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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Harlequin American Romance Pitch Contest

Pantster and I were chosen as one of the five winners in the Harlequin American Romance Pitch Contest. This means that tomorrow we will have the opportunity to pitch our manuscript online to Harlequin Senior Editor, Kathleen Scheibling. We entered a one page synopsis and a brief log line. We learned during this experience that a log line is sort of like an elevator pitch--just a couple of sentences.

I know that many of you are finding it hard to believe that we were able to contain ourselves to a brief one page synopsis. You may find it even more difficult to believe that our current work in progress, which is PERFECT for Harlequin's American Romance line is under 60,000 words. Yeah, I know it sounds so implausible that I am still grasping it too.

We'll let you know how it goes!

11 comments:

  1. Woohoo! This is so exciting! Let us know how it goes! We want to hear everything! Best of luck! Although you won't need it - the book is fabulous! The editor will love it! Fingers crossed!

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  2. Cheryl-Thanks so much for your support. It helps with the case of nerves I am suffering from.

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  3. Best of luck, y'all! You can do it!

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  5. Well it is all over now. Jean and I survived the online pitch. The editor, Kathleen Scheibling, was very nice and it was a mostly painless process.

    She requested a partial, and Jean and I are both very excited!

    Thanks for all your support and prayers.

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  6. Jean and I are very excited!

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  7. We are very excited! Thank you all for your support!

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  8. A SQUEEE worthy blog, this be! Congratulations, ladies!!!!!! I have every confidence that you would get a request. ;)

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  9. Which also leads me to say, I have every confidence that you will get many requests at conference too. :D

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