The Knight Agency is holding another twitter pitch event TOMORROW on April 5, 2017 from 9am-5pm EST. Use the hashtag #TKA20 and include your age category with genre. Do not pitch directly to the agents. Pitch the same way you’d pitch during #Pitmad and similar contests.
Some of the participating agents will be Deidre Knight, Pamela Harty, Elaine Spencer, Melissa Jeglinski, Travis Pennington, Nephele Tempest, Kristy Hunter, and Janna Bonikowski . Some things their excited to see are: women’s fiction, historical fiction, YA, MG, romance of all subgenres, LGBT fiction and m/m romance, thrillers, mysteries, suspense, nonfiction, and fantasy. And popular genre abbreviations are:
- #RS=Romantic Suspense
- #WF=Women’s Fiction
- #HF=Historical Fiction
- #YA=Young Adult
- #MG=Middle Grade
- #MC=Multicultural
- #M=Mystery
- #CM=Cozy Mystery
- #LGBT=LGBT Fiction or Nonfiction
- #MM=Male/Male Romance
- #CR=Contemporary Romance
- #PNR=Paranormal Romance
- #INSP=Inspirational Fiction or Nonfiction
- #NF=Nonfiction #MEM=Memoir
For complete details and to see what each agent is specifically wanting, go here. As always, good luck!
P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.