Sentences with phrase «years as a literary agent»

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«The cheapest show is $ 3.8 million an episode,» CAA TV literary agent Peter Micelli said at a panel last year, as reported by Variety's Andrew Wallenstein.

How do you see the laying - off of so many in - house editors in the past couple of years affecting the work you both do, and how these new independents with publishing contacts and skills will play out in the workforce — both as literary agents and as independent editors — in the next few years?

As an author trying to get a literary agent, it could take you years to get an agent if you query them one at a time.

She brings 20 years of business and publishing experience to her role as a literary agent and advocate for her clients.

With over twenty - five years as a business owner, Victoria is excited to help grow the agency's client base with talented writers and illustrators, while also helping build the agency from within with motivated agents who possess the same ideals, literary interests, goals, and approaches to the industry.

Previously, she worked at Writers House for six years as an assistant literary agent.

Lisa Gallagher joined DeFiore & Company Literary Management Inc., as a literary agent in 2014, after working at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates for five years.

Mark Malatesta is an author who went «undercover» as a literary agent for five years to find out how to get his own books published.

In addition to the five years he spent as a literary agent, Mark Malatesta also spent several years as the Marketing & Licensing Manager of Blue Mountain Arts (the book and gift publisher that invented e-greetings, then sold their e-card division for close to $ 1 billion at the height of the dot com bubble).

Literary Agent Undercover was founded by Mark Malatesta (former NY Times bestselling literary agent), after he went «undercover» as an book agent for five years... to learn how to get his own books published.

He had worked as a literary agent for 20 years before setting it up,... read more»

Eve worked as a literary agent at The Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency for five happy years where she developed, edited, and sold a wide variety of books to major publishers.

* Top literary agents work full - time, have many years of experience, and treat their profession as serious business (they aren't part - time agents with second jobs to make ends meet and they don't think of agenting as a hobby).

Laurie McLean, an agent with Larsen Pomada Literary Agents in San Francisco, spent more than 25 years in high - tech publicity and marketing before she started her career as a literary agent.

Mark Malatesta has several book coach programs based on his years as a NY Times bestselling literary agent, but you have to sign up for a an introductory book marketing coach call as a first step.

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

Like more and more publishers, Amazon Publishing is taking a gamble on authors who've already enjoyed self - publishing success, a far cry from only a handful of years ago when a history of self - publishing pretty much sealed an author's fate as far as traditional publishers and literary agents were concerned.

For almost sixty years, the course has been training young men and women for careers as editors, literary agents, publishers, designers, publicists, and more.

I have four years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list.

I have six years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list and more.

I have six years of editing experience and have helped many clients sign with literary agents, several of whom have gone on to sell to Big Five publishers, as well as hit the USA Today Bestsellers» list.

He had worked as a literary agent for 20 years before setting it up, and now represents renowned authors such as Andy Weir (author of The Martian), Scott Berkun (previously interviewed on this blog), or Chris Guillebeau.

Our editors are carefully selected, with at least ten years of professional experience working directly with publishers, literary agents, various publications - as well as having published their own work.

He's an author himself, but has also been a literary agent as well as working in publishing for many years ending up as the Chairman of Thomas Nelson, the largest Christian publishers in the world.

(Partly this is because the large publishing houses have downsized and been gobbled up in recent years, and many of the former publishing house editors have now hung out shingles as literary agents.)

During my short time (5 years) as a literary agent, I personally evaluated more than sixty - thousand query letters.

Even after you find a literary agent and publisher, the time lag between their acceptance of your manuscript and the final publication of your book could easily be as long as two to three years.

«Over the past months and years we've come to the realization that e-publishing is yet another area in which we can be of service to our clients as literary agents.

That same year, Stinson began working as a literary agent for Elsie Washington, who had already published the first African - American romance novel, Entwined Destinies, and worked as an editor at Essence magazine.

She leads CT's Literary Group, drawing on thirty - five years of experience as editor, writer, publisher, and literary agent.

Back in the olden days - a couple of years ago - an author was forced into a system where the people who created the work had to act as beggars, supplicants crawling in mass numbers to bow before the altars of literary agents.

Robert Mackwood has acted as a literary agent for over thirty years, representing a diverse client list of writers selling book projects and publishing rights both at home in Canada and throughout the publishing world.

Just prior to that he was a literary agent for three years with Scott Meredith, Inc., representing such clients as Norman Mailer, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Bloch and Evan Hunter.

These Christian literary agents have years of experience in the publishing field and act as mediators between the authors and the publishers.

Mark went «undercover» as a literary agent for five years to learn how to get his own books published.

Gudovitz is a 20 - year literary agent who started his publishing career as an assistant in the subsidiary rights department at Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, FSG.

Publishing veteran Debra Englander gives an overview of the self - publishing process, followed by a conversation with literary agent Ted Weinstein — who represents Keith Devlin, NPR's Math Guy and author of numerous traditionally published books as well as the self - published title Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years — and publicist Amy Packard about the opportunities available to independent authors as well as the challenges they face.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if at least one big - six publisher announces plans to drop DRM this year — Hachette's Maja Thomas hinted at it recently — but the actual implementation of the new policy could take awhile as it would likely require negotiations with literary agents as well as the implementation of more robust direct sales systems from publishers» own sites.