Conference Confidence

Conference Confidence: Know Your Editors

Here’s a short but sweet assignment. Print out the entire ACFW (or other conference) editor and agent list. Then study them! Visit their websites. Read their guidelines. Highlight the people who are accepting your genre and forget those publishing houses that are not looking for what you write. Know what your editor wants before you…

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Pitching & One Sheets

Follow up from last pitches: Thanks everyone for you help with my pitch. I’m still tweaking it, but here is the latest. Feel free to add your two cents in the comment section. Mari Duggins, an ambitious archeology professor, longs for the approval she believes her dream job as co-host of the local morning show…

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Pitching Your Novel

    So you’ve finished your novel and your ready to set your baby loose. But if you were asked to describe your novel in a few sentences, would you be able to do it? Some people call it an elevator pitch. The little sound bite that will catch an editor’s attention, if you were…

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