{"id":103,"date":"2008-10-19T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-10-20T06:22:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T13:22:32","slug":"just-saying-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying Hi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it. . .<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/greekkey3.jpg\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"greekkey3\" src=\"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/greekkey3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/greekkey3.jpg 545w, https:\/\/melinakantor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/greekkey3-300x8.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, in case you were wondering, I&#8217;m still around. \u00a0Just dealing with the beginning of the school year, holidays galore (the season&#8217;s over on the 23rd, thank goodness), editing, and getting ready for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\" target=\"_blank\">NaNo<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m too busy to blog. \u00a0It&#8217;s more like my brain isn&#8217;t capable of coming up with anything over 140 characters long, which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/melinakantor\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> is still working for me. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, come November, you should be expecting to hear from me <em>a lot<\/em>. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait to get to work on my next project and I&#8217;m already going NaNo crazy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is where I need your help. \u00a0I&#8217;m overly excited about my next book, and I&#8217;ve been obsessed with research and plotting. \u00a0But last year&#8217;s NaNo book still needs some tweaking (to put it mildly) and it&#8217;s begging for a synopsis. \u00a0So I&#8217;m stating here, once and for all, that my query and synopsis for Daphna In The Rough will be in the hands of two agents by November 1st, if for no other reason than to make more space in my brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And if it&#8217;s not? 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