Comments on: The Sure Thing, Conference Tip #87

By: Tried and True Conference Advice | Elizabeth Boyle Blog

Tried and True Conference Advice | Elizabeth Boyle Blog — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:04:28 +0000

[...] The Sure Thing. If you going to pitch anything at Nationals, please, do yourself a favor and read [...]

By: Danielle Peck

Danielle Peck — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:28:26 +0000

Thank you for this. I’m going to pitch at the Emerald City Writer’s conference next month and I was so nervous and really freaking out about it but now I feel much better. Jane Porter pointed me to this blog subject and I’m so glad she did Thanks.

By: Elizabeth Boyle Blog » Linkage, Reminders and a Contest

Elizabeth Boyle Blog » Linkage, Reminders and a Contest — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:53:05 +0000

[...] If you are pitching a project to an agent or editor, here is the link to my blog from last year, The Sure Thing. Read it before you go and save yourself a lot of stress over these [...]

By: Santa

Santa — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:10:40 +0000

Would that I read this before I went to Dallas but I have to say truer words were never spoken, er, written!

By: Janelle

Janelle — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:27:09 +0000

I’m very happy that editors and agents aren’t superficial… can you imagine all the shit that would be published if only beautiful people had an opportunity?

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:24:08 +0000

Alice, I’m amazed that all those people who reserve time to attend those group sessions don’t have a prepared pitch. This does beg the question: Why are they even there? Especially given that publisher spotlights provide up-to-date publisher information.

By: Alice Audrey

Alice Audrey — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:51:57 +0000

Sure it’s easy to get to the next level of the slush pile through an appointment. Yet over half of the people at a given group appointment will not have anything appropriate to offer. It may not matter if you stutter, but it helps to know what you are doing, and to have actually written something first.

By: The Mess in Progress » The End of the World As We Know It -- Five Days to Go!

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:52:23 +0000

[...] Well, I did spend some time doing that, but a friend also pointed me toward the following entry on Elizabeth Boyle’s blog. You might be the most socially challenged writer in the Western Hemisphere, yet write like Nora. [...]

By: Keira Soleore

Keira Soleore — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:42:32 +0000

Gillian: Good call on those various pitches. They always sound terrifying and binding to an aspiring writer, don’t they? The query letter should only say this and not that. The synopsis should not be more than five or ten pages long. The query letter should be single-spaced, etc. etc. Given this barrage of information and rules, it’s nice to know that editors and agents are also human and know how overwhelmed writers feel.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:22:47 +0000

I have no pitching appointments, as I haven’t reached the formal “Pro” status yet, but this is still great to know. Between trying to figure out a “high concept” pitch and an “elevator” pitch and a “three minute” pitch, it’s nice to know editors and agents actually value the written word as well.