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Introducing The Dreamspeaker and Reina, Vicereine of Kulnas
“This is a super-important update because we added a character page for one of the most super-important people in the whole LadyStar story! Her name is Reina and she knows everything about magic and fighting. Sometimes people think she’s not very nice but it’s because she doesn’t want any of us to get hurt. Her character page is really interesting and tells a lot about all the history of what happened in LadyStar before we got our treasures.”
“You should see our new book! It’s called The Dreamspeaker! It’s the first book in the LadyStar story and it’s all about when I found a timepiece in Collins Park that had lots of jewels in it! It’s a webnovel and that means you can read all the chapters for free!”
“And don’t forget we have two webnovels. Descent into the Ivyreef Deeps is the first book in the Ajan Champions Series. In the story we’ve got all our powers and training, and so there’s a ton of battles and lots of action!”
“Not only do we have two webnovels, but we’ve got two webcomics too. Check Part One of Fury of the Venom Legion because our webcomics are about ripping it up.”
“But that’s not the best part of this update. We’ve got a new page in our new Hall of Warriors, and it’s all about the genius on our team. She’s got an invincible shield and the power to make trees fight for her. She’s known as the Storyteller Warrior, and without her, it would be tougher for us to win when we have to fight. It’s the Ajan Warrior of the Forest.”
“Or if you want to skip all the serious important stuff, you could just read about pizza or vampires in the Band Room.”
“See? We always gots the best updates because there’s always a zillion different things going on at our web sites. Don’t miss our next updates. The Ajan Champions Webnovels site updates every Wednesday and Saturday, ’cause now we got two books, and our webcomic which is called Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors updates on Monday and Thursday, and then on the other days we got Band Room updates and SupaGamepowa too. Ja minna!”
“What’s up LadyStar fans? Ranko here. Goofy and the rest of the crowd are over at the band room updating like crazy so it’s up to me and Miss Shannon to give the heads up to all our comic readers. Chapter Three of our webnovel Descent into the Ivyreef Deeps is up and ready for action.”
“Ranko and I have got quite a fight going with some nasty shrieks too. Descent into the Ivyreef Deeps is the first story in the Ajan Champions Series and it updates every Wednesday and Saturday. Our new story chapters are written for the web, so they’re quick reads, just like our comics. The Ajan Champions Series takes place after Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors. We’ve got all our powers and training, so you can expect a lot of action and battles!”
“That’s what we do best! If you need a break from all this adventure, come on over to the Band Room and see what the Goofball Express is cooking up. There’s always something going on around here, folks. See you on Saturday for the next update! We out!”
“Konnichi-waaaaa minna san! It’s me Jessie! You don’t want to miss what we gots going on at our new site. My best friends Talitha-chan and Shannon-sama got their new character pages and we’re going to be adding lots of neat stuff every day! Come visit us in the band room and see! Ja!”
“That’s where we’re going to put all of our illustrations from the LadyStar manga, visual novel, books, webcomics, game and even some of the first concept sketches of our characters and the people and creatures in Aventar!”
“Nope. I wrote myself a letter with a question on it so you could answer it.”
“You wrote yourself a letter?”
“Yep!” *giggle*
“What does it say?”
“Okay, it’s from Jessie and it says Talitha-chan…”
“Don’t say who it’s from, you goofball! We know it’s from you because you just said you wrote the letter! Just read the question!”
“Shannon-sama no kowai…”
“What’s the question?”
“Okay like a zillion and three people wanna know how you find the beginning of our Fury of the Venom Legion Color Webcomic becuase they wanna read the whole thing from the beginning.”
“We made a customized category for our comic pages that lists them in chronological order, five pages at a time. So by going to the Fury of the Venom Legion Comic category, anyone can read the comic from the beginning.”
“Except the links are backwards.”
“Right. Click ‘previous entries’ to go to the next set of pages and ‘next entries’ to go back. I’m going to fix that next.”
“Yay! If you gots a question or comment or just wanna say ‘Hi Jessie!’ you can send me e-mail on my super-neat Jessie’s Letters Page and I might get some of my friends to help answer your question! Have fun reading our extra cool webcomic, minna! Ja ne!”
“That’s Talitha’s barrette! See the one with the two leaves? The green parts are emeralds and the gold parts are real gold! Talitha wears it around like all of us and she can turn it into a big shield.”
“Hey Professor!”
“Hmmm?”
“Talitha-chan! Looky at your new design! Isn’t it super-cool?”
“Leila-sama! We got another e-mail question from my super-neat Jessie’s Letters page!”
“It is a question with profound meaning?”
“Uh uh.”
“It is a question that seeks the deepest mysteries of the universe?”
“Nope.”
“It is a question that will challenge our understanding of our existence?”
“It’s a question about being a drummer in marching band.”
“Oh, that’s easy.”
“Sometimes Leila frightens me.”
“Heheee… okay. The question says ‘In your story you said the drummers play a cadence. What’s a cadence?’”
“Cake question.”
“Cadence is when the drum section plays a rythym so the rest of the formation can keep time with their steps. We have four cadences in the Lions Band. The first two are full cadences.”
“That’s the one you start!”
“Yeah. Full Cadence Green starts with a roto-tom solo.”
“The other one is our ‘good morning’ cadence.”
“Full Cadence Gold starts with a full section downbeat and cymbal crash.”
“Good morning cadence?”
“We like to play Full Cadence Gold on Collins Circle over behind the school so if anyone in the neighborhood across the street didn’t hear their alarm clock we help them wake up.”
“Yay! Ohayo minna! It’s a bright sunshiney day!”
“Well, except for that one guy who stood in his driveway yelling at us that one day last year.”
“I think he thought we were trying to annoy everyone. Until we marched past his house in parade formation and played ‘National Emblem’ during after-school practice. His wife baked cookies for all of us the next day and brought them to the band room. She said he was so proud to have a parade in front of his house he almost cried. What a nice old couple too.”
“That’s cool. What are the other two cadences?”
“We have one called a ‘Silent Cadence’ if we’re marching up to a performance area at parades. There’s a couple hundred yards where bands aren’t allowed to make a lot of noise because it disrupts the bands in the performance area, so we play that cadence on the rims of our drums.”
“That’s the tick-tock cadence. All drum rims, traps and glockenspiels.”
“That’s the one that sounds like a carnival! I like the tick-tock cadence best.”
“The fourth one is a simple corps cadence. One snare plays the measure downbeats. We use that for starting formations on the field.”
“Now which one do we play in the tunnel at Brown Stadium?”
“Full Cadence Gold, baby.”
“Yeah!”
“Maximum volume. Maximum power.”
“Yay! Arigato minna-san! If you got a question or a comment or just wanna say ‘hi!’ you can send me e-mail on my Jessie’s Letters page and we might even get to answer your question right here on our site! Ja ne!”
“Konnichi-wa, minna-san! We gots a Varcarel Jade update today ’cause it’s Monday and that’s when we do one of our comic updates. We gots another comic that’s called Fury of the Venom Legion but that one is updated on Thursday. Did you know that there’s a site called The Web Comic List that tells aaaaaaaall about our comics? You can even vote for us and they gave us a number button too!”
“That’s our ranking out of almost 11,000 comics.”
“Yay for us! If you read comics on The Web Comic List be sure to add our comics to your favorites and visit us every week for new pages! Ja!”
Do agents often give out their cards rather than face the (hopefully) distasteful task of telling authors they aren't interested? Or did I just have a good pitch?
Also, when an agent asks for chapters, should "Requested Material" be written on the envelope? Does it get to the agent faster that way?
Yes. Agents admit to me all the time that they just request everything that’s pitched to them because it’s easier. Why is it easier? They can reject it when it gets to the office, or even have an assistant reject it, and they don’t have to deal with the author’s reaction face-to-face. Cowardice? Yes, probably. Stupid? Not when you read back through the many crazy responses I get to rejection letters. Can you imagine getting those in person?
Is it necessarily a bad thing? Not if you’re getting your work into someone’s hands. You never know what will happen when it crosses an agent’s desk. My thoughts on whether or not your pitch was good is really about how people reacted. Did it seem as if they just handed over a card mechanically? Or did the agents seem obviously enthusiastic? If you got requests universally I would safely assume you have a strong pitch. There’s always one or two who will reject the work if they don’t feel your pitch was strong.
Feel free to write "requested materials" on the envelope. In my office it doesn’t make any difference, but in another office it might.
And congratulations and good luck.
Jessica
5 Comments on Pitch Secrets, last added: 6/17/2007
You know I thought as much (about editors and agents not wanting to reject you to your face). Doesn't that then reduce the importance of pitching at conferences?
Colorado Writer said, on 6/15/2007 2:43:00 PM
Paid-for pitches at conferences...waste of time and money?
I did 2 last summer locally and won't do it again.
The 1st: I didn't have a big enough platform for mommylit (MOPS leader and a mommy blog in the Rocky Mountain News). She told me she wasn't taking on any new clients anyway, unless they are big time. I wondered why she was taking pitches. Plus that hurt, but looking back I totally appreciate the honesty.
The 2nd (an editor at an indie press) requested a full of my women's fiction on the spot. He even mentioned changing the title and how well the book would fit with another on his list. I emailed it and never heard from him again.
My new approach: Even if you are DYING to pitch, be helpful without brown-nosing. Water, food, drink, compliment on something they have edited. BE NORMAL. Make casual contact at some point during the day and save my money by sending a good old-fashioned query AFTER the conference. Of course mentioning any conversation in passing.
Anonymous said, on 6/16/2007 7:16:00 AM
Why pay to humiliate myself? I can do that for free!
Anonymous said, on 6/16/2007 2:03:00 PM
I always figured it was a crapshoot and since agents (and even editors) are human, dependent on an amazing load of random factors. Well, gotta keep trying!
Karen Duvall said, on 6/17/2007 1:10:00 PM
I've known this for quite some time, but I'm careful never to burst the bubble of a writer who runs out of a pitch session squealing, "She wants to see the first 50 pages of my manuscript! AAAAAHHH!" Congratulations are in order. This is one of the best parts of being a writer: the anticipation, the excitement, the high-energy that results from the conference pitch session.
Perhaps I'm jaded, but that's okay. I still think pitch sessions are extremely valuable. It loosens up new writers to banish their fears of the all-powerful editors and agents who are real people doing their jobs. Yes, they have the power to make dreams come true, but it probably won't happen during the weekend of the conference you attend. Listen to the questions they ask during your pitch, pay attention to their comments, and remember everything they said, then work on that to improve your story. Send the partial and keep up your hopes because that's the fun part. But be prepared if you're answered with a rejection. The experience is both sweet and sour, and it validates you as a writer.
I don't pitch to agents at conferences any more because I know I can query them with better results. I pitch to the editors. IMO, that's the greatest benefit of pitching at a conference because most editors require a writer have agent representation. If you don't yet have an agent (and even if you do), this is the way to go.
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You know I thought as much (about editors and agents not wanting to reject you to your face). Doesn't that then reduce the importance of pitching at conferences?
Paid-for pitches at conferences...waste of time and money?
I did 2 last summer locally and won't do it again.
The 1st: I didn't have a big enough platform for mommylit (MOPS leader and a mommy blog in the Rocky Mountain News). She told me she wasn't taking on any new clients anyway, unless they are big time. I wondered why she was taking pitches. Plus that hurt, but looking back I totally appreciate the honesty.
The 2nd (an editor at an indie press) requested a full of my women's fiction on the spot. He even mentioned changing the title and how well the book would fit with another on his list. I emailed it and never heard from him again.
My new approach: Even if you are DYING to pitch, be helpful without brown-nosing. Water, food, drink, compliment on something they have edited. BE NORMAL. Make casual contact at some point during the day and save my money by sending a good old-fashioned query AFTER the conference. Of course mentioning any conversation in passing.
Why pay to humiliate myself? I can do that for free!
I always figured it was a crapshoot and since agents (and even editors) are human, dependent on an amazing load of random factors. Well, gotta keep trying!
I've known this for quite some time, but I'm careful never to burst the bubble of a writer who runs out of a pitch session squealing, "She wants to see the first 50 pages of my manuscript! AAAAAHHH!" Congratulations are in order. This is one of the best parts of being a writer: the anticipation, the excitement, the high-energy that results from the conference pitch session.
Perhaps I'm jaded, but that's okay. I still think pitch sessions are extremely valuable. It loosens up new writers to banish their fears of the all-powerful editors and agents who are real people doing their jobs. Yes, they have the power to make dreams come true, but it probably won't happen during the weekend of the conference you attend. Listen to the questions they ask during your pitch, pay attention to their comments, and remember everything they said, then work on that to improve your story. Send the partial and keep up your hopes because that's the fun part. But be prepared if you're answered with a rejection. The experience is both sweet and sour, and it validates you as a writer.
I don't pitch to agents at conferences any more because I know I can query them with better results. I pitch to the editors. IMO, that's the greatest benefit of pitching at a conference because most editors require a writer have agent representation. If you don't yet have an agent (and even if you do), this is the way to go.