Pitch Wars Blog Archive

PITCH MADNESS: Meet the agents!

  While we’re busy reading the slush and waiting for game day, we thought we’d take this opportunity to introduce the wicked awesome, crazy talented, good looking (I think that’s enough adjectives. Yeah, agents love adjectives, right? Oh? More?) badalious gamers, sneaky competitors, and on any day but game day, extremely kind and generous agents. So, in no particular order and because they just landed that way, here are the freakintabulous agents…   Molly Ker Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

MY SUPER SWEET SIXTEENTH CENTURY…giveaway

The winners of the copies of  MY SUPER SWEET SIXTEENTH CENTURY  by Rachel Harris are:  Jenea Whittington & Marian Krick Congratulations! Please email me at brendadrakecontests@gmail.com to claim your prize.     I’m celebrating the release of my good friend and agent sister’s, Rachel Harris, book release by giving away TWO copies of MY SUPER SWEET SIXTEENTH CENTURY! Answer the question at the bottom of this post in the comments and you’re entered to win!Here’s something about Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

PITCH MADNESS: Meet the slush readers!

  An event as big as this requires many people working behind the scenes to pull off. In order to open the contest up to more submissions, we kidnapped bribed asked some awesome slush readers to back us up. They’ll be up to the ears in entries, searching for the gems and making dreams come true. There’s been a lot of success in our prior contests. Could you be next?  Make sure to show our Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

PITCH MADNESS – 2nd submission window is now open!

The second submission window for  Pitch Madness is now open CLOSED!  Come back Tuesday, September 4 for the next window. It opens at 10Am EDT! Please email your entries to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com The first 100 entries to hit the inbox will move onto the slush round. We will email confirmations shortly after receiving the entries. If you don’t receive an email saying that you made it in, please try again on the next submission window. The Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

PITCH MADNESS – 1st submission window is now open!

Submission window is now closed!! Next window opens Sept. 1 @ 6PM EDT The first submission window for  Pitch Madness is now open closed!  Please email your entries to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com The first 100 entries to hit the inbox will move onto the slush round. We will email confirmations shortly after receiving the entries. If you don’t receive an email saying that you made it in, please try again on the next submission window. The next Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness … submission deets

  It’s here! Well, not quite yet. The submission windows for the semi-annual Pitch Madness go live on Saturday, September 1 at 12PM EDT (NY time) and 6PM EDT (NY time) and another window has bee added for Tuesday, September 4 @ 10AM EDT (NY time). The game theme this time is Paintball (Great suggestion SM Johnston of YATopia!). What’s Pitch Madness, you ask? Well, its a game where we bring together a bushel of Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Query Workshop B-11: RACE TO BUTCH CASSIDY’S GOLD

It’s the final day of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. This final day is only on my blog. They’re winners of a drawing on the Beyond The Hourglass Bridge Blog  So here’s my next critique…        Twelve-year-old Maggie McCoy wants to be brave and spontaneous. But she’s not. Especially when it comes to school bullies and flying by the seat Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Query Workshop B-12: LISTEN TO ME

It’s the final day of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. This final day is only on my blog. They’re winners of a drawing on the Beyond The Hourglass Bridge Blog  So here’s my next critique…         Dear AgentName, Since she was six years old, Stacy has seen her future self whenever she looks in the mirror. Growing up with your Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Query Workshop B-13: THE SIMPLE TRUTH

It’s the final day of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. This final day is only on my blog. They’re winners of a drawing on the Beyond The Hourglass Bridge Blog  So here’s my next critique…        Dear Awesome Agent, Seventeen-year-old Johnny thought getting beaten and branded out of gang life was the worst thing imaginable. He was wrong. When a Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Query Workshop B-9: THROUGH THE EDGEWOOD

It’s day five of the query workshop with me and three of my blogging friends. Two queries on four blogs for ten days. I’ll have three more queries from the winners of a drawing on Katherine Amabel’s (@katherineamabel) blog Beyond the Hourglass Bridge up tomorrow on the blog. Come back tomorrow to critique them and get more entries for the critique prizes, which will be announced on Monday. And here’s my next critique…        Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago