Emma White

They also had a Zoom room for agents, a Zoom room.

So agents who couldn't be there in person would be on Zoom.

And it was the same format, put on the earphones, talk to them for three minutes.

My agent who I signed with is Carolyn Ford from Transatlantic Agency based in Toronto.

So I went all the way to New York to meet my Toronto-based agent over Zoom and we had a nice laugh about that.

Yes, she asked, I'm trying to recall now, I believe she asked a little bit about the points of view because I did pitch it as multi-POV, how many points.

you know, first person, third person, I believe she asked me how that was structured.

And then she had some more personal questions about me and what I did for my day job and how I thought about writing as a career, you know, thrillers.

I think there is a very successful...

formula to do a book a year?

And was that something I was interested in?

So we actually had, she had a few questions about the pitch itself, but then also just a few personal questions for me of how I was thinking about writing as a career and kind of how seriously I was taking it.

Absolutely.

Psychological thrillers, all three of them.

And it's the genre I am most passionate about.

At this point, at least, can't imagine in writing any other genre.

I was playing with different formats, different, you know, is it multi-POV, single-POV, structure, linear, non-linear, before I kind of found my stride with this one.

On, I think, a few of the full requests I received for the first and second manuscript, because I actually didn't query the third manuscript traditionally.

I purely took it to Pitchfest and did the oral pitch.

But the rejections I accumulated were on the first two manuscripts.