jamie levitt

jamielisa — Congratulations to Jamie on his new job. We’ll miss him!

This week I said, “Good-bye” to Jamie Levitt, who has been on the Bring Your Book to Life Program team for over a year and a half. In that time, Jamie was instrumental in the development of my award-winning Bring Your Book to Life Program–editing CD’s finding resources, offering ideas.

Jamie has often been the strategist behind our social media–teaching me to engage more on Facebook and Twitter and managing our Facebook page. Jamie researched how to create our writing contest and did all the work behind the scenes, so that my only job was providing feedback to our contestants through the blog and being one of the judges.

I could go on and on about his accomplishments, creativity, work relationships, work ethic and more, but I will just end in asking you to comment below and join me in thanking Jamie and wishing him well as he begins his new job as Junior Manager of Ticket Sales and Fan Development for Ball State University. They are very lucky to have him!

inspiriation to authorself study course — Jamie edited all the CDs for these materials.

The wonderful Rachel Horwitz, who has also been with us for a year and a half, will be taking over many of Jamie’s areas.

If you’ve gotten clarity about your book through Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book, or written your book in my Bring Your Book to Life Program or in the self study version–Inspiration to Author— (and love those CD’s!), if you participated in our writing contest, if you connect with us through social media, or if you’ve ever had the pleasure of working with Jamie, please share your comments below in wishing Jamie well.

Lisa Tener book pitch contest — Your Book Writing Coach Lisa Tener

What would it be like to look at your own book pitch with the eyes of a professional in the field—an agent, editor or publicist?

By reviewing the pitches—and our expert comments—from the “Pitch Your Book to Life” contest, you can:

1. Learn to write a compelling book pitch.

2. Get a sense of what might be missing from your book pitch

3. Receive the stimulation to come up with new ideas for your book.

On April 5^th through April 19^th(2012), we hosted the “Pitch Your Book Life” contest. Participants had the chance to submit a 3-5 sentence “elevator pitch” about their book concept to be reviewed by Literary Agent Michael Larsen, Book Publicity Expert Rusty Shelton, and myself.

Experts’ Feedback on Book Pitches

not a judge in pitch your book to life writing contest — This fellow was just too inexperienced to judge the entries, though he did share his opinions loud and clear.

Read my feedback on all contest entries for tips that might help you take your book concept to pitch to the next level, or–if you haven’t written a pitch—to write a compelling one:

Read the top 10 finalists entries.

The first blog entry of the contest explains how the contest worked. Congratulations to the winner, Kate Forest, and runner up, Nora Hall! Read more information about the judges’ decision.

THANKS

A BIG, BIG thank you to Jamie Levitt, who created the contest and was the genius and hard work behind it, to Rachel Horwitz for the initial idea, to Geri Lafferty for her support and to our judges Michael Larsen and Rusty Shelton. And, of course, a big thank you to all our wonderful contestants. Good luck with your books.

Several contestants mentioned that the contest helped them “declare” their book and move forward. Many revised their pitches or fine tuned their book ideas. Congratulations for taking the step and making the most of this opportunity

We have never run a contest like this before and would love to get your feedback. You can send us feedback by commenting below or here.

Were you a finalist or winner? Use one of the above badges to share your accomplishments and have the badge link back to this blog post!

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