Business Autumn Pitchfest

I really like this event. It's a great opportunity to make direct contact with publishing opportunities and to see what agents and editors are currently looking for. My only real issue with the event was the tags system for pitching. I think things would be way more efficient if it worked like pitching on Twitter where tags are clearly defined key words. As in, the editors/agents should have a clear list of tags they're looking for on their posts so writers can clearly match their projects to appropriate tags. In this event, it felt like I was negotiating about whether or not my project fits the tags for an editor/agent or not, because they were often more conceptual than clear descriptor tags.

I like the format of the pitching and the opportunity to approach agents in another format than just querying them.

The bookmarking feature doesn’t seem to take me directly to my pitch only to the thread, which isn’t that meaningful. Further, the instructions to remove it so that notifications didn’t keep coming in didn’t make sense. The overall directions for the event also made it seem like each agent or editor would have specific instructions listed on their links, which was not the case, so this could be clarified to note that only special wants would be denoted. Other than these items, I thought this first step of the process was excellent, and I really appreciate it!

This was a well organized and stress-free event. I enjoyed pitching here vs on social media which is very overwhelming for my neurodivergent brain. Thank you for helping authors be "seen" :)

Well-run as always. Rules clearly stated. I appreciate the prompts ie. Word count, genre etc. I persuaded my brother to pitch! Thanks for the opportunity.

It was wonderful, thank you! The only thing that was a bit confusing was when it said must add looking for tags- because the agents didn’t explicitly list anything called a tag/hashtag. I think it’s clearer if you say “must list at least one category/genre/key word the agent lists in their bio. Or have each agent list Looking for tags: (and then the writers can choose from there).