Listed below are the 10 finalists of both my agent and editor for The Season’s Pitch Contest. Hopefully, this won’t be the only time I hold one. 😉
Kevan Lyon – Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
10 finalists
Brynna James – Timeless
Lea Nolan – Benevolence
Melissa Blue – Forget Me Not
Sarah Tormey – Courting Scandal
Phyllis Campbell – The Sweetest Temptation
Phyllis Campbell – My Heart’s Desire
Miranda Liasson – Listen to Your Heart
Phyllis Campbell-After the Loving
Jennifer – Bitter Rivalry
Bonnie Dee – The Chinese Bride
Peter Senftleben – Kensington Editor
10 finalists
Listen to Your Heart – Miranda Liasson
Scandal’s Mistress – Bronwyn
After the Loving – Phyllis Campbell
A Pocketful of Ashes – Kat Sheridan
Broken – Cate Hart
Seduced in Darkness – KB Edwards
Courting Scandal – Sarah Tormey
A Most Unusual Lady – Kathleen Bittner Roth
After the End – Bonnie Davidson
Mistress of the Stone – Maria Zannini
Congratulations ladies! Please email the first 3 pages of your manuscript (.doc or rft format) to me at historicals at smittenbybooks.com . Please include your full name, contact information, the title, genre, and word count. Please have the entries to me by Friday, Dec 11th at the latest. I will announce the winner(s) before Christmas. Good Luck.
If your pitch wasn’t chosen, please feel free to query both Peter and Kevan on your own.
Squeeeee!!! Thankyou so much! I have been checking every hour on the hour. Can you tell I’m excited =) It’s midnight here so I’ll get it to you after I’ve had a sleep and gone over my pages with two fresh eyes.
Thanks again.
Bronwyn.
Thank you for hosting this contest!! I’m so excited!!
WOO-WEEE!!! I’m jumping up and down with excitement right now. YIPPEEEE!! Okay, you’ve made my day! Thanks sooooo much for having this contest!!!!!
~Phyllis~
Surprise! For me that is. Thank you so much for hosting this contest. You made my day!!!!!!!
Kathleen
Wow! This is great! Thanks a lot. I look forward to more of your contests in the future 🙂
Melissa
Congratulations to all the finalists. I’m so excited! Thanks for hosting this contest, Bev. And thanks to the judges for their time too.
Brynna
Yay me!!! Thanks for hosting this contest.
Congratulations, everyone!!!!
Congrats everyone! *\^o^/*
What a surprise! 😀
Congrats to the finalists. Good luck to everyone. Peter is an awesome editor!
Congratulations, everyone!!
Wonderful news! Congratulations, finalists. 🙂
Congrats to everyone! and thanks, Beverly, for the opportunity to pitch. Everyone deserves a big hand for putting your pitches out there!
Thanks everyone!!! My greatest wish is that someone either gets a book contract or signs with an agent because of this. I’m crossing fingers and toes, ladies. 😀
I know this is kind of silly, but us Aussies have different formatting than you gals… 3 pages, single spaced? Double spaced? Should I just close my eyes and wing it =)
Bronwyn.
Bronwyn,
Don’t wing it. It must be double-spaced. The first page should start about 1/3 down. Margins are 1 inch.
Thanks for that =) I’ll get it to you soon.
Bronwyn.
Congratulations to all the finalists! Out of curiosity sparked by Bronwyn’s posting, does font size matter? (eye brow wiggle)
THANK YOU!! I’m on the road today and just now checked in. This is so exciting!!
Kelly S,
I think as long as you don’t have a TNR 11 font or something similar, things will be fine.
What do you mean by ‘don’t have’. I thought TNR 12 was standard… Now you have me worried. Personally I like Arial but I know publishers don’t. I hate second guessing but I do want to get it right =)
But TNR 11 is quite small. That’s what I meant. TNR 12 is fine or Arial.
A very big congrats to the winners and best of luck in the finals everyone!!