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Literary Agency and Editing Services
Our business is to get you a better screenplay.
About The Gary Paul Agency
A Word From Our Founder
My name is Garret C. Maynard. I'm a script editor and literary agent. I operate The Gary-Paul Literary Agency and have been a WGAe signatory since 1994. As an editor/agent I ask the questions: What can I do to make your screenplay better? Is your drama, dramatic? Is your comedy, funny? Is your script an exceptional example of visual communication? Is your script in spec. format? Is it bound properly, etc? These are only a few of the questions I ask; there are hundreds and as your editor/agent, I offer answers to all of them.
Writers not only rely on me to answer their creative questions but they rely on me for legal advice. Many of the answers can be found in my book "The Incorporated Screenwriter" or answered in a phone consultation. Either way, the writer becomes better informed about their screenwriting.
An advantage of working with The Gary-Paul Agency is that development executives know that my clients have consulted with me and therefore are well schooled in screenwriting. This saves the unproduced screenwriter from the bias development executives have about writers who have no screen credits. Edited screenplays from the The Gary-Paul Agency removes the bias.
Writers like the fact that their edited scripts from The Gary-Paul Agency give them the edge in screenwriting competitions. Two writers who took my screenwriting course placed in the top one percentile of the 1996 and 97 Sundance Screenwriting Lab. Also, writers like the fact that I am a university professor who teaches screenwriting and film production. I am a working producer/cinematographer as well; all of which adds to my ability to help writers become better screenwriters.
Company History
The Gary-Paul Agency was granted signatory status by the Writers Guild of America in 1992 and has been a registered service organization with the State of Connecticut since 1991. President, Garret C. Maynard is a literary agent and a working writer/producer/cinematographer. Some of his acheivements include his sports documentary: The Waters Edge (see American Cinematographer, Feb., 1996). He was nonimated in Cinematography for his work on Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War, and won TV Guide's Pick of the Week for his Speedvision documentary Behind the Lens: Making The Classic Films of Auto Racing. Mr. Maynard also teaches Screenwriting, Film Production, Film History and Media Literacy at the university level, and is the author of The Incorporated Screenwriter©
Endorsments
10/08
Gary,
I hope you are well. Just wanted to let you know that my novel, Vespa, is now in paperback and available on www.amazon.com and the publisher's web site www.activebladder.com. Please share with Joanne as I seem to have lost her e-mail address after I moved from one computer to another.
I really feel your screenwriting class, of all things, was what helped me "find the story" inside of what had formerly been a bloated and difficult-to-sell manuscript. By adapting the novel into screenplay form, I was able to identify what was essential to the story (and what wasn't) for when I revisited the novel. I plan to mention this and give you a plug during a local newspaper interview I'll be doing in The Ridgefield Press.
The class was also helpful for me as a yarn-spinner because it allowed me to witness when my story was putting the rest of the students asleep and when it was shocking them awake. I don't think I'll ever forget the outrage in that nurse from Norwalk Hospital's eyes when she pointed at me, during the reading of one particularly gruesome scene, and cried that Vespa was horrible and that I was terrible. Reactions like that are what we horror writers are looking for, I guess, kind of like a chorus of laughter effected by a comedian.
Thanks again and best of luck to you.
Dean L
If you wish to submit a screenplay to The Gary-Paul Agency, please call and talk with us first. Then we will ask you to send a hard copy only of the first twenty pages of your screenplay. Please include a two to three page summary an SASE for return, if applicable, and make sure you list all your contact information including your e-mail. We will review your submission within the month and e-mail our recommendations. Remember, we will only read hard copies of your submission.
Please do not send pages by e-mail. However, you can e-mail your questions at info@thegarypaulagency.com or call us at 203.345.6167.
USPS address: The Gary-Paul Agency 1549 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06615