{"id":692,"date":"2009-01-26T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2009-01-24T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T00:18:33","slug":"sourcebooks-pitch-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/sourcebooks-pitch-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcebooks Pitch Opportunity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great opportunity for unagented writers. On Thursday, January 29th\u2014three days from now\u2014Sourcebooks<\/a>\u00a0editor Deb Werksman is accepting 50-word pitches on the Casablanca Authors Blog<\/a>. Ms. Werksman, along with the Sourcebooks publicist and Casablanca blog authors, will decide on the winner (I hope I got that right), who then gets to submit her\/his full manuscript for Ms. Werksman’s consideration with a guaranteed reply within 3-4 weeks.<\/p>\n

Believe me, a guaranteed reply in such a short time span is something you want.<\/p>\n

You have from one minute after noon January 29th until noon January 30th to post your pitch to the Comments trail of Ms. Werksman’s blog on Casablanca Authors<\/a>, appearing January 29th. Please note, do NOT post your pitches to THIS blog.\u00a0You can leave me a note thanking me for telling you about this opportunity (I’d love that), but I can not accept pitches for the contest. If you submit your pitch here, I’ll just have to delete it. And, no, I won’t forward it to Ms. Werksman, either.<\/p>\n

Go to the Casablanca Authors blog<\/a> on January 29th<\/strong><\/em> to post your pitches. In fact, there’s a great blog post over there right now that tells you all about the contest rules. Click here to read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please note that Ms. Werksman only wants blurbs for completed manuscripts:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Please enter pitches ONLY for finished, polished manuscripts that are at least 90,000 words in length. No works in progress please.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s a direct quote from the Casa Authors blog. So don’t submit a pitch if you’ve finished a manuscript but it’s not the absolute best it can be. Polish that sucker and wait for another opportunity. It does you no good to send in a blurb for non-polished work, because the winner’s name will be announced on the Casa Authors blog February 14th and the winner will then only have until the 16th to submit her\/his full manuscript. If your work isn’t polished, it’s not likely you’ll receive an offer of publication, which just wastes everyone’s time.<\/p>\n

Details of the Break Up the Winter Doldrums contest<\/strong> are on the Casablanca Authors blog<\/a>. If you want to enter, please check them out, in case I didn’t get something straight here.<\/p>\n

Over and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great opportunity for unagented writers. On Thursday, January 29th\u2014three days from now\u2014Sourcebooks\u00a0editor Deb Werksman is accepting 50-word pitches on the Casablanca Authors Blog. Ms. Werksman, along with the Sourcebooks publicist and Casablanca blog authors, will decide on the winner (I hope I got that right), who then gets to submit her\/his full manuscript… Continue reading Sourcebooks Pitch Opportunity!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-editors-agents","category-publishers-and-publishing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}