Since this site is one of the top sites on google for Children's Television Production I receive many unsolicited calls related to my work. Everything from people wanting informational interviews to CEOs of media companies wanting to harness my contacts for a new project. Here is some info for all of you wanting to break in to the business and/or contact me related to your project.

I produce content for projects with funding.

Please contact me only if you would like to discuss having content produced for your funded project.

How I got started
I got started by having relevant experience (production, stage hand, & teaching for years), great ideas and contacting someone in television the day after he was asked to produce material for a new preschool science show. Was it destiny, a psychic flash, luck? I don't know, but it all came down to being the right person, with the right skills, in the right place.

Disclaimer
I am not a lawyer. Before doing any business in the entertainment industry make sure you educate yourself. I am not a lawyer (there, I said it twice) and don't want to hear you complain because something I said is not 100% accurate.

You can't copyright ideas
If you call me up and tell me your idea for an amazing book, film, character - whatever - I can steal it from you. Ha! Sucker... You have no protection while it is in your head, even if you have a whole movie thought out scene by scene, word by word. You can only copyright the implementation of ideas in novel and concrete forms. Tell someone your amazing, intricate, billion dollar idea and it is a goner. Don't.

Read up and always use protection
Before you talk to anyone read the books below, then write up your idea to the best of your ability and register it with the US copyright office. The closer to the date you write it up that you register, the more rights you have, such as having legal fees paid for if someone steals your idea. It is CHEAP to do this. I think the new fee is $45 with a $10 savings if you do it electronically. Visit http://www.copyright.gov/

Don't call until you have
Please don't put me in a position of hearing your idea before you have them protected.

I'm not going to make your dream come true, but you can hire me
I am not a production company or executive that produces new shows. I work on shows with a budget. I'm someone you hire to work on your funded project.

Rule of Thumb
Unless you have a job offer (read = funded project for me to work on) please do not call me until you have...

1) Done your homework (read books above)
2) Come up with an original idea worthy of being produced
3) Have written it up as a treatment or in more detail
4) Have registered it with the copyright office and writers guild as applicable.

Thank You!
Thank you for protecting yourself and taking steps to launch your career. Know that I am in your corner and, once you have taken the steps above, would love to hear from you.

May you...
May you have an amazing idea for a screenplay, write it up as a treatment based on the wisdom in the book above and these websites. May you be smart enough to register your work with the copyright office, send a query letter to an agency, sign with an agent, then have him/her sell it for $500,000.

Parting Advice

1) Create stuff related to your desired creative profession - act like you're THAT already. You want to be a filmmaker? Well, go make some films already. Want to be a writer for tv shows? If you're waiting to get a job doing "it" before you start to do "it" chances are you aren't passionate enough.

2) Once you are doing it, find ways to network and spend time with people who are in that field.

3) There are a ton of people who want to do that cool thing that you want to do. Be ready to compete. Become an expert in your desired area of focus. Eat up information in your field so you are smart and evolving. In the entertainment industry you can't be mediocre, not unless you are passionate, persistant and connected. Don't just dream - DO. And then dream some more as a reward...