producers get their movie ideas on paper or their drafts polished for production.
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