Creatively Pitching Your Project

I’m blogging over at Books & Such today. Here’s a preview:

This week, we’ve been telling you about our experiences at the ICRS convention where we spent the bulk of our time talking with publishers and editors about you — our clients. These meetings put us in the same position you’re in at a writer’s conference when you’re pitching your project to an editor or agent.

• We have a limited amount of time.
• The people with whom we’re speaking have had many other meetings and are likely tired and overwhelmed.
• We are challenged to convey everything pertinent about each project in a brief verbal pitch.
• We have to tailor our pitches to each editor, giving them what (we hope) they want.
• We must generate excitement about each project on the spot for us to have a chance of selling it.

To accomplish this, each of the Books & Such agents used their own unique methods of presenting pitches and leave-behinds.

Click over to Books & Such to read the post.