{"id":174,"date":"2008-11-19T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=174"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:06:23","slug":"ah-homogeneity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/ah-homogeneity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, homogeneity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090331062226\/http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6614767.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a> in <em>Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em> online yesterday and bookmarked it to blog about, but then <a href=\"http:\/\/jetreidliterary.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/so-read-this-and-tell-me-what-you-think.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Janet Reid<\/a> beat me to the punch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Recently, funny things have been happening in my slush pile. I find myself receiving well-written, correctly formatted, professional-looking query letters from bad writers. Imagine my chagrin: one minute I\u2019m intrigued by a smoothly crafted query letter, the next I\u2019m staring down at a crackpot writing sample.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16002 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20081119_hardeeslogo.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Hardee's logo\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\">I wondered how long this would take.<\/p>\n<p>I will always and forever remember a story my dad told about Hardee\u2019s barbecue sauce and a taste-tester he met. The point wasn\u2019t to make a standout barbecue sauce. The point was to make the barbecue sauce as inoffensive as possible to the largest number of people.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ll call it the Hardee\u2019s BBQ Sauce Query.<\/p>\n<p>One comment on Janet Reid\u2019s blog summed up my thoughts quite nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"normal\"><p>Post Summary: In the 21st Century, people can Google query on how to do something and find carefully composed instructions. Thus, the prior vetting process is no long efficient for the Literary Agent.<\/p>\n<p>My 2 Cents: Awesome. Adjust or die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw this in Publisher\u2019s Weekly online yesterday and bookmarked it to blog about, but then Janet Reid beat me to the punch. Recently, funny things have been happening in my slush pile. I find myself receiving well-written, correctly formatted, professional-looking query letters from bad writers. Imagine my chagrin: one minute I\u2019m intrigued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[544,525,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-publishing","category-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17054,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}