Sentences with phrase «n't land an agent»

Even if you don't land an agent right away, hopefully you'll get feedback, both about your writing and about where it might belong.

Isn't landing an agent and scoring a high - paying contract what every writer aspires to?

The bonus is that if you approach the querying path with the same rigor as a self - published author, you're going to have a ready - for - market work sitting right there if you don't land an agent, or if your agent doesn't strike a deal you like.

Not exact matches

It would also weed out guys like McPhee who probably won't be on the team in 3 months and would probably include several higher profile free agents that I suspect Pace is going after (and hopefully lands).

Lewis hasn't generated as much buzz as other free agent cornerbacks, such as Aqib Talib, Dominique Rodgers - Cromartie and Sean Smith, but figures to be an improvement for New Orleans» secondary — should they land him.

A lot of them — and even if you don't land a free agent, having Kyrie & Kristaps puts you in a better position than you were in before

With the Daily Star revealing that Manchester United are not after his signature, Liverpool look set to land the free agent next month.

While it's not immediately clear that that would be a major upgrade, Jose Mourinho could do well to cash in on Mata and reinvest that elsewhere in his squad whilst landing Ozil on a free as he heads towards being a free agent this summer as well.

2) the gate agent who when we checked in our baggage kept insisting «but you know that during takeoff and landing you have to hold her in your arms, she can't be in the carseat then».

That particular agent didn't end up becoming my agent but forging that connection helped me land this opportunity.

If you do not have an agent, check out our guide to landing an acting agent here.

Synopsis: «An American military satellite crash lands in Eastern Serbia and a team of US and Serbian agents are dispatched to secure the remains of the satellite, but when they locate the crash site all is not as it seems.»

At this point, if you're a working actor who hasn't landed a role in one of these movies, it might be time to ask your agent what's up.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

«Moonwalkers»: A special screening of a new British comedy from Antoine Bardou - Jacquet stars Ron Perlman as a CIA agent on a mission in 1969 London: Hire Stanley Kubrick to stage a moon landing in case the real one doesn't work out.

Ultimately, I didn't even use the query letter to land an agent.

Almost every author who lands an agent and goes on to success was turned down by numerous agents and publishing houses, who didn't appreciate the work or didn't think it was commerically viable.

If you're work isn't good enough to land an agent, or a deal on your own with a legitimate publisher (and for those who have a problem with the word «legitimate,» The MWA criteria work for me — you can find them on their website), then your work is almost certainly not ready to be published.

I guess you wouldn't admit that after landing the agent...?

I know a lot of people, a vast number of people in agent - land and traditional publishing, don't want newer professional writers to know things have changed.

I can't wait to get advances and royalties in the future, as soon as I land an agent and pub deal hopefully this year.

After years and years of querying and jumping through gatekeeper hoops, it appears that even the less - than - 1 % who are lucky enough to land an agent and a Big - 5 publishing contract can't manage to quit their day jobs.

Episode 2 discussed paranormal fiction writing, outlining your novel, and the dos and don'ts for landing a literary agent.

These are the things that helped me land an agent, even though I wasn't looking.

You can fight years and never land an agent (who is your key to the trad publishers) and even if you are able to obtain an agent you may not have any of your books accepted by a publisher... ever.

This is not the same issue as self - publishing with a view toward landing an agent or contract for a book yet to be published.

[Note that the goal of a query letter is not to sell your book or even to land an agent; the goal of a query letter is to get an agent interested enough to read your manuscript, which must do the rest.

Harder to land an agent (many of whom won't even respond to queries they aren't interested in anymore); agents are flooded by queries; submissions from agents take much longer to be evaluated by editors; publishers are much more risk - averse and seemingly chasing after the same trends.

Maybe you have already queried many literary agents in hopes of landing a traditional publishing deal, but so far you haven't been successful.

Only then did he hit the NYTimes bestseller list and capture the attention of NY publishing (which he turned down), agents (which he did not), and Hollywood (with whom he landed with a very nice deal).

GalleyCat rounds up several pitch letters that succeeded in landing a literary agent; the New York Times reports small bookstores appear to be thriving; the Wall Street Journal picks its favorite novels of 2012, including Shani Boianjiu's The People of Forever Are Not Afraid; and other news.

I know tons of great writers, like yourself, who can't land a publishing deal or an agent for the life of them.

Yes, surviving rejections, finding an agent, and landing a contract are STRESSFUL and emotionally EXHAUSTING, but they've got nothing on the pre-launch jitters, at least not for me.

Two things to keep in mind: The number of authors going the traditional route is not reflected by those who happen to land an agent and then go on to get published; their number includes those in the slush pile who do not go on to self - publish.

Why not talk about how to land an agent after you've ePublished and how they could be used to sell foreign rights or movie rights after you've sold enough copies?

I've already blogged about how unfair it is to look at the number of people self - publishing while ignoring the vast numbers of people submitting to the traditional machine and not even landing an agent (it's the mistake of counting the top 1 % of one pile and comparing that to the totality of another pile).

Foregoing 35 % of the market was a risk most agents and authors did not care to take, and while Kirshbaum eventually landed a string of reasonably well - known nonfiction authors, including Tim Ferriss and Penny Marshall, the resuts were mixed at best.

«Not long after Mark helped me land a top literary agent, I got a call from my agent letting me know that I had three different publishing offers from well - known publishers: Amacom, Palgrave Macmillan, and McGraw - Hill who recently published my book in hardcover!

Find a bestselling idea, create a knock «em dead book proposal, craft a sure - fire cover letter, find the best (and surprising) places to meet agents in person, land a super agent who is «not accepting new clients,» and negotiate with your agent and publisher for a wonderful (and lucrative!)

So if you present yourself and your manuscript professionally, you have a good chance of landing the serious attention of an agent who might not have been as interested if your manuscript had been mailed in to his offices.

If you've achieved the great success of having potential readers, agents, or publishers land on your website, don't make it hard for them to find you.

Again, I'm in the land of anecdotes here and the upheaval facing such sectors as agenting and publishing is so profound that we won't really know for a time what the most prevalent models will shake out to be.

Also keep in mind that it's not always necessary to insure your land as it will still be there even if your house is destroyed, so check your policy and talk to your agent about removing this coverage if it is already included.

«Based on the Department of Land & Natural Resources «s past,» Cox says today, «and these and past occurrences, we don't believe Case and her representatives or agents will rely on humane measures or work with the public or concerned citizens to manage the illegally abandoned cats.»

The pre - and post-cruise land tours won't be available online; instead, guests will either need to book through a travel agent or call Azamara directly.

Everything is centred around the pier and boat landing office (not all boats use the pier) and within a short walk of here you'll find the night market, at least three ATMs, a small medical clinic, a bunch of travel agents and dive shops, internet cafes and a massive selection of places to eat, sleep and play at.

2001: Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Golden Sun, Luigi's Mansion 2002: Eternal Darkness, Legend of Starfy (Japan) 2003: Mario & Luigi RPG series, WarioWare, Baiten Kaitos 2004: Mario vs DK 2005: Geist, Battalion Wars, Trace Memory 2006: Wii Sports, Drill Dozer, Electroplankton, Chibi Robo, Elite Beat Agents, Excite Truck (debatable revival of old IP that is different than 80's installments) 2007: Wii Play, Diasaster: Day of Crisis (not released in NA), Hotel Dusk 2008: Wii Fit, Wii Music, Art Style series which consists of dozens of games that are all new IPs in their own right, Fossil Fighter, Endless Ocean 2009: Rhythm Heaven 2010: Art Academy, Glory of Heracles (in NA), Line Attack Heroes (in JP), Wii Party, Flingsmash, Fluidity 2011: Steel Diver, Xenoblade, Pushmo 2012: Sakura Samurai, Dillon's Rolling Western, The Last Story, Nintendo Land, Spirit Camera (debatable spin off of other IP) 2013: Pandora's Tower, Kersploosh!

The phrase «climate justice» does not assume climate to be a conscious agent, any more than a phrase such as «food justice» or «land justice» assumes food or land to be agents of the same order as a human being.

In the past, BMI had to staff «14 regional offices around the country, with field agents reading local newspapers and scouring the land on foot and by car, ever on the lookout for new bars and restaurants or old ones that aren't paying for their music.»

Any person who without the written permission of the landowner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession of the land, willfully enters any lands under cultivation or enclosed by fence, belonging to, or occupied by, another, or who willfully enters upon uncultivated or unenclosed lands where signs forbidding trespass are displayed at intervals not less than three to the mile along all exterior boundaries and at all roads and trails entering the lands, is guilty of a public offense.