Alessandra Ranelli

I think you're the one who says it, but it's,

that you're fulfilling the promise of the pitch to the reader.

And that really sat with me where I was like, what am I missing?

Because the pitch was going over and winning contest after contest.

And I realized I wasn't quite hitting it on the head.

And I just restructured the chapter to add more curiosity seeds.

Love that term.

It's always on the podcast as well.

And basically by having Fernando, having one character come in and their conversation be interrupted by the action that happens so that it created some natural suspense.

Yeah, little changes.

And it changed everything.

After the pitch prize, I had a few requests.

At the same time, my now agent, Harry Illingworth, reopened.

And somebody slid into my DMs and was like, you should query this agent.

I was like, oh, he's on my list.

He's right on my list.

Top of the, thank you for letting me know he reopened.

And I had had, I think, three requests at the time.

So I said that in the first line of my email to him.

I was like, great timing that you've reopened.