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Censorship
It all started with a harmeless question to Michelle about her nr. 6 Commandment.
Michelle wrote:
"Showing appreciation to your agent, manager, and lawyer. Yes we all get paid, but sometimes that isn’t enough. Everyone wants to feel approval. We all want someone to simply thank us for a job well done. Take them to lunch, buy them a simple birthday or Christmas gift. Say “thanks.”"
My question to Michelle was:
"Do you also send Birthday cards or Christmas gifts to your clients?"
"Do you also thank them for allowing you to make money with the hours and hours and hours and hours (stop me) invested in creating a script?"
As my question has been censored... I wonder... Hmmm...what is the purpose of writing a BLOG if you dont like to hear other people´s opinion?
Comments
You're right, I should not have deleted your Blog. However, I did feel that it was a bit churlish and beside the point. My article was written for writers to help them have a great relationship with their agents. This is probably the most important relationship they can have in the business.
As you see, Michelle, you will get my approval to comment in my Blog anytime, whether I agree with your opinion or not.
I beleive my question was pretty fair and not offensive at all...
Do you as an agent treat your clients for lunch? Do you give them presents for birthday?
If you are suggesting that writers should be grateful to their agents, so should agents be.
Every relationship in life is a two-way-street.
Let´s demystify the whole sacred-thing about agents, producers, etc.
Life is much simply than that: we are all human beings...
and let´s face it, without writers, there would be no literary agents--
--without agents...
there will always be writers, Michelle.
Hi:
Yes, of course relationships need to be a two way street. Yes, of course I took my clients out to many, many lunches and dinners. I bought them gifts and had them to my home for dinner parties so that they could meet important producers and other writers. Randall Wallace's (BRAVEHEART etc.) started his screen career at my dining room table, as did many others. I listened to my clients concerns about their careers as well as about their children. I went with them to meetings, I worked for them all day and read their material at night. I loved and cared for them. Many agents do the same.
By the way I spell my name: MICHELE
Well done Michele!