Emma White

I took a different approach with this one.

I went to a conference in New York.

It's called Thriller Fest.

And it's a huge conference for thriller writers, authors, readers, publishers.

And they have an event called Pitch Fest, which I was very interested in.

Because as anyone who's been in the query trenches knows, you feel like you're screaming into the void sometimes.

You're just sending things out, no response.

You almost just want that written rejection so you know.

And so what Pitchfest offered was an opportunity to face-to-face do a pitch to literary agents and to some editors with some of the smaller independent publishers.

Great question.

So PitchFest was an add-on you paid for at the conference.

And then I believe it was either a two or three hour period of time where all of these agents were set up at tables and you could pitch as many as you could in that time frame.

And so I pitched nonstop and didn't take a break.

And I reached 12 people.

So that gives you an idea.

There are several hundred people there.

There was a good number of literary agents and editors there.

But there were lineups at each desk.

Some agents had huge lines.

You kind of had to make a decision.