I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that it's great to hear an out-of-nowhere story like this... ...but the script sounds less than encouraging. And potentially misogynist despite being written by a woman.

Actually two specs sold yesterday, both by women writers.

Yes, but the other one doesn't sound self-hating. I just wish people would stop writing movies in which a woman's sole obsession seems to be finding "the perfect man." At some point, even screenwriters have to take some moral responsibility!

One noticeable trend that is great for us writers is that the average purchase price for specs is solidly ratcheting back up. Since we are in the business of selling one thing, every so often, if we're lucky. That one thing needs to have a solid price tag to pay the bills until the next thing sells. One of the main reasons for this is that during the downturn the studios let a bunch of high profile producer deals expire. Which means there are a lot of very sought after producers out there that are not beholden to one studio under a first look pact and can get into a competitive situation. Which is better for producer and writer. Producer can leverage start dates, budget, etc. Writer obviously can get more money. Sometimes a lot more. When you take a spec out with a producer that has a deal and their home studio decides to buy it, then you are stuck with your quote (or scale if you don't have a quote) since the studio gets first crack all by themselves, and they sure as hell aren't going to bid against themselves. And as my lawyer likes to say, "they won't give a dime more than they absolutely have to." So when your awesome spec starts getting some suitors, think twice about giving one producer "the town" if he/she has a first look deal, since that is probably where it will land. And you get what you get. Still a nice problem to have, but an equally hot producer with no deal can change your zip code. Example: The "Abduction" writer teams up with Vertigo right after Uni lets their deal expire. They get Lautner attached and take the spec to everybody at once...sells for 750/1.5. Same exact scenario six months prior when Vertigo was still under their Uni pact and he gets what he gets, and it would be nowhere even close to the seven figure deal.

Crash, that's a good point about the upside - to spec writers - of all those producers whose overall deals were jettisoned by studios. In 2000, there were 292 studio-producer deals. This year it's 152 [which is actually up from 133 in 2010]. For details on that, check out this article in Variety.

Here's a guy who really does not like the title and premise of this script. Of course, he hasn't actually read it yet...

to be fair, i did read it and wrote a review http://notesfromahack.blogspot.com/2011/10/hes-f-ing-perfect-script-review.html