It's time for #PitMad again!

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It's harder than you'd expect, writing pitches no longer than 140 characters that are supposed to summarise your stories and entice agents to ask to read the full manuscript. But here's the final product for BLOOD PROMISE, NO ROOM IN NEVERLAND, and UNTIL MORNING:

#PitMad #YA A changeling struggling with her hunger for human souls forges an unlikely alliance with a long-lost fairy prince to stop a war.

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

 

#PitMad #YA What starts out as make-believe adventures in Neverland escalates into schizophrenia for 17 y.o. Gemma who lost her mother there

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

#PitMad #YA Lexi’s search for an elusive nocturnal painter ends when she finds herself trapped with him in her dreams after a car accident.

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

#PitMad #YA When her brother is captured, April struggles to curb her craving for human souls, until she steals a dead fairy prince’s magic.

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

#PitMad #YA Gemma, who lost her mother in the imaginary Neverland when she was 8, has to revisit it to find out what happened to her mother

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

#PitMad #YA To save her brother, a changeling teams up with a fairy prince to stop a fairy-human war, where changelings are used as pawns.

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

#PitMad #YA Gemma's search for her estranged parents brings her back to Neverland, where a terrible accident left her memory in pieces.

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

#PitMad #YA Lexi meets Night in a dream when she falls into a coma, only to find that he is the elusive painter she has been looking for

— Joyce Chua Xiu Wen (@joycewrites2509) September 10, 2015

Just a couple of hours into PitMad (it started at 8pm and ended at 8am for me because time difference is not on my side) and there were already more than 400 tweet pitches. Can you imagine the total number of tweets in 12 hours?? How is an agent supposed to sieve through all that? The odds are high, but good thing there are some agents who tweet the following:

If I don't star your #pitmad tweet & you think we'd be a fit PLEASE query. There are over 20k tweets flying around (according to Twitter).

— Carly Watters (@carlywatters) September 10, 2015

So writer friends, did you #PitMad? :0)