Sentences with phrase «about agents taking»

There's been a fair amount of discussion in writing circles about agents taking on the role of publisher, stepping in to help clients self - publish their work.

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«If you hold yourself out as an expert giving advice, and someone could be financially damaged in taking that advice, you want to think about professional liability insurance,» says Jeff Perlman, an agent in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

In July, Roy took to his blog to issue an unusual proclamation for a real estate agent: anyone thinking about selling should cash out now.

We got a tip that there was a rogue agent on the [government] payroll, which we took with a grain of salt at the time, given the conspiracy theories that were out there about the government.

Agents of the state can teach your children how to have sex, give them condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning - after pill if it doesn't work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails - and all without you having any say in the matter or necessarily even knowing about it.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

(b) Equipping change agents with skills: Social actionists often stumble over their own ineptness in communication and relationships, and their ambivalence about risk - taking and aggressiveness.

After helping Jeremy Roenick tug on his new Flyers sweater at a July press conference announcing the signing of the free - agent center to a five - year, $ 37.5 million contract, owner Ed Snider was about to take his seat when the irrepressible Roenick commanded, «Hold on.

The dubious advisers included Luigi DiFonzo — a former felon who claimed he was anItalian count and defrauded players such as Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson before committing suicide in August 2000 — and disgraced agent William (Tank) Black, who built a pyramid scheme that took a total of about $ 15 million from at least a dozen players, including Patriots running backFred Taylor.

Now we have to be thinking about free agents, would not mind taking on a free agent Centerback to paired with one of our youngsters for cup games, but this should have been long sorted

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Somebody's not going since they take about 60 and around 50 have declared that signed with an agent and about 90 have declared without signing with an agent.

Alabama coach Nick Saban didn't take well to questions about a Yahoo! Sports report that implicates former Crimson Tide right tackle D.J. Fluker for accepting improper benefits from agents, through former UA defensive end Luther Davis, who reportedl... more

According to the La Leche League that a mom should be healthy, well - nourished, taking no medication, ideally she would have an infant about the same age as the one she's going to be cross-nursing, she should be screened for tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, herpes, HIV and other infectious agents, she should not smoke, drink alcohol, consume large amounts of caffeinated beverages or artificially sweetened beverages, and her own infant should already be very healthy, gaining weight on a regular basis and free of all infections.

Without even quite basic information about what took place, we were left to follow logical conclusions - that a former Russian agent of the type Vladimir Putin is on record saying he'd like to get was attacked using a method previously adopted in Russian operations.

While in Kentucky, Trump took a few whacks at free agent Colin Kaepernick — laughing as he told the crowd about a recent report that said no team would sign the NFL player because they feared a tweetstorm from the president.

The U.S. Attorney's office today announced that Mr. Sampson, who once led the Senate Democrats, is accused of «making false statements to FBI agents about directing members of his Senate staff to take actions to benefit a Brooklyn liquor store in which Sampson secretly held an ownership interest.»

Another surprising finding, Suri says, was that increases in agent density caused about 3 percent of women in both female - and male - headed households to take up business or retail occupations over farming.

We don't know a great deal about how this class of agents are broken down in the environment due to their relatively novel nature and so taking these steps until the specific areas can be checked and any contaminated areas cleaned is appropriate.

Until we know this, there's no reason for people who are taking PPIs to be too concerned about that and stop taking those agents if they are needed,» Wolf - Klein said.

You can definitely prepare by taking ibuprofen about two hours before the procedure or getting a cervical block (with a numbing agent), which can really help to decrease the pain.

Direct, fast delivery of vitamins, hydration, energy, and detox agents into the bloodstream, which typically takes about one hour, gives the body maximum nutrient absorption

But, on one rainy day I took a phone call from an estate agent who told us about this place.

The Governator ratchets up his campaign to convince audiences he still makes for a plausible action hero in a movie about drug agents trying to take down a cartel.

In a way, this film about a sleeper agent is a sleeper film, initially taking place in the small, fictional, nothing - ever - happens town of Lima, West Virginia, before turning it into a battlefield.

Lockout (PG - 13 for profanity, sexual references and intense violence) Futuristic, sci - fi thriller about a wrongly - convicted federal agent (Guy Pearce) who is offered a pardon in return for rescuing the President's daughter (Maggie Grace) from an outer space prison where she's been taken hostage by bloodthirsty inmates.

«Calvary» is the second of a trilogy that began with «The Guard,» Ireland's most successful indie ever, a comic take about a policeman in County Galway (also played by Gleeson) who has seen enough of the world to know that there is not much too it, and who teams up with a humorless FBI agent in pursuit of a drug ring.

And though her NBC series «Free Agents» didn't take off, she has recently been doing a pretty solid arc on «Parks & Recreation» as the big bucks campaign manager — who couldn't care less about a small town election — brought in to take down Leslie Knope.

One of the coolest fight sequences is the elevator scene when Steven takes out about twelve highly trained agents.

For those curious about what such a pint - sized hero can achieve, know this: in his first - ever comic appearance, Ant - Man took down several Soviet agents trying to steal his shrinking serum — and triumphed with the help of, yes, an army of ants.

Ten - episode drama about three Miami tech entrepreneurs who create a controversial digital currency — and a crooked FBI agent («Sherlock's» Martin Freeman) who is intent on taking them down.

Though 1962's Manchurian Candidate remains probably the most famous movie about a «sleeper agent», Ultra clearly takes its cues from another source: the «Bourne» films.

Complex action drama about a family of a surgeon (Toni Collette) taken hostage by a loose cannon FBI agent (Dylan McDermott).

It must have taken the casting agents about three seconds to come to the conclusion that Jennifer Lawrence was the woman for the job.

(i) If a contractor to your organization is solely responsible for the conduct that forms the factual basis for a PIE, the PIE does not apply to the service agent itself unless the service agent knew or should have known about the conduct and did not take action to correct it.

After you send me your author questionnaire and supporting material, I'll take detailed notes about what you need to do (exactly) to get the attention of top literary agents... so you can get a top publisher and book deal.

And some authors and agents are thinking about taking digital rights elsewhere.

First of all, can you guys talk about the changes that have taken place in the publishing industry in the last few years — Borders have closed, author advances have plummeted, new authors have turned to self - publishing, some agents are becoming book packagers for self - published authors...

The struggle that people within the industry face as we try to pitch your book to everyone else in the value chain — sales teams, marketers, booksellers, and ultimately readers — is why the gatekeepers at the very beginning of the chain (the literary agents) have to be so very selective about the authors we take on.

She is writing an article about how agents are going to take our work, writer's work, and make it their work and collaborate and «help» writers get it up on the right place.

I changed a lot of things and it took about seven years actually to get to the point where I had something where this was good and I'm going to try to query it to agents and hopefully get a publisher.

Whenever someone at a literary agency says something complimentary about you and / or your work in their literary agent feedback... take that to heart.

They are fueled by the people who help her on the way: Lumbly, the station agent who introduces her to the underground railroad and the ambiguities surrounding it — no guarantees about your destination except that it won't be the same as where you are now, no assurance of continuity or permanence, only that it required a choice, a decision to take the chance.

by Writer's Digest, one literary agent estimates taking interest in only about 10 percent of the queries, or requests for the representation of an author's manuscript, she receives.

I don't have 2 more years to find the right agent --(I have more than One book in me) and for those of you worried about quality of your work — try working with a reputable professional writing Coach as I have for 6 months — taken me to a whole new Level and Beyond — worth every dollar.

I also think it's rather disingenuous to have an agent, who also happens to be a publisher, complaining about Amazon taking money out of the hands of agents.

Most agents only take on about 1 - 5 new clients a year.

Before you query agents, take the time to think very specifically about your book's genre, and get a second opinion from an editor or a few thoughtful reader friends about the genre.

Note that, even if you already have a written manuscript about your topic specialty, it's unlikely that an agent or an editor with whom you don't already have a relationship will take the time to read an entire manuscript without first reading and liking the book proposal.

And if you want to read more about advances, here's my literary agent take on how advances for first - time authors and 6 figure advances work.