Oh, hello, Square One, I…wasn’t expecting to see you here. How are you? It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

Four years? Really, that long? Time flies, huh? Sorry I haven’t kept in touch, you know how it is.

Well. I’d love to stay and hang out, but–

Yeah, sure, we can hang out a little. Catch up a bit, sure, I guess I can do that. Is there anything you’d like to do?

…

Sure. Yeah. I guess we can look at the old spreadsheet. I guess it’s around here somewhere…yeah, there it is. Geeze, what a lot of work we put into that, huh?

Yeah, I guess we can update it. Wow, what fun. You really haven’t changed much in four years, have you?

Wait, you want to do what? Query writing? I haven’t written one of those in…four years. But I do sometimes write query-like paragraphs, so I’m not totally out of practice. Oh, but guess what I still do a lot of? Waiting! Yeah, I’m still pretty good at that.

Well, it sure has been fun catching up with you, Square One, but I’m sure you’ve got places to be and I don’t want to hold you up, so….

Oh, you’ve got time? Lots and lots of time?

…

Yeah, that’s great. Just…great.

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Welp, as you may have figured out, I am once again agent free. It’s a business decision, one of those things that happens from time to time. I want to express my gratitude to Carrie for taking me on, showing faith in me and my work, and working on my behalf, and I wish her well in her new position at Laura Dail Literary Agency.

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Interestingly, on my way to work on Tuesday (before I became a free agent, so to speak), I heard this song on the radio, and remembered how much I like it, and considered slipping it into a blog post somewhere soon. Now, it’s more appropriate (I also think I may have done this once before, but if I did, I didn’t tag it specifically, so if it’s a rerun….). The song is, when you get right down to it, pretty sad. Chrissy Hynde wrote it shortly after the death of Pretenders guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott from a drug overdose, which itself came about two days after the band fired bass player, Pete Farndon for his drug use. Despite this, I’ve always found something optimistic and uplifting here, and I’m going to be positive. Hope all is well with all of you, what’s new?