Sentences with phrase «pitches to publishers»

I made a few pitches to publishers on a change of direction.

3 trips to New York 2 adventures in places I've never been before (NOLA + Havana) Tried casual sex twice (spoiler alert: I AM TERRIBLE AT IT) 1 weekend spent in a tiny home on a vinyard 2 mended friendships 6 times deleting all of my online dating profiles (and just as many re-building them) 1 book pitch to a publisher 11 hair colour changes 1 new nephew (honorary nephew, but still!)

Gilbert spent the last couple of months tightening up the design for the game and that Double Fine will be pitching it to publishers in the next couple of weeks.

Elle also impresses on Delphine the importance of «reality» and tries to dissuade her from writing the fictional book she's pitched to her publisher.

If pitching to a publisher or agent is on your agenda, being able to deliver a ready - made audience is a great point in your favor.

Only on rare occasions will a ghostwriter work with someone on a contingency basis, putting in all the time and expertise required to write a manuscript and pitch it to publishers at no charge to the originator of the book, in exchange for an agreed - upon percentage of future royalties.

«As I've been making this pitch to publishers, their argument is they don't want to devalue the content.»

What single words or short phrases would you use to describe the manuscript if you were a literary agent representing this book and pitching it to publisher?

c. Good ghostwriters rarely work on a contingency basis, putting in all the time and expertise required to write a book and pitch it to publishers in exchange for a percentage of potential royalties.

Remember, many other authors who are pitching to those publishers will be doing this... and that's your competition!

This conflict is unavoidable, and has repercussions across the relationship, from an Agent's signing of a client, to the preparation and pitch to publishers, to the decision to publish independently, to the terms established for profit and expenses, to the rights grant and term and beyond.

Going back to the Shark Tank, I would say that many authors would be challenged to come up with a short description of their book idea to pitch to some publisher or agent sharks... or even to come up with a short description of their book to sell it to readers through Amazon.

I am about to offer my non fiction book to literary agents to pitch to publishers.

I was last pitching to publishers a couple of years back and the questions I received weren't about writing or editing, they were «how many instagram followers do you have?»

CLAYSSEN: Because digital transformation is not all about ebooks, the Institut Français in charge of the programmation of the event will not only dedicate a space to allow publishers to demonstrate innovative projects, but we'll do that, but they also organized a contest and selected some startups of the French tech that will be invited to pitch to publishers in Frankfurt.

Editor reads the book, goes and pitches it to Publisher and Sales Force, gets to buy it after some time.

Only when your manuscript is a polished gem should you combine it with your collection of photographs and pitch it to publishers.

That was critical in the old paradigm if continued access was going to be ensured for the agent, with only the best work being pitched to the publishers.

Whether you're pitching to an agent, or your agent is pitching to publishers, I think you want to have the strongest title possible.

Pitching to a publisher should be treated like a resume and cover letter for your dream job.

They loved your book, reckoned it would sell and worked hard to pitch it to publishers for you.

Especially the one about publishing parts of a collection with other journals before pitching it to a publisher as a whole.

I'm working on edits for my agent before we pitch to publishers in Sept / Oct, so this is the most urgent.

It's an absolutely incredible opportunity for someone who's really trying to get their name out there in the travel writing sphere, if they're trying to pitch to publishers, but they don't know how or if they're trying to really hone in on their travel [00:37:30] writing skills -

In order to get this project off the ground, David took to Kickstarter to help fund the initial production of the game in order for them to be able to pitch it to publishers.

In this episode, I discuss the role of an indie game publisher and how indie developers can go about pitching to these publishers with Raw Fury's Jonas Antonsson.

Has this project been pitched to publishers or was this going to be a crowdfunded effort from the start?

If you are a developer pitching to a publisher your pitch will benefit from a detailed plan for foreign markets and localization.

After nearly a year of developing a playable prototype, pitching to publishers and striking out, it became apparent that Kickstarter was our best bet, and possibly our last resort.

Talk description When you get time to pitch to a publisher or investor, you want to make the most of it.

Koji Igarashi originally pitched this to publishers as a continuation of his Castlevania series, but there was skepticism it would sell.

As such I spent a lot of time pitching to publishers last year and have now partnered up with Excalibur Games to help bring this crazy genre mix of a game to life.

So if you could sum up Rebooting Justice in kind of a pitch to a publisher, how would you... What's that sort of nugget that you would give?

The project was to work the song up for pitching to publishers, song - pluggers, etc; when result was so good, I asked producer about rights, etc, if I were to pitch it to one company looking for «retail use».

Not exact matches

While Apple (AAPL) has pitched its News app as a must - have for both readers and publishers, it's proven far less financially appealing to the media outlets.

Adblock Plus is pitching this as a great package for publishers that know a lot of their readers are likely to be using ad - blockers — gaming sites, tech sites, and so on.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

Make your pitches personal, specific to the journalist or publisher you're pitching and your response rates shoot way up.

The DIY - approach is to identify publishers on which you'd like to acquire brand mentions, then identify journalists and editors at each publication, then contact them to make your pitch.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News At a funding pitch to a venture capitalist, Ben Rubenstein, co-founder of Yodle sketched out a business plan on a napkin.

Rachelle pitched my proposal to several publishers, and after a few more painful rejections, I got a «yes» from Zondervan.

Whether you're pitching your proposal to agents, waiting as your agent pitches your proposal to publishers, or standing by as editors and designers and marketing departments work their magic on your manuscript, the process is long and the wait can be frustrating.

When it comes time to pitch the concept of your book - or a full length manuscript - make sure you get it into the hands of the agents and publishers who would be most drawn to and excited about your content.

Intrigued, Finkel is soon off to visit Longo in prison and in no time he's pitching a book proposal to a publisher, seeing in telling Longo's story a chance to redeem his own journalistic career.

Finkel pitches the book to his publisher and it's a go — he gets a big advance.

The film, through a screenplay from Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, pitches the battle through the eyes of the Post's publisher, Kay Graham (Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) as they decide whether to move forward publishing excerpts from the leaked report about the US involvement in Vietnam prior to the beginning of the war.

Quick Pitch: As a belligerent U.S. president seeks court action to stop the press from printing damning Vietnam War documents, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) must weigh truth - telling against threatened imprisonment and insolvency.

Helpful criteria What can school boards and school - district administrators do to avoid this type of «confirmation bias» and make sure their textbooks, curricula, and instructional materials are truly aligned to the Common Core — particularly when they are trying to make sense of the veracity of sales pitches from some of American education's richest and most influential forces, the textbook publishers?

Instead, they may say they only plan to pitch your book to small publishers — or a combination of big and small publishers.

An agent query is simply a «pitch letter» that writers submit to literary agents, book publishers, and / or magazine editors.