Sentences with phrase «finally land your agent»

My favorite of the 27 rejections I accumulated before I finally landed an agent was the New York publisher whose rejection consisted of my own letter sent back to me with a stamp — you know, one of those rubber things that you pound on an ink pad — that said «No.»

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Finally, in what feels like the smallest lead role, is optimistic ad sales agent Mary (Drew Barrymore), who is trying to make use of today's technologies to land a man.

I've struggled for four years to land an agent, and it was only about two months ago that I finally said to myself «What the heck are you doing?

I ask because a friend of mine just went through nearly 4 years before the book got out there: the author spent a year of query letter rejections before finally landing a literary agent; then it took a year of submissions for the agent to land a publisher; then it took well over a year for the book to get on the publisher's schedule for launch date.

Most writers attend writers» conferences to make one vital connection with one agent who will pitch their book to one mainstream publisher, and then, presto, wham, bang, bong magically lands one of those long sought - after publishing contracts that will finally make their long - time - in - waiting manuscript into a published book.