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I just finished sending out a query and just as I pressed the send button my phone rang. The caller ID said "Liquid Agents". Although I didn't recall ever sending anything to an agency with such a name, I nonetheless got excited over that one little word. Yeah...you know which one.

So, I answered the phone all formal-like and much to my chagrin was offered a job in California with a travel nursing agency. I declined, then laughed, then explained to the woman on the other end that I was hoping for a call of a different nature. She laughed too.

There was a short, awkward silence when finally I asked, "You don't happen to know any lit agents do you?".

Her answer: "No. If I did I would have had my novel published by now."


How friggin' funny is that?

I'm such a dork.
 

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That is awesome.
 

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Haha, nice. :D
 

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Have you figured out how you're going to get back at this woman yet?

Getting one's hopes up is as good a reason for revenge as any.
 

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There was a short, awkward silence when finally I asked, "You don't happen to know any lit agents do you?".

Her answer: "No. If I did I would have had my novel published by now."


How friggin' funny is that?
So, do you think she really has a novel (or even a collection of 50,000+ words she's actually written), or is she just one of the "everyone has a novel in them?"

Okay, that's a rhetorical question...
I'm such a dork.
Oh, yeah? You're not as much of a dork as I am ... harumph.
 

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There was a short, awkward silence when finally I asked, "You don't happen to know any lit agents do you?".

Awesome. Never let a chance go by :D

In sympathy, I include by own dork-by-proxy mother's moment: I recently went to the registry office to sign the legal papers for my marriage. While there, the official asked me what Ihad studied at University. I told him I'd finished my Law degree and a BA in Political Science.
My mother (who was there as a witness) jumped in with "you don't have any jobs going, do you?"
No, the man said, what with the recesssion and all.
"But she can put her name down for a job, if things look up?" Mummy dearest continued.
So the nice man dutifully launched into a very thoughtful talk on how I could best improve my chances of working at the Registrar of Births deaths and Marriages.
Eventually, I had to gently remind everyone of why I was there - getting a husband that day, not a job - and get things moving again.
Oh, mothers are so great :tongue
 

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That's funny!
 

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I knew subscribing to that prank call service would be worth it.
 

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That's awesome haha. :D
 

kayleamay

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Oh well, it was fun to dream for that 15 seconds.