I'm back to talk about another pitch event happening on twitter this Thursday! You can find it by searching the hashtag #sffpit. You can check out my post about pitmad which happened some time ago below. This time, the pitching is for science fiction and fantasy manuscripts. My main work in progress being a YA fantasy, I couldn't resist the urge to participate. Additionally, I'm prepping it for querying soon, so the timing is ✨ perfect ✨. To be fair, I'm pretty nervous about the final stages of drafting this novel that has been in the works for so many years now. Maybe I'm even more scared of it getting rejected. But I can't give up before even trying, so here I am. This post isn't going to be too long, but I thought it'd be good to revisit what this pitch events are and why they are the way that they are. What are pitches and why do them? A pitch is where you (try to) describe your novel in a short paragraph and make it sound as exciting as you can. This is because the goal is to win over the agents that will be looking through twitter (and have them like your tweet - basically the same thing as for pitmad). Agents are people who represent books and bring them to editors and publishers. So it'd be great to have one. It's like with acting: with an agent, the chances of actually get published are higher (even if they are still horrifyingly low). You can go to a publisher right away, but a lot of them only take in books represented by agents already. With an agent, you have a helping hand in the publishing process, someone who knows what they're doing. As authors, we don't necessarily have the training or the professional know-how to do all of it on our own. We haven't necessarily done a master's degree in publishing, obviously. Needless to say, it's better to have them at your side if you want to publish traditionally. Why pitch on twitter? Nowadays, more and more people are connected via social media and so in some ways it's easier to connect authors and agents. The twitter pitch events are also very open because we don't have to choose the agents we're querying: they're the ones that find our pitches. It's a great way to practice writing pitches and the audience engagement with tweets are definitely helpful in finding which pitches work better. See, Sffpit runs for 10 hours and each author has 10 tweets maximum. These can't be word for word the same tweet, so we're going to have to write 10 slightly different pitches! I'll post again once the pitching is over tomorrow and go over how it went! Till then, see you all and good luck if you're participating! (Btw, I'm always looking for people to exchange retweets, so don't hesitate getting in touch! Below is a link to my twitter account!).
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