Sentences with phrase «heard about agents»

I've heard about agents who, out of fear of getting into trouble, refuse to act for an open house visitor / buyer prospect for their own listing.

I'm sorry to hear about your agent.

Did you ever hear about agents showing 126 houses to a would - be Buyer who, in the end, bought none of them?

Hearing about the agent's poor follow - through skills from my friend was embarrassing.

Not exact matches

«Agents also attend one day of training every month to review key health or business topics, discuss operational issues, hear about new policies and learn about new product offerings.»

With the exception of some of the shady practices that we've heard about recently in Vancouver (those agents should be booted out of the business and never allowed to trade again), we do not cause prices to go up.

You will no way hear about one true transfer this summer, absolutely not, Arsenal will tell nobody and if an agent or selling club say anything, Arsenal back out of the deal.

But don't expect to hear any negative talk from Richardson, who is determined to learn from the mistakes of his eight free - agent teammates last season who, Richardson says, sabotaged themselves — and the team — by fretting too much about securing new deals.

I'll repeat again... Martin Caceres the former Juventus Defender is currently a free agent, has a CV that includes Seville, Barcelona, Villarreal and Juventus and despite some stellar performances was only kept out of the starting line - up because of people like Bonucci and Chielini and Liechtenier can play anywhere across the back line... If we sign Johnny Evans or someone equally as crap I will loose it, if I can find that out in less than a day using the internet I don't want to hear any excuse about there is not any available talent... And did I mention he's free..

The 25 - year - old Poland international told FourFourTwo magazine: «I've heard about Arsenal, but I leave it to my agent.

We don't know the numbers of the deal, but we've heard plenty of nonsense about the size of his paycheck — half a million pounds a week, according to some unconfirmed reports — his signing bonus and the lump - sum commission paid to his agent, Fernando Felicevich.

I expect to hear an announcement shortly from the Attorney General about the prosecution of the customs officials and clearing agents who have been allegedly responsible for the unlawful loss of GH cents 1.2 billion to the central treasury.

You're darn right I heard about it, and I can't even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents.»

At two hearings on the Hill today, U.S. lawmakers talked about the need to strengthen the monitoring of research on select agents, deadly microorganisms like anthrax and smallpox that could potentially be used as weapons.

So it's super important to work with a skilled practitioner (HINT: if you don't hear your practitioner mention anything about a prokinetic agent, run away) who can guide you based on your symptoms, test results, and history.

I've heard many a horror - story about flying with breast milk, from security agents who forced moms to dump out milk, to broken bottles.

Still, it's all so overwrought and difficult to settle into, as nearly every single character is given their own monologue about spiritual turmoil, right down to Ortiz's insurance man coming off like this angelic agent because each story he hears is «different» and thus life - altering in some way.

It's a brilliant dance of charm and delusion delivered with an amiable enthusiasm and wavering resolve and accompanied by a running stream - of - consciousness narration of constant distraction, pinging all over the place as he struggles to keep his secrets and play undercover agent 0014 («Because I'm twice as smart as 007,» he crows to a neighbor — the first of many to hear about his covert work).

This article from my Guide to Finding a Book Agent reveals the best way to find literary agents accepting manuscripts, an important warning about literary agents accepting manuscripts, and a shortcut that will save you hours of research (something you won't hear from any other publishing agent).

You never hear about the poor bastard who wrote twenty unpublished novels, went through a dozen agents, ruined his career and marriage.

We hear so often about the hard working agent, etc, etc..

I'm out of the loop so I hadn't heard about the Barry Eisler or Anne Rice incidents, but the behavior of those agents and fans was atrocious.

Sometimes we'll hear talk about how agents or publishers make writers jump through hoops to get their attention.

I've met agents (and heard stories about others) that do all these things.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareEvery time I consider purging Writer Beware's files to get rid of documentation on agents and others we haven't heard anything about in years and years, I'm reminded of why I hold onto that old paper.Last Fri... -LSB-...]

If you've sold somewhere between 3,000 - 6,000 and got the book reviewed in places an agent might have heard of, I start to worry about whether a traditional publisher can really offer you anything.

I heard about another indie author having an agent approach her to rep the book, and it really made me envious.

After my cookbook was published I heard similar stories from aspiring authors about the challenges they faced without an editor and / or an agent.

Excuses I've heard from some of the bad literary agents I've met or heard stories about include: having too many clients; health, financial, or family problems; lost enthusiasm for your book (s); burnout; being in transition; etc..

When I hear an agent or publisher say that about self - published books, I know they — intentionally or otherwise — are focused on something they shouldn't be focused on if they are interested in finding books to sell.

They've heard from readers — or in some cases, even agents and editors — who don't believe the character's situation because of their personal beliefs about what a black, gay, autistic, etc. experience would be like.

Every time I hear self - publishing wholeheartedly recommended I feel a little dirty, because I think that the best thing about self - publication is that it thins the crowd of newbie writers taking up agents» and publishers» time.

You're not the first author I've heard about who found errors in royalty statements and the agent Kristin Nelson has spoken often in the past about how she reviews all the statements that come into her office and finds a surprising number of errors (and suggests there are likely many authors out there who are losing money because they're not taking a close enough look at their statements).

If you work with an agent, you may hear about the White Glove program.

Agents and publishing houses simply didn't want to hear about self - published works.

There are many other contests that continue to be created monthly, so the best way to stay up to date is by connecting with other writers, agents, and bloggers via social media to hear about them.

Now, I didn't always do this, and you'll hear a lot of conflicting information about whether or not you should — even from agents themselves.

I hear about relationships with agents and editors that have turned neglectful or even hostile.

And yet, note the friendship you hear underlying Cuzon's comments about his agent of many years before The Rogue Reader was developed:

If you have a question about how I can help you get an agent or publisher, or if you need a sounding board for a book idea, I would love to hear from you.

At first, you came to the San Francisco Writers Conference to learn the craft of writing, to hear famous writers describe how they became famous, to learn the secrets of how to create a winning book proposal, to become enlightened by publishers about what they want and, most of all, to pitch literary agents, those elusive creatures who seem always to be heading the other direction.

As someone who used to have an agent and is now happily agent free, when I hear about writer friends querying agents I always want to ask why.

I've also heard about some EC authors being solicited by agents... that would be pretty neat if it happened to me.

It's nice to hear your agent is talking with you about your future relationship.

This is a complaint I hear often from agents about query letters.

The one all - pervading piece of advice everyone seems to agree on is that no agent wants to hear endless paragraphs all about you.

If I have to hear one more diatribe about the «greedy» establishment (especially agents), I may do something extreme, like write a very strident letter to the editor about it!

You keep hearing all this buzz about self - publishing, but you've always imagined going the other route, getting an agent, landing a publishing contract, having that book hit store shelves.

I once heard about an author who queried 200 agents.

I'm afraid I almost never hear about WGP from either authors or agents.