NOTE - My Pay it Forward winner will be announced Friday!
It's time for another agent twitter pitch contest!
Today, the pitch is being judged by Diana Fox from Fox Literary. You can follow her blog or catch her on Twitter.
Here are some other interviews to help you get to know her taste and style:
Literary Rambles
The Blog Realm
Winner: Gets to submit manuscript!
When: Begins today, (Wed at 10AM EST) and ends tomorrow (Thursday) at midnight EST (I will close comments when it officially ends so if you get a comment in, you are counted.)
Why Twitter pitch? Because if you can't get your book in a Twitter pitch, you need to work on narrowing down the story and hook. You can check your character count either on Word (file, Tools/Word Count/Characters with spaces), on Twitter, or here.
Eligibility/Rules:
Title - Untraceable
Genre - YA Survival Suspense
Email - sjohannes@bilaninc.com
Pitch - When her forest-ranger father disappears,Grace uses her survival skills to search the NC mtns & finds a secret group plotting against nature
References: Here are a few articles on writing short, one sentence pitches:
Nathan Bransford (agent)
Rachel Gardner (agent)
Query Tracker
Scribe Chat
140 character pitch
Winner(s) will be announced next week!
Good luck!
Winner: Gets to submit manuscript!
When: Begins today, (Wed at 10AM EST) and ends tomorrow (Thursday) at midnight EST (I will close comments when it officially ends so if you get a comment in, you are counted.)
Why Twitter pitch? Because if you can't get your book in a Twitter pitch, you need to work on narrowing down the story and hook. You can check your character count either on Word (file, Tools/Word Count/Characters with spaces), on Twitter, or here.
Eligibility/Rules:
- Your pitch MUST only be 140 characters to be counted so please check it twice! This includes spaces and punctuation so you might have to be creative. If your pitch is over 140 characters when I test it, it will not be eligible.
- Your pitch can be for adults or children.
- This is for unagented/unpublished book writers only. (if you've published articles or essays - you may enter!)
- You can only enter ONCE so choose wisely!
- You MUST be a follower of my blog (and I'd love to see you on Twitter too.). It's only fair to those who are .
- title of book
- genre
- your Twitter (140 characters) pitch
- your email
Title - Untraceable
Genre - YA Survival Suspense
Email - sjohannes@bilaninc.com
Pitch - When her forest-ranger father disappears,Grace uses her survival skills to search the NC mtns & finds a secret group plotting against nature
References: Here are a few articles on writing short, one sentence pitches:
Nathan Bransford (agent)
Rachel Gardner (agent)
Query Tracker
Scribe Chat
140 character pitch
Winner(s) will be announced next week!
Good luck!
79 comments:
Awesome contest! Thanks to you and Ms. Fox for running it!
TITLE: THE GHOST WRITER
GENRE: YA Ghost Story
EMAIL: marcykate@gmail.com
PITCH: Tessa denies the 1st letter. She rationalizes the 2nd. When the accidents begin, there's no ignoring the ghosts in the theatre next door.
Title: The Severed Thread
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Pitch: When a young Viking warrior is captured by Baltic pirates and sold as a slave, his journey from foolhardy boy to valiant man begins.
Title: The Legend of Ghost Dog Island
Genre: MG Historical Fiction
Email: frmonette@yahoo.com
Pitch: After hearing a strange legend surrounding an eerie swamp near her bayou home, a young girl seeks to uncover the truth about Ghost Dog Island.
Title: Olympus Gate
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Email: lockwood.audrey@gmail.com
Pitch: A girl from a broken future travels back to ancient Rome to stop her sister's murder, confront the gods, and prevent the coming apocalypse.
Title: BLACKBIRD
Genre: YA Fantasy Technothriller
Email: kyle(at)skyledavis(dot)com
Spy chick bypasses a top-of-the line security system to steal an object before the sorcerers do in this "Mission:Impossible w/ magic" tale.
Title: I AM THE SECRET
GENRE: YA Fantasy
Email: kathrynroberts at hotmail dot com
PITCH:
Shannon has no last name, no past, and her guardian never lets her leave home. So she runs away to find out what the world is like, to find love, but someone wants to kill her. Will she risk her new found love to fight off this evil and help save a people that need her help?
Title: Background Vocals
Genre: YA Contemporary
Email: chelseyblair (at) gmail (dot) com
Pitch: 17-yr-old guitarist Meridian longs to return to Paris but she promises to stay in the town where she's an outcast until Natalie walks again
So excited about this contest!!!!
Title: Magnetic
Genre: paranormal YA
Email: janaya75@hotmail.com
Pitch: Seventeen year-old Carly Reynolds won’t get a gold star for being a hero. Particularly when the person she needs to save is already dead.
Title: Colors Like Memories
Genre: YA UF
Email: mrs.which(@) gmail.com
Pitch: Julia killed the guy she loved, on accident—sorta. To save her friend’s life she’ll face her past, but some memories are better left buried.
Title: A Handful of Scars
Genre: YA paranormal
Email: berendsen70 at yahoo.com
Pitch: A genie in a lamp is one thing, but Sidain finds 2 genies who are mortal enemies, and instead of 3 wishes, she gets a whole lot of trouble.
Title - 1790: On the Edge
Genre - MG Historical Mystery
E-mail - annbbraden (at) gmail.com
In 1790 Vermont, a public hanging should mean one less criminal in the new democracy, but a young Abenaki knows what he saw. It was murder.
Awesomesauce contest!
Title: The Sky Throne
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Email: cs_ledbetter@yahoo.com
Pitch: When a boy's mother is attacked, he discovers she was never his mother. And now deities are hunting him and the siblings he's never known.
Title: Phantom Fires
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Email: bethfred08@gmail.com
Pitch: A phantom fire wants to steal the love of her life. To fight the flames, Bridget O'Malley must find the truth.
Thanks so much for this contest!
Title: In Limbo
Genre: Historical YA
Twitter Pitch: 15 yo Syl Houston fights to hold onto his relationship with the only black girl in school while Spanish Influenza takes lives around him.
My e-mail address: marquita_hockaday@yahoo.com
Thanks for another great opportunity!
Title: Spirits from the Vasty Deep
Genre: YA historical/paranormal
Email: strikingnotes (at) yahoo (dot) com
Pitch: Ghostly crew wants revenge for a fire Olivia caused, forcing a reckoning with her haunted past. Blossom Culp meets Pirates of the Caribbean.
Title: Splashback
Genre: YA Thriller
Email: tarynal AT hotmail DOT com
Pitch: Lottie wants to quit the sport that sucked away her life. Too bad an Olympics-obsessed man says she has to swim to save her missing sister.
TITLE: THE REVENGE OF THE WOLF KING
GENRE: YA Medieval Fantasy
EMAIL: carmenferreiro@aol.com
PITCH: Princess Ines's love for her whipping boy is put to the test when the king accuses him of the queen's murder and sentences him to death.
Title: FLICKER
Genre: Sci-Fi YA
Email: lizwritesbooks@gmail.com
Pitch: A grl w/a bad ♥ learns shes being kept alive by an alien virus that gives her the pwr 2 bend reality &save the wrld from an insidious force
Title: SOME KIND OF TROUBLE
Genre: Contemporary YA
Email: elizabeth.arroyo5@gmail.com
Pitch:
After surviving a shooting with bad-boy Marcus, Arianna learns that love alone is not enough to save him from the streets.
Title: GAIA'S SECRET
Genre: YA Fantasy
Email: barbara.kloss@gmail.com
Pitch: When Daria’s dad disappears, she must travel to a magical world to find him. Even if it means relying on the boy she hates to get her there.
Title: BOYFRIENDS, SPIES, AND LIES
Genre: YA Contemporary
Email: jenduffey81@gmail.com
If Carissa's oppressive parents weren't paying her boyfriend to be her bodyguard, art school would have been her perfect escape.
Title: BITTERSWEET MELODY
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Email: dorothyanndreyer@gmail.com
Pitch: Muses aren't supposed to screw up their missions. So when Melody falls 4 her human case subject, she has 2 decide between him & immortality.
Another contest of awesome! Thanks.
Title - Devolutionaries
Genre - YA Dystopian
Email - shallee.mcarthur [at] gmail [dot] com
Pitch - Ash must sacrifice his ability to talk in order to hone the telepathic skills he needs to rescue his grandad from a Government experiment.
Title: Arrow of the Mist
Genre: YA Fantasy
Email: cdmercer [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
Pitch:
Lia must decipher an elixir and defeat the demon who poisoned her da via enchanted tree roots, before she surrenders her soul to the demon.
Thanks for the contest, Shelli. (Eventually, I'll learn how to do this pitch thingy....) :)
Title: GEAS
Genre: YA UF w/ Alt Hist
Email: cardinal_law_76 (at) yahoo.com
Pitch:
Teen half-human pixie returns from kidnap… stranger than b4--must learn new powers, dodge HS dust addicts, & expose ancient pixie secrets.
Thanks for another great contest!
Title: Dreaming Isis
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Email: miriam.caldwell (at) gmail.com
Pitch:
17-year-old Isis must choose between her mom’s acceptance or embracing who she truly is as she learns to control her newfound magical powers
Title: Edge of the Falls
Genre: YA Dystopian
Email: nazareanandrews@gmail.com
Pitch:
In a post-apocalyptic world full of danger and mysteries, can genetic reject Sabah find love or will she let the Commission control her life?
TITLE: Crystal Milk
Genre: MG Fantasy
Email: eprats1@gmail.com
PITCH:
Crystal is sick of her witch parents and their overbearing ways. So what's a girl to do? Date their mortal enemy, of course.
TITLE: Shadow Embraced
GENRE: YA Urban Fantasy
EMAIL: cheree@chereesmith.com
PITCH:
To control the creature threatening to take over her, 16-year-old Scar joins an underground fight club of witches, werewolves and vampires.
title- CHANGED
genre- YA dystopian
email- lindsaycummings20@yahoo.com
pitch-
After an ecological disaster caused by environmentalists, a girl uses enhanced vision to find where the Disappeared go in a walled-in world
This is a fantastic contest. Thank you both so much!
Title: Alive
Genre: YA sci-fi
Pitch: When she discovers Eli's healing ability, Alex plans to bring her sister back to life. She never expects 2 uncover lies about her childhood.
Email: tracey(dot)neithercott(at)gmail.com
Title: Auntie June's Toe Jam Jamboree
Genre: Children's Fiction
Email:afoy76@gmail.com
Pitch:
With a smile that fits inside her wrinkles and berries ripe for the pickin’, a day with Auntie June is guaranteed to be foot stomping fun!
This is amazing! How exciting! I have just gotten my query ready to go but this is even better!
Title - CELEBRITY STALKER
Genre - Adult Chick Lit
Email - jenniferdaiker@gmail.com
Pitch - Jules relationships aren't exactly built on trust, or reality. Seeking advice from celebrities leads to trouble. Let the stalking begin.
Title - Brackets
Genre - Contemporary YA
Email - thatscottshoe@gmail.com
Pitch - Four high school girls set up tournament style brackets to fight the bullies who’ve tormented them and find out who really rules the school.
Title: Alternate
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Email: ebriggs23@gmail.com
A teen hacker is drawn into a war between parallel universes when she meets an alternate version of herself from another dimension.
Title: Library Jumpers
Genre: YA UF
Email: bdrake@comcast.net
Pitch: Yanked into a gateway book that links the great libraries, Gia finds that she's a long lost knight and must now fight to stop an apocalypse.
Title: SKYBORNE
Genre: Literary YA Sci-Fi
Email: emma.hollingberry@gmail.com
Pitch: The emperor forces a hardcore racer onto his assassin team and then pits her against the people who deserted her as a child in an inter-galaxy war she'll refuse to fight.
Title: No System At All
Genre: Contemporary YA
email: fussymonkey2@gmail.com
When 1 dream vanishes, Colin opts for a realistic goal: being a rock star, with former Rock Goddess for a teacher he could pull it off.
Title: Trouble at Trinity
Genre: YA Contemporary Suspense
email: kendalashby@gmail.com
Pitch:
While undercover to find her brother's killer, Jaclyn soon discovers there's more to the curriculum at Trinity Prep than math and science.
TITLE: Nausicaa
GENRE: Science Fiction
EMAIL: tay dot sedai at gmail dot com
TWITTER PITCH:
Nausicaa dreams of seeing her city’s genocidal govt destroyed. Her only weapons: a meagre empathic ability and a thirst for retribution.
Thanks for having this contest!
Title: WISTFUL
Genre: YA Historical Romance
Email: phanhnguyn1 at yahoo.com
Twitter Pitch:
After marrying an old viscount, Julie runs away n lives with the Bennetts only to fall in love with their son. Too bad he thinks she's a boy
Title: THE MATTER OF SOULS
Genre: YA paranormal
Email: stephaggie99 (at) gmail (dot) com
Pitch: Riley's first mistake is not continuing on after dying. Now if she can't let go of her past, she'll find there are worse things than death.
Thanks for the contest!
Title: HONOR
Genre: YA SF
Email: mekj at earthlink dot net
When his half brother is enslaved, Kiril, 16, decides to abandon family, homeworld, life and honor in order to rescue the little boy.
Title -Vestige
Genre – Historical Romantic Adventure
Email - allisinclair@hotmail.com
Pitch - To stop the fatal powers of an Inca relic, Tess must learn if her ex or new love is a reincarnation of the soulmate she lost in a past life.
Title: NOT SO LONG AGO, NOT SO FAR AWAY
Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction
Email: Slayzak(at)aol(dot)com
Pitch:
In the summer of 1977, Erika struggles to escape the questions surrounding her best friend’s disappearance. These are her unmailed letters…
Wow! That was a great exercise I've never tried before. Thanks for the contest and all you do!
.....Trisha
http://trishaslay.wordpress.com/
Title: The Glass Prince
Genre: YA Magical Realism
E-mail: donealw@aol.com
Pitch: When Snow White's cursed son starts stalking 17-year-old Clara, she knows her summer trip to New York will be more than she bargained for.
Title: Cloudburst
Genre: YA Fantasy
Email: christinelarnold@gmail.com
Jemma Stone learns to control the elements and the raging case of telepathy she shares with her crush to stop the cult that wants her dead.
This reminds me of the "Twitch" contest BookEnds did: Twitter Pitch. Quite the challenge!
Title: Façade
Genre: Historical thriller
Email: jordan at jordanmccollum.com
Pitch: To preserve the tenuous peace, a Soviet diplomat must trust an American spy--and choose between being a good Soviet or a good daughter.
Title: Somniloquy
Genre: YA
Email: dreamstate at att dot net
Every night, Abby dictates a story in her sleep. To save her sanity, she must find out what the story is and why she’s telling it.
Title: Coveted
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Email: Tangynt at ymail doc com
Pitch: A secret society called Libra has been hunting and killing Sources-human vessels of ancient power-for centuries, and Caleb Dunnelly is next.
Title: Starcatcher
Genre: Futuristic Romance
Email: DebraJess at gmail dot com
Tamarja, a mind-wiped prisoner, discovers she holds the key to her lover’s revolution and remembers that she’s in love with another man.
Title – Walking with Sophie
Genre – Children's Picture Book (0-6)
Email – webblysosa@gmail.com
Pitch – Take a walk through the imagination of an enchanting little girl. Tiptoe into Sophie's world once. Keep her in your heart forever.
Title: THE GATSBY GAME
Genre: Mystery
Email: annerallen.allen at gmail.com
A Fitzgerald-obsessed con man dies in a star’s bedroom, igniting a MadMen-era Hollywood scandal—and a murder accusation for Nicky. Gatsby meets Catch Me if You Can.
MELISMA
YA Urban Fantasy
karenmkrueger(at)gmail(dot)com
Tessa loses her ability to sing,goes to a world where music is magic,&discovers a secret that forces her to find her voice to save her life
What a fun idea! Thanks for doing this.
Title: REDEMPTION
Genre: YA Paranormal
Email: julie@juliemusil.com
Manny, modern Scrooge & top of HS food chain, faces 3 ghosts as he outruns arson charges, falls for his fire victim, & battles 4 redemption
Thank you for so many opportunities!
Title: The Peanut Butter and Jelly Friendship
Genre: MG Contemporary
E-mail: janetsumnerjohnson (at) gmail (dot) com
When selling her appendix on e-bay doesn’t work, ten-year-old Annie seeks other ways to save her best friend’s house from foreclosure.
Title of book: Anywhere
Genre: Suspense
Pitch: Faced with a sexual harassment suit, Nel doesn’t have space for Cal, a sexy vet, but she may need him when a murderer comes for her aunt.
Your email: portia.stewart@gmail.com
Title: Of Oak and Dragons
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pitch: An unexpected inheritance, a snarky rapier with delusions of grandeur, and a tall stranger put Leah in the middle of an ancient war.
Email: beccoff(at)nwmo(dot)net
Title: Beyond
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Pitch: The fallen angel of death has been called many things, but a super hero? I guess even the Reaper can change when the right girl comes along.
Email: Phreaky-Phoenix@insight.rr.com
Title: Bloodstone
Genre: Paranormal YA
Email: brittanymelson@gmail.com
Pitch: With power up for grabs and hearts at stake, two very unlikely dragon sisters will struggle stay alive as they fight fire with fire on the urban front line.
Great contest - thanks for this, it will help me for "elevator pitching" at two upcoming conferences
Title: Ryan Says
Genre: Romantic suspense
Email: laura_hickman_213@yahoo.com
A novel written about college friends exposed truths & when the author dies the friends investigate if he was murdered while romance blooms.
Might as well throw my hat in the ring.
Title: Blood Runs
Genre: Literary horror
Email: Lynnholman@ymail.com
Pitch: One night, the James’ three-year-old son vanished. Then, a year later, at their door is little Ollie, unaged and very hungry.
Title: Kingdom of Dreams
Genre: YA Fantasy
E-mail: angeldies at gmail dot com
Twitter Pitch: A powerful spell’s stripping the land of its magic waking Mira after a long slumber. Scared & lost she must stop it b4 it kills everything.
Title: Never Alone
Genre: Paranormal Women's Fiction
email: dobeau@hotmail.com
Pitch: When Jaston, a deceased Aussie chooses southerner Ellie to help him talk to his biological son, Jack, their paths become twined forever.
Thanks so much for this contest! 90,000 words down to 140 characters...that was a nice challenge :) Here's mine:
Title: Infinitely
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Email: stefanie.gaither@gmail.com
The good news: Norah's personal reaper, Eli, is in love with her. So he saves her soul instead of taking it. Bad news? His boss isn't happy.
Title-Firsts
Genre-Contemporary YA
Email-jsheaffer@hollins.edu
Pitch-Coping w/ teen vicissitudes, Jerrica finds solace in her new, older stepbro & confuses lust for love, leading to a controlling relationship.
great contest, thanks!
Title: WINDS OF CHANGE
Genre: YA Fantasy
email: elizafaith13@gmail.com
pitch: Seventeen-year-old Avikar thought he was rescuing his sister from bandits, not a reptilian lord planning his race's annihilation
Title: The Treacherous Trek
Genre: Middle Grad/ Futuristic Adventure
Email: truekingsley@me.com
Shane Tool is determined to win The Treacherous Trek. Damien Dobbs can't stop him in his quest for Planet Five, but family loyalty might.
Title: SPARK
Genre: MG Fantasy
email: campjb1@me.com
Toby Will, AKA Toby Won't, is the only hope for a secret world behind paintings where famous characters from art live and breathe.
Title: Second Eden
Genre: YA Fantasy/Dystopia/Utopia
Email: abgafford@crimson.ua.edu
Kat has always believed Elysia to be a prison rather than a paradise but after meeting Anthony she must decide if freedom is worth the cost.
Title: Abigail's Secret
Genre: Historical Romance
Email:e.michels.historicals@gmail.com
Time'll tell if heaven or hell is where n which you'll find me If I knew then what I know now the love I found would bind me Abigails Secret
Title: Missing Starr
Genre: YA contemporary
Email:kellyhedine@yahoo.com
Pitch: Evee Starr is the alias of a missing singer wanted for murder. Amnesic of the past 48 hours she must find the killer before she’s offed too.
Title: Silhouette
Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Email: kristinthetford@msn.com
Pitch: 17 yr old Alana must unravel how an ancient dagger, chemical weapons, and 2 deadly men are connected before the world pays the price.
Title: Ravenous Dusk
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Email: aje237@yahoo.com
Pitch: Necromancer Blake Killan’s job of de-possessing people for a living is turned upside down when she’s forced to become a vessel for ghosts for an infuriatingly gorgeous Reaper, and becomes tangled up in the politics of demons and the Underworld. And if her plate wasn’t full enough, she also has to helm a murder investigation that uncovers disturbing and deadly truths about those closest to her.
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