If there were grades for fortune tellers, I would usually net a D. Perhaps a few of my forecasts do land close to the money. But generally my predictions are off-target far more than they are correct. And that’s acceptable, since only a fool or a maniac claims he knows everything headed his way.<\/p>\n
However, when it comes to the agent who is reconsidering The Last Trac<\/em>k, there are signs I could be on the right course. I mentioned in an earlier post that I would not comment until February 1. This decision–which rests on a very long consideration of the holiday schedule, their probable workload and some inside information about the publishing culture–looks almost prescient now.<\/p>\n Based on my hunch, I sent them a note on Tuesday. In short, I wished them a happy holiday, thanked them for their time again, and then asked if they had all the materials they needed for a decision.<\/p>\n About five minutes later this response arrived:<\/p>\n “Still working through a few manuscripts from December. Hope to get to yours soon!”<\/em><\/p>\n Soon is a relative term, but I believe a definitive answer will arrive before my February 13th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If there were grades for fortune tellers, I would usually net a D. Perhaps a few of my forecasts do land close to the money. But generally my predictions are off-target far more than they are correct. And that’s acceptable, since only a fool or a maniac claims he knows everything headed his way. However, […]<\/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-10939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939","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=10939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}