{"id":98,"date":"2009-12-31T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T02:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2012-08-21T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T21:05:01","slug":"results-of-querying-finding-mulligan-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Results of Querying: Finding Mulligan 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Really struck out on <em>Finding Mulligan <\/em>queries in 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agents queried: 24.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Non-responses: 9<\/li>\n<li>Form rejections: 13<\/li>\n<li>Partial requests: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>. . . Most of the form rejections contained the phrase &#8220;publishing is a subjective business.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, I hope so!<\/p>\n<p>One of the rejections said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I may offer a tip, you may want to consider your word count as this genre is usually more like 70,000 words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>::shrug::<\/p>\n<p>The guy who rejected my three-chapter partial had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While I thought the premise to be unique, I just did not get enough sense of the paranormal.\u00a0 Along the same lines, I simply did not find myself drawn to the characters as much as I had hoped to.\u00a0 It seemed as if the story was lacking a depth that I wanted to see in the early pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, boo.\u00a0 Though I will say I&#8217;m surprised to see disappointment over lack of &#8220;the paranormal&#8221; because my book isn&#8217;t paranormal.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still using this advice to try to make my stuff better.\u00a0 I&#8217;m continuing to tweak and edit here and there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really struck out on Finding Mulligan queries in 2009. Agents queried: 24. Non-responses: 9 Form rejections: 13 Partial requests: 1 . . . Most of the form rejections contained the phrase &#8220;publishing is a subjective business.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, I hope so! One of the rejections said this: If I may offer a tip, you may want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6,10],"tags":[33,17],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-novels","category-querying","tag-feedback","tag-finding-mulligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}