LTUE 2025 Pitch Sessions
- Pitch sessions will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the Provo Marriott Juniper Conference room.
- Pitches Sessions are available only for registered LTUE attendees.
- An additional fee may be required depending on who you pitch with.
LTUE 2025 Pitch Session Information
Thursday Pitch Sessions
Ten Minute Pitch Sessions starting at 11 am and ending at 2 pm.
Go to the Eventzilla Registration page and find the pitch session time you want. Slots are limited and are on a first come first served basis.
Friday Pitch Sessions
Ten Minute Pitch Sessions starting at 1 pm and ending at 4 pm.
Go to the Eventzilla Registration page and find the pitch session time you want. Slots are limited and are on a first come first served basis.
Saturday Pitch Sessions
Ten Minute Pitch Sessions starting at 9 am and ending at noon.
Go to the Eventzilla Registration page and find the pitch session time you want. Slots are limited and are on a first come first served basis.
List of Editors
And Press or Publishing company associations for pitch sessions.
Tony Daniel ARK Press
Open to all genres, particularly interested in: big-idea science fiction; space opera; mysteries; noir; political or espionage thrillers; thrillers; strongly plotted historical novels; military sf; literary novels; coming of age; actual young adult YA; westerns (old west or modern); secret histories; epic historical, contemporary, and urban works.
David Afsharirad ARK Press
Open to all genres, particularly interested in: big-idea science fiction; space opera; mysteries; noir; political or espionage thrillers; thrillers; strongly plotted historical novels; military sf; literary novels; coming of age; actual young adult YA; westerns (old west or modern); secret histories; epic historical, contemporary, and urban works.
Dave (DJ) Butler ARK Press
Looking for books in any genre, including literary fiction, that are (nonexclusively) interesting to male readers. If you’re written something grimdark or with hard magic, though, you’re better off pitching to the other ARK guys.
Michelle Witte
Michelle is literary agent with Mansion Street Literary Management specializing in children’s fiction and nonfiction. As an agent, her tastes vary widely, and she represents authors across the spectrum of children’s literature, from illustrated board and picture books to middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction. Michelle is always on the lookout for fascinating stories that are well told, especially those with a distinctive voice. She considers herself an international vagabond and travels the world whenever given the chance, but makes Utah her home.
Amy Michelle Carpenter
Press or Publishing Company
Amy Michelle Carpenter is the publisher for Monster Ivy Publishing. She is looking for “edgy, clean” YA or adult fiction with a dark bite at a PG 13 or less rating. She likes stories with quirky humor, gothic mystery, breathtaking magic, gritty life challenges, or tender romance. Give her something like Stranger Things, Wednesday, The Distance Between Us, One of Us is Lying, Skyward, or Twilight.
Emily Cox
Acquisitions Editor at Monster Ivy Publishing
YA author, career editor, detoured with her Masters of adolescent counseling has circled back to her first love—words—and encouraging and championing aspiring authors who write edgy but clean fiction. with authentic, sophistication that pours emotion all over her. Rough up her feelings with gritty, sandpaper-y problems, moral dilemmas, and scratchy situations that make your characters’ and readers’ hearts bleed. Bring your “edgy, clean” YA or adult fiction with a dark bite at a PG 13 or less rating. She wants the unconventional, twisty, and unexpected. Bonus points for dual POV, lots of romance, and humor.
Additional information will be added to this page in the coming weeks before LTUE 2025.