• Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.

    This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.

    Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…

    • Don't give offence
    • Don't take offence

    We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.

    You can dismiss this notice by clicking the "x" box

News DHH pitching session - York

Invest in You. Get Full Membership now.
Status
Not open for further replies.

Andrew Okey

Basic
Joined
Aug 8, 2017
Location
England
LitBits
0
Something for those of you who are novelists and are based in the North of England -

DHH Literary Agency are staging a pitching session in York on 1st December and they have 110 ten-minute slots available with their agents. If you want to get the chance, application details (fairly standard - letter, synopsis, first 5000) are here:

Pitch DHH: York

A.
 
Extended till 10 AM Monday morning. They had email issues, worried that subs had got lost. Publicised on twitter. Radio Leeds interviewed David Headley last week. He said he reads the letter, goes straight to your paragraph with your stated market positioning, eg 'this is an adult crime thriller that might appeal to readers of [INSERT TITLE.]' Then he stops and goes straight to the MS then back to the letter, and then maybe the synopsis.
 
Invest in You. Get Full Membership now.
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest Articles By Litopians

  • Advertising and Social Media
    There has been much discussion in writing circles about how much a writer has to self-promote these ...
  • Future Abstract: Fights at Night
    SATIRE ALERT: The following abstract is entirely fictional and does not represent actual events or s ...
  • Great Novel Openings Quiz
    As writers, we all know how important it is to grip the reader from the very start. Intriguing, surp ...
  • In The Summertime
    In the early seventies, I had a semi-Afro hairstyle and a shaggy beard. . I thought I looked like th ...
  • Working with a Literary Agent
    The Querying In a previous post I mentioned that I was back in the query trenches. To recap, my earl ...
  • Danger! Danger!
    What is perhaps the most feared creature of the Borneo rainforest, I hear you ask? Who is the King o ...
  • The World Has Missed You
         May 2021… COVID lockdown restrictions had eased, so Mrs Treaclechops and I headed to the I ...
Back
Top