Sentences with phrase «editors take pitches»

Going to a conference where agents and editors take pitches is one way.

Not exact matches

Along with Harris, the two pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.

In this edition of the CB Elevator Pitch, editor - in - chief James Cowan suggests companies need to take a hard look at the number of meetings employees are having — or being forced to attend.

We provide producers and editors with exactly the type of material they want and need, and our extensive list of personal contacts developed over the years, combined with a state - of - the - art media database, enables us to effectively pitch and persuade media to take interest in our clients and their books.

(In addition to taking pitches at the event, Cate is also teaching the class «How to Be a Better Writer: What You Need to Do Before Submitting Work to Agents & Editors.»)

«The Atlanta Writer's Club Conference was my first conference, and the manuscript I took along to pitch to the guest editors and agents, was my first novel — a mystery that I finished just three months earlier.

I'm guessing that this is going to make not one iota of difference in the way Samhain pays the authors that it promotes to Samhain Gold; Samhain then gets to send editors to conference (comped)(provided that they take pitches only for the Samhain Gold line), and we have a very simple test for allowing e-publishers: If you believe you can guarantee decent royalties for a good number of authors (although not for all of them), you're in.

Possibly «future slush piles» could be simple letters giving a pitch on the book and a coupon for the editor to read it for free and take a look at the overall package.

When I first started out doing writers conferences many moons ago, I knew that I wasn't the only editor wanting to do seminars, so I took the tact of perfecting my pitch.

I know at least one writer who has received an offer from there unagented (the smart cookie thanked the editor for the offer and got herself an agent to negotiate the deal points, stat), and they regularly take pitches at writing conferences I've attended.

The first two days play host to CraftFest, a time for writers to learn from the greats on topics pertaining to suspense writing, as well as AgentFest, in which over sixty agents and editors attended to take pitches from aspiring authors, a rare head count of talent for writing conferences.

Until now, the author pitch was defined as a hard - sell verbal punch to persuade agents and editors to take on their book.

Why take the time, energy, and money to do all the work yourself (or hire designers / editors to assist you) when you could pitch the book to traditional publishers, hand the book over to them, claim a nice advance, and sit back while they do the heavy lifting?

Central Ohio Fiction Writers had brought in a NY editor, Kate Duffy, to take pitches at one of their events.

This week the travelling circus of money pitched its tents at Good Financial Cents, where my post on when to take Social Security was an editor's pick.

Editor's Note: The RGDA Dev - Play Indie Pitch Contest took place on 26th and 27th of September in Romania.