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New Writing Contest: Fall Fiction Fest

October 17, 2018Contests, Literary#amediting, #amquerying, #amwriting, Adult, Agents, Amy Trueblood, Authors, contest, Deadline, dreams, Enter, Fall Fiction Fest, Fiction, Genres, Guidelines, Hosted, Manuscripts, Marty Mayberry, Michelle Hauck, Middle Grade, New Adult, New Contest, October, Opportunity, Pages, Polished, Selections, Stories, Submissions, Writers, Writing, Young Adultpdpabst

Oh, how I love the creation of new writerly contests to help writers polish their work and get in front of agents! Fall Fiction Fest will be hosted by Michelle Hauck, Marty Mayberry, and Amy Trueblood. They will pick ten selections each to mentor. Manuscripts can be middle grade, young adult, new adult, or adult fiction. All genres are allowed except for erotica.

This contest requires a query and first 250 pages of a polished manuscript to enter. Submissions will only be open for 24 hours, so make sure you don’t miss the window of opportunity on October 31, 2018! And as always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

#PitchCB for October!

October 23, 2017Contests, Literary#amquerying, #amwriting, #PitchCB, Adult, Agents, Authors, books, Conville & Walsh, Curtis Brown Literary Literary and Talent Agency, Fiction, Guidelines, Manuscripts, Middle Grade, Opportunity, Pitch Event, Pitching, Rcihard Pike, Stories, Submission, Tweet, Twitter, Unagented, Unpublished, Writers, Writing, Young Adultpdpabst

#PitchCB is Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh’s own monthly Twitter novel pitching party, hosted by Richard Pike of C + W. On each #PitchCB day, writers searching for an agent can tweet a one-line pitch for their work. The pitch must be 140 characters or less, using the hashtag #PitchCB. Book agents will be online for each event to read each pitch and will be inviting successful authors to submit directly to them.

This month the event will occur on October 27, 2017. The window will be open for 24 hours, but only pitch once during that time! For complete rules, go here.

As always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

A Query Workshop with Agent Jim McCarthy

July 4, 2017Literary, Webinar/Workshop#amquerying, #amwriting, agent, Authors, Brenda Drake, Dystel Goderich & Bourret Literary Agency, Feedback, Insight, Jim McCarthy, Limitation, Pitch Wars, Pre-Submit, Query, Stories, Subjective, Vice President, Webinars, Website, Workshop, Writers, Writingpdpabst

WEBINARS

Pitch Wars Webinars presents a query workshop with agent Jim McCarthy, Vice President of Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret Literary Agency.

Per Brenda Drake’s website: Jim McCarthy invites you to peek behind the curtain and watch exactly what happens when an agent considers your query. Working from your pre-submitted queries, participants will have the chance to read along with him as he decides whether to stop reading or carry on. You’ll see the exact moment in query letters that he perks up or passes.

Date: Tuesday, July 25
Time: 8:30 pm ET
Cost: $25 to attend the workshop
Note: 30 person limitation

This is an excellent opportunity to know if your query letter is working. But you need to hurry if you’re going to attend. Go here for information on how to enroll. And of course, remember this is a subjective market, so what doesn’t work for Mr. McCarthy, might work for another agent.

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Pitch Wars Webinars presents a query workshop with agent Jim McCarthy, Vice President of Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret Literary Agency.

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