Sentences with phrase «individual publishing agent»

You'll also learn how to figure out what every individual publishing agent's preferred submission method is.

Not exact matches

To illustrate how important individual schools» test scores can be to a community, Phyllis Jordan, an assignment editor at The Washington Post, said that real estate agents in her newspaper's circulation area carry laminated copies of published test scores to show prospective home buyers.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

As an individual, a business on my own, I can easily publish my own e-books on Amazon... but what I would like, and what my agent (Rachel Eckstrom at Irene Goodman Literary in New York) is looking for, are foreign deals, I don't want to do translation, I don't want to do print.

Agents have a list, publishing houses have a list, and individual publishing house editors have a list.

Top literary agents are also intimate with the individual preferences, strengths, and weaknesses of publishing houses (allowing them to present you and your book to the perfect editors and imprints).

«And it seems to me that both NaNoWriMo and the digital publishing industry have a lot of common ground there, in that they are about empowering individuals to be creative, whether that means writing a novel or publishing that novel without going through the arduous process of finding an agent and finding a publisher.»

But now individuals are taking the initiative and writing, publishing, and marketing their own books without the need for an agent or publisher to give them a chance.

So the gradual shift of publishing power away from large publishers and towards established name authors and less powerful more fractured publishers (whose individual power is weak but whose collective power is potentially strong) agents position would appear to be stronger.

There is the issue of whether or not agents and publishers will accept a manuscript by an author who has self - published, at least if that individual intends on keeping the same name on their work.

«Self - published ebooks don't go out of print, so it makes sense to authors as individual agents,» Bankhead says.