Name: Pitch to Jacana Media
Country: South Africa
Word count: book length
Entry fee: Free
Prize: Royalty for publication
Eligibility: Writers all over the world
Closing Date: July 14, 2017
A lot of unsolicited submission fly into the mails of publishing houses everyday. Many get rejected. Several get through the gate keeping process and are published.
Jacana is offering you an opportunity to convince her to publish your work. You will be given a chance to participate in a twenty-minute session where you will pitch your book to a panel that comprises a media representative, three publishers and a high-powered bookseller.
Jacana will consider pitches in the following genres:
– Lifestyle
– Children’s
– Fiction
– Politics/Current Affairs/History
– Memoir/Biography/Auto-Biography
– Natural History/Travel
– Cookery/Baking
– Business
– Self-help
From the pile of submitted entries, twenty candidates will be selected to participate in a Live Pitching Session on August 4, 2017. You don’t want to miss the opportunity of getting your work published, do you?
Prepare your manuscript
Prepare a one page outline of:
• How you are going to help Jacana sell your book
• What target market you can reach with your book
• How your book fits into the Jacana brand
• What your book is all about
Visit Pitch to Jacana Media to begin the journey of getting published
