This is a shareware program that carries a $15.00 registration fee. But you can try it for thirty days to see if it will work for you. I'm not a screen writer, so it's here at the suggestion of another writer who says it can compete with the commercial software in power and features.
Once you land that contract, there's no easier and secure way of exchanging files with your publisher than FTP. What? You don't know how? This program simplifies things a lot.
This is a simple but very powerful database for keeping track of your submissions. The hard part will be collecting all the information of publishers. Just put them in as you submit.
So you need the power of the big boys but don't have the cash? This link will take you to a office suite that competes with ANY of them and is FREE!!! But it's a huge download, so if you're on 56K get a good download manager that supports resume.
This Shareware word processor only costs $29.00 to register and adds a plethora of features that make it friendly to people who write book-length manuscripts. A project editor keeps track of all related files, even if they’re not in the same directory. You can search for words in phrases in the open file or all project files, and more and more. Very impressive.
This is a free text editor and organizer for the writer. It keeps track of chapters and characters in your story as it develops. One shortcoming I found is that it only works with text files. But once you have your story together, you can always use another word processor to format the manuscript.