Sentences with phrase «agent i get asked»

As a literary agent I get asked a lot about what creative writing course is best and so when Ink Academy approached...

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Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

I called an agent to ask why and got some very unsurprising answers.

Rather than congratulating the agent on saving the day, he asked whether she'd gotten a receipt for the fare.

If your bag is a little over-sized, then use this trick: before you get on the plane, go up to the gate agent and ask her to gate check the bag for you.

«The best way to ensure your bag gets to you the quickest is to ask the counter agent very nicely if they will let you gate check your bag.

Americans for Annuity Protection gets dozens of calls a month from advisors and agents asking what force is pushing the Department of Labor's Fiduciary Rule.

I've asked 10 listing agents what is their seller's # 1 concern and they all said: financing contingencies and whether the buyer will be able to get a loan.

Your best option is to contact the hard money lender, ask for an extension, they contact anyone who has seen the house, or any agents who have shown it and get feedback.

Your agent could ask you to get pre-qualified or pre-approved with the in - house lender before home shopping.

Some of the most frequently asked tax questions center on being a parent, owning a home, getting married and the like, according to research by TurboTax Live, which connects taxpayers online to certified public accountants and enrolled agents to address questions.

Also be sure to ask the seller's agent if you can get a copy of the disclosure statement, which is a document that outlines any defects of the house, any renovations that have been done, and any upgrades that have been made.

Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America by kevin starr ignatius, 675 pages, $ 34.95 In The Good Shepherd, the 2006 spy film, mobster Joseph Palmi asks CIA agent (and stereotypical WASP) Edward Wilson an insolent question: «We Italians, we got our families....

Asked if he would ever change his mind if the «ultimate role offer» came his way, he said: «I've got one of the best agents in the world, I've got all these things that I don't feel comfortable doing, and she respects that.

A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a rival.

Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly asking his agent to do «whatever it takes» to get him to Manchester United.

However, the most important thing all agents will learn today is that Arsenal got 200 million to spend and they can ask whatever they want.

In the meantime, he has been busy celebrating his 29th birthday along with agent Mino Raiola and Paul Pogba, as seen in his Instagram post below, while asking in his caption: «What am I getting for my birthday?»

Maybe he doesn't feel Campbell is ready to start a Premier League game yet and If I was Campbell, I would get my head down, work hard inb training and ask my agent to keep his mouth shut.

Juventus have begun searching for a replacement for Paul Pogba as the Chelsea and Manchester United target has reportedly asked his agent to get him a move to Real Madrid, according to Fichajes.net.

According to some reports, he has already asked his agent to get to work on finding him a new club and apparently Sanchez is keen on a move to Manchester City!

According to the Italian's version, the player has asked his agent to do «whatever it takes» to get him back to Manchester United.

«We all know what can happen when agents get involved but you have to ask whether we would sell him were for example we in the same position as them!»

Cristiano Ronaldo has asked his agent Jorge Mendes to get him back to Manchester United according to the Portuguese outlet A Bola.

One more tip for Southwest... when flying Southwest, ask the gate agent if there are empty seats on your flight when you get to the gate.

Cuomo actually does come up in the allegations, very tangentially: At one point in the U.S. attorney's complaint, Smith is quoted as having said to an undercover F.B.I. agent, as part of an explanation for why the Republican county chairmen were unlikely to go back on a bribe - based bargain with him, «I got them already asking me about judgeships, because judgeships now come through here, it comes through the governor.»

So we ask ourselves where to get money to pay polling agents in the upcoming elections?

Agents posed as customers in hardware and farm supply stores, asking how to get rid of skunks or raccoons.

But to do so she'll have to navigate a town of predators, who include, in no particular order: the modeling agent who tells her to lie about her age (Christina Hendricks); the hot photographer who immediately calls for a closed set and asks her to get naked (Desmond Harrington); the other supermodels who, Jesse points out, undergo plastic surgery «to look like a second - rate version of me» (Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee); the mountain lion who somehow ends up in her grimy motel room in the San Fernando Valley (casting information unknown); the helpful makeup artist who moonlights down at the morgue (Jena Malone); and the motel manager who might be a murderer and is definitely a pimp (Keanu Reeves).

Getty Sr. refuses to pay the ransom when Harris asks for cash, and instead, she gets assigned a Getty oil negotiator and former CIA agent, Fletcher Chase (Mark Warhlberg), to sort out this champagne abduction case on a beer budget.

And I asked that same question of my agent as this movie starts getting all this kind of buzz.

The helpful agent asked me «have you got a spark?»

Jill Marsal: If you're not getting agents asking for your manuscript, then something in your query letter probably needs to be reworked.

The literary agents on your typical free book agents list didn't ask to be put there, meaning they didn't post their profile or review it — so the information that you're relying on to get representation is outdated and / or incorrect.

Only when a writers gets screwed or their money taken or they are dumped by their «perfect agent» for asking for something to be done, does the writer finally step back and understand.

* Query Letter / Synopsis / Proposal: Create an irresistible query letter that gets literary agents asking to read your material and offer representation.

Depending on who you ask, you'll get different names, but most publishing professionals will agree that the agents listed below in our Top 100 Literary Agencies list deserve to be there.

Meet as many authors and editors and publishers and agents as you can, take them to coffee if you can, and ask them every question that you can (do not ask them to read your book, help you get a contract, or help you sell it — just ask them to share what they know, and thank them with coffee and a nice hand - written note).

I don't want to be friends with my agent (I don't feel I'd be great at this and, if anything, it would interfere), but it was very important that I could ask questions and get honest, thoughtful answers without judgment that I even asked.

To get an agent you need a 1 - 2 page query letter asking permission to send a book proposal, sample chapters, and / or a complete manuscript.

We asked him about getting an agent as a newer author and also as an established indie author with some titles under your belt.

But I love what I do and I'm really good at it (that's not ego talking, but experience); I have a 95 % success rate helping authors get literary agents asking for more material.

Ask ten different people to read the same literary agent feedback (or any other piece of writing), and you'll likely get some consistent responses.

«I always wanted to be a writer and when I found that query letter after query letter after query letter and rejection after rejection after rejection, and then I even got somebody, a really topnotch New York agent asking me for revisions and that I'm not going anywhere, my heart was broken.

In fact, I like it so much that I didn't get upset once when an author decided he would ask a literary agent (yours truly) a question in the men's room at a writers» conference.

Ask a literary agent your question here (any question) about getting a literary agency to represent you, so you can get a traditional publisher and book deal.

New and aspiring authors often ask me who the best literary agents are and how to get in with them.

However, even if you want to get published the traditional way, the first thing an editor or agent will ask you is: «what's this book like?»

There are numerous benefits to self - publishing: no revenue sharing with an agent; no working through a conduit; no repeat anxiety - ridden calls to the agent asking if your manuscript got picked up; no dealing with rejection letters.

If an agent asked me to get to 10,000 Facebook likes and 100,000 blog visits, I think I WOULD throw in the towel.