The Pitch Slam...

Our conference yesterday was really fabulous. We had more than 500 attendees, writers of all sorts. And our program got great reviews from both the conference goers and the agents who took pitches. There were 60 of them. One told me that the caliber of pitches she heard were the best she's gotten at a conference in the past 3 years.)

I manned the pitch room for children's and YA agents Michelle Andelman from Andrea Brown Literary, Jennie Dunham of Dunham Literary, Jessica Regel and Jennifer Weltz from Jean V. Naggar Literary and Tuna Wexler from International Creative Management. They were troopers, most taking pitches for two full hours. It was wonderful to observe an agent's face light up when she was excited by a pitch and talk to the writers whose three-minutes went well. Most of the writers were able to pitch to several or all of the agents.