Pitch Madness 2015 SORRY! Edition
The Pitch Madness submission window will be open for 72 hours starting on February 20!
Pitch Madness is a contest to win a request from one or more of the participating agents. I will have an agent introduction post up soon.
The submission window will be open from 12:01 AM EST on February 20 until 11:59PM EST on February 23. You should have plenty of time to get your submissions in. There is no limit of how many entries will be accepted. All entries sent before or after the allotted times will be deleted. Make sure to perfect your entry. If you make an error, you may not resend.
There will be 60 finalists moving onto the agent round. Pitch Madness will accept Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult (never before published) fiction only, novel length (no novellas) completed and polished manuscripts only. All genres (i.e. fantasy, contemporary, sci-fi, and so on) are welcome to enter. This time around we will not accept non-fiction. Only one entry per writer.
What do you need to enter? A 35-word (max) pitch and the first 250 words of your finished manuscript. If the 250th word falls in the middle of a sentence, go to the end of the sentence. I will post formatting instructions and where to send when the submission window opens.
Pitch Madness will be on four blogs and each blog host will have a co-host helping them choose their top 15 entries. We’ll have a team of first readers who will check for formatting, grammar, and content and put their top picks through to the hosts.
All the twitter fun will happen on the hashtag #PitchMadness!
Introducing Round 1 Readers in alphabetical order by last name (because I love them all equally) …
Sarah L. Blair
K.T. Hanna
L.L. McKinney
Jami Nord
To help us choose the best pitches for the market, we have our Market Insider finding pitches that will appeal to agents …
Lady Lioness, Assistant to a fabulous Literary Agent
And choosing in the final rounds are your hosts and their teams …
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The Red Team
On Brenda Drake’s blog with Kimberly P. Chase …
Brenda Kimberly
Their support readers …
Naomi Hughes
Fiona McLaren
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The Green Team
On Summer Heacock’s blog with Dannie Morin …
Summer Dannie
Their support readers …
Rae Chang
Stephanie J. Scott
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The Yellow Team (aka Team Dark Side) …
On Sharon Johnston’s blog with Jeyn Roberts …
Sharon Jeyn
Their support readers …
Lauren K. McKellar
Meagan Rivers
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The Blue Team
On Rebecca Coffindaffer’s blog with Marieke Nijkamp …
Rebecca Marieke
They’ll be on their own in the slush scouring for the best of the best.
And keeping it all real (meaning: refereeing the teams) is our submission organizer …
Nikki Roberti
Here’s the schedule …
- Agent Introduction on February 4
- Rules of the Game on February 13
- Submission window opens February 20 and will be open for 72 hours
- The top 60 picks for the agent round will go up on the blogs on March 2 at 12:01AM EST (NY time)
- March 4 at 12PM EDT (Noon) the agents requests are revealed, and right afterward is the tying agents challenge round
- There will be a #PitMad Twitter Pitch Party on March 11 from 8AM to 8PM EST. Check here for rules of the Twitter Pitch Contest.
Don’t forget to come back for the instructions and to meet the agents!
12 Comments
Sue Coletta · January 29, 2015 at 8:31 am
This is one of my favorite contests. See you there!
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