Sentences with phrase «much time your agent»

And have realistic expectations about how much time your agent will be able to spend with you, even if he or she does live right next door.

Not exact matches

That said, many of the players facing suspensions are either free agents or guys who weren't going to see much time anyway.

Predictions became much more accurate in a time span that almost directly followed the free - agent era: 1998 to 2015, during which time the average yearly correlation jumped, even including the execrable scores from 2015.

The Conference report reads, «We have, therefore, devoted much time to a close scrutiny of the ways in which we may best utilise the existing agencies by improving their administration and training of their agents».5

The Astros won't pay him nearly as much as Trout during that time, which means they can keep Dallas Keuchel, or do things like make qualifying offers to Colby Rasmus, or break the free agent market when they feel the time is appropriate.

Diario Gol say despite the lack of game time, his performances have caught the eye of Ronaldo so much so that he has requested agent Jorge Mendes, who also works for Gomes, to try and persuade the midfielder to join Los Blancos.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that Jones has top - 15 talent in this year's draft, but as far as I'm concerned he showed too much rookie free agent effort on tape at times.

But perhaps the unhappy reaction from Sissoko and his agent to the rumours have been taken on board by the club, as The Times is now reporting that they will listen to offers around the much more reasonable # 20 million mark.

Already, his agent has come out to express his client's displeasure over having difficulty in getting regular playing time and this could mean that Perez is seriously considering his options for next season — but whether he stays or leave Arsenal, depends on how much more playing time he can get.

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

The Secret Footballer believes Mourinho has paid too much attention to big names and agents rather than doing as extensive a job on scouting as City, who have signed some of the world's best young players in recent times, Sane and Jesus included.

I doubt very much a player is like «I mean, I could go to detroit, but didn't they one time let a free agent leave for more money elsewhere?!»

To me it seems like Wenger doesn't think about how much a player will cost, he looks at what Arsenal needs and then trys... if the board backs him then we got a real chance of getting the player Wenger wants like Alexis the year after... and again Alexis said it was Wenger who convinced him to join Arsenal over Liverpool and the board couldn't really block the transfer considering the bargain he was, Wenger had done the behind the scenes work while he was at the WC... he had no chance to also meet agents and talk business if he was to get some beach time in, which we all know he did.

De Luca: Jay Cutler is a free agent and Ryan Tannehill is the Dolphins» starter - really - Chicago Sun - Times - Cutler turns 35 on April 29 and it's difficult to imagine another coach having as much interest as Adam Gase.

Our Luca Pellegrini is an 18 - year - old born and bred Roman who joined up with the hometown team during the 2011 - 2012 season and has been an absolute stud throughout Roma's youth ranks, so much so that super - agent / most hated man in football Mino Raiola wasted little time in signing him up.

This time it will be much more difficult for voters to reprove any one particular party because the agent responsible for recalling them to the ballot box is the Australian Electoral Commission.

Rogers is a former FBI agent who spent much of his time with the bureau investigating public corruption cases.

The length of time for fermentation of commercial yogurt (both regular and Greek) is so short (one person in the dairy industry told me that it is an hour or even less) that thickening agents are sometimes even added to commercial yogurt to give it the look and feel of yogurt that has been fermented for much longer such as would happen with yogurt made on a small dairy farm or in your kitchen.

It was time to sit back and wait to see if an editor at a publishing house believed in my work as much as my agent did.

It can't decide which of its characters — Penn's or Kidman's — is more interesting and far too much time is spent on Penn's, a recent widower with that drinking problem and a tendency to unprofessionally spill his guts to civilians in a way no Secret Service agent would possibly consider.

This time around the action will focus on the character during a much earlier stage of his career, and will show his transition from marine to CIA agent.

What we get is much weirder, the story of an agent (Ethan Hawke) for the Bureau of Time Travel on the trail of a deadly bomber and a sad young man who calls himself «The Unwed Mother» and offers a life story of tragic, soul - crushing loss, betrayal, and loneliness.

The problem is, by spending too much time on the agent and not enough on «the arms», this million dollar deal isn't worth getting excited about.

Spent much of his time there talking to agents, producers, Hollywood people.

Unfortunately these government agents spend too much time lying about themselves and playing down right dirty with each other to be entertaining for long.

Bryan and his team have spent much time in the trenches of education leadership, including helping urban districts to expand their principal pipelines, evaluate leader effectiveness, and equip change agents to turn around schools.

Why focus so much time and energy on finding an agent and then waiting to find a publisher and then waiting for the publisher to decide it's time to publish your book?

• Response time is much quicker for an agent.

A system that takes so much work on the collective world of agents to explain, and so much time and effort for writers to figure out may be inefficient and place the emphasis on the letter more than the manuscript.

I had an agent and wonderful editors, but the truth is that no one cares about your career as much as you, and if you're not selling at the top of your game, a publisher isn't going to expend a lot of time, effort, and money helping an author raise that game.

Early in my career, I spent way too much time waiting for my editor and agent to get back to me.

The thing I don't often see discussed is just how much time is spent when authors are going the traditional publishing route and looking for an agent.

They have personal assistants, agents, etc. that handle the non-essential work that takes up too much of their time.

You've put so much care, time, and effort into your book, it's hard not to feel defeated when you're reaching out to agents who might not even be responding to your query.

I spent a long time writing novels that were not good enough to publish and almost as much time finding a literary agent.

Someone with these assets will probably start making sales right away, but someone who's coming to agenting from a non-publishing-related field is going to have a much tougher time getting up to speed — if indeed they ever do.

Add up all your expenses for a month, figure out how much your time is worth, and take the total from your money brought in (after the outlandish 15 % agent fee) and that's your profit margin for your writing.

I'd received so much encouragement over the years, from agents, editors, readers, writer friends — I'm grateful, truly grateful to all of them — that I had a hard time letting go.

There's so much to worry about — family obligations, finding time to write, researching and organizing your submissions to literary agents and literary magazine editors, cooking, mowing the lawn, maintaining a home — oh, and that pesky little thing called your day job.

Then add in the time it takes to look for and find an agent, and for them to then submit and hopefully sell your book, and weigh that against being able to put it up much quicker on your own or through a small press.

They speculate that the prize of getting an agent is locked in a secret vault and the many applicants spend too much time trying to charm the guard and not enough writing the books themselves.

I think writers, wannabe - writers, agents, and publishing industry pros spend so much time focusing on inside baseball, and associating with others who focus on it, that they forget that most of the «regular folk» out there (i.e., the book buying public) don't have a clue who the players are behind the scenes.

Does it make sense to invest so much time and money to earn 10 % of net sales less the 15 - 20 % you need to pay your agent?

Literary agents, many would like to see a proven track record of your work, and how much income you made with your writing to date, because an agent wants to know that you're not a one time wonder, but can produce more stories, novels, etc..

However, if an agent likes an author's ideas very much, they might decide to invest time and energy to help the author build a platform and impress editors.

Those who spend too much time alone risk compromising their social skills, although this process is not helped by the generally good manners of publishers and agents.

Though I am aware of, and respect, Writer Beware (and have used it several times in the past to check out agents and scamsters), I must venture the observation that your blog post is not so much an expose as a swipe at POD as a whole.

After much stalking on Queryshark, plenty of reading on Agent Query Connect.com, trawls through many agent / editor blogs and being rejected 100 % of the time when I started my own query letters that way, I am confident when I tell you: DO N'T START WITH PERSONALIZATION.

Eventually this agent passed, which was incredibly disappointing, but I learned so much from her and appreciate the time she took with me.

You have tried to crack into publishing by locating a literary agent, approaching medium - sized publishers directly, or spending too much time on researching all the confusing options.