Monday, March 16, 2015

Submission Day for PB Party!



CLOSED. 









The Rules:

Please be a follower of this blog. You can click the "Join this Site" button in the left sidebar. Please follow myself and Sharon on twitter. I imagine we will be tweeting hints as well as partying!

You may send two entries for different manuscripts. That's two and only two, whether you have multiple pen names or multiple email addresses. THEY MUST BE SENT AS SEPARATE EMAILS. Please be honest and not send more. Only one entry will be chosen per person. If you send two, still only one will be picked. Any attempt to cheat will result in entries thrown out (and sadly it has happened in the past.) 

On March 16th at 4:00 pm Eastern the submission window opens. Do not send early or your entry will be deleted. You may resend at the correct time if this happens by accident. I'm recycling an email address as I already have too many. Please send your entry to SunversusSnow at yahoo dot com

You should receive a confirmation email. If you do not, please contact me on twitter before resending. The window will stay open until we get 111 (yes that number is because I'm a hobbit) entries. However long that takes. It could be minutes or it could be days. I'm really not sure on this one.

UPDATE: We will consider opening a second submission window at 5:30 Eastern time for an additional 50 entries. It depends on how nice everyone is to me and Sharon. Smile big!

This contest is only for finished and polished manuscripts. It has to be ready to go out to agents.

The Format:

Subject Line: PBParty: Title

Example:  PBParty: Hot Tub Santa

Inside the email please bold where bolded in my example. Single space with spaces between paragraphs. Use Times New Roman or equivalent font and the size should be 12. 

(Here's a trick to keep your paragraph spacing: copy and paste your entry into your email and then put in the line spaces. They seem to get lost when you copy and paste. It may look right but sending scrambles the spacing.)


Name: Sharon Chriscoe
Title: HOT TUB SANTA
Genre: (Here please tell us what type of picture book this is) Example: Board Book, Bedtime Rhyme, Nonfiction, Biography, etc. or List Chapter Book
Word Count: xxx (round to nearest ten, hundred for chapter books)

Query:

Your entire query letter here. Include your comps, bio, greeting, closing. (You may use whatever you want for a greeting. Dear Agent. Dear Michelle and Sharon.) 

Here is your chance to make your entry shine and make the agent fall in love with your words. You do NOT need to include contact information in your query.


First 50 Words:

Include your first 50 words for a picture book, 100 words for chapter books. Do not stop in the middle of a sentence. You may go over by one or two words to finish a sentence but not more than five. Single space and put spaces in between paragraphs. You may center or tab if appropriate.

Comments about artwork are part of the 50 words.

For short picture books, less than 50 words may be submitted. Any count under 50 is allowed.

Also I will delete parts of entries after the contest ends, if requested. For those writers uncomfortable with their work being out there for all to see.
 


Bonus: You may attach one illustration to your email to show an example of your artwork. If you don't have artwork, don't worry. 


Now for the twitter party fun! Visit daily under the hashtag #PBParty to meet and greet and scout out slush hints.

Monday, March 16th         Tell us what genre you write and when you entered.

Tuesday, March 17th        Happy Saint Patrick's Day! What would your MC do to avoid getting pinched.

Wednesday, March 18      What is your favorite picture/chapter book?

Thursday, March 19          Animal, vegetable, mineral. Tell us if your MC is human or something else.

Friday, March 20                Wish my daughter happy birthday and say how you'll celebrate spring.

Saturday, March 21           Go wild day! Tell us something random about your writing style.

Sunday and Monday, March 22-23  Hold your breathe for the results and hug everyone. 


Sharon and I are so excited for the fun to start. As you've probably noticed we have seven agents and a couple of editors. You never know if this number might go up!

Good luck everyone! 

8 comments:

  1. Can't wait! Thanks so much for the opportunity!

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  2. Woo Hoo! I'm traveling xcountry today but got to the airport early so I think I'll be able to enter before we get on the plane!

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  3. Is versus spelled out or is it vs???

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  4. I am heartbroken that I missed the entry cutoff. Do you know if you'll be reopening for the additional 50 you mentioned? Thanks!

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    1. So sorry but we already did. I hope to run another PB contest this summer.

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