Winner of the Three Two One Pitch Contest!

Finally, the winner of our Three Two One Pitch contest has been decided. I know you've been waiting for this announcement, so I'll cut right to the chase.

Here's what Natalie Lakosil had to say:

This was a tough call! So many good entries! But, after careful review, my winner is:

Triona Murphy

triona.b.murphy(@)gmail.com

THE LONG-TIMERS

YA sci-fi thriller

77,000 words

I would, however, love to see 10 pages from these too:

Laurie Dennison, dennison2969 (at) hotmail (dot) com

Title: TRESPASSERS

YA fantasy

83,000 words

Amanda Hartley

amandawritesya(at)gmail(dot)com

DEAD SISTER DAYS

YA contemporary

57,500 words

Stephanie Haefner

haefner919 at yahoo dot com

Try Me On For Size

Contemporary Romance

80,000

Nazarea Andrews

nazareanandrews@gmail.com 

Across the Stars

YA sci-fi

88,000

Christina Ferko

christinaferko(at)gmail(dot)com

VERITAS

YA Sci-fi

81,000 words

Congratulations, Triona! And congratulations to the bonus winners! How exciting!

Send your emails to Natalie at queries@bradfordlit.com, and please include the words "Requested Material" in the subject line with your title. Also mention in the body of the email that you were chosen to submit from this contest (Agents get lots of submissions, so it helps if you remind her where she "found" you).

Good luck with your submissions, winners!

I'd also like to thank everyone for participating in the contest. It was a lot of fun, and I'm in the process of organizing another contest. I'll keep you posted!

Monday Messages

I wanted to extend my thanks once again to everyone participating in the Three Two One Pitch contest. Natalie will be reading the entries this week and hopefully crown a winner soon after. I promise to announce the winner as soon as she tells me her decision.

In other news, I was interviewed last week by a fellow Month9Books author, Michelle Reed. You can read the interview on her blog if you're interested in my upcoming book, My Sister's Reaper (debuts May 29, 2013), and other tidbits. Be sure to leave a comment to let me know what you think.

Have a great Monday!

The Three Two One Pitch Contest!

This contest is now closed. Good luck to everyone who entered. I will announce the winner as soon as Natalie makes her decision. Thanks to everyone who participated.


It's finally here! The official post for the Three Two One Pitch contest. Are your pitches ready? Great! Let's go over the rules one more time before you hit that "comment" button too quickly.

• THREE - Pitch your story in only three sentences. 
• TWO - Two days to enter: June 7th and 8th.
• ONE - One awesome agent—Natalie Lakosil of The Bradford Literary Agency— will judge and pick a winner.

How do you enter? Make sure you follow the directions correctly! In the comments section of this post, type in the following information:

• Name and email
• Title of your manuscript
• Genre of your manuscript
• Word count
• Three-sentence pitch. (No more than three sentences or you'll be disqualified.)

Leave a space between your word count and pitch to make it easier for Natalie. You have from now until midnight (EDT), June 8th, to enter. After that, I will turn off comments and no other entries will be accepted. The winner will be announced when the judging is done and will get a full manuscript request from Natalie!

This contest is open to unagented, completed and polished manuscripts in the genres of:

• MG
• YA
• Contemporary, Paranormal, or Historical Romance
• Upmarket Women's Fiction
• Sci-Fi and Fantasy
• Thrillers and Darker Contemporary Fiction

You may enter pitches for up to TWO different manuscripts, but they must be in separate comments.


To be eligible, you must:

• Follow this blog - go ahead and click "Join this Site" on the right if you haven't already
• Follow me on Twitter
• Spread the word! Tweet, Blog, or mention on Facebook about the contest linking back to this post

Not necessary, but in the spirit of paying it forward:

• Friend me on Goodreads
• Like my Facebook Author Page

Good luck, everyone. Can't wait to read all your pitches. On your mark, get set, pitch!

Announcing the Pitch Contest Lit Agent

Have you all been working on your pitches? I hope so, because you're going to want to have your best effort ready for the literary agent judging our Three Two One Pitch Contest.

Are you ready to find out who it is?

I bet you are.

She's a fantastic agent whose interests include talented, hard-working new authors with a fresh, unique voice and hook. Her specialty is commercial fiction, with an emphasis in children’s literature (from picture book-teen), romance (contemporary, paranormal and historical), upmarket women’s fiction and select nonfiction. Specific likes include historical, multi-cultural, paranormal, sci-fi/fantasy, gritty, thrilling and darker contemporary novels, middle grade with heart, and short, quirky picture books. She is always drawn to an open and positive attitude in an author, good grammar, and fantastical, engaging and sexy plots. She's also a member of SCBWI.


Have you guessed who it is yet (without having scrolled to the bottom of this post)?


I'm pleased to introduce our judging agent, Natalie M. Lakosil of the Bradford Literary Agency!

I'm really happy to have Natalie judge our contest. She is very insightful and is sure to pick a worthy winner.

As a reminder, the contest goes live June 7th. Entrants will leave their three-sentence pitches in the comments section of that day's post. Manuscripts must be finished and polished and as of yet unrepresented by an agent. The rest of the rules can be found here. So get ready, writers!

See you back here on Thursday!