Tag: The Publishing Business

In which we conclude our series of amazing insights into the pitching process . . . . As a writer approaching a pitch session, I get keyed up, hoping I make a good connection with the editor or agent, hoping she’ll be interested in my project, hoping this meeting turns out to be the key…

In my previous post, I gave some thoughts about being an agent accepting pitches at a recent conference, and what I learned about pitching from it.  Here’s Part 2:   Because of the informal nature of the program and because a lot of the writers involved are colleagues, people I’ve known a long time, I…

A while back I wrote a blog post about how to prepare for pitch sessions because as a writer I’ve done my share and learned something useful from the experience.  Recently, though, I was on the other side of the table, accepting pitches, and the other side of the table always offers a different perspective, one…