{"id":10871,"date":"2007-07-30T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T02:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/30\/unexpected-correspondence\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T02:23:13","slug":"unexpected-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/30\/unexpected-correspondence\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nicholl&#8217;s screenwriting contest began notifying semi-finalists in the last 24-48 hours and a conclusive response will land shortly. For now, I have some interesting news. At 5:43 PM on Sunday, this email arrived from an agent&#8211;the very one who requested a substantial partial of the manuscript a mere 6 business days ago:<\/p>\n<p>Hi &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>This is a close call. It came down to a &#8220;no&#8221; from my reader but I&#8217;m still intrigued. Why don&#8217;t you send me the complete manuscript and I&#8217;ll get back to you once I&#8217;m done. Please send it via email once again.<\/p>\n<p>Just so you know, I&#8217;m off on vacation this week and won&#8217;t be back until August 14th, so please be patient.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks.<\/p>\n<p>* Agent name redacted by Sam *<\/p>\n<p>So no idea where I am on the screen writing contest, but someone of great note is reading my novel with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nicholl&#8217;s screenwriting contest began notifying semi-finalists in the last 24-48 hours and a conclusive response will land shortly. For now, I have some interesting news. At 5:43 PM on Sunday, this email arrived from an agent&#8211;the very one who requested a substantial partial of the manuscript a mere 6 business days ago: Hi &#8211; [&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-10871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871","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=10871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}