Of Agents, and Networks, and Pumpkins, and Things

Today’s blog is going to be a quick one — this is partly because I have almost no time to write and partly because Liz Shannon Miller is too busy carving Yuri-shaped pumpkins and then eating them (for their soul) rather than responding to my response on the web series business.

Or maybe she doesn’t want it to become an endless back and forth which never really gets solved because, really, there isn’t much of a solution, is there? Until I think of one. Which I will — but I’ll get into that later.

Right now, a quick rundown of the week:

-I have a meeting with an agent tomorrow. An agent at a big agency. I’ve been trying to get an agent for like, 3 years, and most of them don’t respond while others respond for a little while then, I imagine, get murdered or something because it’s the last I hear from them. Anyway, I have a phone meeting with an agent tomorrow and I need you all to cross your fingers and send me good wishes.

Except Liz, who I only ask to make a smaller pumpkin and title it, “Yuri’s agent” — and then eat both of us.

I might be very happy or very bummed out tomorrow — I’ll chronicle either one, ’cause that’s just the thing of this thing.

-I’m going to be at the Twestival SF on Friday night — say hi if you’re there and you see me. I’ll be dressed like Justin Kan from JustinTV. Our production company, Happy Little Guillotine Films, is donating a 30-second promo for their silent auction. This makes me happy — it’s a bit of extra work and we’re already swamped, but the money goes to charity and I like helping people — especially kids. Though, the kids we help are required to wear Break a Leg shirts after we help them (good investment, right?)

-Speaking of Twitter — we’re almost done with our Twitter videos. They turned out quite fun. If the company is cool with it, I’ll make sure to post them here.

-I’m going to be writing a couple of scripts for a web series that isn’t of my own creation. It’s a good, quick gig and a good show, so — stay tuned for more news on that.

-I saved the best for last: we got the contract from the network! Woo! It’s signed and there aren’t any added clauses like they’ll own us (we did have to sacrifice our camera guy in their CEOs name, but, whatever), so, good! We now wait for all of our videos to export — which is taking 4-5 hours per video, for 67 videos total. Our friend, Sam Long — the best person in the whole universe — is letting us use his work’s ten computers to get it all ready.

The due date is September 15th — hopefully, we’ll have it all done and I can start announcing the news as early as this month!

Okay, I’m off to eat, play hockey, and look through 60 continuity scripts for errors.

I’ll write more soon.