Who’s Coming to #SFFpit

It’s well after midnight as I write this, and the #SFFpit Twitter party begins in less than 8 hours. It’s time for the last but most-requested reveal: those agents and editors who will be reading all of your pitches tomorrow. I’ve updated this page to list even more agents and editors who showed up to mark their favorites!

Literary Agents Participating

Over the past few weeks, I reached out to many agents who represent science fiction and/or fantasy to invite them to #SFFpit. Nearly all of them were kind enough to respond, and this in a month when everyone’s taking vacation or recovering from conference season.

My agent, too, reached out to some of her colleagues and friends. And here’s the good news. When the event began, I knew that at least twelve agents from ten different agencies would be participating. Imagine my surprise when 26 literary agents from 20 different agencies showed up to favorite pitches! They included:

• Jennie Goloboy of Red Sofa Literary Agency, also known as my fabulous agent.
• Laura Zats, also of Red Sofa Literary Agency
• Gina Panettieri, Jessica Negrón, and others from Talcott Notch Literary
• Carlie Webber of CK Webber Associates
• Margaret Bail and Whitley Abell of Inklings Literary Agency
• Seth Fishman of The Gernert Company
• Lana Popovic of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency
• Katelyn Detweiler and Cheryl Pientka of Jill Grinberg Literary Management
• Jennifer Azantian of the Azantian Literary Agency
• Evan Gregory of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency
• Beth Campbell of BookEnds, LLC
• Ella Kennen of Corvisiero Literary Agency
• Connor Goldsmith of Foreword Literary
• Eddie Schneider of JABberwocky Literary
• Marlene Stringer of the Stringer Literary Agency
• Rachel Kory of Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency
• Ella Kennen of Corvisiero Literary Agency
• Brittany Booker and Jordy Albert of The Booker Albert Literary Agency
• Rena Bunder Rossner, The Deborah Harris Agency
• Jessica Sinsheimer, The Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency

We all know that agents are incredibly busy people, and these have all offered to take time out of their scheduled to watch the feed. Please, respect their time, follow their guidelines if you get a “favorite”, and wow them with your pitches!

Editors Participating

I’ve reached out to some editors of small- and mid-sized presses as well. These are also busy people, but I managed to find at least five editors from four different presses who stopped by. Among them were:

• Emily Steele and Lorie Jones from Medallion Media Group.
• Stephanie Sauvinet of World Weaver Press
• Zach T. Power of Jolly Fish Press
• Marissa Fuller and Jessica Schmeidler of Anaiah Press

There are others, too, but I either didn’t invite them (and thus can’t vouch for the press) or don’t have their OK to name them.

The #SFFpit Street Team

It’s not just pitching authors, agents, and editors who’ll be paying attention tomorrow. We may have some celebrity guests, as well. These awesome folks helped promote the event even though they won’t be pitching or favoriting anything:

• Brenda Drake, whose #PitMad contest inspired this event
• Dan Bensen, my agency brother, who has a great podcast on Twitter pitching
• Diana Urban, our inspiration, whose #PitMad pitches got her called up to the major leagues of literary representation
• Caitlin Sinead Jennings, my co-blogger at Trouble the Write Way, who’s been critiquing pitches all day on her blog
• Keely Brooke Keith, another success story with a book coming out thanks to Twitter pitching
• Tex Johnson, soon-to-be published author who plugged #SFFpit to her loyal following

There are many others who’ve helped spread the word about #SFFpit on social media or the blogosphere. Thanks to all of you, too! Let’s have a great event.

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