WARNING – hastily-written, unnecessarily-long, thought-streamy post ahead.
So I’ve started querying for my 57,000 word high-concept Middle Grade Contemporary Fantasy (whew) novel. If you’ve never written a book, you couldn’t know what an emotional rollercoaster it is from start to finish, including the part where you pitch it to publishing professionals. Let me explain.
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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
If you don’t know, there’s a twitter pitch event going on today. Using #SecretShop, you can pitch your novel (if COMPLETE) to agents and editors. There are several of these that occur throughout the year using various tags (#PitMad, for instance). So this week’s FYI is dedicated to the people who will be pitching:
Opportunities come up all the time. Seize them, or someone else will.
Thanks for reading, and may we all have a blessed 2015.
{RDj}
Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI! My chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.
This week’s FYI is inspired by yesterday’s #PitMad on Twitter (if you’re unfamiliar, #PitMad – short for ‘Pitch Madness’ – is a twelve hour period where writers pitch their books through tweets, and agents and editors Favorite to indicate interest):
Thanks for reading,
{RDj}
