Emma White

And I got good advice about being exactly what you said, very prepared.

It's not a casual conversation.

you really do have a minute of their time to interest them with your pitch.

And so I treated it like I would a query letter.

And ultimately, my oral pitch is not word for word, but almost word for word what ended up being the jacket copy for Venom Lake.

So I really wanted to have following the books with hooks formula, the title, the word count, the comps, a really tight, a really tight plot

summary.

And I practiced it until I could do it in my sleep.

Two years later, I don't know it off the top anymore.

But I wanted and I was timing myself, I wanted to get it to a minute so I could comfortably deliver it, that I wouldn't be fumbling with my notes that I went, Oh, I meant to say this, I meant to say that it was there.

And then that would leave room for discussion with agents.

which was ultimately really important because they did have questions.

Oh, you say it's multi POV.

What does that mean?

What, you know, there was, there was interest based on questions we had after the pitch.

So it was really important to leave time for that discussion.

Sure.

It's going to be a bit repetitive from the jacket copy, but the difference is kind of in the, in the intro.

So I've just sit down.

Agent, so nice to meet you.