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LOTB: Spec Market Scorecard year-end numbers

Just wrapped up the Spec Market Scorecard for the end of the year.  It was quite an interesting exercise -- seeing the year's complete numbers all laid out like that provides a bit of perspective on what felt like an awful year for screenwriters (and lit agents and managers).  I'll post the report here (along with a link to the PDF) on Friday.  For now, some teaser numbers:

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The Spec Market Scorecard will publish on Friday this week, but some teaser numbers are up on LifeOnTheBubble now. Click through the above link for details.

LOTB: Spec Market Roundup - November 2009

Spec Market Roundup:  November 2009
By Jason Scoggins
December 2, 2009

Here’s the cliché you knew was coming:  Not with a bang but a whimper.  

As usual, the 2009 Spec Market effectively ended as of the week of Thanksgiving.  (There will be a few intrepid souls who take scripts out between now and Sundance 2010 -- as of this writing there are three in the marketplace for the week of November 30 -- but conventional wisdom says all thoughts of buying have been banished by visions of sugar plums and the Wailea Four Seasons.)  November’s numbers were on par with what we’ve come to expect from this discouraging year:

• 17 new specs hit the market, 3 of which sold
• 14 of the 17 went out wide, none of which sold
• 2 scripts from the ancient past (in spec market terms) also sold

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Just a little self-cross-promotion.  Click through to read the whole Roundup.  FYI, all the links to people, projects and companies in the Report point to detail pages on the grid.  [Subscription required.]

Frequently Asked Questions

Quite a flurry of activity today.  The new Spec Market Scorecard is up at www.lifeonthebubble.com, and we finally took the time to create a Frequently Asked Questions page here on the IOTG Blog.  There's an FAQ page on IOTG itself, but it's worth having a separate one here.  (Plus it's easier to update here, so we've got that going for us.  Which is nice.)  

If you have a question you'd like us to include in the FAQ's, email us.  Here's the page's permalink, and you can always get to it via the links above and in the footer as well.  

Spec Market Roundup for October is up at lifeonthebubble.com

Check it out here:  www.lifeonthebubble.com