So I had some lovely success pitching to editors and agents at the RWA Conference. Amusingly, most of them wanted to see the one book that I was convinced no one would be interested in. Anyway, I think I had a breakthrough. I forgot my index cards with my talking points on them, lol, and it forced me to just PITCH THE BOOK and be personable without panicking. For the record, that works so much better, HA. I even had a group of ladies who I pitched with say to me afterwards that it was one of the best pitches they'd ever heard. And I hadn't even practiced it! *blush*.
I think what helped is that I just pretended I was at work. At work I relax and talk to customers and employees all day. Getting into that mental mode helped me a lot.
Anyway, my experience relieves me greatly. Maybe next year I won't be nervous at all because by then this will be old hat. :-)
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