yikes...

Wow... I love it when agencies don't even have an official website... when you have to find out their contact info. and their submission policies through websites that review agencies (like Backstage.com).

I also love it when agencies give you this line: "so-and-so agency has a policy that neither it nor any of its agents or other employees shall accept or consider any unsolicited material, ideas or suggestions of any nature whatsoever ("Unsolicited Materials").

Accordingly, you may not use this website or information obtained there from to submit Unsolicited Materials to us via any means (including, without limitation, via mail, fax or e-mail).

Should you nevertheless contravene this express prohibition by sending Unsolicited Materials to us, please be advised that the Unsolicited Materials will not be considered by anyone at us, and if possible they will be returned to you with no copies kept.

Unsolicited Materials will not be forwarded to or discussed with any third parties"

So... how do you get solicited if you're a writer?

Do they have to read one of your stories in a magazine and say, "You know... I wonder if that guy has a agent...??? I'll contact him and find out..."

Or they see (or hear about) an independent film you wrote...????

Maybe you submitted a script to a screenplay competition or film fest and it wins, or nabs an "Honorable Mention" or semi-finalist nod, and they hear about it.

Again, it all just sounds a bit "boy's club"-ish.

"If you're already famous, or great at self-promotion, or are at the right place at the right time and someone important notices you, then we'd like to represent you. If not, go fuck yourself... If you had talent, then you'd already be famous."

I know I sound like Kerouac & Ginsberg in that diner scene at the beginning of Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, and it's probably just an artistic soul's frustration in dealing with the business side of writing/art, but I hope things pan out for me the way they did for the Beats (in terms of writing, you understand...)