Are there alternatives to traditional paper mailed query letters?
Yes. There are several email query services where you pay a fixed amount of money, create your query letter, and these companies will email it to producers, agents, and managers. You can hit 1,000’s of people in the same day! The messages appear to come directly from you and not the email service company, so responses from these contacts will go directly to your personal email inbox. Not bad. These companies can’t guarantee that the messages will get read, but they will get delivered. We recommend: The Film Connection, Scriptblaster, and Script Express from SoYouWannaSellAScript.com Another approach to marketing your screenplays is a script placement service. You can upload your synopsis and your screenplay to their website and let entertainment contacts search for scripts that meet their needs. They track and let you know who reads your upload documents so you can gauge the site’s effectiveness. We recommend: Inktip.com What if no one responds to my query letters? Maybe your query let
