Sentences with phrase «in over the transom»

If anything, the mail I get shows that authors who self - published realized it's a helluva lot harder than the nostrum salespeople told»em and they'd like to get back to the tried and true way of leaping in over the transom.»

When John Davidson graduated Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, seven years ago after 25 years of «bumming around as a computer geek,» the job offers weren't exactly pouring in over the transom.

Not exact matches

This just came in over the proverbial transom: basic social media numbers on several politicians being mentioned as potential Romney Vice Presidential picks.

Here's what interests me most about our changed landscape: In the past, writers could spend years trying to get a single manuscript over the transom.

This is called «over the transom» submission because it humorously refers to authors that would chuck their manuscript through the transom of the publishers» offices (assumedly, it wouldn't fit in the mail slot).

If you live in or around Fairhope, Alabama («a dozen miles as the laughing gull would fly across the bay from the port city of Mobile») you might be lucky enough to know Sonny Brewer, the owner of the Over The Transom Bookstore in Fairhope.

So crowded, tossing one's novel over a virtual transom in hopes of it landing upon a suitable editor's desk is surely the height of fantasy.

An acquisition decision made today on a book coming over the transom will not be reflected in «bestseller status» for at least eighteen months, and more likely twenty - four to thirty months... by which time the industry as a whole and the industry segment for that book will have changed in many ways that make any statistical analysis highly suspect.

Leaving aside for the moment that a substantial number of bestsellers are not the work of first - time authors submitted over the transom, but are instead commissioned before they are even written — meaning that there wasn't ever any real opportunity for a «rejection» in the first place, or at least not a comparable one — one must recognize that there's more than one kind of «bestseller» out there.

I've taken down walls and in fact over this past weekend I came up with this crazy idea to put transom windows above the doors in the hallway to brighten up the hall.

I look forward to posting the before, during and after pics soon, but in the meantime, here are links to some of the other low - dough / high - smile projects we've enjoyed blogging about over the past few years: Transom window project --LSB-...]

Crown moulding, transom windows over the kitchen doorways, built - in bookcases in every bedroom, etc..