Sentences with phrase «life as a literary agent»

We're sorry to see him go, and wish him the best of luck as he returns to life as a literary agent.»

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The two key sources, however, are unpublished documents he obtained from Gloria Karefa - Smart, Baldwin's sister and literary executor: a June 1979 letter from the writer to his agent, Jay Acton, and 30 pages of notes for a novel that Baldwin would never write, to chronicle the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. «I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did,» Baldwin explains, «and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.»

And I and several other writers who quit the agent - author business model are making our living as writers by selling books that respected, reputable, established, recommended literary agents had told them were unsaleable.

As you know, I got three offers for representation from top literary agents in the United States, even though I live abroad!

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (Scout Press) Already longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, this debut from literary agent Clegg (Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man) is a scorching depiction of a community's grief after a life - changing event.

Some brief background: Clegg led a double life as a successful literary agent and a crack addict until 2005, when he stopped showing up at the office and eventually checked into rehab.

In the winter of 2003, after completing the manuscript of a literary novel based on my experience living in the Caribbean, I began searching for an agent, sending out a bunch of query letters as well as a few emails.

Of course there are a few things typical to most every day in the life of a literary agent, such as reading query letters, meeting / calls / lunches / drinks with editors and publishers as well as clients, pitching manuscripts to publishers, meeting with film / TV companies to adapt books for the screen, attending conferences / workshops, looking for new talent, etc..

I think that I am unique as far as literary agents go, since I've been around this business all my life, having grown up with parents working in the book business.

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