{"id":293,"date":"2009-05-08T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-05-08T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:20:41","slug":"shhh-be-vewwy-quiet-im-agent-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/shhh-be-vewwy-quiet-im-agent-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhh, be vewwy quiet &#8230; I&#39;m agent hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hunt for a literary agent to represent WALKING ON THE SEA OF CLOUDS &#8212; and such other work as I hope to produce in the next ever-how-many years &#8212; continues. Slowly. I do have a day job, after all. And a night job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/convert_files\/288=21-Hunt - Gaetan Lee.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSo, after two weeks pursuing elusive agents, tracking them by their Internet presences and deciphering the glyphs they&#8217;ve carved in electronic &#8220;guidelines,&#8221; I&#8217;ve racked up the following record:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 queries submitted<\/li>\n<li>4 &#8220;thanks, but this isn&#8217;t right for us&#8221; rejections<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8220;interesting, tell us more&#8221; responses<\/li>\n<li>2 manuscripts submitted<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8220;partial&#8221; submitted &#8212; 50 pages &#038; synopsis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nIf you want to play &#8220;hunt the agent&#8221; with me, see if you can spot one of the wild agents who might be interested in a near-future, realistic science fiction novel about survival and sacrifice in the early days of a lunar colony. If you see some, don&#8217;t scare them away! Try to chase them in my direction. 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