The Secret Strategies Top Authors Use to Captivate Literary Agents at Conferences Revealed
Everything I’ve ever read and heard about pitch sessions says to do this, and I agree with this advice. At pitch sessions, literary agents spend eight hours sitting in a room to hundreds of pitches—you need to get to the point quickly!
2. Strategize How Best to Use Your Few Minutes
Be sure to think about how you want to use your limited time in advance. Do you want to focus on plot or characters? Or on yourself?
My friend looked at the blurbs on the New York Times books page to figure out a way to narrow her novel into a sentence or two and found some success. I decided to spend the most time describing my characters because that seemed to get people the most excited when I described my manuscript.
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