Agents Kim Lionetti and Jessica Faust of BookEnds are holding a pitch contest on Twitter (thus the Twitch). (Yeah, at first I thought they were talking about the runner-up from So You Think You Can Dance last year, too). You have to follow them on Twitter to participate (here’s Kim’s page, and here’s Jessica’s). The cool thing is you can pitch your manuscript to both Kim and Jessica at different times this week. But you have to watch their tweets to monitor when each is taking Twitches. They’re tag-teaming, you see.
If you can compress your book into 140 characters, this is a great opportunity. The winner at the end of the week gets a critique of a partial.
Details are on the BookEnds blog.
I saw that! I’m following them on Twitter now, but I won’t sub my tweet.
I won’t enter, either, Edie. The manuscript I would want to pitch is still coming in from some full manuscript reads. After I get them all back, I’ll have work to do on the full. Even though the prize is a critique of a partial, I still think writers should sub only their best work. A fantastic sounding tweet may or may not lead to a fantastic partial. I wouldn’t want to sub less than what I felt was my best work on the partial because the critique prize is FANTASTIC, but if it doesn’t result in a request for a full, it’s getting me nowhere.
Alas, I shall have to wait to proceed through the usual channels.
But it sounds like a fun contest!