Monday, September 26, 2011

One-Line Pitch Critique Contest Starts NOW!!

Welcome to Reel YA's first contest, everyone! 

You know how movies have loglines? Those one sentences that sum up what the movie's about? Whether you read them on a poster, or after hitting INFO on your TV remote, loglines help audiences know if the movie will be up their alley or not. Well, one-line pitches do the same thing for agents. 

That's why I decided to throw a One-Line Pitch Critique Contest! 

Here are the official rules:

1) You must be a follower to enter.

2) Leave a comment with your email address in this post.

3) There will be two winners, both chosen via random.org. You don't have to write your one-line pitch in the comments. If you're one of the winners, I will email you to ask for your pitch, which I will then send to one of the agent judges. 

4) The contest ends on Monday, October 3rd. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 4th. After the agent judges have read and critiqued the winning pitches, their critiques will be posted on the blog. This is so followers can read the critiques and apply the agents' advice to their one-line pitches.

5) The pitches must be for projects in genres the agent judges represent (read below for agent profiles!).

6) Both agents may or may not request more pages from their winners. 


And now for the agent judges!





Weronika Janczuk is a literary agent with Lynn Franklin Associates. Previously she worked with the D4EO Literary Agency and the Bent Agency, as well as at Flux, among others. Currently she represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction for YA and adults alike—and is very actively building her list, especially  in areas of crime fiction (especially espionage and literary suspense/thrillers), fantasy/sci-fi, horror, women’s fiction and romance, both literary and high-concept YA, memoir, and narrative non-fiction.







Sarah LaPolla began at Curtis Brown in 2008, working with Dave Barbor and Peter Ginsberg. Sarah is interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, science fiction, literary horror, and young adult fiction. She loves complex characters, coming-of-age stories, and strong narrators. Sarah graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Writing and English, and went on to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. 



You have one week to polish those pitches for Weronika and Sarah, folks! Get to it!

And good luck!

34 comments:

  1. Very cool! Thank you.

    Kanonei@gmail.com

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  2. Great contest!

    stinalindenblatt (at) shaw (dot) ca

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  3. Awesome contest!

    tmpmarkmajor(at)aol(dot)com

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  4. Awesome contest! Thanks!

    alisonmiller20 (at) gmail (dot) com

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  5. Lovely Contest!

    tracey_joseph(at)msn(dot)com

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  6. I <3 pitches!

    tarynalAThotmailDOTcom

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  7. Oooh, how cool!

    leemai82 at gmail dot com

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  8. It doesn't say, but do these need to be finished projects? Obviously to query a project it needs to be finished, but sometimes the rules are different for contests.

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  9. @Angelica: Yes, the contest is for completed (and polished!) manuscripts, as the agents might request more pages. Thanks!

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  10. Awesome. Thanks!

    BeckyPaulin(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. Aah! This is so cool :D I would love to enter this contest, thanks!

    marquitahockaday@gmail.com

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  12. This sounds awesome!

    ragdoll29 at yahoo dot com

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  13. Thanks for this! phanhnguyen1 at yahoo.com

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  14. Ooooo! Ooooo! *waves*
    Ryann.Kerekes@gmail.com

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  15. Woohoo!

    Tangynt@ymail.com

    That's Tangynt(at)ymail(dot)com

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  16. Awesome contest... thanks:)

    tania.f.walsh@gmail.com

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  17. Awesome. Thanks,

    elizabeth (dot) arroyo5 (at)gmail.com

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  18. Great contest! Does the project need to be YA? My finished project is not. Thanks!

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  19. @Sheribomb: The rules state all submissions must be in genres the agents represent. I added their profiles to this post so followers could see their preferred genres. And yep, they both rep adult fiction :)

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  20. So cool!
    jackiefelger(at)gmail(dot)com

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  21. Super duper!

    kger215(@)gmail(dot)com

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  22. Awesome, thanks!

    sheribomb (at) gmail (dot) com

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  23. Great contest!

    Thanks - j (dot) lesaicherre (@) hotmail(dot)com

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  24. Cool!

    katelarkindale{at}gmail{dot}com

    Thanks!

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  26. Eeeee!

    camarshallwrites AT gmailDOTcom

    Thank you!

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  27. Fun contest, Amparo, and fun blog too! I love the concept. :)

    shallee.mcarthur [ at ] gmail [dot] com

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  28. Two thumbs up for this blog and the contest!

    kristy.shen[at]rogers[dot]com

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  29. Is it too late? tmilstein at gmail dot com

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  30. @Theresa: Nope! You made it just in time! :) Contest ends today at 12 am!

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