{"id":10649,"date":"2006-04-12T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/12\/my-new-love-oprah\/"},"modified":"2006-04-12T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T13:58:56","slug":"my-new-love-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/12\/my-new-love-oprah\/","title":{"rendered":"My new love: Oprah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last a really, really rich person who is happy about <a href=\"http:\/\/people.aol.com\/people\/articles\/0,19736,1182572,00.html\">having money.<\/a> God bless you, Oprah. God bless you. If I ever have a billion dollars I will rest just as easily.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on an approach for the literary agent the Wife stumbled across. This business about having a contact in common is an unusual situation, as by circumstance I reach out to agents cold and whatever happens, does. Last project, somewhere around fifteen percent of those solicited expressed an interest in the manuscript &#8212; a project which was neither developed properly nor ready for representation. I can say that now; I had no business trying to sell that book. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, if it stays in the file cabinet in perpetuity the world shall be no poorer.<\/p>\n<p>But this round I have something good enough. Perfect? Hell no. Good enough? Yes. Of the two I spoke with from Team Eagle Eye, neither expressed qualms about showing the first 50 pages in the present condition. And from one of them, this is a real coup, as he loathes formula fiction and mysteries, and puts the anal in analytical. If there&#8217;s a glitch, he finds it. Bug tally thus far: 1, and it&#8217;s a point so minor I honestly consider it an observation.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, contact by Thursday is the goal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last a really, really rich person who is happy about having money. God bless you, Oprah. God bless you. If I ever have a billion dollars I will rest just as easily. I&#8217;m working on an approach for the literary agent the Wife stumbled across. This business about having a contact in common is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}