In honor of PitMad on Thursday, I thought I would dedicate one of challenge posts to this process of getting agents attention. I am kind of torn on the whole thing. Blame it on my anxiety I guess. You have a word limit, you have to use proper hashtags, your pitch has to be interesting, oh and not get lost among the thousands of other pitches on Twitter. It just seems impossible to me... thus cueing this gif I've used before: Take this with a grain of salt because things like pumping my own gas and talking on the phone to strangers also gets me going. I do see the allure and possible benefits of doing it this way; an agent likes your post and it could be a more "hand picked" match than querying someone who takes all romance or what have you. You can research those agents you really like in hopes to tailor your pitch to their exact needs. I feel like that's a bit questionable if you wrote suspense and are making it into a western because that's what your dream agent wants, but I digress.
Three years ago, when I started this venture, I had no experience. I queried whomever had fantasy and/ or romance in their interests and got LOTS of rejections. I got better about researching as I went along and got requests for fulls and partials once I made that change. Though I ended up going directly with a publisher, I still want to go the traditional route someday and I know my query needs to be stronger in addition to doing more researched. Going back to PitMad, a small part of me wants to try and see what happens, but the rules say they need to be polished complete manuscripts and murphy's law will be that someone wants it and I'll have nothing prepared. March for sure and maybe some mock tweets in the meantime. Getting an agent is a step towards becoming a career author so I should probably do this right. If you are ready for Thursday but need a refresher on the rules click the link below to get all PitMad info you need. https://pitchwars.org/pitmad/ Special thanks to Kim (@KimTheKindaGood on Twitter) for taking the time respond to my tweet about all of this. Give her a follow and make sure to retweet her pitches on Thursday! Good luck to everyone who will be participating! I'm gonna do my best to share the love! Kay Bennson
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