Sentences with phrase «now than an agent»

The readers are much more important to me now than an agent or an editor's best guess.

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It now has about 5,000 agents and a budget of more than $ 2 billion.

With the new facility now up and running, MacDonald argues that his company has been much more successful with its highly focused direct sales strategy than the firm would have been had it recruited intermediaries or agents to drum up customers.

They are coming in like — well, they're coming in less now than they were because we have a very strong — we have great Border Patrol agents, great ICE — we have great people and they are really doing a good job.

For more than seven months, Sumner Redstone, now 93 and barely able to speak, has asserted (through lawyers and PR teams) that he remains mentally competent — sharp enough to change his health care agent, to erase a $ 70 million bequest to an ex-girlfriend from his will, and, most important, to remain in control of Viacom (VIAB) and CBS (CBS), the jewels in his $ 42 - billion media empire.

If activated, the change could push brokers, planners and insurance agents toward selling their clients better investments than they might be recommending now.

Russia now has more intelligence agents in London than during the Cold War, officials say.

With 27 1/2 years of helping great families find a property and now with two brokerages with more than 360 agents who happily help thousands of people buy or sell a home, here is my two cents.

Even more disturbing than the now - familiar horror stories about what government agents have done to protect America are all the report's examples of how little was done to protect us from them.

Mark Greene ponders on the phenomenal growth in coffee shops — now more numerous than estate agents on our high streets — and asks whether this trend is... More

Now more than ever, record labels and recording artists» agents are vigilant about enforcing licensing agreements and following up on violations.

A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a rival.

John Williams, who was general manager of Spendthrift Farm from 1976 to»84 and who now sells thoroughbreds as an agent, says, «Pedigree is nothing more than a tabulation of performance in a family.

I said he wants «more» in the sense that now he wants more «guaranteed» than what was originally in his contract and I know this because he and his agent have said so.

Now, the system calls for much lighter penalties for signing teams, and even then, the teams have to be over the tax threshold, which means free agents are much closer to free than ever.

campbell or sanogo should go on loan now and replaced with 30 * brazilian jonas free agent 80 - 82rating prev valencia main striker worth 11m champ League 14app = 8g, 5 ass la liga113app = 36g / 16ass excellent = ball control, very good = dribble, preditor, long shots good = finishing, positioning, vision decent = free kick, speed, passing last season comparison; # ave 0.87 shots outside area better than giroud # 39 % take ons better than giroud not far from welbeck # 56 % shot accuracy would rival the best finishers in the prem.

Tiger's agent Mark Steinberg refuted such news, though his dismissal was less than convincing as he acknowledged Woods was «not in a situation to even talk about playing in the Masters now.»

Wenger is doing his usual squabbling over trying to save a few pence over transfers, and letting them slip, while wasting millions through not playing players (Joel Campbell, Lucas Perez), selling players for less than they're worth (Woj, Gibbs — who we rejected 10m for and have now sold for 7m), and not renewing contracts, saying players will honour their last year with no problems, which is clearly not the case, and it is not only stoked up by the players, but agents and press as well.

«One hundred years from now,» says Ray Flynn of Ireland, a former 3:49 miler and now an agent representing runners, «the mile record will be two or three seconds lower than it is today.

Linked to a sooner return to his home country, with Bologna allegedly interested in signing him back, Italian international forward Manolo Gabbiadini (26), as his agent, Silvio Pagliari, stated: «First things first, we must point out Manolo is playing in Premier League, and, even if he's getting less game time than before right now, he'll give a lot of thought before leaving.

So you get rid of two of your crap players and get one of our best so whats in it for us or are you also giving us that 50 ml on top of them because that would be the only way it could happen.Berbs went because he was a shit and carrick well he was much the same.Difference is now we are closing on you and if we can get a striker in january then we will be even closer so why would our guys want to go there.Also with cry baby rooney getting a massive pay rise how long before berbs, giggs, scholes and the rest are knocking at the door.That was a very bad move by mannure your wage structure is about to explode out the door and how are you going to pay for that.If Bale was to go there i bet he would be looking at least 150k a week which with rooneys wage rise seems fair.Add to that his price tag for buying him and well it looks like it could cost you at lot more than 50 ml.I know if i was his agent i would be saying to mannure if you want himyou have to pay him a wage up there with rooneys.You have shot yourselves in the foot big style with rooney to the point can you now afford to buy any more players?

Then again, I find BOTH sides of this argument to be illigical idiots from the ground up, by somehow blythely assuming as axiom that the government owes ANYONE (straight or gay) different treatment based on nothing more than an agent of government having previously given them a paper statement that these two are now in a special relationship.

my nigerians have been paying more than that 3,000 pounds before through agents to get that visa.I guess it will be more easy now, drop your 3k and abscond.

When applied to the road networks in actual cities, Transims did better than traditional models at predicting traffic jams and local pollution levels — one reason why Transims - inspired agent - based models are now a standard tool in transportation planning.

Nanotechnology - enabled sensors and solutions are now able to detect and identify chemical or biological agents in the air and soil with much higher sensitivity than ever before.

If Agents of SHIELD doesn't pull itself out of the slump, now that its actually free of the need to keep major revelations in check so as not to intrude on its big brother Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it's hard to see a renewal order as anything other than an acknowledgement, by Disney, that the show is what many fans feared: an hour - long commercial for the Marvel movie universe.

Doug develops an intimate relationship with Claire and soon finds himself wanting to leave his life of crime behind - of course, that is easier said than done, especially now that F.B.I. agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) is looking to take Doug and his partners - in - crime down for good.

There's flood damage, sure, and I can tell you firsthand about wind damage, thanks to the huge tree branch that fell onto my wife's Mini Cooper — which is now, as our cheerful insurance agent suggested — «more Mini than ever, huh?»

What I liked and got most out of the interview was that now agents are paying attention to books that are now being published as e-books online rather than traditional agent queries and rejections.

More than a publisher, right now I would like an agent who could advise me about the best moves to make not only for this book, but career-wise.

Now, I'm looking at an agent as a colleague rather than a God / Goddess who holds that mystical key to seeing my words in print.

Now in its 30th edition, CWIM contains more than 500 listings for children's book markets, including publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more, making it the definitive guide for anyone seeking to write or illustrate for kids and young adults.

Now agents do everything in their power to take a lifetime percentage of an author's work and many have set up their own publishing companies in the guise of helping their clients who could do the same thing for a ton less than a lifetime 15 %.

Landing an agent for your book is more difficult now than ever before.

For example, it would be fantastic to be able to do this with Mandarin or Arabic, but right now, you're better off getting a foreign rights agent to try and sell those rights, rather than attempting to self - publish.

Tennicut - I've noticed that a lot of agents are now recommending their authors self publish rather than go through traditional publishing houses.

To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million books now (not counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and hit # 2 on the NYT Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.

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In fact, as I will now attempt to prove in terms of that other obviously agricultural matter which obviously isn't well known in NYC publishing circles, logic — in terms of talent, on average, agent - selected, traditionally published authors are... third class bestsellers, and quite possibly of less value than even midlisters, or largely indistinguishable from those.

I go back to agent April Eberhardt's comment to me during the Muse Conference in Boston: it's almost as if self - published work right now needs to be better than traditionally published work.

Once, acquisitions editors could be expected to handle a lot of the developmental editorial work of a manuscript, taking it from an agent at an earlier stage than is likely now.

The public will now decide what is good rather than the agents and publishers.

Just as it refuses to recognize there is a problem having agents and publishers as members of a «writers» organization, they refuse to recognize that there is now more than one path to legitimate publication for writers.

It's now more important than ever for a literary agent to take a bigger and active role in a client's life with their vested interest.

Says agent David Kuhn, «a shrinking book industry could be compared to the situation in Hollywood, where studios under financial pressure now focus on churning out a handful of blockbusters a year, rather than taking risks on smaller films.»

Now, rather than wait and hope an agent or publisher will work magic, the indie author is in control.

Amazon, and later B&N and others, opened their doors to small presses and even authors themselves, giving us a way to get our work into the hands of readers without having to try to beat down the doors of traditional publishing (where it is now as hard, if not more so, to get an agent than it is a publishing contract).

Some agents are now buying small presses as they realize they can make more money publishing the authors they represent rather than waiting a year to get a book deal from a big house.

EH: It's interesting but when I started almost 20 years ago, there weren't so many agents handling children's books, and the YA / teen market was much smaller than it is now, so there were fewer kids book agents and the author - editor relationship was forged directly, and there was a lot of intimacy in that.

With all of these changes — and there will only continue to be more of them — I think the role of the agent is more important now than ever.