Not exact matches
Speaking at
times with a raised
voice, Comey said he faced two difficult decisions when
agents told him they had found emails potentially connected to the Clinton case on a laptop belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D - N.Y., who was married to close Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
And so Mater becomes a reluctant spy, along with McMissile, and
agent Holley Shiftwell (
voiced by Emily Mortimer), who has left her desk for the first
time to work in the field.
WHY: As with most Joss Whedon - created shows, the first season of «
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» is a bit rocky at
times, struggling to find its
voice as the small - screen companion to Marvel's bigger and better movies.
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.
Again I respect Ms. Alexanders comments but unless someone in that meeting, was allowed comparable
time and stood up and
voiced an opinion that was representative of businesses of the 150
agents instead of REMAX OA then that meeting should never have taken place.
If we had to give up our industry like this, all the full
time committed
agents would have wanted it with a full blown legal battle where our concerns would have been
voiced even at the risk of raising your measly dues.
The IMLS will always be listening to the
voices of all those who make up the industry and we want to say thank you to all those who have contributed their
time, effort and wisdom to The IMLS to help bring this forward now to
agents and brokers around the world.