Monday, August 27, 2012

Pitch Madness is coming!




It's here! Well, not quite yet. The submission windows for the semi-annual Pitch Madness go live on Saturday, September 1 at 12PM EST and 6PM EST.

And we've added another submission time for September 4... 3RD SUBMISSION TIME: 10:00 am EDT (EST-NY time) first 100.

The game theme this time is Paintball. What's Pitch Madness, you ask? Well, its a game where Brenda Drake brings together a bushel of agents to compete for your pitches. We're  joining three other blogs in this funtastic event. So I guess I'll start by introducing them first.


Brenda Drake


Shelley Watters



Erica M. Chapman











Here's the crazy awesome agents participating...

Dawn Frederick - Red Sofa Literary
Brittany Howard - Corvisiero Agency
John Cusick - Scott Treimel NY
Victoria Marini - Gelfman Schneider Lit.
Judith Engracia - Liza Dawson & Assoc.
Louise Fury - L. Perkins Agency
Sarah LaPolla - Curtis Brown Ltd.
Brooks Sherman - FinePrint Literary Management
Molly Ker Hawn - The Bent Agency
We'll have more about the agents up in our Meet the Agents' post coming September 4 and 5.

Now, here's the submission deets ...

Shine up your 35-word (exact-anything over will be disqualified) pitches and the first 150-words (if the cut-off falls in the middle of a sentence, go to the end of that sentence) of your finished Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade fiction. We'll pick 60 entries to move on to the Agent Pitch Match.

We've doubled the number of entries we're taking in this time. There will be a percentage of what genres make it in based on all the agents likes. You guessed it, there will be more YA in the contest than Adult, but the main thing we're looking for is the WOW factor. Only one entry per person.

We have two submission times, and this year we're holding it on a Saturday.

The windows open on September 1 ...

1ST SUBMISSION TIME: 12:00 pm EST for the first 100.
2ND SUBMISSION TIME: 6:00 pm EST for the next 100.

Only the best of the best will make it to the final round.

Here's how to format your entry ...
Name: Brenda Drake
Title: The Britanika Journals: Around the World in 80:45:07
Genre: Middle Grade Adventure
Word Count: 50,000



Max and Annika use a transporting globe to find her missing father. With evil men in an airship on their tails, Max must use his sleuthing skills with Annika’s inventor ones to rescue her father.



Maximilian Drayson knew that a masterful sleuth had to pay attention to one crucial thing—the details. He tightened his grip on the white apron he had snatched from the Britanika's laundry room. It took several hours into his investigation to find it, and most would think it was just a soiled apron, but he believed it to be a clue.

He paced the manicured lawn of the Britanika's residence, scratching the back of his neck and searching the ground. This particular mystery came about after he had overheard one of the Britanika's housemaids, Molly, sobbing to another servant about losing her mother's brooch. At hearing Molly's distress, he went into action.

Before beginning his investigation, Max interrogated Molly, asking her a series of questions: When had she last seen the brooch? Did she wear it while she worked? What were her household duties? He needed every bit of information he could obtain if he wanted to mark this case as solved.

For those that don't make it into Pitch Madness we'll be hosting a twitter pitch party on the hashtag #PitMad on September 13 from 8AM to 8PM EST. So get those twitter pitches ready!
That's it. We're so excited!












2 comments:

  1. Name: Audrina Oakes-Cottrell
    Title: Spiral
    Genre: YA Historical Fiction
    Word Count: 103,740
     
    After performing a questionable act of mercy, precocious young healer Rosie MacBain finds herself facing the accusations of her nearest and dearest, and fighting to survive in her lonely corner of the harsh medieval world.
     
    The thick slap of oars on the water; the mist so thick, the prow of the boat seemed to be sailing into nothing. Not knowing what lay ahead made her afeared, but not as afeared as she had been before she came.
       Quicker than she would have thought possible, the rising sun played its part. The bank of mist began to burn away, turning the slate grey water to a steely hue. The stony shore appeared first, then the green expanse of the island, and finally, the sky cleared to a brilliant shade of blue. The place was so lonely, it seemed not to belong to the world. Colleen shivered. It was perfect.
       She began to shake the child awake, gently. The lass, Nell, was curled up at the bottom of the boat, her head pillowed on her arms. She twitched and rubbed her eyes, sitting up to take in their surroundings.
     
     

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