And to wrap up the month’s festivities, we give you “The
Writer’s Voice” Twitter Pitch Party!
If you want to play…
Pitch your finished manuscript on the hashtag #WVTP. (In
other words, your Twitter pitch must include the hashtag #WVTP; otherwise, the
agents will only see it if they're already following you.) You may pitch anytime
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.
The agents will be hopping in and out of the feed during the
party hours (12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. EDT tomorrow) and tweeting their requests
for the manuscripts that pique their interests. Simple, right? Not if more than
one makes a request on the same pitch!
Keeping in the spirit of “The Writer's Voice,” if two or
more agents request the same pitch, you must choose one of them and announce it
in the feed. (They promise not to hold any rejections against you.)
If you get a request...
You must e-mail us at TheWritersVoiceContest(at)gmail(dot)com and
tell us which agent requested your work. We'll verify the request and send you the
agent's submission guidelines.
So get your Twitter pitches ready and meet us at #WVTP tomorrow,
May 24, at 12:00 noon EDT. Anyone may enter, including “The Writer’s Voice”
finalists and even other writers who didn’t make it into the contest, so it’s
sure to be a party! And don’t forget to check out the agents’ Twitter feeds to
get a feel for what they’re looking for:
John M. Cusick as @johnmcusick
Vickie Motter as @Vickie_Motter
Natalie M. Lakosil as @Natalie_Lakosil
Pam van Hylckama as @BookaliciousPam
Hannah Bowman as @hannahnpbowman
Good luck! Feel free to leave any questions you might have
in the comments below.
Oh, so we lurk around and see who's online, then time our pitch? If we don't pitch when a certain agent is online then they won't see it?
ReplyDeleteOr they might, still?
Sorry for the confusion, Krista--just want to be sure I get it.
Thank you!
Yeah, Kristen, because of the nature of Twitter, you're going to want to keep an eye on the participating agents' feeds and pitch only when you see one of them tweeting about the contest. Otherwise, your pitch might get buried, and the agents might not see it (since we've told them they're not obligated to scroll through the entire hashtag feed). That means you are allowed to pitch more than once (up to five times, as a matter of fact), just to give your pitch the maximum exposure possible.
ReplyDeleteDoes that help?
Yes, very much. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a great weekend, btw. Have a nice break!
You're welcome, Kristen! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself now that I don't have "The Writer's Voice" to worry about:)
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