Read this article to discover what an old
school book agent is and decide if you want to work with one.
If you're an author trying to find a literary agent, this article will show you what makes the old
school book agent special.
Quality Literature: The old
school book agent loves the written word.
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Not exact matches
While the business of
booking trips through a traditional agency will likely never return to pre-internet levels, there is a growing understanding among travelers that calling an old -
school agent could be worthwhile in certain cases.
Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood
agents, reality - show producers, and
book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business
School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.
Based on a
book by Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow follows follows Russian ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) as she's essentially forced to become a spy by her ambitious uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts» Vanya Egorov)- with Dominika's first mission, after completing a stint at a «sparrow»
school for spies, requiring her to win the trust of a C.I.A.
agent named Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton).
Just published in January of 2015, this
book, peppered with quotes and stories from Envision students and teachers, offers a structure for transforming a
school into an
agent of deeper learning and provides a game plan on how to make transformation truly take hold in a
school.
Teacher education students should read our
book so that they can prepare themselves for becoming change
agents in their
schools.
The actions developed by change
agents in crèches,
schools and communities are evaluated, registered and disseminated by CECIP in
books and Manuals in which the social technologies are made available, to be recreated.
The
book is mostly an account of his four years as an elementary teacher in a Toronto inner - city
school, first narrated in his 1980 Cries from the Corridor, and it echoes the customary critical pedagogue's conclusion that the
school must be foremost a «social and moral
agent.»
Her dissertation received the Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation from the Comparative and International Education Society in 2001 and formed the basis of her
book, Quranic
Schools:
Agents of Preservation and Change.
There are better
schools in Hartford, but their principals don't have publicity and
booking agents or public relations reps to manufacture an image and market their
schools toward turning them into corporate entities.
Click here to learn about old
school literary
agents in my Guide to Finding a
Book Agent.
Although Maxwell Perkins was an editor, not a
book agent, I hope this profile has started to give you some idea of what an old
school literary
agent is all about.
If the
book happened to be chosen and accepted from the slush pile of manuscripts, the author (in reality the
agent since old
school publishers don't really like to interact with the actual author) was notified, and small check was sent as an «advance» for what the publisher hoped to at least earn out that advance.
One writer I know has put out several award - winning picture
books and a middle grade novel that has gotten starred reviews from Kirkus and
School Library Journal, but she has no
agent.
Some recent ones (I won't say I wished I repped
books from when I was a kid because I doubt I would've been an effective
agent in elementary
school) I really loved are NOGGIN by John Corey Whaley.
«We hope to capture a set of readers who perhaps don't read on paper, as well as a new generation who will grow up reading and writing on computer screens in
school and will have different reading habits,» said Maru de Montserrat,
agent at International Editors Co. and president of ADAL, «It's important to meet that demand, rather than waiting for readers to take matters into their own hands and create a black market of scanned
books.»
Not counting the three years I spent writing what would become my first published novel (two of those years in graduate
school), it took just over two years from my initial submission to
agents to when my
book released.
Right out of high
school I worked as a travel
agent before online travel
booking put us out of work.
Recently, an author, from my high
school days, asked me to consider being a literary
agent for his
books.
Writing topics: writing conferences,
book fairs, book festivals: * Writing teen fiction (YA) * Writing successful series and sequels * Writing suspense / thrillers * Creating strong female protagonists * Creative Writing 101 * Writing Tough Topics in YA Publishing industry topics: writing conferences, book fairs, book festivals: * Being a hybrid author (Traditional / indie) * Publishing Industry 101 * Working with an Agent / Getting an agent * Querying an agent * Indie Publishing Publishing industry topics: writing conferences, book fairs, book festivals: * Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book fairs,
book festivals: * Writing teen fiction (YA) * Writing successful series and sequels * Writing suspense / thrillers * Creating strong female protagonists * Creative Writing 101 * Writing Tough Topics in YA Publishing industry topics: writing conferences, book fairs, book festivals: * Being a hybrid author (Traditional / indie) * Publishing Industry 101 * Working with an Agent / Getting an agent * Querying an agent * Indie Publishing Publishing industry topics: writing conferences, book fairs, book festivals: * Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book festivals: * Writing teen fiction (YA) * Writing successful series and sequels * Writing suspense / thrillers * Creating strong female protagonists * Creative Writing 101 * Writing Tough Topics in YA Publishing industry topics: writing conferences,
book fairs, book festivals: * Being a hybrid author (Traditional / indie) * Publishing Industry 101 * Working with an Agent / Getting an agent * Querying an agent * Indie Publishing Publishing industry topics: writing conferences, book fairs, book festivals: * Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book fairs,
book festivals: * Being a hybrid author (Traditional / indie) * Publishing Industry 101 * Working with an Agent / Getting an agent * Querying an agent * Indie Publishing Publishing industry topics: writing conferences, book fairs, book festivals: * Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book festivals: * Being a hybrid author (Traditional / indie) * Publishing Industry 101 * Working with an
Agent / Getting an
agent * Querying an
agent * Indie Publishing Publishing industry topics: writing conferences,
book fairs, book festivals: * Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book fairs,
book festivals: * Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book festivals: *
Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for schools, libraries, childrens» book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
Book Marketing - high level or in depth working sessions * Branding 101 * Social Media Management Topics for
schools, libraries, childrens»
book fairs, book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book fairs,
book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availabil
book clubs, literary events * «Make Your Mark» - motivational for teens * The publishing industry * A day in the life of an author * Creative writing 101 * Writing pageturners Topics for media center specialists, teachers, educational staff, librarians, literacy coordinators * Finding environmental themes in children's literature * How to teach writing to students (professional development) * Using technology to connect readers and authors virtually * Teaching using multi - genre / multi-modal writing (professional development) If you are interested in having S.R. Johannes visit, please email
[email protected] for detailed topics / programs and availability.
Direct vacation
booking and online travel agencies haven't killed the old -
school travel
agent... yet.
Please note: The Surfing Sumo acts as a
booking agent for UK Surf
Schools.
The
School is now NOT going to use this company nor the travel
agent whom they do all their
booking with.
«Students should be working, interning, and attending as many field - specific events as possible while in
school,» says Emily White, a talent
agent and the author of the upcoming
book Interning 101.
If it's your first
book in real estate, you need to get a copy of a text
book used by
agents in real estate
school to obtain their license, they can be had cheap on Amazon and an older text is fine because the basics of real estate haven't changed.
Why not piggyback on that new -
school - year mood and encourage
agents to hit the
books?
Baylor University's Hankamer
School of Business has published its latest quarterly Keller Center Research Report, an online source of academic articles focused on residential real estate research and summaries of scholarly journal articles and
books relevant for real estate sales
agents.
Baylor University's Hankamer
School of Business has published its quarterly Keller Center Research Report, an online compendium of academic articles focused on residential real estate research and summaries of scholarly journal articles and
books relevant to real estate sales
agents.