Guess who's got a birthday coming up. Okay, it's not until next month, but I thought I'd give you guys a heads-up, because I'm going to be holding a contest. A
Perfect Pitch contest. This is a shout out to all unpublished YA and/or MG writers with
completed manuscripts. The contest will be in Twitter Pitch style, meaning it can only consist of 140 characters in the comments of the official entry post (not this one), and will be judged by a spectacular literary agent, who will request the full manuscript from the winner. Who is the agent, you're asking? I'll keep that a secret a little bit longer and make the announcement closer to the contest date. But believe me—spectacular!
The contest's official entry post will go up
August 18th (two days before my birthday), so get those Twitter pitches perfected and those manuscripts polished. You must be a
follower of this blog and
tweet or
blog the contest, which you can do anytime between now and contest date.
(Just a suggestion: Practice your pitches on your blog or Facebook or wherever, then ask for critiques through Twitter with the hashtag #perfectpitch. Not necessary, but why not get help making your pitches as perfect as they can be?)
You've got three weeks. Go!
7 comments:
This sounds awesome. I wish I had a novel ready for querying. :-( Maybe next time. Happy early birthday!
Sounds awesome :)
Neat! I will definitely participate. :)
What a great present! I wish my book was polished and ready to go. Best of luck to those entering.
Sure will. Hey. Your birthday is Thessaly as mine--august 20!?
Same as yours, August 20th. :)
WHOA! Too cool!
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