Enter your twitter pitch for your book, the first three sentences, and blog about it. That's it! Ends march 7th, and only 75 entries.
Remember, Michael Carr is looking for any age any genre. And works should be completed if he was to request the full manuscript, but you may take the risk without a finished manuscript if you choose.
I think twitter is a great way to meet agents, get a feel for their sense of humor, their style, their interests, and their personality.
The problem seems to be that agents don't know me! I am still working on honing my blog presence and tweeting about my writing to build a bit of a writer presence.
So, I'm taking this leap of faith, stepping out of the box, putting one foot out there into the wild unknown with abandon.
I have faith in my book. It is a thing of beauty. I can't wait for the day I get to release it into the hands of the awaiting publisher to let it take on the life that I am breathing into it. Once it leaves me, prepped, schooled, tempered, and honed, it's going to fly on it's own!
Here's a copy of my entry. Please message me if you would read it based on this pitch!
Your name: Elsha Hawk
Title: Leeto Homero
Genre & Age: Children's Fantasy Adventure
Twitter Pitch: Determined to save his ailing Nana, Leeto magically crosses into a land ravaged by an evil skeleton king who stands between him & the cure.
3 sentences:The rain pattered against the window of my room at Nana’s. The clouds were the color of the milk left in my cereal bowl after eating Count Chocula. Or maybe they were made of the chocolate marshmallows, which are my favorite part.
Link:http://elshahawkscribblins.blogspot.com/2011/03/twitter-pitch-contest.html
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
3 comments:
It should, of course, be 'him' and not 'he'.
Fixing this takes you one character over, but there are plenty of ways to get it back again (replacing 'and' with '&' is probably the most obvious).
fixed! I had him.. but changed it, which was obviously wrong.
Also, it was pointed out that two sentences begins with 'the'. This is supposed to be a child's POV, so the grammar is not perfect.
On the same note, I debated on my 3 sentences, because the original first three were "My name is Leeto Homero. I was named after my father, who was the Greatest Dad in the Whole World, his coffee mug says so."
Now I think I like that better..
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