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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received two more rejections since my last update, one of them in response to a requested partial. The agent liked the writing but found the plot and action too much like a video game instead of a novel. I found that very interesting, and more than a little unexpected.
I&#8217;m coming to the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from the holidays, and ready to face a new year. I sent out a couple more queries this week to some new agents.
I also started separating out &#8220;No Reply&#8221; from the other rejection types in my statistics. In this age of electronic submissions no reply usually means no interest, but I wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/journal/friday-scorecard-6/</link>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This will be a short post today. There hasn&#8217;t been a lot of news with the holidays approaching, and my progress has been dismal.
I&#8217;ve sent out a few more queries and received two more rejections since my last update. Then there was the agent who simply didn&#8217;t respond to my query one way or the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/journal/friday-scorecard-5/</link>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My epic agent quest continues, but without much success. I&#8217;ve received two more rejections and one request for a partial since my last update.
These latest responses are a mixed bag. The two rejections were form letters with no feedback. The third reply included a request for an exclusive (which means I have to wait until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/journal/friday-scorecard-4/</link>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did the week go? You write a manuscript critique or two, send out a few agent queries and a handful of resumes, and before you can say rejection, it&#8217;s Friday again. That means it&#8217;s time for another agent search stats update.
As you can see from the table, my response time is still pretty speedy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/journal/friday-scorecard-3/</link>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my first request for a partial manuscript from an agent today. That was promising after getting two rejections earlier this week. I&#8217;m still sending out queries, chipping away at my list of prospective fantasy agents a little bit at a time.
The running totals are posted in the table to the right. The reply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/journal/friday-scorecard-2/</link>
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		<title>Resume makeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if finding an agent for Renegade isn&#8217;t difficult enough, I&#8217;m also searching for a day job&#8230; still. The last year has been a rough one for job seekers. Unemployment rates in California have been above 10% since January and don&#8217;t look to be dropping below that threshold anytime soon. The renewable energy market hasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Scorecard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to start tracking some numbers on my search for a home for Renegade. They&#8217;ll be pretty depressing, but maybe they&#8217;ll help some other aspiring authors know what to expect when they start shopping around manuscripts. Here are the numbers I&#8217;ve decided to track: queries sent out, partial manuscripts requested, full manuscripts requested, offers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The epic agent quest continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve got beta readers working on The Guardian&#8217;s Hand, it&#8217;s time to get back to work finding a home for The Renegade&#8217;s Door. I wrote a post about finding a literary agent a few months ago. I&#8217;m hip deep in that process right now.
My first challenge was putting together a compelling query letter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://richard-rowland-perkins.com/journal/the-epic-agent-quest-continues/</link>
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		<title>Manuscript Revision &#8211; Step 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it took much longer than I&#8217;d hoped. But I&#8217;m finally finished with the red-lines on my manuscript. I&#8217;ve also settled on a working title! The second novel in the Renegade&#8217;s Legacy series is called &#8211; (drum roll please) &#8211; The Guardian&#8217;s Hand!
I&#8217;ve even thought of a working title for the concluding volume of the [...]]]></description>
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