{"id":220,"date":"2012-04-18T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamaragranthambooks.com\/2012\/04\/wednesday-updates\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:20:48","slug":"wednesday-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wednesday-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No news this week but I did send out three more queries. I try not to think about it too much or I&#8217;ll get really anxious. One of the agents considering my novel posted her stats. She reads 36,000 queries a year, requests the first thirty pages of about 1,200, and looks at full manuscripts of about 100. Wow. I&#8217;m still in that 1,200 category.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t dwell on what I can&#8217;t control, so I made some writing goals for 2012. <\/p>\n<p>1. Finish, edit, and polish all four novels&#8211;<em>Forbidden, Forgotten, Forgiven, and Fairy World, MD. <\/em>(Okay, I just realized today they all started with the letter &#8220;F&#8221;. Must have been the letter &#8220;F&#8221; day on Sesame Street or something when I picked these.)<\/p>\n<p>2. Write query letters and synopses for all four books.<\/p>\n<p>3. Send out query letters for all four books.<\/p>\n<p>4. If I still have time to kill, start a new book, hopefully something not starting with&nbsp;the letter &#8220;F&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And there you go. Now that I&#8217;ve posted this, I feel I really ought to follow through!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No news this week but I did send out three more queries. I try not to think about it too much or I&#8217;ll get really anxious. One of the agents considering my novel posted her stats. She reads 36,000 queries a year, requests the first thirty pages of about 1,200, and looks at full manuscripts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamaragrantham.com\/StagingSite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}