Name: Pitch Sessions
Start: 2025-06-14T12:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-14T14:00:00-0400

Welcome to the premiere horror literary convention presented by the Horror Writers Association. Registration for StokerCon 2025 is now available! This year the convention is being hosted by the city of Stamford, Connecticut, at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center. We’re taking over from June 12th through the 15th, 2025.

Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom 2-3

Pitch Sessions!

You have to have preregistered for this event.

Moderators

Rena Mason

Brian Matthews

Trustee; Co-Chair, StokerCon Governing Committee; Bram Stoker Awards® Show Coordinator; Pitch Session Coordinator, Horror Writers Association

Author, financial planner, former psychologist, husband, and father. Trustee for the Horror Writers Association, as well a National Co-Chair for StokerCon. I also run the Pitch Sessions and act as the Bram Stoker Awards Show Coordinator. That pretty much sums it up.

Sarah Read

Speakers

Alec Shane

Writers House

Writers House is one of the largest literary agencies in the world and prides itself on providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the full service benefits of foreign and sub rights departments, as well as a full accounting and royalty staff.I... Read More →

Arley Sorg

assoc agent, co-Editor-in-Chief, senior editor, kt literary agency, Fantasy Magazine, Locus Magazine

associate agent at kt literary; co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine; senior editor at Locus Magazine; and some other stuff - Blue Sky is: ‪@arleysorg.bsky.social‬ and website is https://arleysorg.com/

Becky LeJeune

Agent, Bond Literary Agency

Becky LeJeune is an agent at Bond Literary Agency, a Denver-based agency run by Sandra Bond. Prior to joining the agency, Becky spent time working as a bookseller, a freelance cookbook editor, and an acquisitions editor for a small, regional press. She is a graduate of the Denver... Read More →

Cherry Weiner

Cherry Weiner grew up in Australia, lived in Europe for three and a half years and moved to American when she married her husband, Jack in1972. She has been agenting since 1977, when she left the Robert P. Mills AgencyMills’ famous clients (she will not any drop further names... Read More →

Michael Dolan

Editorial Director, Winding Road Stories

Michael Dolan is a writer and editor with over 25 years of experience at the highest levels of publishing. In addition to being the author of several books, he has served as executive editor for many publishing companies, including Condé Nast. As the founder of Winding Road Stories... Read More →

Christoph Paul

Christoph Paul is the singer/songwriter of Goth Rock band The Dionysus Effect, he is the EIC of CLASH Books, and an award-winning author represented by Inkwell.

Rachel Glimer

Editor, Sourcebooks

I acquire for both the Poisoned Pen Press and Casablanca imprints at Sourcebooks, and my books are primarily in Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Romance, and Contemporary Fantasy. I especially enjoy character-driven projects and am eagerly looking for diverse voices and stories.

Emma Cole

Editor, Harlequin

Editor @Harlequin, acquiring for Intrigue as well as for our Harlequin Trade Publishing imprint Hanover Square Press, which publishes horror, mystery, speculative fiction and nonfiction.

Bradley Englert

Executive Editor, Run For It / Orbit Books

Bradley Englert is an Executive Editor at Run For It, the new horror imprint from Orbit Books. He’s worked with horror authors Craig DiLouie, Andy Marino, and Nicholas Pullen. He is now looking forward to building Run For It into a premiere destination for diehard horror readers... Read More →

Amanda Manns

Saturday June 14, 2025 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom 2-3

Convention Event

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