The reviews on the BEA/WDB conference are still trickling in … The latest is from an attendee who has excellent advice on how to approach a pitch slam. A snippet:

I think the most successful people were able to boil their book down to these three things:

Genre: I have a middle grade novel about eleven-year-old Billy
Cool factor:  who starts an "anti-bully" business with Smacker, the monster under his bed.
Closing: Smacker disappears and darker creatures arrive under Billy's bed, threatening to destroy the town, Billy's friends, and Smacker, unless Billy can give them what they want--a chance to be on American Idol.

Read the full entry at the blog Wits and Pieces.