Sentences with phrase «have an agent shop»

I've started pretty decent roots as an indie, roots I intend to keep deepening and growing even as I have some projects that I have my agent shop traditionally.

When you are looking for your next term policy it is important to have an agent shop rates for you as rates are dropping yearly.

Not exact matches

«I've tried brokers and real estate agents, but the area in which we operate is pretty small so we have just shopped around ourselves.»

Beijing has been pushing for greater domestic spending, cracking down on shopping agents known as «daigou» bringing products into China from overseas, and cutting high tax rates on imported luxury goods sold in the country.

If you're shopping for a high - rise condo in Toronto at the moment and your agent has your best interests in mind, he or she may give you just one piece of advice: wait.

Every policy might not be exactly the same, so would - be policyholders should shop around, gather renters insurance quotes online and speak to local agents before choosing a policy.

I had to substitute quite a few ingredients in order to avoid an extra shopping trip, and am absolutely loving the delicious results, though I will need to experiment a bit more with the rising agents in order to get that «nice and fluffy» quality.

Big East members have all been carrying themselves as free agents over the past few weeks, with UConn and West Virginia both seemingly shopping themselves around to whoever will listen.

Why would Alexis do that These days when a player signs as a «free agent» he will.ask for a signing on fee and his salary will be set high... depending upon his marketability.Defoe signed for Bournemouth on a «free» and received a very healthy fee himself as well as a reported # 100k a week.Imahine what Alexis could negotiate in January... and after that he can just about «shut up shop» as far as Arsenal are concerned... going through the motions until the end of the Season on preparation for the World Cup followed by his lucrative move to a new Club Once again Arsenal made the wrong decision and have shot themselves in both feet #shambles

Let them go, and when maybe if we ever have a club that competes and wins at the highest stage on a frequent basis, like Real Madrid etc, you won't find too many players running for the doors with their agents (unless they are homesick or the wife is very good at convincing them she needs to be able to shop elsewhere).

Between that, reports of unrest in his personal life, and rumors that his brother and new agent had begun shopping the striker around Europe, the tabloids have been salivating over the 24 - year - old's future.

Although the goal was the only tally of the Aegean Cup for Wright, his Golden Boot performance in December created enough buzz around the young forward to have his name shopped to German clubs by his agent.

When it became apparent that only about five candidates they had supported had been elected, the Barclay brothers announced that they were shutting down their businesses on Sark — hotels, shops, estate agents and building firms — leaving about 100 people, or a sixth of the population, out of work.

The odds of landing a literary agent — which is required, if you want to have your novel shopped to most traditional publishing houses — are about 1 in 1,000.

I recently had a client who was complaining that it took almost a year from the time he had fleshed out a creative idea until it was officially shopped by an agent.

I have found this to particularly so with the always busy people with occupations like real estate agents, taxi, truck or courier drivers, shop keepers, etc..

«I can't tell if you're really motherfucking dumb or really motherfucking smart,» FBI agent Don Cheadle tells Brendan Gleeson, a cop in west Ireland with whom he's reluctantly tracking some big - time drug dealers who've set up shop in the Galway region.

UNTITLED MARC CHERRY / REBA McENTIRE Not going forward; being shopped STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Marc Cherry (w, ep, sr), Sabrina Wind (ep), Reba McEntire (ep), Mindy Schultheis (ep), Michael Hanel (ep), Michael Offer (d) LOGLINE: The sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood, KY, finds her red - state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern descent is sent to help her solve a horrific crime.

The first film at least bested the latter - day Bond movies in plastic spy - movie pleasures — spiffy gadgets, goofy bad guys, over-compensating production design — and had a more or less consistent narrative, with working - class English delinquent Gary «Eggsy» Unwin (Taron Egerton) learning to become an agent of Kingsman, a shadowy «independent» intelligence agency disguised as a Savile Row tailor shop, under the tutelage of gentleman spy Harry Hart (Colin Firth).

If you shop your manuscript around to agents and publishers and no one bites, you always have the option to publish independently down the road.

If somebody makes you feel «second class,» I wouldn't go there, whether you're shopping for an agent, or hiring a marketer, coder, or designer.

My agent had shopped the novel, we had interest from Penguin and St. Martins, but ultimately, did not get through the ed boards.

The last time I went shopping for an agent, most of them wanted to know what my platform was and what sort of promotion I was already doing and what I would do in the future.

Though she had offers from agents to shop The Renegade Queen to traditional publishing houses, Eva Flynn decided to self - publish her historical novel about women's rights champion Victoria Woodhull.

Claims from some opponents of the process say that the agents have no reason to attempt to shop the book to other publishers if the agents themselves are the ones distributing the books; what would be the purpose in shopping an ebook to other platforms?

But, when we first talked, you had the expectation of getting a book traditionally published, you had an agent, and your agent was shopping the book.

Clients have signed with top agents who shopped the works to Hollywood and the Big Five publishers.

But while the Big Five aren't closing up shop entirely any time soon — despite recent mergers and rumors of future mergers — and self - published authors continue to earn accolades and income, one entity in the publishing industry has been largely overlooked: literary agents.

I have never, ever, EVER even considered shopping my book to an agent or trying to get it traditionally published.

If you have a top — notch manuscript, what's the point of shopping it around to agents?

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware If you have an unpublished manuscript that you're shopping to agents and / or publishers, or considering self - publishing, there's no need to register your copyright prior to publication.

For New York publishing it would simply state that the agent will give you say $ 1,000.00 for the right for six months to shop your book to New York.

I have some great writers» sayings that I admire; a handful of positive Chinese fortune - cookie blurbs; the query letter for the novel that is currently being shopped by my agent; a few photos that inspire me; and lastly, a short and long version of a mantra I repeat EVERY DAY (the shorter version can be recited in the car, the shower, the market, etc).

I suspect if I shopped JET I could get a few strong bites from agents, but I'd likely still be sitting here in December waiting for input, as opposed to publishing book three or four in the series.

As a veteran author, Tina has extensive experience shopping manuscripts to agents, traditional publishers, and in the self - publishing landscape.

This is especially true when the book has to go through an agent for acceptance and then be shopped around.

Most literary agents work with a film co-agent to shop and place film / TV rights, but I've negotiated and closed deals sans co-agent in conjunction with my entertainment attorney.

I advised that she should probably shop the book around to a few agents as her due diligence, but I was fairly certain she wouldn't be satisfied with the plodding world of traditional publishing.

I had discussed the issues I had at length with my agent before we decided to let her shop it to New York.

I've shopped the book around to several agents, with some interest but no willingness to take on the book.

So if those odds tickle you, I'd say by all means start polishing up your query letter and begin the process of trying to find an agent, which might take years, and then have him shop your masterpiece, which will likely be rejected, or at best, you'll get $ 5K in three payments over 18 months and have bragging rights for a brief period at the coffee shop.

Note that once you do find a good agent who has the connections to shop your manuscript around, (and you eventually go with a publisher), a lot of the heavy lifting will be done.

Issue: An agent has too much voice in what gets written and doesn't get written... and what gets shopped and what doesn't get shopped to publishers.

On the usual assumption that an author gets less attention in a big agency, Geller pointed out that each agent at Curtis Brown UK (which has some 80 staffers total) has three support people, giving an author more attention than a very small shop can produce.

I have a question about self - pub for both of you... What if an author self - pub - d a book to get it out there, start to sell it, market it & make some MOOLAH while they agent shopped to find an agent to rep it to publishers?

Unless you have an agent to shop things around for you, you'll probably have to wait for these publishers to contact you.

(1) If you wanted to be traditionally published, you'd shop your book to agents.

It will go up next month and I have absolutely no desire to «shop» it to an agent.

You'd finish your manuscript, seek out a literary agent, hope they would take you on as a client, and have them shop your book to traditional publishing houses.

If you were the traditional publishing type, this is the version of your story that you'll have the most luck shopping around to agents and publishers.