{"id":164,"date":"2010-06-09T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-06-09T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T21:27:30","slug":"and-i-thought-the-oprah-suggestion-was-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/and-i-thought-the-oprah-suggestion-was-good\/","title":{"rendered":"And I thought the Oprah suggestion was good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once queried an agent who rejected me but said, &#8220;You need to build your platform. Go on a national lecture tour. And if you can get on Oprah, that would help.&#8221; No kidding? No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to read. And read. And read more and more about the query process, and it&#8217;s becoming very unfocused. My eyes are fine (well, not really, but they&#8217;re not the problem &#8211; it&#8217;s the information itself).<\/p>\n<p>I have to go to Maui? Rub elbows with famous authors and have them endorse my work for representation? Win all kinds of awards? Sounds very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that most agents I&#8217;ve come across insist they consider all work that&#8217;s up their alley, and they suggest that a long list of impressive credentials is not critical to success. I can live with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once queried an agent who rejected me but said, &#8220;You need to build your platform. Go on a national lecture tour. And if you can get on Oprah, that would help.&#8221; No kidding? No kidding. I continue to read. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/and-i-thought-the-oprah-suggestion-was-good\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}