Pitch Madness & Voice Contest!

Brenda Drake is running another contest that you won’t want to miss– PITCH MADNESS! Create your best pitch for a chance to receive requests from agents. There’s only a one day submission window, so get your pitches together in a hurry and submit THIS FRIDAY!

DEETS

DATE

March 15 from 6AM EST to 12PM EST. (All submissions sent before or after the window time slot will be deleted.) There will be no cut off number. Everyone who submits during the window will make it into the contest. You will receive a receipt, if you don’t, check with me here on the blog or on Twitter (@brendadrake). ****Only completed manuscripts may be pitched.

CATEGORIES

Adult, New Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade. Any genres. The winners will not be notified before the agent round. Research the agent list below to ensure they represent your genre!

SUBMISSION 

The email for submissions is brendadrakecontests@gmail.com – do not send before the submission window. NO ATTACHMENTS – All pitches must be embedded in the email.

I was alerted about a site that will send scheduled emails if you can’t send during the submission windows. Check it out here: http://www.lettermelater.com/, and make sure to do a test run should you decide to use this method.

PITCH FORMAT

Email subject line: Pitch Madness: TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT

Name: Your name
Title: TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT
Genre: Genre/category of your manuscript (ie. YA Fantasy)
Word Count: Word count (round to the nearest 1000th)

Pitch: 35word (max) logline. Do not go over even one word over.

Excerpt: The first 250 words of your manuscript. If the 250th word falls in the middle of a sentence, go to the end of that sentence. Your pitch should be Times New Roman 12pt, single spaced, one space between paragraphs, no paragraph indentions. Make sure the formatting is done correctly.

ONCE YOU HAVE PITCHED

slush readers pick through the pitches and pick the top 60 pitches. We try to get a good mix of various genres, but the writing comes first. Basically, if the submissions aren’t ready, it’s a pass.

Wait. There’s more! This time around, agents won’t only be competing for requests, but for gift cards, too! We figured that it’s a lot of work playing a game, so we decided to reward the winners as an extra incentive and bragging rights. The winning agent, grand dart master, ruler of the slush pile will receive a $50 gift card from either Amazon or Barnes & Noble (winners choice) with two runners-up receiving $25 gift cards.

AGENT REQUESTS BEGIN…

March 26 through March 28.

And now for the teams of…

SLUSH ZOMBIES: (I am one!)

1. Dream Team!

Host blog/Team Leader: Brenda Drake
Team Leader: Erica Chapman
Dahlia Adler
Heather Webb
Sarah Blair

2. Host blog/Team Leader: Shelley Watters
Team Leader: Marieke Nijkamp
KT Hanna
Kat Ellis
Stephanie Diaz

3. Host blog/Team Leader: Summer Heacock
Team Leader: Dee Romito
Kimberly Chase
Rebecca Weston
Sarah Henning

4. Host blog/Team Leader: Sharon Johnston
Team Leader: Fiona McLaren
Brianna Shrum
Catherine Scully
Mina Vaughn

REQUESTING AGENTS

Jessica Sinsheimer

Nicole Resciniti

Jodell Sadler

Terrie Wolf

Jordy Albert

Louise Fury

Andrea Somberg

Melissa Jeglinski

Sarah LaPolla

Peter Knapp

Carlie Webber

Marisa Cleveland

Margaret Bail

Erin Harris

For more information about each agent and what they represent, do your RESEARCH! Also, check the  blurbs and Twitter handles of each on Brenda’s blog HERE.

VOICE WORKSHOP & CONTEST COMING SOON 

Check back here at Between the Sheets for a workshop coming soon. Prizes will include FREE editing of your pages from moi, an author marketing phone consultation with bestselling self-published author Leia Shaw, and more! The contest will run the first week of May. (Subscribe so you won’t miss any important posts!)