Get Ready for ‪#‎PitDark‬ (May 12) – 25+ Agents and Editors Confirmed!

FatesPast · Apr 16, 2016

#PitDark is the first and only Twitter pitch event to highlight literature of a “darker” nature. This is not limited to horror works; however, any pitched manuscript must contain an element of horror or darker writing. Examples of such categories include pure horror novels, dark fantasy, murder mysteries, psychological horror stories, etc. YA, NA, and Adult age categories are welcome.

#PitDark is scheduled for May 12, 2016. For #PitDark rules, as well as a running list of agents and publishers who have confirmed participation in #PitDark, please visit: www.JasonHuebinger.com/pitdark. Also, if you are an agent, publisher, or editor who would like to participate in #PitDark, please let me know and I will list you on the Rules page.

Ari Meermans · Apr 17, 2016

Moving to the Horror room.

TedTheewen · Apr 17, 2016

This is awesome. Thanks for posting this.

Rhoda Nightingale · Apr 30, 2016

I've marked my calendar already--excited!

ShaunHorton · May 1, 2016

Hmmm....looks interesting. I've even got a manuscript that's polished and finished (if I can keep from tinkering with it). Almost wish I had my second one ready. Going to be fun trying to squeeze all that into one tweet.

#PitDark #A #PNH

That's already down to 124 characters.

Ah. Found a nice little resource for Twitter Pitches!

Saoirse · May 11, 2016

I will be pitching tomorrow. My first, so I'm a bit nervous.

EMaree · May 11, 2016

I gotta try and remember to do this!

ShaunHorton · May 11, 2016

I'll be working on my pitch tonight. Maybe this is what "Hannah" has been waiting for.

soapdish · May 11, 2016

I'm doing it. :hooray:

I'm fiddling with tweetdeck now to schedule some tweets. I hope it works because I can't be on twitter the whole time it's going.

Good luck to everyone!

EMaree · May 12, 2016

A lovely tweet from Carissa summing up upcoming contests, for anyone who gets the pitching bug after this one:

May 12- #PitDark
May 21- #QueryKombat
June 9- #PitMad
June 12- #WCNV
June 16- #PBPitch

Saoirse · May 12, 2016

One of my tweets just got a like from an agent. According to the directions, an agent has to favorite your tweet to request. So does that mean a request, or is it just a like?

*is probably overthinking this*

Rhoda Nightingale · May 12, 2016

Just sent in my first pitch! ....and already thinking I could have made it better. Crap! Oh well, I can rework it and try again next hour.

Saorise: Check their main Twitter page, whoever it was that "liked" it. They should have a post somewhere saying what to do next, where to find their submission guidelines, etc. I've seen a few like that under the #PitDark tag.

soapdish · May 12, 2016

Saoirse said:
One of my tweets just got a like from an agent. According to the directions, an agent has to favorite your tweet to request. So does that mean a request, or is it just a like?

*is probably overthinking this*

YES! You're supposed to go look up their guidelines and send them a query. I think you just reference that they favorited your #pitdark tweet so it catches their eye. :idea:

Though, I'm a little unsure if you're supposed to send them a full too...is that what the "like" means??

I don't have much experience with twitter pitching. Maybe someone else can answer.

ETA: I think it's just query with the mention of the "like" so it catches their eye. Just looked at an agent tweet where they said follow their guidelines and send first ten pages.

But congrats!

Rhoda Nightingale · May 12, 2016

Just got my first Fave--WOOOO!!! (Confirming second pitch was better. Good call, self!)

ETA: Reminder to me and anyone else doing this to RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH before submitting anything.

soapdish · May 12, 2016

Yay, Rhoda!

My only likes so far have been spam, I think. :tongue

FatesPast · May 12, 2016

Saoirse said:
One of my tweets just got a like from an agent. According to the directions, an agent has to favorite your tweet to request. So does that mean a request, or is it just a like?

*is probably overthinking this*

Haha, yes. Like = favorite. I wrote the Rules before Twitter changed favorites to likes.

Rhoda Nightingale · May 12, 2016

soapdish said:
Yay, Rhoda!

My only likes so far have been spam, I think.

Same for me so far. Well, and one "like" from one of my followers who didn't understand the rules. Tried to sort her out as gently as possible.

Saoirse · May 12, 2016

Thanks, everyone. I was half awake this morning when I posted that. Makes sense now! Got 3 favorites so far!

ShaunHorton · May 12, 2016

I couldn't tweet every hour due to work, just posted my 4th one of the day actually.

So far, I have two friends, one spam, one random like, and one favorite from a literary agency. Also, 4 new followers.

Meh. Wish I'd had more than one book available.

Dreity · May 12, 2016

Diddly squat here. It could be a number of factors. I only tweeted three times. My pitches were not bad but nothing mindblowingly awesome, and could probably use some polishing. Also, adult fantasy was not getting a lot of action in terms of volume of pitches or requests of said pitches, compared to other categories. I'm wondering if I'd have better luck during upcoming #PitMad or #SFFPit events.

That said, 2-3 agents I intended to query soon said they would be looking at pitches here. Since the event is still technically going on for another hour, I'm trying not to read anything into the apparent lack of interest.

ShaunHorton · May 12, 2016

Yeah, now that I'm home, I did my research on the agency that I got a favorite from. Looks like this event is a bust for me.

Calla Lily · May 12, 2016

I got one favorite. Tweeted about 8x throughout the day. Good agency, so I'm hoping.

TedTheewen · May 12, 2016

I don't really have much to send out right now.

Dreity · May 12, 2016

That's a bummer, Shaun. Looks like this summer's going to be full of pitch events though. Plenty of other chances!

TedTheewen · May 12, 2016

Which means I need to get to work!

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