The Bone Saga
Excerpts from his email:
I'm sitting here at 22 minutes after midnight. After 3 whole days of spiritual and legal scrutiny, I signed the agency contract.
Two of my biggest concerns were the fact that 1) he wanted to sign me without reading the script and 2) that he wasn't a signatory member of the Writers Guild.
He answered 1) by saying that he has a head of a production studio that wants to read my script. End of story. Whether he has read it or not, he wants to represent me for the chance that it offers to both of us.
He answered 2) by explaining that the Writers Guild will only except agents that are agents exclusively. Since he is a producer, writer, agent, and manager, the Guild is uncomfortable with conflict of interest issues.
His contract that he offered was a boilerplate agency contract approved by the California State Labor division, and he agreed to a term of 2 instead of 7 years
All in all, he was very frank with me saying, that he would never have considered signing me in a million years, if he didn't have this unique opportunity fall into his lap.
For the life of me, I can't understand why the agent wouldn't invest an hour of his life and read the script. He's probably not a reader - he probably is a salesman and salesmen don't generally make good readers.
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