HollsywoodLitSales founder Howard Meibach disagrees with the bit about the telephone. Also, check out their “success stories,” which are usually posted at their sites for all to see, and make sure they haven’t changed ownership too often. What should one look for when choosing a service? “If you can’t get on the phone and talk to some body, that’s a warning sign,” he said. Wehner acknowledges he entered a crowded space populated by the likes of, , and Hollywood, which he calls four of the better online script services. Sympathetic budding screenwriters nationwide flocked to his site, and in 2001, he launched the Global Literary Market, where 400 people pay $15 every six months so that their work might be perused online by 500 registered agents and producers. “I optioned a script to a producer, then he died,” he said.
Wehner founded in 1995 after discovering how hard it was to pitch scripts to Hollywood while living in Grand Junction, Colo. “There’s a lot of scams out there,” said Chris Wehner, author of “Screenwriting on the Internet: Researching, Writing and Selling Your Script on the Web.” The problem now is in separating the useful online services from the useless ones. So perhaps it’s only natural that dozens if not hundreds of internet sites sprang quickly to action to help struggling writers get their scripts read by the right people. Hollywood is legendary in its ability to make firings difficult for unproven screenwriters.