How Clive Thompson became one of the most influential tech journalists
The Business of Content with Simon Owens
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What's Going on With Your Book Pitch?
Pitch is very, very important to an author's chances of getting a book deal. For the first book, i spent a year researching and writing the book pitch. Even with the editor saying, hey, come back for a second one,. you still have to come up with like, a pitch that on its own is just exciting to them. It can take someone who has abseltly no contacts and get them right into a good situation. The quality of a pitch and the quality of an idea is so ke that it can take someone whom they've never met before in their life almost two years to find out if they're going to be able to do it.
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