Maternal Instinct is what you might end up with if Liane Moriarty sat down and had a really good conversation with Margaret Atwood about the themes of the The Handmaid’s Tale. Well hey, I’d just finished writing a manuscript that fits broadly into the genre of science fiction. If you don’t put yourself out there you’ll get nothing in return Agents or publishers ‘like’ the tweets of pitches they’re interested in and request more information about the manuscript. Writers looking for an agent or publisher pitch their completed science fiction or fantasy novel in 140 characters or less. It turns out it’s a twice-annual Twitter pitching contest. I stumbled across the final hours of #SFFpit. As is my habit when I’m trying to unglue my eyelids after being woken at 5.30am by my offspring. Sitting on the couch early one morning, watching cartoons with the kids and drinking coffee, I was scrolling through Twitter. Scrolling through Twitter is time well spent Here’s how it happened and what I’ve learned along the way about signing with a literary agent. It’s not been a particularly conventional journey. Last week I signed an agreement with FinePrint Literary Management – a literary agent in New York – to represent my novel to publishers worldwide. Two months ago I finished re-drafting Maternal Instinct – the working title of my first novel – and started to research publishers and agents in Australia.
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