{"id":301,"date":"2009-05-23T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=301"},"modified":"2009-05-23T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T11:20:56","slug":"few-more-queries-and-them-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/few-more-queries-and-them-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few More Queries, And With Them, Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post this yesterday, but the fourth week of the agent hunt consisted of sending out several more queries and receiving one very nice rejection. Here&#8217;s the tally of the really important statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>34 queries submitted<\/li>\n<li>9 rejections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAnd so it goes.<\/p>\n<p>On the advice of a couple people in the business &#8212; whose names I will not use, but whose identities might be guessed by people familiar with my experience in the very small SF&#038;F world &#8212; I also submitted a partial (3 chapters and synopsis) to one of the major SF publishers. We&#8217;ll see if anything comes of that.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully someone out there will be interested in publishing a near-future science fiction story about colonizing the moon &#8212; the risks people will take, the hardships they&#8217;ll endure, and the sacrifices they&#8217;ll make to achieve a difficult goal. 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