Sentences with phrase «drafts of a book proposal»

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Agents work tirelessly with their authors to develop draft after draft of their manuscripts to make them the most polished they can be before they create book proposals and send them to publishers.

Granted, it's hard work — but not half as discouraging as having editors change the very tone of your book, decide that a proposal won't sell because it's not the flavor of the month, have the completed draft languish on someone's desk for months, wait five months after the book's published for a first advance, or learn that you, a prolific Canadian writer, aren't being published in Canada.

They will say something along the lines of «I'm going to send the rough draft of my book / proposal out to agents / editors to see if there's a market for it and, if so, then I'll polish it.»

Last year, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson submitted a draft proposal for coal ash rules to the White House Office of Management and Budget, coal lobbyists began booking potentially illegal meetings with the White House, en masse, so as to clog OMB's review of the EPA proposal.