Pitchapalooza (7)

UPDATE: APRIL 26, 2022 THE WINNER IS SIMPLY THE BEST BY CATHERINE YANG Catherine will receive an introduction to an agent or publisher appropriate for Simply the Best . Listen to the announcement. Listen to the winning pitch and our feedback. Read the winning pitch. OUR FAN FAVORITE GOES TO THE POWER OF SHADOWS BY ABBY GEIGERMAN Abby will receive a free one-hour consult with us (worth $250). Read the Fan Favorite winning pitch. [...] more

You wrote your 50,000 words (or close! ). Youre a winner. You felt the high. Now what are you going to do with your precious manuscript? Thats where we, The Book Doctors , come in. Join us for our twelfth annual NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza to learn how to catch the attention of publishers and readers. For those of you unfamiliar with Pitchapalooza, heres the skinny: You get 250 words to pitch your book. Twenty pitches will be randomly selected from [...] more

UPDATE: Congratulations to our 2020 winners! Thank you to every writer who participated and the fans who voted. The 2020 NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza winner is The Eighth Wonder of Pine Mountain by Jenny Murray. Fan Favorite goes to Operation Polar Revenge by Tara Erredge. You can watch the full NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza 2020 below. ? 10 years. A decade. A tenth of a century. Thats how long The Book Doctors and Nano Nation [...] more

The Book Doctors first met May Cobb at the 2011Texas Book Festival in a town that is one of our all-time favorites: Austin. For those of you who havent been, youre doing yourself a great disservice. Its one of the great book festivals, in one of the great cities in America. May was one of the brave souls who pitched her book to us in front of a packed house at our [...] more

Nano Nation: You are all WINNERS! We had such a blast with this yearsNational Novel Writing Month Pitchapalooza. So many pitches with AWESOME imagination and an ASTOUNDING display of talent. Thank you so much to all the writers who participated in this years NaNoWriMoPitchapalooza! AND THE WINNER IS This years Fan Favorite is CLARE VATERLAUS BIRD for her bookThe Cost of Silence ! Her pitch is timely, full of stakes, and has a terrific title. She gets a free one-hour consultation [...] more

Nano Nation delivered yet another batch of pulse-pounding pitches for NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza 2018 ! A Midwest Strangler and Chupacabra; inheritance and identity, love and conspiracies; a beatnik disc jockey and the threat of nuclear annihilation; a 12-year-old author; opium smugglers and sex traffickers : once again, we were totally blown away by the diversity and quantity of pitches we received. But of course weve come to expect this level of excellence fromNaNo Nation. The Book Doctors had an absolute blast swimming in this vast pool of pitches. Now for the 411: The 20 [...] more

You wrote your 50,000 words (or got pretty close! ). Youre a winner. You felt the high. Now what are you going to do with your precious manuscript? Thats where we, The Book Doctors , come in. For those of you not familiar with Pitchapalooza, heres the skinny: You get 250 words to pitch your book. Twenty pitches will be randomly selected from all submissions. We will then critique the pitches during a live webinar on March 16, 2019 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET [...] more