The Writer's Voice
Twitter Pitch Party Rules
(Twitter hashtag:
#WVTP)
Thursday, May 24 12PM - 6PM EDT
The rules...
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.)
ETA: You can adjust your pitch for the same ms and you can pitch more than one ms. This is a free for all, the only rules are to be nice, pitch a finished ms and use 140 characters to do it in--and email us to get submission guidelines.
ETA: You can adjust your pitch for the same ms and you can pitch more than one ms. This is a free for all, the only rules are to be nice, pitch a finished ms and use 140 characters to do it in--and email us to get submission guidelines.
If you
get a request...
After you
get a request, you must email us at
thewritersvoicecontest@gmail.
So get your
Twitter pitches ready, and make sure to include the hashtag.
And
follow the agents on Twitter...
Vickie Motter
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
During such a short window, should people even need to twitch twice? Seems the agents will read all the entries with the hashtag. Correct?
ReplyDeleteIf your pitch gets buried, then you can always post twice. :)
DeleteMaybe it's a dumb question, but here goes.
ReplyDeleteWe're allowed to pitch multiple times, though all pitches must be fore the same manuscript.
Are we allowed to try several different pitches for the same manuscript?
Just one pitch for a manuscript and pitch the same MS. But you can pitch multiple times (not going overboard, though) so that when the agents are online they can see your pitch.
DeleteOkay--SORRY! But it seems it was me who got it wrong. I just wanted to make sure, and asked the other coaches and they said you can pitch more than one MS. You can adjust the pitch for the same ms, too. This is a free for all, the only rules are to be nice, pitch a finished ms and use 140 characters to do it in, and email us to get submission guidelines.
DeleteThx so much for the clarifications. Totally digging the set-up: multiple mss, multiple pitches allowed for each one.
DeleteThat poor hashtag feed is going to be a madhouse!
Haha! Yeah, maybe #wvtp will even trend on twitter with these rules! LOL
DeleteI sent my email to thewritersvoicecontest@gmail.com over 3 hours ago & didn't get a reply yet, is that okay or should I send it again?
ReplyDeleteThanks!
If you haven't heard from us by Saturday, resend. We haven't processed all the emails yet. Thanks.
DeleteOK, thanks!
ReplyDelete