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New York Writers Workshop\'s Pitch Conferences - Attend if you\'re serious about getting published!!!

9/22/2010

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Okay, so I said I’d get back to you about an essential little conference called The New York Writers Workshop’s Pitch Conference.  It’s a great, long title for a small, intensely important workshop.  Every writer that’s trying to get published really needs to go to this (so that’s most of us, of course!)

Here, you’ll polish your pitches under the direction of your Conference Leader in an intimate, workshop-like setting.  Then, you’ll actually pitch your book directly to three different editors from major New York publishing houses.  And here’s an impressive fact: following their pitch, the majority of conference participants receive requests for either a partial or full manuscript.  Some receive these requests from more than one editor at the conference. 

It’s easy to connect the dots here.  Attend this conference, and you stand a very good chance of attracting the interest of an editor at a major publishing house.  Isn’t that what we all want?  Isn't that what you've been working so hard for?

The number of attendees is fairly small.  When I was there, I believe there were only about 30 writers at the conference.  These 30 were then broken into smaller groups in order to perfect their pitches.  So the atmosphere and personal attention are ideal.  Perhaps this is why there were authors at my particular session from as far away as England and Australia (well, and the fact that they could pitch their books directly to three different editors probably didn't hurt either).

If you want to attend, you need to be accepted into the conference by the organizers.  They’ll ask for a concise premise about your book/project and a little information about yourself.  But don’t fret about this; just do it.  It’s worth it!

There are a few sessions every year in both the spring and the fall, and they have separate conferences for both fiction and non-fiction.

The next conference is pretty soon...   Non Fiction Pitch Conference:     Oct. 8 - 10, 2010

And for the fiction writers...                   Fiction Conference:     Nov. 12 – 14, 2010

 

There will be another two conferences in the spring, both for fiction and non-fiction.

 

Make sure you check out their website for further details, and to register.

http://www.newyorkwritersworkshop.com



You really owe it to yourself to go to this one!!!!
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A Fan
12/9/2010 09:12:23 am

Hey - you haven't written in a while. I miss your posts and look forward to hearing more soon.

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Tiffany and Co Outlet link
8/2/2012 11:12:20 am

Personal Blogrsonal Site’d want to use some with the content material on my blog whether or not you don’t mind. I learn something more challenging on different blogs everyday.

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D.H. Nevins link
8/4/2012 06:59:43 am

Hi Tiffany and Co,
You're welcome to use some of this content on your own blog. Thanks for asking first. If you could please credit this blog for the info and, if possible, link back to it, that would really be appreciated. Thanks! ~D.H.

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8/21/2012 02:31:44 pm

This post is very interesting. I love you're writing style, I pray you keep up the amazing blogging, I'll definitly come back

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Duped
10/19/2012 12:48:50 am

Conference is designed to take your money. Any person who applies is accepted. Please save your money.

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D.H. Nevins link
10/19/2012 01:11:27 pm

Sounds like you've been to one. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. There is no guarantee that one's pitch will be accepted at this conference, of course. However, it's still amazing if you think of it. Here, a writer actually gets a chance to pitch their book directly to one of the big publishing houses. Where else can an author get such an opportunity? Yes, it sucks if it didn't work out for you, but wasn't it worth a shot?

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