Description

In today's episode, Kat critiques four pitches and then chats with Vancouver-based psychological thriller author S.M. Freedman about:

• her new book, out today: Blood Atonement
• the unlisted area in BC that helped inspire this story
• her research on FLDS and psychological disorders
• reaching out to people for personal experiences
• nailing that first line
• excavating your story
• prologues
• how to decipher your research and know what to cut and what’s important to the story
• how training as a P.I. and in acting helped her understand the psychology behind people’s motivations
• the submission process
• what she’s working on next
• pivoting from adult to YA
• focusing on what you can control instead of dwelling on what you can’t
• the querying process and what her experiences have been
• the agent-author relationship
• her excellent advice to authors of thrillers

S.M. Freedman can be found on her website at www.smfreedman.com. She is on Twitter @SMFreedman and Instagram @smfreedmanauthor.

The article by Jane Friedman that Kat mentions is at https://www.janefriedman.com/how-to-find-compelling-comps-for-your-book/

Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes @_badasswriters @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. On IG, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites @badasswriters_podcast @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. Her websites are www.kathleenfoxx.com www.foxxeditorial.com and www.moodpitch.org

If you're interested in being a guest on the show, please fill out this form.

If you would like to submit a pitch for critique on the show, please fill out this form.

Registration for the #MoodPitch Live Query Critique and #AskAgent Webinar with Emmy Nordstrom Higdon can be found on our website (SOON) at https://moodpitch.org/november2022-moodpitch-webinar-registration/. (If the link doesn't work it's because we are in the process of updating it with the registration information and link as soon as it's live; please check back in a few hours.)