We’re getting close! The window (yes, I said window) for Pitch Madness is March 15 from 6AM EST to 12PM EST. (All submissions sent before or after the window time slot will be deleted.) There will be no cut off number. Everyone who submits during the window will make it into the contest. You will receive a receipt, if you don’t, check with me here on the blog or on Twitter (@brendadrake). This is for completed fiction manuscripts. The categories are Adult, New Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade. Any genres. The winners will not be notified before the agent round.
(For those of you not familiar with Pitch Madness, it’s a contest to pitch agents for representation of your work.)
The email for submissions is brendadrakecontests@gmail.com – do not send before the submission window unless you won a free pass (see below). NO ATTACHMENTS – All pitches must be embedded in the email.
I was alerted about a site that will send scheduled emails if you can’t send during the submission windows. Check it out here: http://www.lettermelater.com/, and make sure to do a test run should you decide to use this method.
Please format your entries like this …
Email subject line: Pitch Madness: TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT
Name: Your name
Title: TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT
Genre: Genre/category of your manuscript (ie. YA Fantasy)
Word Count: Word count (round to the nearest 1000th)
Pitch: 35word (max) logline. Do not go over even one word over.
Excerpt: The first 250 words of your manuscript. If the 250th word falls in the middle of a sentence, go to the end of that sentence. Your pitch should be Times New Roman 12pt, single spaced, one space between paragraphs, no paragraph indentions. Make sure the formatting is done correctly.
FREE PASS WINNERS:
For those of you who won free passes during PitMad and the Love Scene Workshop (you know who you are). You will automatically go into Round 2 of Pitch Madness. You get to bypass the slush. So please send in your entries with the instructions I emailed you starting today, but no later than March 14 at 10PM EST. Very important. If you miss this cut off, you will go into Round 1. This is only for free pass winners. If you don’t have a free pass, don’t follow these instructions. Free pass winners have a special subject line to enter Round 2. Make sure to use the instructions I emailed to you.
Want to win a free pass into Pitch Madness? Join or be a member of CPSeek, go to Contest Discussions, find my post for the free pass, and answer the question in the thread. You must be a member of CPSeek to win.
We have two free pass winners from “Can you guess which of Danielle DeVor’s critiques is mine?” contest!
And the winners by Random.org are …
Nicole Zoltack
Brooks Benjamin
Please email me at brendadrakecontests@gmail.com for instructions.
PitMad Twitter Pitch Party! I’m going to throw one on March 28 from 8Am EST to 6Pm EST. I’m not sure what agents or publishers will show up for this, but we’ll see. It’ll be during the game reveal, so it will be tricky. I will be traveling on March 29 and cannot hold it that day. I hadn’t planned on a twitter pitch party this round since we had one recently. But what the heck, if you come, I’ll come, and if we build it, agents and publishers will come.
20 Comments
Vicki Weavil · March 4, 2013 at 6:48 am
Brenda,
My email will not allow me to format in Times New Roman. Is it okay if I send in another font, like Sans Serif?
Thanks!
Brenda Drake · March 4, 2013 at 1:12 pm
That will be okay, just try to get the formatting as close as you can get it.
Katie Teller · March 4, 2013 at 7:47 am
Hey,
I sent my free pass entry but didn’t get a confirmation. I just want to make sure it was received.
Thank you so much for all your hard work and I’m really excited for this!
Brenda Drake · March 4, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Got it, sorry I didn’t have the receipt on.
Hilary · March 5, 2013 at 12:21 pm
how exciting! thanks so much for hosting, Brenda!
K.S. Lyng · March 5, 2013 at 12:36 pm
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Kim · March 5, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Can you submit more than one pitch?
Brenda Drake · March 6, 2013 at 9:02 am
You may but only one can make it into the finals
Kim · March 6, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Great! Thanks for clarifying!
Connie · March 6, 2013 at 7:44 am
I second that question. Can we sub more than one?
Brenda Drake · March 6, 2013 at 9:02 am
You many but only one can make it into the finals.
Alliyah Dawud · March 11, 2013 at 3:22 am
As silly as this may sound; what if the 250th word is the 3rd of 4th word of a sentance? Shall I just cut off at the end of the previous sentance?
Deborah Lucas · March 13, 2013 at 8:09 am
Brenda,
You have an agent interested in Memoir, Carlie Webber. I have a completed manuscript that could be called Memoir, Creative Non-Fiction or even Fiction. It doesn’t matter to me. Can I submit? Do I have to label it Fiction?
Brenda Drake · March 13, 2013 at 9:08 am
Only Fiction is for this contest. So can label it like that or query her directly with your Memoir.
T.D. Hart · March 13, 2013 at 8:19 am
I may have missed where we specify which agent to whom we’re pitching. Or does the entry go to all agents who represent that genre?
Brenda Drake · March 13, 2013 at 9:07 am
You don’t specify the agent. If you make it into the top 60 it will be showcased on the blogs and the agents will request from there.
Lydia · March 13, 2013 at 9:21 am
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Debra Ann Elliott · March 13, 2013 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for hosting.
Melanie McCarthy · March 15, 2013 at 6:22 am
Hi Brenda,
Good morning! Two questions: I sent in multiple submissions but only received confirmation for the first. Will I receive a receipt for each?
Also, I know that only one can go through. If more than one gets through, do we get to choose which one it is?
Thank you!
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 8:24 am
I got all of yours – you may not choose which one will go through, the one with the most votes will go on and if another vote is needed the hosts will decide the final one.
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