Choose Your Contests Wisely

With so many pitch contests coming up just this month, there are some factors to consider. It can be a good idea to choose the contests you enter wisely instead of blanketing the internet with your pitches. I know that when agent Saba Sulaiman was here taking pitches she recognized a few of them from... Continue Reading →

June 2015 Contest Roundup

Entering contests can be a lot of fun. I love seeing how the pitch contests bring people together as we post pitches and help each other out with them in our Sub It Club submission support group, and of course it's thrilling when people share when they get favorites! While they do create a lot... Continue Reading →

May 2015 Contest Roundup

Oh May, the busiest month ever! (Okay, maybe that's just me. My daughter is May Queen this year and that is a job in itself!) But no matter how busy we are there is always time for working on our craft, right? And if you've got some work ready to go there are some great... Continue Reading →

Flip That Pitch!

With #Pitmad #PitchMAS and #SFFpit coming up this month there's a lot of pitch writing going on! It can take time to create a great pitch and then…WHAT? Twitter won't let you post the same tweet more than once. Talk about frustrating! Sure, you can come up with a number of pitches but when you... Continue Reading →

How to #PitMad

As you may have heard, #PitMad is a super awesome pitch event. Incase you don’t know, #PitMad is a quarterly Twitter pitch party where you pitch your work in a tweet. Agents and editors look in on #PitMad tweets throughout the day, and if yours piques their interest they just might request a look. Writers... Continue Reading →

She Said / She Said: How Writer Dina von Lowenkraft and Agent Kaylee Davis Connected via Twitter

Can a writer find representation with a tweet? Sure! Today we are happy to share the story of how one writer and one agent found each other through Twitter. Of course, there was a lot of work both before and after that tweet... She Said / She Said: How I Got My Agent By Dina... Continue Reading →

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