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The SCBWI Western Canada Chapter is constantly holding amazing workshops that make us want to pack up and head north right away. One recent workshop focused solely on pitching, and featured Publisher Crystal Stranaghan and Senior Editor Jared Hunt of Gumboot Books. Please welcome Ronda Payne, who kindly offered to tell us all about this terrific event. If you have recently attended, or plan on attending an SCBWI event and would like to share your take-aways, please let us know.
There’s nothing like taking your prized, near-finished work, wrapping it up into just a few sentences and pitching it to a complete stranger, to cause anxiety. For the introverted writer in all of us, there is never enough preparation to make us comfortable in this kind of situation.
The Surrey International Writer’s Conference in
Surrey, BC was fast approaching and to help a few of us nervous writers prepare for the pitch opportunities at that conference, Crystal Stranaghan and Jared Hunt, of Gumboot Books (check out their site at http://gumbootbooks.ca/ ) shared their knowledge.
Jared explained that when he meets an author or reviews their work, he’s looking for answers to these three questions:
- Why is this the right person to write this story?
- Why is this the right story for right now?
- Why should they (as publishers, editors or agents) act on it now?
Great 4 questions to ask as you're crafting a pitch. Thanks.
GREAT tips to think about...and hopefully as writers we've thought about some of these ahead of time--like does our character change during the course of a novel! (oops!)
I can see how that could happen though, with an adventure story, focusing on the quest or action, and the change is forgotten or minimal. I've probably been guilty of this before!
Those are really helpful tips! Thanks so much for sharing :)
I've only gone to the NYC and LA SCBWI conferences, but they don't have pitch sessions (whew!). I've seen Jared and Crystal talk at a local conference. They were entertaining. I bet this was a great talk.
I have never actually done a pitch, but this sounds like great prep!!