DESIRE EDITOR PITCH CHALLENGE

Yea!  Finally we have details.  I know that we've known about this for a while, but now that it's on the boards I'm nervous that I can't pull it all together.

 Stephanie T.

Thanks! 

Now back to writing, editing and boiling down to two provocative, powerful and hookworthy sentences...

Thank you for the details!  I am so excited and need to get the ms finished. 

Thanks for all the wonderful details and suggestions..

 I just finished my ms.. woohoo.. what a relief.. Now I have a few weeks to work on the rewrites and figure out the slugline to help it out..

Look forward to more news and details!

Hugs!

If I'm not really sure about my tagline.. and how well it is.. can I send a tester to you or here to the list for help and suggestions??

I'm a relative newbie to these things and would love a better chance to learn.

This is such a great oppertunity but I won't have internet access on the Sunday, the 15th. So, since I can't enter, I'm just saying good luck to all.

Chelle, I was just about to go online here and tell everyone about my experience of selling my manuscript through the last Desire pitch when I saw you'd mentioned my logline that's on my website. Thanks.

Rae, you will remember that I did an article for eHarlequin called "The Pitch, The Process & How to Get Picked up for Publication" but I think we lost it in the move to the new community. I've since put the article on my website and hopefully that will help everyone who decides to pitch this time.

Good luck to all!

Thanks so much for the great opportunity.  I have a ms ready to go and was just looking at the Desire series, but thought they weren't open to newbies like myself.  This should be fun!

Just checked out Maxine Sullivans website.  heaps of answers there for any other newbie that have any queries.

Wonderful share, Maxine. My being a newbie, too, your pitch article really helped. Love your website, too.

Thank you to Chelle and Maxine

Maxine - I love the help I got from your website and the ideas to help with the pitch.

I second it, it's definitely a wonderful help for a newbie to the publishing world.

Hugs and thank you!

Thanks everyone.  This is the first forum/chat room I have ever participated in and had no idea how valuable they can be.  What an amazing support group.  Thanks again.  And thanks Rae for the info. cheers

Feel the love! I just remember what it was like when we did the Superromance pitch. Authors came out of the woodwork to help with advice. I haven't heard much of that kind of support in any other industry.

And Rae deserves a huge pat on the back for all of her hard work in putting together these incredible opportunities.

you are not the only one with stomach cramps.  I'm a complete newbie, but I'm going to be brave enough to at least attempt it.  Good luck to you.

Unfortunately it bites darned hard sometimes! I will be working 60 hours a week all June, plus a three hour a day commute. I'm working on a story that could be a fab Desire, but I can see more than 25,000 words being done by the time of the pitch. Miracles might happen, but I doubt it! I have two other complete first drafts, and I could edit up one this month, but they just don't feel "Desire" enough to pitch.

Good luck in the contest to everyone who has a less horrendous June coming up!

I'm so glad my pitch article is helpful. I was incredibly nervous about the pitch but I figured it was worth being stressed over.

And I can guarantee that Diana is just lovely. And here's the thing. She might be a bit nervous too.

Again, good luck to all who enter.

Good luck and fingers crossed for everyone who enters!

Thanks for your suggestions Rae, I think the main prob for me at the moment is that struggling with this work project has fried my brain so much that it's also taken over the creative part of me. I woke up early this morning and lay awake working out possible solutions to problems- but on my work writing project (designing a software user manual and self-study guide, and putting together two weeks worth of training sesssions), not my story. And it's a Sunday, for crying out loud!

I'm going easy on myself, trying to write a little on my WIP every day but not putting too much word count pressure on, and trying to de-stress by grabbing some reading time and catching up with how some of the fab Harlequin writers in different lines have handled similar situations to my hero and heroine. 

I will be sooooo pleased when this big project is done and I can have my mind back!

Hi Rae,

Just swinging by to say hello and ask you a quick formatting question:

Do you prefer that the loglines be sent to you as Word attachments or just in the body of the email? 

Thank you, and I've been enjoying reading this thread!   I'm not sure yet whether my MS will be up to snuff for this contest -- if not, then I'll just sub it the regular way later on.  What a fantastic opportunity for someone! 

I have a Bite that I held on to when I heard there would be a contest -- will definitely send that when more details come out on the other thread.

I'll keep chugging along on my Desire MS, will hope to be able to enter this contest!    :-)

Call me dense but the ability to get into the chatroom never even occured to me until lately...and Rae's had my logline for a little while now. 

Haven't been able to get into the chatroom for ages but just recently went from dialup to wireless.  Checked last night and I got in!  Wahoo!  Not to mention...PHEW!

Bren

Hi there Empi!!

Glad you found your way over here.. :)

keep breathing, girlfriend.. lol.. we'll all get through it.. promise

Hugs