Hope, I hear, springs eternal.
I have prepared my pitches for #PitMad today. #PitMad, for those of you who don’t know, is an opportunity for un-agented writers (like me) to tantalize agents with 280-character pitches for the books resting uneasily on our computers.
I have had no luck so far on #PitMad. I think part of the problem is that I’m not easily sorted into a niche. In PitMad parlance, I write paranormal, but I don’t write about vampires or werewolves, just immortals. In regular querying, Query Tracker doesn’t even have a category for Paranormal. Maybe Contemporary Fantasy, because I don’t write about medieval chain mail battles with dragons.
I’m feeling skeptical about PitMad as usual, but if I don’t try, I’ll never know if it works.
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My pitches:
Anthropologist Anna Schmidt must chase the origins of a folk legend in the aftermath of the United States’ collapse to keep her sanity; instead, she finds the truth behind her missing childhood – and her role in stopping a genocide. #A #F #P #PitMad
Words Like Me 