Sentences with phrase «comes over the transom»

And if they hadn't come over the transom that way, they read that way by the time editor Corliss sent them to press.

It's also my understanding that what comes over the transom gets read by a screener, and that it doesn't matter if it came by an agent or the author.

The problem is they have yet to figure out how to consistently identify best sellers when a manuscript comes over the transom.

An acquisition decision made today on a book coming over the transom will not be reflected in «bestseller status» for at least eighteen months, and more likely twenty - four to thirty months... by which time the industry as a whole and the industry segment for that book will have changed in many ways that make any statistical analysis highly suspect.

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The company, however, has never actively prospected for U.S. clients — they just came from referrals or over the digital transom, which is hardly surprising given the borderless nature of the SEO business.

This just came in over the proverbial transom: basic social media numbers on several politicians being mentioned as potential Romney Vice Presidential picks.

The top of the door is called a transom, so thus the term «over the transom» came into being.

I've taken down walls and in fact over this past weekend I came up with this crazy idea to put transom windows above the doors in the hallway to brighten up the hall.