Lena Banks
The Bitch With The Red Pen Lena Banks took my money, under-delivered by fa

First off, "The Bitch with the Red Pen" is not a comment I'm making about her. That's how she describes herself. Check out her site: www.thebitchwiththeredpen.com But beware, she won't deliver on any of the promises made there.

Anyways, here's my story. I'm an aspiring screenwriter seeking representation by literary agencies. Before I sent out one of my screenplays to professionals in Hollywood, I was seeking consultation first. I saw her ad and gave her a call. Immediately she start throwing salesman spiel at me. Honestly it was like talking to a used car salesman. I should have seen that red flag right there and hung up the phone.

But she has a such a warm, pleasant, friendly voice and she was dropping names like crazy. She said "Oh I just got out of a meeting with Lionsgate." She said "I'd love the opportunity to approve your script and send it to a big hollywood agency." 2nd red flag I should've seen. She promised to "go over the script with a fine tooth comb." She said that if the story needed work, we'd fix it together and then she'd send it to an agency.

So I sent her my script along with a $150 non refundable payment. She said it would take up to two weeks to get the response. It took over 3 weeks.

When I got it back, she had gone through the script and made a bunch of formatting and technical corrections. She didn't give me any of the story improvement advice she promised whatsoever. All she did was go through a correct some typos. And she didn't even catch all the typos I had. Her so called 'fine tooth comb' missed some glaring errors. I guess the comb wasn't so fine after all.

I paid for script consultation, not just the late, piss poor, incomplete, proofreading service she actually delivered. Also, another, much more experienced script consultant told me that all her formatting corrections were wrong. He told me to not change anything she said. So this was a complete waste.

Basically, she took my money, didn't deliver anything she promised. Then she said I should "do some coaching" with her. She tried to convince me to buy more of her services after under-delivering the first time.

PS: During her sales spiel, she told blatant lies. Before I gave her my money, and didn't call her for a week, she said the agency was only accepting a certain number of new writers, so I should hurry up and get my script over to her. This is a lie. I know there is no limit to the number of writers they are taking.

This is a buy-now-while-supplies-last impulse sales tactic. It's called "fear of loss." It's trying to get you to rush into a decision because you think you'll lose the chance if you don't do it immediately. And I highly doubt she knows anyone at Lionsgate.

Company: Lena Banks
Country: USA
State: California
City: Hollywood
Phone: 8186664357
Site: thebitchwiththeredpen.com

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