Shop The Novel, Pitch the House - June 26-29, '08

This New York conference is a unique opportunity for writers with completed novel manuscripts, narrative non-fiction, or works-in-progress to not only workshop their novel with professional fiction editors, but meet and pitch top acquisition editors from major publishing houses such as Ace, Berkley, Doubleday, Penguin, Random House, Viking, and more. Following the conference, on an average, one out of three projects are requested for a close read by publishers.

Stop by our NYC Pitch and Shop NEWS page for the latest updates on project requests and contracts signed, and read How It Works for more details on conference benefits. Simply put, the NYC Pitch and Shop goal is to set writers on a realistic path to publication by providing not only opportunity, but guidance on the novel from the best industry professionals in New York.

Additionally, as needed, we will produce agent and further publishing contacts for writers who have very competitive manuscripts. If our writers succeed, we succeed. See our commentary by former attendees for a realistic assessment.

NOTE: Thanks to all our editors and NYC staff for a successful April event!
Our next conference will take place on September 25 - 28, 2008.


Is This Writers Conference Right For You?

Was it right for those who met with success as a result of the conference? See commentary by former attendees, and our news page, both noted above. Also, please review our criteria for who should participate in this conference and who should not. If this pitch conference is not right for you and you require craft instruction from professionals, we recommend Algonkian Writer Conferences and the New York Writers Workshop (NYWW).

The acquisition Editors attending the "NYC Pitch and Shop" writers conference represent a variety of genres, including literary, general commercial, women's fiction, mystery/crime/thriller, historical, YA, and SF/F. All of them have worked with top authors and most work with more than one genre. Their bios, as well as more information on the sponsors and the bios of the workshop leaders can be found here.


What Makes This Conference Different?

Algonkian Writer Conferences and NYWW have melded faculty, connections, and expertise to produce the first novel pitch conference in NYC (and the U.S.) that not only provides writers with sufficient time to properly pitch top editors from major publishers, but also three intensive "pitch workshops" designed to teach the art of the pitch and at the same time, work with writers to improve their novels.

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ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS

Traditional Novel, Fiction, and Non-Fiction Workshops
Algonkian Writer Conferences
New York Writers Workshop (NYWW)
NYWW Faculty
Algonkian Faculty

Interviews


 
 


NEW BOOK PUBLICIST
PANEL AT JUNE
NYC PITCH CONFERENCE



We are pleased to announce that the June NYC will include a book publicist panel composed of experts in the field of marketing books and authors. More news.


NOVELS BY
ATTENDEES NOW
AVAILABLE FOR ORDER
AT AMAZON BOOKS



Madapple - by Christina Meldrum, now available for order from Amazon. When her mother dies unexpectedly, Aslaug is a suspect. And the more her story unravels, the more questions unfold.

The Fiction Class - by Susan Breen, now available for order from Amazon. The collision of truth and fiction can result in romance or even redemption—or so say the writing exercises and life lessons that make up Breen's debut novel.

Obedience - by Will Lavendar, now available for order from Amazon. Professor Williams assigns his students the most sinister of logic problems. “There’s been a murder,” he tells them.


WRITERS AND AUTHORS
TALK ABOUT THE
NYC PITCH AND SHOP


Interview with NYC Pitch and Shop attendee, writer Christine Stewart, writer in residence at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Director of the Write Here, Write Now workshops, founding co-sponsor of the Baltimore chapter of the Maryland Writers Association, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship.

Interview with NYC Pitch and Shop attendee, author Kate Gallison. Her second mystery series featured Mother Lavinia Grey, an Episcopal priest in a small town in New Jersey struggling to keep her church open and solve the occasional murder ...

Interview with NYC Pitch and Shop attendee, Alex Keto. Alex was a journalist for twenty-one years. He joined Dow Jones Newswires and worked New York City as a reporter, in Amsterdam as a bureau chief, and Bonn as a reporter. He returned to the U.S. in 1995 and worked as the company's White House correspondent for ten years.

Interview with NYC Pitch and Shop attendee, writer Sara Beth Jonassen. Sara Beth has workshopped extensively with The Writer's Studio in NYC. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University at Albany, where she studied with author Laura Marello (winner of the Aniello Lauri Award for Fiction).



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