...While normally I'd mope & get angry about professional setbacks (as they pertain to my writing), but alas I simply hit the ground running...
... And did so immediately after that e-mail I received last night (which I expounded about in my last blog).
I wrote out my succinct query letter to script agents... Though I made it a general letter of inquiry to agents seeing if they want to take me on as a client, while hinting at (supplying loglines- one sentence descriptions of my scripts- at the bottom of the letter) my body of work.
I don't think that's the way to go.
I think I should query agents for one specific script, then, when I get them hooked, tell them of my 12 other scripts awaiting representation.
And I think Pillow Queen will be the script that gets them hooked.

At any rate, I was fairly confident of my query letter, but I decided to turn to Google for help in perfecting it.
I happened upon this website: ScriptDoctorEric.
It may look cartoony & a bit slapdash, but what sold me was the fact that they have testimonials (with full names and locations) and a note saying that if any visitor's to the site wanted to contact the author's who gave testimonials, that they (the site managers) would put them in touch with them.
That and the guy running the site (Dr. Eric) was a script reader at an agency before going on to write professionally.
And these (the script readers... pretentious, self-important recent film school graduates starting at the low end of the totem pole... and who are extremely bitter about this, and take it out on most of the submitting writers... how many times do you think they utter the phrase, "I can write a better script than this!" each day?) are the people I need to get past.
And if these guys can help me, then so be it.
They charge a minimal fee ($50 to read, critique and assist with, a query letter) through PayPal.
Now, I had $22 sitting in my PayPal account from selling something on eBay.
So it only cost me $28 to get my letter looked at.
$28 is half a tank of gas, really.
So, I await a response from Dr. Eric while I start on a new query letter that shops around Pillow Queen only and not my entire career.

With that said today I've also renewed my license plates at the DMV, read a slew of RoboCop comics, bought a subscription to GoreZone (Fangoria's grittier, more outlandish sister magazine) and am now heading to the Skyview Drive-In (in Belleville, Illinois... hometown of horror legend John Carl Buechler, who directed Cellar Dweller, Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College, Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood  and he did the make-up FX for just about every horror film made in the 80's & 90's... along with Steven Johnson, Kevin Yagher & (the king) Stan Winston) to see a double-feature of Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 (Marvel and DC... together again).

So that is it: a night of relaxation, then back to the grind stone.