{"id":14,"date":"2020-05-21T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2020-05-21T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:34:21","slug":"finding-an-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/21\/finding-an-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding an Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My efforts to find a literary agent for my novel <em>Birth of Jai<\/em> continues. There are many literary agencies, most of which have a number of agents. To effectively query the agency takes time. I start by studying the agency and learn about it to see if it&#8217;s a good match for my novel and me. Then I read through the agent profiles to find the one that is best for my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m counting on this to be a successful endeavor. I&#8217;ve had a lot of professional help in the last two rewrites, and I think the manuscript is in pretty good shape now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This summer I&#8217;m going to start the next book. <em>Birth of Jai<\/em> is the first in a trilogy.  I&#8217;d like to get a jump on the next in the series, even before I have a publisher (or maybe even an agent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My efforts to find a literary agent for my novel Birth of Jai continues. There are many literary agencies, most of which have a number of agents. To effectively query the agency takes time. I start by studying the agency and learn about it to see if it&#8217;s a good match for my novel and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/21\/finding-an-agent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding an Agent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leinecker.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}