Pitch Workshop with Brenda Drake, Shelley Watters, & ME!



Pitches are hard. It's difficult enough to summarize your book in about three pages for a synopsis, killer to get it down to less than a page for the query, but to get the essence of your book down to a single sentence? UGH!  So my CP's and I have cooked up a little contest to help out.

(Can I enter my own contest? ... *sigh*)

Here's how it's going down...

The first 60 entries in the linky below will qualify to submit their 35-word pitch and first 150 words of their Adult, YA, or MG (any genre) manuscript for critiquing. You many only enter once. We'll critique them and post them to our sites for further critiques from your writing friends. We will pull three random door prize winners for the editing certificates from Editor Cassandra. If we don't reach 60 entrants before February 17th, we'll close the linky and split the participants between us. Simple.


Here's your critiquers (click on their names to learn more about them)...




Please only enter if you want your entries posted to our sites for critiques.

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13 comments:

Jasmine Walt | 2 February 2012 00:26

This sounds like fun! :D

Kate Larkindale | 2 February 2012 03:25

Sounds well worth doing! Thanks for the opportunity.

Jamie Krakover | 2 February 2012 07:10

This is a great opportunity! Thanks!

Justin W. Parente | 2 February 2012 08:20

Very excited about this. You ladies always come up with great competitions.

Suze | 2 February 2012 09:10

How exciting *gets preparing* ! Thanks for the opportunity :)

Miranda Hardy | 2 February 2012 09:43

Wonderful opportunity. Thank you.

Jody Lamb | 2 February 2012 19:11

You're just full of good news for me lately. Shamrock shakes. Now this. Thanks, lady!

Sarah P. | 2 February 2012 20:48

Thanks for offering this great opportunity! I can use all the help I can get!

Angela Hunter | 3 February 2012 23:52

Looking forward to the feedback! Thank you for the opportunity.

Sharon Bayliss | 4 February 2012 00:57

What a great opportunity! Thanks for doing this.

Tosha | 4 February 2012 01:32

This sounds like a fun contest. I'm looking forward to the feedback.

Christina Marie Morales | 4 February 2012 14:19

Thanks for offering this awesome contest!! Can really use the feedback.

Deana | 4 February 2012 21:07

Bummer I missed this:(