{"id":898,"date":"2006-08-21T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T19:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/21\/writers-digest-article\/"},"modified":"2012-07-30T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T05:20:09","slug":"writers-digest-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/21\/writers-digest-article\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m in Writer&#8217;s Digest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/articles\/hogan_bookjacket.asp\">Does This Book Jacket Make Me Look Fat?<\/a>&#8221; That&#8217;s the title of an article I&#8217;ve written for <i>Writer&#8217;s Digest<\/i> that solicits opinions and anecdotes from several women writers about whether you need to be pretty to be popular in the publishing marketplace. Laura Lippman says, &#8220;It might get someone to pick up the book, but I&#8217;m not sure it can do much more than that,&#8221; while agent Ginger Clark reveals that &#8220;if your agent is positioning you as the next big literary fiction genius&#8212;and therefore making it clear she&#8217;s expecting people to bid high&#8212;she&#8217;s probably doing so with the added bonus of you being attractive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Does This Book Jacket Make Me Look Fat?&#8221; That&#8217;s the title of an article I&#8217;ve written for Writer&#8217;s Digest that solicits opinions and anecdotes from several women writers about whether you need to be pretty to be popular in the publishing marketplace. Laura Lippman says, &#8220;It might get someone to pick up the book, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}