Sentences with phrase «over the transom»

Few documents came over the transom in braille.

This week here in New York City, «slush pile» is more immediately likely to refer to an actual pile of dirty - snow slush than to literary proposals that come in over the transom.

He founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope and its annual literary conference, Southern Writers Reading.

Unsolicited business plans tossed over the transom are just as quickly tossed in the trash.

«That's an expensive nest egg to throw over the transom,» said Michael Wara, an energy and environmental law expert at Stanford.

Firebrand Publishing will enable you to «leap over the transom» and publish your book professionally.

An unusual email drifted over the transom today: Please help me and my sister grow our site, My name is Madison and my sister is Morgan we are all star cheerleaders and we asked are dad to start us a web site like Myspace but for cheerleaders and dancers.

It was also a time when you could still submit to major publishers over the transom.

It's also my understanding that what comes over the transom gets read by a screener, and that it doesn't matter if it came by an agent or the author.

Leaving aside for the moment that a substantial number of bestsellers are not the work of first - time authors submitted over the transom, but are instead commissioned before they are even written — meaning that there wasn't ever any real opportunity for a «rejection» in the first place, or at least not a comparable one — one must recognize that there's more than one kind of «bestseller» out there.

And you may snip me to ignore inconvenient questions and lob sneers at McIntyre over the transom hoping someone won't notice the technique.

What about her qualifications makes her believe her resume won't be noticed if it arrives over the transom?

Clearly they see enough aspiring authors slipping manuscripts over the transom to make them think they can cover the fees they pay AuthorSolutions and still make a tidy sum.

The problem is they have yet to figure out how to consistently identify best sellers when a manuscript comes over the transom.

I'm still inspired by the serendipity of my work — the thrill of finding a saleable project that was sent over the transom, the satisfaction of seeing a project turn into a top seller and reliable backlist title, the chance to travel to conferences to meet authors who are starting out and to help build their careers, book by book.

If anything, the mail I get shows that authors who self - published realized it's a helluva lot harder than the nostrum salespeople told»em and they'd like to get back to the tried and true way of leaping in over the transom.»

At aviation trade shows, Wills cultivated a reputation for being highly responsive, and moving on a customer's order the moment it came over the transom.

Just throws it over the transom to the «other side» and claims he won.

-- a handwritten fax comes over the transom, proposing a meeting.

The top of the door is called a transom, so thus the term «over the transom» came into being.

This is called «over the transom» submission because it humorously refers to authors that would chuck their manuscript through the transom of the publishers» offices (assumedly, it wouldn't fit in the mail slot).

I often long for Back Then when the big houses would accept any manuscript «over the transom.»

We can't review every item that made it over the transom, but here's a sampler of our favorites.SEEKING TO UNDERSTANDIn an epic mix of sprawling journalism...

If you live in or around Fairhope, Alabama («a dozen miles as the laughing gull would fly across the bay from the port city of Mobile») you might be lucky enough to know Sonny Brewer, the owner of the Over The Transom Bookstore in Fairhope.

Once, manuscripts were said to come in «over the transom,» a wonderful old idiom evoking random bundles of paper hurled by unseen authors into the agent's office through that horizontal window over the agency's doorway.

An acquisition decision made today on a book coming over the transom will not be reflected in «bestseller status» for at least eighteen months, and more likely twenty - four to thirty months... by which time the industry as a whole and the industry segment for that book will have changed in many ways that make any statistical analysis highly suspect.

Granting every wish that comes over the transom would require 50,000 round - trip tickets each year.

Before, they would just publish this enormous, 1,500 - page document and kind of toss it over the transom, hoping that maybe it would hit somebody on the head on the way down.