The writer's conference was exactly what I expected as it was pretty much the same as the last two times I went. In fact, the key note speaker this year spoke at both of previous conference and was just as unimpressive at this one as she was at the other two. This time she brought a pie as a visual aid. The pie was the best part of the speech and even it didn't look that good.
But, this post is not going to turn into a compendium of aspects of the writer's conference that I felt were lacking, instead I will accentuate the positives, eliminate the negatives and not mess with the in between (thank you Johnny Mercer).
I got to speak with Nicholas Croce of The Croce Agency. Naturally I performed a bit of due diligence and checked out their website. Due to what I felt was an under-representation of my genre on their webpage, I approached Mr. Croce with some consternation and a distinct lack of confidence. Surprisingly he asked me to send him a synopsis and first 50 pages. First, I was stunned. A 5 to 10% hit rate with agents via queries equaled a one-to-one success rate with Mr. Croce. Kinda says something about the efficacy of meeting someone in person. Secondly, I'm a realist enough to know that probably each of the two hundred people who got to meet with him (and I told him I was impressed by his stamina) probably got the same reception, but it's better to be in the positive response group than in the negative.
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Wait wait, this person met you in Person, and still wanted to do business with you? Confusing. Did he somehow know I was your brother?
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