How to agent your agent - Nancy Rainford

Nancy Rainford takes the reader behind the scenes to reveal the techniques, politics, and unspoken rules of being an agent. Agents and managers are the gatekeepers and power brokers to getting work in Hollywood. With an easy style, Rainford candidly delivers an uncensored insight into the mechanics and motivation of agents and managers at work. Get the tools you need to protect yourself, build a career, and train your agent to work for you. Rainford delivers familiar and surprising scenarios in each chapter filled with industry anecdotes and uncensored descriptions and accounts of show-biz players. A glossary of terms and definitions will educate and entertain all readers, so that every actor and screenwriter in whatever stage of 'stardom' or 'starvedom' from the unsuspecting novice, to the been-around-the-block star can make practical use of How To Agent Your Agent.