{"id":113,"date":"2014-03-17T20:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T01:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catehart.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2014-03-17T20:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T01:36:49","slug":"updates-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Updates And All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s on the iPod : Happy by Pharrell Williams &#8211; Love that song.<\/p>\n<p>Just a brief update. I am working through March 3 queries. I still have Fulls from the end of last year. I should be getting through those this week.<\/p>\n<p>And to give you an idea of what I&#8217;m seeing:<\/p>\n<p>YA that &#8220;s not really YA &#8211; 3 queries in the last week. Rejections. I don&#8217;t represent adult, except for Adult\u00a0Historical Romance. Calling you manuscript YA tells me that you don&#8217;t know your genre. Sorry<\/p>\n<p>YA Fantasy: almost all the queries I&#8217;ve received have been fantasy. Several have been more High Fantasy but the premise wasn&#8217;t unique. It\u00a0felt similar to fantasy already out in the market. With Paranormal and\u00a0Dystopian becoming less appealing to editors, many authors are querying fantasy. It&#8217;s as tough a market as the others. The premise has to be unique, guys.<\/p>\n<p>MG fantasy :\u00a02 queries in the last week. I&#8217;m considering these for further review. Nothing that just grabbed my gut the way I wanted, but interesting enough that I&#8217;ll take a deeper look at the queries and sample pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-mole-in-the-lion-king-morning-report.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/catehart.com\/?attachment_id=114\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-mole-in-the-lion-king-morning-report.png?fit=208%2C282&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"208,282\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"the mole in the lion king morning report\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-mole-in-the-lion-king-morning-report.png?fit=208%2C282&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-mole-in-the-lion-king-morning-report.png?fit=208%2C282&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114\" alt=\"the mole in the lion king morning report\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-mole-in-the-lion-king-morning-report.png?resize=208%2C282\" width=\"208\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s on the iPod : Happy by Pharrell Williams &#8211; Love that song. Just a brief update. I am working through March 3 queries. I still have Fulls from the end of last year. I should be getting through those this week. And to give you an idea of what I&#8217;m seeing: YA that &#8220;s not really YA &#8211; 3 queries in the last week. Rejections. I don&#8217;t represent adult, except for Adult\u00a0Historical Romance. Calling you manuscript YA tells me that you don&#8217;t know your genre. Sorry YA Fantasy: almost all the queries I&#8217;ve received have been fantasy. Several have been more High Fantasy but the premise wasn&#8217;t unique. It\u00a0felt similar to fantasy already out in the market. With Paranormal and\u00a0Dystopian becoming less appealing to editors, many authors are querying fantasy. It&#8217;s as tough a market as the others. The premise has to be unique, guys. MG fantasy :\u00a02 queries in the last week. I&#8217;m considering these for further review. Nothing that just grabbed my gut the way I wanted, but interesting enough that I&#8217;ll take a deeper look at the queries and sample pages. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"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":[34],"tags":[37,36,23,35,32],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","tag-fantasy","tag-mg","tag-queries","tag-requested-material","tag-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catehart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/the-mole-in-the-lion-king-morning-report.png?fit=208%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wmX9-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catehart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}