Sentences with phrase «get your agents pointed»

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Agents bugged his hotel rooms, followed him, tried to break up his marriage, and at one point even sent him an anonymous letter trying to get him to commit suicide.

«A big challenge in PR — and this doesn't happen in every case — is getting a client to understand the story from the audience's point of view,» Philadelphia - based PR agent Alexandra Golaszewska told CareerCast.com in an email.

Your agent will likely form a professional relationship with you - giving you one easy point of contact and insuring you are covered from the moment you get your policy to the time you file a claim.

To get to the point, your agent should get you onto Food Network.

It remains to be seen whether or not it gets to that point, but The Times claim that there is another individual having a negative influence on the situation, and that's the French international's agent, Mino Raiola.

The Free Agents were just getting to know one another at that point and now with 19 Games under their belt, they are not a group of individuals but they are a Team..

At some point we are going to have to get some free agents on this team (unless we crush the draft in extremely elite ways).

He wouldn't be able to point to the Giancarlo Stanton extension and claim that's what a talented 26 - year - old free agent should get.

On the point about Bayern, I think it was the agent trying to get it out that other clubs are interested, but with the injury to Javi Martinez, Bayern may be genuinely looking at Khedira as a replacement now.

He has next - to - no leverage at this point, and I have to imagine his agent just wants a good figure for a prove it deal to get them back to FA next year.

The point was Wolves get a player that gets them promoted, Porto get a massive cut from his next sale to more than make up the valuation gap, and his agent gets two paydays.

My other prediction is that whatever team gets him will have serious regrets at one point, but that's true of just about every free agent.

However, it seems a little strange that the former Cardiff City ace is a talking point already, as not only has he got a long run on his current deal still, but Jack Wilshere's future would surely be the more prominent issue given he'll become a free agent this summer.

Of course, like with Bryce Harper or any other major free agent at this point, signing Machado long - term doesn't mean a team would get to keep him long - term.

Fresh Arsenal understand that all sign point to a Lucas Perez shaped hole in the Emirates Stadium as he looks to get an imminent departure, something that's proving difficult according to his agent.

Linked to a sooner return to his home country, with Bologna allegedly interested in signing him back, Italian international forward Manolo Gabbiadini (26), as his agent, Silvio Pagliari, stated: «First things first, we must point out Manolo is playing in Premier League, and, even if he's getting less game time than before right now, he'll give a lot of thought before leaving.

So you get rid of two of your crap players and get one of our best so whats in it for us or are you also giving us that 50 ml on top of them because that would be the only way it could happen.Berbs went because he was a shit and carrick well he was much the same.Difference is now we are closing on you and if we can get a striker in january then we will be even closer so why would our guys want to go there.Also with cry baby rooney getting a massive pay rise how long before berbs, giggs, scholes and the rest are knocking at the door.That was a very bad move by mannure your wage structure is about to explode out the door and how are you going to pay for that.If Bale was to go there i bet he would be looking at least 150k a week which with rooneys wage rise seems fair.Add to that his price tag for buying him and well it looks like it could cost you at lot more than 50 ml.I know if i was his agent i would be saying to mannure if you want himyou have to pay him a wage up there with rooneys.You have shot yourselves in the foot big style with rooney to the point can you now afford to buy any more players?

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.»

When Corbyn says the «evidence points towards Russia», he is making a general point about culpability - because even if it did not order the attack, it was at fault for letting someone get hold of the nerve agent.

Whatever the case, a technical specialist or patent agent job is a great starting point to get involved in patent law and put into use your scientific training.

Making your own candles, beauty products, cleaning agents, from natural products is rewarding & great for the environment (yes, yes, getting to my point) however without accurate information (ever changing - look at eggs: there great for you, their bad for you, only two a week, eat every day!!!)

She introduced me to the world of licensing and that lead to me going to High Point Market [interior design trade show in North Carolina] and getting an agent.

You must ensure at this point to not give in and tell her that you know of a good travel agent in your own country through which you can get the tickets at affordable prices.

Once you get to the story from Vera's, the real estate agent's sister, point of view, absolutely nothing changes.

Or perhaps the most ridiculous opponent of all: Revolver Ocelot, a quadruple - agent, who's a thorn in the side of Snake for almost the entire franchise, and who at one point gets his arm cut off by a Cyborg Ninja, which is surgically replaced with the arm of Snake's (dead) clone brother Liquid, which possesses Ocelot and turns him into a new version of Liquid.

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).

So, given that Luck is strongest when the show is at its most elusive, eliding past plot points to get to a deeper truth, the strongest thread this week belonged to stammering jockey agent Joey Rathburn (Richard Kind), whose simmering financial / professional tensions have finally come to a boil.

But when he also has his characters continually shoot suspicious glances at CCTV cameras or strangers in the crowd who may, or may not, be secret service agents, you feel that Crowley is trying a bit too hard to get his point across.

I am in the process of seeking an agent and am bookmarking this in case I get to the point of signing a contract with someone.

He knows what query letters are supposed to look like, so I trusted his point of view and got five different offers for representation from top literary agents.

As you suggest, the point of a good query is to get at the heart of what the book is about, so I'd think in the long run, better, more focused queries would help agents see more quickly whether this is the kind of story likely to interest them.

At this point, you will spend a few years, if you are lucky, trying to get an agent or editor to actually read some of your work.

The point that agents have so many submissions to review is well taken, and the world is what it is, so writers need not only master manuscript writing skills, but also query writing skills if they want to get published.

Accounting tracking... If you only have a few items indie published, this turns out to not be much of a problem because, as you pointed out, the author will get the money first (I hope... Under Joe Konrath's estributor model, he gives all the money first to an agent and hopes to get his share.)

Case in point: last week she wrote about auditing your agent, and shared her personal experience with Unnamed Agent who... well, let's just say they weren't terribly diligent about getting her all the money she deserved.

Another point I'll make is that just because you've gone through an agent / publishing house doesn't necessarily guarantee you'll end up with a perfectly polished book — that's assuming you get past the minefield of scammers and charlatans looking to take your money.

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.

Prior to that point, the best I could say was that I had gotten some very positive feedback from agents among my hundreds of query rejections.

His July 9, 2012 article in Publishers Weekly titled «Of Decisions and Dream Chasing» explores his decision to self - publish, even though he was getting enough attention from agents to trust that a deal was likely to come through at some point.

I know at least one writer who has received an offer from there unagented (the smart cookie thanked the editor for the offer and got herself an agent to negotiate the deal points, stat), and they regularly take pitches at writing conferences I've attended.

It has gotten to the point where agents are recommending their authors self publish, rather than go through a publisher, and many publishers are snatching up successful self published authors and signing them to contracts to keep themselves relevant.

In that case think about trying to get an actual literary agent who will help you get a publisher and all of the points listed above will be done....

I'm going to try and do this from this point forward once I get an agent (my current goal).

She made a really good point that sometimes, we get so caught up in researching agents, writing query letters, and hiding in corners from rejection letters that we forget to work on what needs it most — our writing!

After over and hour she got to same point I had been with previous agent.

«These trends point toward what the literary agent called «the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer,»» Packer writes.

There's probably a moral there, but if I pointed it out my editor, or my wife, or my agent would tell me not to talk such a lot of stuff and nonsense and just to get on and tell the story.»

At this point, the contract is considered executed, and the author gets a copy (again, the paperwork goes through the author's literary agent).

But I'm not going to say that in e-mail, although I did point her to several blogs I wrote about agents and agent agreements and how easy it is for a middleman to embezzle and / or not send royalties she doesn't know she's entitled to, particularly when she signed documents letting the agent get all the paperwork.

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