The submission window is now open for Pitch Madness! Submit your pitches to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com from 6AM EST until 12PM EST.
THE SUBMISSION WINDOW IS NOW CLOSED!
Here’s the submission details again …
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This is for completed, unpublished fiction manuscripts.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. (All submissions sent before or after the window time slot will be deleted.)
(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 – NO ATTACHMENTS – All pitches must be embedded in the email.
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.
Good luck, everyone!
#PitMad Twitter Pitch Party!
And, if you don’t make it into Pitch Madness we’re holding another Twitter Pitch Party on March 29. Please know that a lot of industry agents and publishers will be attending The Bologna Book Fair and we might not get as big a turn out as we did last time. But we can try. So get your 140 word pitch ready and make sure the word count includes the hashtag #PitMad and category (YA, Adult, MG, NA, and so on). Tweet your pitch when you see an agent come on but don’t do it too obsessively. The agents will read the feed.
21 Comments
lnrussell · March 15, 2013 at 6:18 am
I saw that some of the submission receipts were running slow and wanted to make sure you had mine because I still don’t have one. Thanks! (ln40russell at hotmail dot com)
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 8:20 am
I’m not finding it – please resend.
Nikki Trionfo · March 15, 2013 at 11:20 am
I thought 12pm meant midnight and was horrified to see your blog switch from submissions being open to submissions being closed. If you ever take mercy on people, please consider my sincerest begging!!
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Send it in. Kimberly is putting the late senders in a folder and the slush readers will decide on them after they read through the early senders.
Sarah · March 15, 2013 at 6:40 am
Submitted, whew! Thanks so much Brenda, this much be so much work on your end.
Kathleen · March 15, 2013 at 6:54 am
Got my receipt. Now for the nail biting waiting part…
tbrosz · March 15, 2013 at 7:25 am
I submitted two pitches about an hour ago, but only got a receipt for one. That receipt showed up almost immediately. Do I try again on the second pitch?
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 8:20 am
I have both. Thanks!
Connie · March 15, 2013 at 7:26 am
Just checking…I got a receipt for the first submission right away but not for the second. 1000 sleepless Nights, so jut checking if it went through. 🙂
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 8:21 am
I got it – thanks!
Rachel · March 15, 2013 at 7:34 am
Yay! Thanks so much! Very exciting. 🙂
Jennifer Gravely · March 15, 2013 at 7:41 am
Sent my email about 2 hours ago. Still no receipt.
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 8:22 am
I received it – thanks!
Kim · March 15, 2013 at 8:42 am
Hi Brenda,
I sent two submissions and only got one receipt. Just wanted to make sure you got both pitches.
Thanks!
Kim
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 8:51 am
I’ll need the full name you submitted with.
Kim · March 15, 2013 at 9:07 am
Kim Lyng
Brenda Drake · March 15, 2013 at 9:10 am
I got both of yours. 😉
Kim · March 15, 2013 at 9:12 am
Great. Thanks and thanks for the quick response. I appreciate it.
Kim
Melissa Grey · March 15, 2013 at 10:53 am
I submitted this morning and got the receipt, no problem. This is the first contest I’ve ever entered so it should be a good learning experience no matter the result. Thanks for putting this all together, Brenda!
Adrianne Russell · March 15, 2013 at 7:43 pm
Good luck, y’all!
Nikki Trionfo · March 18, 2013 at 8:17 am
Brenda, you guys rock. I sent my pitch in right before I commented here, but got an automatic email rejection. I thought that was it. The next day I got a response from Kim that she had decided to consider my submission even though it was late. I really appreciate the mercy!
Also, I just found I’ve made it past the first round. I’m so excited. Thank you again so much!!
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