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Pitch Perfect – Have you got it?

Liza Minelli does. But what does Liza (with a Zee) have do so with pitching our mss?

Tonight I heard her say,

“Magic happens when luck and preparation meet.”

I think that’s so relevant to preparing for our pitches and submissions.
Be as prepared as you can and let the magic happen.
Wishing you all the PERFECT PITCH!
PS
It’s now 2012 and with a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster publishing I think I can add my own quote. I don;t believe in magic, but I do believe in luck and:
“Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity meet.”
So to move to that next step (publication) start seeking out opportunites by joining a writers group (local or online), attend writers/readers conferences and festivals, and ask around. You’ll be surprised how generous and supportive people in this business really are.
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Any other nuts out there?

I must be nuts! Did anyone else enter 3 sentences into the Knight Agency’s Book in a Nutshell competition?

I did – one of 1200 entries it would appear!!!!!!! So I’ve been hanging around the Knight Agency blog waiting for results (they’d said by May 1). Here is the latest update.

Just wanted to let everyone know that the TKA agents are all busy whittling down the entries in the Book-in-a-Nutshell contest. Our fabulous Melissa Jeglinski has cut down the more than 1200 submissions!! to a much-less-scary 70 or so. Each of us is reading all of the remaining entries and we’ll be cutting it down further from there. We have some fabulous stuff, and everyone who entered should be commended for distilling their stories down to our three-sentence limit. Great job, all of you!

I’m not nutty enough to think I’ll make the cut, but I really did enjoy the challenge. It was a fabulous writing excercise.
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Don’t Botox Your Book

 

I just watched 60 Minutes – a story on women who botox their faces; young women with hardly a wrinkle in sight.
What caught my attention was a word of warning from one comentator in relation to this new botox fad. This is what she said about when to stop. “There’s good, better, and buggered.”
I immediatley related this to writing (I relate everything in life to my writing!).
Think about it.
You start out with a ‘good’ book and revisions make it a ‘better’ book. But you need to know when to stop, when it’s enough, when to accept it as the best it can be. That’s the time to stop (before it’s buggered) and maintain your integrity, and more importanly your expression!