{"id":93,"date":"2014-03-06T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2014-03-06T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:09:19","slug":"with-awesome-news-come-some-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"With Awesome News Come Some Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the iPod this morning : Happy by Pharrell Williams<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday March 1, I officially opened to queries, celebrating my status as Junior Agent for the Corvisiero Literary Agency. I&#8217;m still soooooo excited! This news was shared by Writer&#8217;s Digest and the Guide to Literary Agents &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/editor-blogs\/guide-to-literary-agents\/new-literary-agent-alert-cate-hart-of-corvisiero-literary-agency\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; if you haven&#8217;t read Chuck Sambuchino&#8217;s website it is full of awesomeness. I highly recommended following his posts. The announcement was shared over Twitter and Facebook. I am ever grateful for the retweets and reposts. But as I enter a new avenue within publishing, I now have to set some boundaries I never did as an author.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a Twitter account since 2008-ish and Facebook for about as long. That&#8217;s when I began pursuing publishing in earnest and realized social media was a necessity to connect with fellow authors and future readers. I&#8217;m on Twitter way more than I should be. I used to follow every author I met or every author that followed me. Then I started following industry professionals and most recently book bloggers and publishing imprints. My Facebook personal page, has and remains, my closest author friends. I set up a Fanpage eons ago with no idea really how the fanpage worked.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been, no I still am, an author pursuing publication, though just not as diligently as in the beginning back in 2009. So I follow authors I know or editors I want to get to know.\u00a0I encourage you to follow me on Twitter if you don&#8217;t mind random bursts of fangirling (yes I do this too.) I talk\u00a0way too much about Jon Snow and GoT, Captain Hook and OUaT. My critique partners and I torment each other with random tweets about Will Herrondale from the Infernal Devices. I post the random, crazy things my kids do, and well, talk about the insane weather in Middle Tennessee. And yes agent things too. But what I just can&#8217;t possibly do is follow everyone back. My Twitter feed is outrageous as it is. I do try to respond to all @ questions or even send thanks or a favorite if I&#8217;m mentioned. I like to think of favoriting on Twitter as a LIKE of Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>As for Facebook, like I mentioned, this is my haven for my author friends. I have a Fanpage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/catehartauthor?hc_location=timeline&amp;filter=1\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0(I hope that link works. I&#8217;m still trying to figure Facebook out). I do hope you\u00a0LIKE my Fanpage. It&#8217;s the best place to connect with me on Facebook and learn the things I&#8217;m working on or reading or thinking. Again there is a fair amount of fangirling that goes on there.<\/p>\n<p>So I hate putting up fences, even virtual ones, because I&#8217;m a pretty open, honest person, but needs change and thus boundaries must be established. Trust me, I see your follows and requests for friend status and I am honored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a id=\"irc_mil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;docid=Dlgwt3FisW7_4M&amp;tbnid=78BgQ3inTqW4gM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.yahoo.com%2Fblogs%2Fmovie-news%2F2014-golden-globes-biggest-mysteries-solved-060957938.html&amp;ei=u44YU5fvPOGCyAH8i4HgDQ&amp;bvm=bv.62577051,d.aWc&amp;psig=AFQjCNGDZaJ-qpQBT92NACq3riKIc_uhlQ&amp;ust=1394204719205943\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" id=\"irc_mi\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/ajbOTCyCjexEEOxAijSs4w--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTUwMA--\/http%3A\/\/l.yimg.com\/os\/publish-images\/movies\/2014-01-13\/df6cd0ac-8139-4df4-ad1e-88fe0e46020d_McConaughey-Win-Update.gif?resize=400%2C225\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the iPod this morning : Happy by Pharrell Williams On Saturday March 1, I officially opened to queries, celebrating my status as Junior Agent for the Corvisiero Literary Agency. I&#8217;m still soooooo excited! This news was shared by Writer&#8217;s Digest and the Guide to Literary Agents &#8211; HERE\u00a0&#8211; if you haven&#8217;t read Chuck Sambuchino&#8217;s website it is full of awesomeness. I highly recommended following his posts. The announcement was shared over Twitter and Facebook. I am ever grateful for the retweets and reposts. But as I enter a new avenue within publishing, I now have to set some boundaries I never did as an author. I&#8217;ve had a Twitter account since 2008-ish and Facebook for about as long. That&#8217;s when I began pursuing publishing in earnest and realized social media was a necessity to connect with fellow authors and future readers. I&#8217;m on Twitter way more than I should be. I used to follow every author I met or every author that followed me. Then I started following industry professionals and most recently book bloggers and publishing imprints. My Facebook personal page, has and remains, my closest author friends. I set up a Fanpage eons ago with no idea really how the fanpage worked. I&#8217;ve been, no I still am, an author pursuing publication, though just not as diligently as in the beginning back in 2009. So I follow authors I know or editors I want to get to know.\u00a0I encourage you to follow me on Twitter if you don&#8217;t mind random bursts of fangirling (yes I do this too.) I talk\u00a0way too much about Jon Snow and GoT, Captain Hook and OUaT. My critique partners and I torment each other with random tweets about Will Herrondale from the Infernal Devices. I post the random, crazy things my kids do, and well, talk about the insane weather in Middle Tennessee. And yes agent things too. But what I just can&#8217;t possibly do is follow everyone back. My Twitter feed is outrageous as it is. I do try to respond to all @ questions or even send thanks or a favorite if I&#8217;m mentioned. I like to think of favoriting on Twitter as a LIKE of Facebook. As for Facebook, like I mentioned, this is my haven for my author friends. I have a Fanpage HERE\u00a0(I hope that link works. I&#8217;m still trying to figure Facebook out). I do hope you\u00a0LIKE my Fanpage. It&#8217;s the best place to connect with me on Facebook and learn the things I&#8217;m working on or reading or thinking. Again there is a fair amount of fangirling that goes on there. So I hate putting up fences, even virtual ones, because I&#8217;m a pretty open, honest person, but needs change and thus boundaries must be established. Trust me, I see your follows and requests for friend status and I am honored. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-facebook","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/snoopy.png?fit=224%2C225","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wmX9-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}