{"id":10898,"date":"2007-10-16T20:48:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/16\/estimates\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:50:09","slug":"estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/16\/estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second agent who requested who requested <em>The Last Track<\/em> passed; however, they did include some encouragement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really liked the main character&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;it&#8217;s 90 percent there&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;I hope you will continue to work on it and refine each page until the narrative is seamless&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her response reaffirms three thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>1) Agents are not editors. They may have been at one time, and maybe they serve in that capacity for huge clients, but probably not.<\/p>\n<p>2) An unpublished author hawking fiction needs a novel verging on 100 percent to get an agent.<\/p>\n<p>3) Neither precept applies to non-fiction. I know an unpublished author who sold a non-fiction project in a mid-six figure deal that was 1\/3 the size of the finished book. In their case, the package included an endorsement from a celebrity. Regardless, the book was in no way 90 percent there. It had all the seeds of being there, though. I read the version that went to auction and concur it deserved a publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, it reaffirms my decision to partner with Kerry and address the other agent&#8217;s concerns. So yes, I will continue to work until the narrative is seamless. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second agent who requested who requested The Last Track passed; however, they did include some encouragement: &#8220;I really liked the main character&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;it&#8217;s 90 percent there&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;I hope you will continue to work on it and refine each page until the narrative is seamless&#8230;&#8221; Her response reaffirms three thoughts. 1) Agents are not editors. [&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-10898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898","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=10898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}