{"id":32302,"date":"2008-02-13T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2013-03-12T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:09:24","slug":"congrats-to-colleen-lindsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2008\/02\/congrats-to-colleen-lindsay\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Colleen Lindsay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Several months ago, I received some <a href=\"http:\/\/theswivet.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/sunday-night-holy-crap-im-sunburned-yet.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">encouraging words<\/a> regarding <em><a href=\"http:\/\/auraliascolors.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Auralia\u2019s Colors<\/a><\/em> from fantasy-lit enthusiast Colleen Lindsay, otherwise known as La Gringa, who blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/theswivet.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Swivet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted me to contact her, and I\u2019ve enjoyed our correspondence ever since. Previously, she was director of publicity at Del Rey. Working at Doubleday, she contributed to the success of the book <em>Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this up because Lindsay\u2019s just taken an exciting step in her career, and deserves big congratulations. She\u2019s become a literary agent! If you\u2019re writing mainstream fantasy, take note! She\u2019ll be focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novels. (Her blog announcement is <a href=\"http:\/\/theswivet.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/boy-howdy-do-i-have-news-for-yall-la.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>, and the news is reported at MediaBistro here.)<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes, Colleen!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago, I received some encouraging words regarding Auralia\u2019s Colors from fantasy-lit enthusiast Colleen Lindsay, otherwise known as La Gringa, who blogs at The Swivet. 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