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2017 #Pitprom Pitch Contest

August 23, 2017Contests, Literary#Pitprom, 2017, Agents, August, Authors, Blogs, books, Edited, Editors, Guidelines, Hone Your Craft, Manuscripts, Mentors, Opportunity, Pages, Pitch, Polished, Publishing, Query, Royal Advisors, Stories, Twitter, Writers, Writingpdpabst

#Pitprom
2017 Pitch contest

Yay! A new contest for writers. Me LOVES when writers want to help other writers! Here is what you need to know. This contest is to help you get your pitch shined for agents and editors. What you’ll need to enter is:

1. 140-character pitch. You’ve got 140 characters to grab their attention, including the #PitProm hashtag.
2. Query letter.
3. The first ten pages of your completed manuscript. (Polished and edited!)

The Royal Advisors will go through the first 200 entries to select 20 entries, consisting of ten science fiction and ten fantasy pitches. Then they will mentor those twenty writers to get their pitch, query, and first ten pages sparkly for an agent round. Submission begin August 24th, 2017 at midnight CST and will close on August 25, 2017 at midnight CST. Visit their site for complete guidelines and to learn about the Royal Advisors and agents/editors participating.

As always, good luck!

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

Illustrator Feedback Opportunity

August 17, 2017Critiques, LiteraryArt, Associate Art Director, books, Childrens Books, Designs, Feedback, Fiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Illustrator, Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Opportunity, Picture Books, Published, Publishing, Sharismar Rodriguez, Unpublished, Visual Comminications, Young Adultpdpabst

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If you’re an illustrator, don’t miss this opportunity to have Sharismar Rodriguez, Associate Art Director for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt BFYR look over your illustrations and provide feedback. Published or unpublished: This is a great way to get your artwork seen. The deadline for submitting for this limited 5 week Sharismar appearance is August 20th, 2017.

Sharismar Rodriguez is an Associate Art Director for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers where she designs and art directs children’s books for all ages, from Picture Books to Middle Grade and YA novels and Non-Fiction volumes. She started her career in children’s publishing right after obtaining her BFA in Visual Communications from Parsons School of Design.

For details on how to participate, go here. As always, good luck!

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

2017 Book Pipeline Early Entry Ending Soon!

August 13, 2017Contests, Literary$10000, Academy Award, Adaptations, Age of Adeline, Agencies, Authors, Book Pipeline, books, Circulation, Competition, Deadline, Development, Fee, Fiction, Film, Genre, Good Fear Film + Management, Grand Prize, Lakeshore Entertainment, Managers, Manuscripts, Million Dollar Baby, Nonfiction, Prisoners, Production Companies, Projects, Published, Rings, Scripts, Silent R Management/Jewerl Ross, Stories, Television, The Ark, Underworld, Unpublished, Worldwide, Writerspdpabst

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The 4th Annual Book Pipeline Competition seeks material for film or television adaptation. Open to writers worldwide, the contest accepts any genre, fiction or non-fiction. Published and unpublished works are both acceptable.

One Grand Prize Winner receives $10,000 and circulation to:

Lakeshore Entertainment (Age of Adaline, Million Dollar Baby, Underworld)
Good Fear Film + Management (Rings, Polaroid)
Madhouse Entertainment (The Ark, Prisoners)
Silent R Management / Jewerl Ross (reps Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight)
Other leading production companies, managers, and agencies best-suited for developing the selected projects.

Early Deadline: August 15th, 2017 with a $55 entry fee. Regular Deadline: November 1, 2017 with a $65 entry fee. For guidelines on how to submit, go here.

As always, good luck!

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

Massie & McQuilkin Literary Assistant Job

August 11, 2017Literary, Literary JobsAdministrative Tasks, Agents, Authors, Benefits, books, Creative Writing Grad, Email, English Grads, Facebook, Foreign Rights, Full Time, Health Insurance, Instagram, Lexi Wangler, Literary Assistant, Logging Contracts, Manuscripts, Massie & McQuilkin LIterary Agents, Microsoft Office, Negotiating, New York, One Year Relevant Experience, Payments, Photo Permissions, Rejection Letters, Reports, Responsibilities, Royalty Statements, Social Media Essential, Stories, Submissions, Writerspdpabst

Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents

Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents is seeking a full time literary assistant to start as soon as possible in New York. (This is not a remote position.) Benefits will include health insurance. Responsibilities include

Handling general administrative tasks and office maintenance, logging submissions and contracts, scanning contracts and royalty statements, and facilitating author/editor interface.
Reading unsolicited and client manuscripts and writing reader’s reports, rejection letters and editorial letters.
Vetting and negotiating contracts
Assisting with foreign rights
Tracking payments
Evaluating text and photo permissions
Hiring and overseeing interns
Updating the agency’s Facebook and Instagram pages
Familiarity with Microsoft Office essential
Familiarity with BAITS a major plus
Familiarity with social media essential
At least one year of relevant experience essential.

Contact: Lexi Wangler (lexi@mmglit.com), 27 W 20th Street, Suite 305, New York, NY 10010 (Ph# 212-352-2055) DO NOT CALL REGARDING QUERIES, THIS IS FOR SERIOUS JOB APPLICANTS ONLY!

Application Instructions: Please send your cover letter in the body of the email with your resume as an attachment to the attention of Lexi Wangler at lexi@mmqlit.com, with the subject line of “Agency Assistant Position.”

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

Internship Opportunity for The Bent Agency

July 15, 2017Internship, LiteraryAuthors, books, Clients, Experience, Fiction, Intern, Manuscripts, Middle Grade, Molly Ker Hawn, New York TImes Best Sellers, Non-Paid, Opportunity, Publishing, Readers, Remote, Reports, The Bent Agency, Writers, Young Adultpdpabst

Molly Ker Hawn of The Bent Agency is looking for an intern to read young adult and middle grade fiction for her. This is a remote and unpaid internship. Her expectations are that the intern reads and reports on an manuscript every two weeks. Applicants should be familiar with all sorts of YA & MG, especially literary-commercial. Molly would like someone with knowledge of New York Time Best Sellers and has interests in authors like Katherine Rundell, John Corey Whaley, Stephanie Kuehn, Margo Lanagan, Jack Gantos, Marie Rutkoski, Naomi Novik, Jacqueline Woodson, E Lockhart, Gene Luen Yang, Libba Bray…and, of course, her own clients.

For guidelines and how to apply, go here. As always, good luck!

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

LOUISE MERIWETHER FIRST BOOK PRIZE

July 6, 2017Contests, LiteraryAchievements, Authors, books, Contract, Debut, dreams, Feminist Press, Fiction, First Time, Guidelines, July, Louise Meriwether, Manuscript, Monetary Prize, Music, Narrative Memoir, Nonbinary Writers, novels, Prize, Publishing, Short Story, Submissions, TAYO Literary Magazine, Women, Words, Writers, Writers of Color, Writingpdpabst

Feminist Press

Once again, the Feminist Press has partnered with TAYO Literary Magazine to for a contest seeking the best debut books by women and nonbinary writers of color to celebrate author Louis Meriwether’s achievements. This contest is for first time authors. Submit your complete manuscript of fiction (including novels and short story collections) or narrative memoir between 50,000 and 80,000 words. Capture their attention with your words to receive $5,000 and a publishing contract from the Feminist Press!

The second annual Louise Meriwether First Book Prize entries will close on July 31, 2017. To learn how to enter and complete guidelines, go here. As always, good luck!

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

#SFFpit is Tomorrow!

June 21, 2017Contests, Literary#SFFpit, Adult, Agents, Authors, Blog, books, Dan Koboldt, Editors, Fantasy, Fiction, Manuscripts, Middle Grade, Opportunity, Picture Book, Pitch, Pitching, Publishers, Sci-Fi, Stories, Twitter, Writers, Young Adultpdpabst

Hello my lovelies! Tomorrow (June 22, 2017) on twitter is #SFFpit hosted by Dan Koboldt. This is for Sci-Fi and Fantasy manuscripts only! Please do not pitch if your manuscript is not finished, polished, and unpublished.
As all twitter pitch contests, you need to have 140 character pitch ready that includes the hashtag #SFFpit along with:

AGE CATEGORY
#PB – Picture book
#MG – Middle grade
#YA – Young adult
#NA – New adult
#A – Adult

GENRE/Subgenre
#FA – fantasy
#CF – contemporary fantasy
#DF – dark fantasy
#EF – epic or high fantasy
#FR – fantasy romance
#HF – historical fantasy
#LF – literary fantasy
#AH – alternate history
#MYF – mythic fantasy
#PN – paranormal
#UF – urban fantasy
#MR – magical realism
#SF – science fiction
#AF – apocalypse fiction
#ML – military science fiction
#PA – post-apocalyptic SF
#SFR – sci-fi romance
#SFT – sci-fi thriller
#SH – superhero / superhuman
#SO – space opera
#DS – dystopian
#SP – steampunk
#TT – time travel
#WW – weird west

The contest will run through 8am to 6pm EST. Also note the change of allowed pitches! Writers will only get 10 pitches (that’s one per hour). For more information check out the #SFFpit webpage. To show Dan Koboldt your appreciation for throwing together this awesome contest, be sure to follow his blog, twitter page, or buy his books.

As always, good luck!

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

Nelson Literary Agency Pitch Tomorrow!

June 20, 2017Contests, Literary#NLAPitch, Age Category, Agents, Authors, books, Fiction, Genre, Manuscripts, Middle Grade, Nelson Literary Agency, Opportunity, Pitching, Stories, Twitter, Women's Fiction, Writers, Young Adultpdpabst

Tomorrow (June 21, 2017) Nelson Literary Agency sponsors #NLAPitch on Twitter from 9am-4p MST. Writers are permitted to tweet three times only per completed manuscript. Authors can include the age category and genre of their stories. Pitching should be done as with any twitter pitch contest, so no need to pitch directly to a particular agent.

For complete details, go here. And remember, tweets can be pre-scheduled using TweetDeck if a writer is unavailable to participate live. As always, good luck!

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

#pg70pit Contest is Tommorrow!

June 6, 2017Contests, Literary#70pit17, #pg70pit, Adult, Agents, Authors, books, dreams, Hashtags, Lara Willard, Lottery Winners, Manuscripts, Middle Grade, New Adult, novels, Page 70, Pitching, Publishing, Stories, Submissions, Twitter, Writers, Young Adultpdpabst

Lara Willard is hosting the third annual pg70pit, an unique type of contest and pitching opportunity for writers with complete, polished novels (Middle Grade, YA, or NA/Adult) in any genre except erotica. #70pit17 is this years hashtag. Submissions open at 7am EST on June 7, 2017 and is open for 24 hours. Lottery winners will be drawn from the form on the blog and from twitter. They’ll be announced on June 17th, 2017. The lucky folks selected will move on to an agent round on July 7, 2017.

Lara will start posting participating agent sometime this month. So keep an eye out on her blog. As always, good luck!

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

TV Tropes and Fictional Novels

June 2, 2017Film, LiteraryAdult, agent, Audience, Authors, books, Creative Spin, editor, Fiction, Genre, Inspiration, Known Situations, Manuscripts, Media, Middle Grade, Narrative, novels, Readers, Screenplay, Stories, Storytelling, Television, Topical, TV Tropes, Writers, Young Adultpdpabst

Have you ever heard an agent or editor say “I’ve seen this trope before” or “this is an old trope”. What does it mean? In storytelling, a trope can be described as shortcuts for describing situations an author can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. But does this mean all tropes are bad? No. It’s up to the author to put a creative spin on an old trope so the audience doesn’t tire of the situation. Or at best, this is to say they have to bring something new to the table regarding the trope.

We not only see tropes in books, but also movies. A few months ago, I learned of a cool website called TV Tropes. It seems like a great place to help authors recognize tropes they might think isn’t one. And if you don’t write, it’s kind of fun poking around anyway. The main tropes have been indexed by Genre, Media, Narrative, and Topical. But there are 36 other categories to peruse.

So if you’re a writer, check this sight out and put a fresh twist on a well known trope! I dare you.

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

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