{"id":3385,"date":"2014-02-11T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T19:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T19:37:54","slug":"slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-on-the-road-and-making-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom-on-the-road-and-making-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom: on the road and making friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/slaves_of_the_switchboard_of_doom_Ch4.jpg\" alt=\"Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom: Chapter 4 illustration\" width=\"501\" height=\"501\" class=\"img_wide_open\">\n<p>My query for <em>Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em> is doing almost exactly what we see Rusty and Harry Roy doing up above in the book&#8217;s illustration for Chapter Four. It&#8217;s knocking on select and enviable doors throughout New York, looking for a home. <\/p>\n<p>Except that&#8217;s not what they&#8217;re doing, and they&#8217;re not in New York, and unlike New York, Retropolis is not populated entirely by literary agents. But otherwise, yep, pretty much exactly like that.<\/p>\n<p>Agency #1 read the manuscript and sent back just about the most positive rejection you could ask for, if that&#8217;s something you wanted to ask for. And that was nice, considering I&#8217;ve started with agents whose boots I am not fit to. . . etc. In fact this was much better than I&#8217;d expected and it proved a pretty good test of the book&#8217;s query letter.<\/p>\n<p>Agency #2 is more elusive and may be very protective of its boots or, possibly, goes barefoot. Today the query&#8217;s been unleashed on Agency #3. No news yet on their footwear over there.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned earlier, I&#8217;m working through quite a short list of agents while I work on the illustrations. Over the past few days I modeled several robot heads, and a body for one of them. This book is just lousy with robots. That means I&#8217;ve got several more to build.<\/p>\n<p>So: busy me, busy query letter, and in general, business. Or busyness. Or something. And boots, apparently.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My query for Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom is doing almost exactly what we see Rusty and Harry Roy doing up above in the book&#8217;s illustration for Chapter Four. It&#8217;s knocking on select and enviable doors throughout New York, looking for a home. Except that&#8217;s not what they&#8217;re doing, and they&#8217;re not in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaves-of-the-switchboard-of-doom","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}