The Writer's Voice
Twitter Pitch Party Rules
Thursday, May 24th 12pm EDT-6pm EDT
(Twitter
hashtag: #WVTP)
Pitch your finished manuscript on
the hashtag. You may pitch any time you see an agent online - just don't go
crazy and pitch more than once during an agent visit. We will monitor the
hashtag and gently inform you if you're being obnoxious. Make sure your pitch
includes the hashtag #WVTP. The agents will be hopping in and out of the
feed during the party hours. They'll tweet their requests for the manuscripts
that pique their interests. Simple. Right? Not if more than one make a request
on the same pitch, it isn't.
Keeping in the spirit of The
Writer's Voice, if two or more request the same pitch, you must choose one
of them and announce it in the feed. (They promised not to hold any rejections
against you.)
If you get a request...
After you get a request, you
must email us at thewritersvoicecontest@gmail.com, tell us
which agent requested, we'll verify the request, and send you the
agent's/agents' submission guidelines.
So get your Twitter pitches ready,
and make sure to include the hashtag.
And follow the agents on Twitter...
Literary Agent with Andrea Hurst
Lit www.andreahurst.com.
Agent slash book blogger. Compulsive reader of Adult ParaRom&UF and YA.
Terrified of robots.
John M. Cusick
Author of the young adult novel
GIRL PARTS. Literary agent with Scott Treimel NY. Managing fiction editor at
Armchair/Shotgun. Mostly harmless.
Natalie M.
Lakosil
Literary Agent
at the Bradford Literary Agency, making my way through adventures in agent
land.
Pam van
Hylckama
Associate Agent
at Larsen-Pomada Literary. Queen of Slush, mother, dog owner, wife of a
Dutchman. http://bookalicious.org
· http://bookalicio.us
Hannah
Bowman
Literary agent at Liza Dawson
Associates. Cornell alumna. Reader. Writer. Organist.
http://hannahbowman.tumblr.com
Sounds like fun!
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify -- when pitching, do we need to specify which agent we're directing the pitch towards or can we simply tweet a pitch (with the hashtag) at 12 pm EDT? If we should include the agent's handle in our tweet, will it be veering into obnoxious territory if we tweet the same pitch to several agents?
Procedural question: Assuming all five agents adore my pitch (hehe)do we email you each time we get a request or just wait until the end and email you about the agent we have selected?
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ReplyDeleteSo wait, is this pitch party just for the people who got into the Writer's Voice Competition earlier? Or can anyone enter?
ReplyDeleteAloha and new follower here.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting such a great "Pitch Party."
Twitter went nuts earlier and I was like what's up with this #WVTP thingy :)
Glad I found out :)