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When you hone you subject into a great pitch, you know what you’re book is about—and you can communicate that in a query letter or aloud. Pitchcraft™  is an invaluable tool—not just for landing an agent but for selling books. In this guest post, agent Katharine Sands, who coined the term,...
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Imagine yourself riding in the elevator at a hotel where you are attending a writer's conference. The door opens and in steps the one agent you really, really think would serve as the perfect literary representative for you and your book. You open your mouth, introduce yourself and begin to speak....