#PitDark was yesterday!

I'm embarrassed that it's been three weeks since I posted, but we'll gloss over that. Yesterday was #PitDark! I didn't find this out until yesterday afternoon, so I was super excited to participate. #PitDark is for stories that have at least a "dark" edge to them. Mine, considering its topics of humans as puppet killers and memories being erased, certainly fits those requirements.

However, I didn't know this because I assumed #PitDark was only for horror! The website clearly lists a couple dozen specific genres that are welcome to participate as long as they had a bit of darkness. The next #PitDark will be in October, so put it on your calendar if you're interested :)

Sadly, it didn't seem like literary agents and editors were as interested in the tweeted material as the agents and editors who participated in #DVpit were. When I scrolled through the hashtag listing on Twitter, I saw very few tweets actually liked by agents and editors :( I didn't get any professional likes.

BUT #PitDark was DEFINITELY the most supportive Twitter pitch party that I have been part of so far (It's only been three, and all this year: #RevPit, #DVpit, #PitDark. #RevPit doesn't really count...) There was a Twitter account devoted solely to retweeting #PitDark pitches! And other people who weren't pitching were simply retweeting #PitDark tweets to show support! My pitches got retweeted yesterday more than other events combined and multiplied by ten.

Also, thanks to #PitDark, I was given the heads up about #PitMad. (#PitMad info here.) I mean, I should have known #PitMad was coming the first week of June, but I have been in my own world a bit lately. There is so much going on in the world and in my personal life due to sicknesses.

In other news, I started another draft of The Monster Within's sequel a week or so ago. It's going well. I'll write about that process soon. I've also gotten my query letter into shape, so I will hopefully have some news about agents soon :)