The Business of Screenwriting: Always be nice to the assistants

In the heady days after our spec script K-9 sells, we have several meetings with our agents at Bauer / Benedek (a boutique lit agency that later merged with others to become UTA). Those meetings are largely about… well, meetings, as that’s what happens in Hollywood: new talent shuttles around town, meeting producers and studio execs. Seeing as we are outsiders and I especially am…