{"id":10651,"date":"2006-04-17T19:16:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T00:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/17\/i-need-to-sit-down\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T21:47:46","slug":"i-need-to-sit-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/17\/i-need-to-sit-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I need to sit down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contacted the agent that the Wife&#8217;s colleague suggested; he requested the whole manuscript. Can I get a hell yeah? Thank you. Very good news for a Monday, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>What I like about the agency:<br \/>\n1) International organization with offices in NYC and abroad.<br \/>\n2) Connections in movie business. Film rights are the only monies a book need not earn back in sales. Also the checks tend to be much larger than a first time novelist&#8217;s advance.<br \/>\n3) Proven track record in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I said this before, but when the Wife told me what agency this was initially, my jaw dropped; it&#8217;s the representation equivalent of Yale or Harvard. And God knows, the only time I touched the Ivy Leagues was while visiting friends who were students.<\/p>\n<p>May as well aim big.<\/p>\n<p>* Scurries off to replace the toner cartridge  *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contacted the agent that the Wife&#8217;s colleague suggested; he requested the whole manuscript. Can I get a hell yeah? Thank you. Very good news for a Monday, indeed. What I like about the agency: 1) International organization with offices in NYC and abroad. 2) Connections in movie business. Film rights are the only monies a [&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-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","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=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}