{"id":311,"date":"2009-09-02T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2009-09-02T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T14:24:47","slug":"do-you-need-industry-connections-to-get-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/do-you-need-industry-connections-to-get-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need industry connections to get published?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week, over at my <a href=\"http:\/\/megancrewe.livejournal.com\/\">writer blog<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been polling authors to try to determine whether personal connections in the publishing industry are necessary if you want to get a (fiction) book published.  To consider this question, I asked authors about their experiences with the first book they sold, agent representation, and the editor they sold to.<\/p>\n<p>Any of my readers here who are aspiring writers themselves, or just interested in the publishing industry, might want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/megancrewe.livejournal.com\/251212.html\">my post on the results of that post<\/a>.  You may be surprised!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to discuss here or there.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week, over at my writer blog, I&#8217;ve been polling authors to try to determine whether personal connections in the publishing industry are necessary if you want to get a (fiction) book published. To consider this question, I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/do-you-need-industry-connections-to-get-published\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}