Agent Joan Paquette from the Erin Murphy Literary Agency will judge our contest that opens tomorrow, Wednesday October 27th at 9:00am Eastern time and ends 24 hours later at 9:00am Eastern time on Thursday, October 28th.
EMLA represents children's literature only, so no adult projects in this contest, please.
Ms. Paquette wants to see a one-line pitch and the FIRST 100 words (plus or minus 1/2 sentence--don't just cut it off mid sentence) of completed children's picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, or young adult novels.
Wishing everyone the best.
The how-to of one-line pitches.
http://querytracker.blogspot.com/2009/04/dreaded-pitch-what-to-include-in-that.html
Examples of excellent pitches:
http://querytracker.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-line-winners.html
http://querytracker.blogspot.com/2010/05/from-chris-richman-winners.html
http://querytracker.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-jason-yarn-winners.html
* Please note: Sometimes the email notifications from this blog do not go out right when the post is published (a Google Blogger issue we cannot control). If you are an email subscriber, please realize this email might arrive after the contest has begun. We have given weekly reminders of the contest on the Friday Publishing Pulse. In addition, the information has been posted in the sidebar of this blog for close to a month.
8 comments:
Hi, Are uncompleted WIP accepted?
Gotta love QT contests. :D
Hi Emily -- no, as the third paragraph states, the project must be completed. :)
To clarify HOW you submit: Tomorrow we will be posting a link to a special form on the QTB. You MUST use that form to submit; any other method will disqualify you from the contest.
Apologies I must have missed that!
Are multiple entries from one contestant acceptable?
Yes, Joan of Ark, as long as they are complete and polished enough to be read by an agent.
The submission form disagrees with the multiple submission guidelines - it only allows one entry per query tracker account.
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