Sentences with phrase «never gets an agent»

Their web page contact form fails and the Chat option never gets an agent.

Not exact matches

As an example, I not only agented this book myself to a major NYC - area publisher, I brought in Jay and his famous brand, I brought in Stephen M.R. Covey for the foreword, and even wrote my own back cover (something most authors never get to do when working with a major publisher).

We are always trying to follow the rule book and never like to work with greedy agents, while other teams do nt mind playing dirty to get their players.

They were never in full - rebuild mode, and they didn't really have the pending free agents to get there.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

I had followed Arsenal long enough that we have pretty strict wage structure (the belief of football as a team sport and squad harmony is important) and we never pay over the odd for player or greedy agent — which in turn can help us to get the best value for our money All in all, whether it is a smart move, we should patiently wait until end of the transfer window.

Meanwhile, Howard played poorly for the Lakers, Andre Iguodala never got comfortable in Denver and has since opted out of his contract to become an unrestricted free agent and Andrew Bynum didn't play at all for the 76ers.

It certainly would have helped if Matt Ryan got his contract done sooner to free up some more money for a quality free agent or two and not some never heard ofs before.

Wenger was brought back into it before Gazidas realized that he had to get full time people for this as persuading agents never mind players can go on for months before a bid is reached.

Marvel's TV and movie efforts have only been integrated in passing, which has meant the resurrected Coulson never got to be reunited with the big screen characters he once knew, despite his tenure on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Agents never got it, the actors only got the pieces they were in, and so I think in that was it kind of just had no footprint before it was made, and as a result, people didn't really know about them until they were done.

He's also not above twisting, and sometimes breaking the law in order to get the big payoff, but he's resourceful enough to never get caught, either by the tenacious Interpol agent Jack Valentine (Hawke, Assault on Precinct 13), or his blissfully ignorant wife, Ava (Moynahan, I Robot).

Ramsay retreated to Santorini, Greece and began writing, and within less than a year's time, adapted Jonathan Ames» novella You Were Never Really Here about a PTSD Gulf War vet / former FBI agent - turned - addled assassin who gets hired to bust a senator's daughter out of a sex - trafficking ring.

The scam, which Irving never makes good on, gets his lover and partner in crime, Edith (Amy Adams), into trouble with undercover FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

Somewhere in between, Quaid, playing the archetypal, sincere secret agent manages to remain inconsequential, Forest Whitaker proves he can run while filming and Matthew Fox shows us why he should never have gotten off that damn island (he can't act).

«I promised myself I'd never write another book unless I got an agent.

Good vs. Bad Communicators: A small number of agents offer representation via email but don't offer to get on the phone for a meet - and - greet... and / or you never hear from them after that until if / when they sell your book.

Later on down the road I may change my mind but after years wanting an agent, getting one, firing one and then realizing how great self - publishing was, I never thought another thing about finding another one.

Getting published through traditional means typically requires an agent, something else that was never discussed when I was in school but is covered at length during this seminar.

I tried sending my first adult novel to agents and never got a request for a full read.

In fact, she never managed to sell that first offering and I was so disappointed — I'd thought that getting an agent would be a sure - fire route to a publishing contract.

I've participated in many literary agent panel discussions like this, but I've never gotten one on video.

I never tried to get an agent with the rewritten book, because I was already under contract with iUniverse when I rewrote it.

Having an agent allows me to get my book proposals into the hands of publishers that I could never do on my own.

A literary agent is a representative for your book, a legal partner in its protection, and a connection to publishing houses and their editors that you'd never have a chance of getting in touch with otherwise.

After writing dozens of query letters, getting rejections from agents, and only being offered a deal with a publisher if I put a few thousand dollars upfront, I was frustrated and thought I'd never get these books into print.

It is basically a merry - go - round of getting bounced to different tiers of agents, who often never return the calls.

Interestingly, the first book I ever wrote — it got me an agent, but not a publisher — had three POVs: a 12 - year - old girl, a 50 - year - old professor, and Death, and in 2008, I was told it would never, ever be published in MG / YA because of that.

I know some authors who would never consider writing a book without an agent, but that said it is possible to write a book and get it published without an agent.

they are never going to get an agent or publisher.

When I was talking about Rachelle's post on Twitter, my friend Roni Loren mentioned that she got a book deal with Berkley in the past year and was never asked by her agent or publisher what her numbers were.

In a 2006 article in Publishers Weekly he expressed his appreciation for his publisher, agent and, most of all, his readers in the most enthusiastic superlatives, saying, «I will never get over the thrill and honor of knowing that I am touching people in some way.

I have never, ever, EVER even considered shopping my book to an agent or trying to get it traditionally published.

If I had lucked out and got an agent for my first novel, a vampire romantic suspense, and it had sold to a publisher, and if it had sold only 3,000 copies in the first months, (i.e. being with a publisher wouldn't have led to an increase in sales due to the magic fairy pixie dust I'm told that publishers employ), I would never have published the second or third book in the series and likely would have been dropped by the publisher for publishing a «dud».

I basically gave the guy every bit of history on my novel's lifespan, which is no doubt the reason why he never got back to me (many agent rejections are done via a lack of response).

Self - publishing authors should stay that way — if you want to use traditional publishers to help market your paper books to gain more attention to get better agent - represented film & tv rights deals, by all means, but never, ever trust them.

I never got any awful rejections from agents — probably just sheer luck as I sat down next to her at a lunch but I've had enough other publishing related rejections to toughen me up... sigh!

Never even got as far as the publishers, he dead ended with the first line of gatekeepers, the literary agents.

He's seen authors, editors, and other agents come and go, but two things have never changed: his belief that good writing is a gift and his ability to get it published.

98 % of manuscripts submitted to agents never get published at all.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

My story: spent 15 years trying to get a deal, had an agent but never found a publisher, self - published through KDP and hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon UK!

It's never too late for a previously published author to get a literary agent, traditional publisher, and book deal.

When you self - publish, you learn to write to market, you learn about blurbs and pitches and hooks and all sorts of neat marketing stuff, and at first, I thought that if my books «didn't make it», it would be a disaster, that I too (because of them) would never make it as a writer, that no agent or publisher would ever want to get near me.

Hi Amira, in terms of sales, check out this post http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/10/12/help-my-book-isnt-selling/ and keep writing as one novella will never make much of impact — but look what Hugh Howey achieved after he'd written ~ 12 of them In terms of an agent, I can't really say whether your location makes a difference — lots of people fail to get an agent from all countries.

I purposely never wrote to any agents or tried for one of the «big six» as it took me 8 years, $ 8,000 of editing / marketing / other expenses and FAR too much effort to get my 5 - star rated novel out there to wait around for some snobby agent or publisher to decide not to carry my hard earned title.

As the indie insurgence began to impact the trade a few years ago, authors who had never been able to get past the agents and editors, the dreaded gatekeepers, found that they could self - publish in our digital age.

It doesn't make sense for an insurance agent in Sonoma County, CA to jump through the hoops to get licenses in 49 other states when he'll probably never even have a prospect there, much less a sale.

I've never had a agent tell me they think they can get me «this great deal,» or that «we should go in at this price.»

I discovered this a few days after the 30 - day money back period, but was able (after hours unsuccessfully trying to reach a chat agent, and half an hour of phone hold) to get them to refund my purchase price, but I'll never get back the time I spent fixing the data importing or trying to make it do what it ought to do.