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  • Book Doctors Book Report: Milking Goats, Army Dogs, & Rocking New England

    Another Pitchapalooza Participant Lands a Book Deal!

    Congratulations to Ann Ralph on the sale of her book, The Little Fruit Tree Book, to Storey publishing. Ann has one of the most memorable elevator pitches we’ve ever heard. Here it is: The Elements of Style for Fruit Trees.


    Got a bookstore you love?

    If you know of any great bookstores, writers groups, colleges/universities or book fairs and festivals that would like to host a Pitchapalooza and/or workshop, let us know.

    The Book Doctors love making house calls.


    Internships and Barters

    We need interns! We’re also happy to barter services with writers–we’ll give you book doctoring services and any assistance you might require in your quest to get published.

    We are looking for help in the following areas:

    • WordPress
    • Social Media updates (on our website, Facebook, Twitter, and various other feeds)
    • Outreach to continuing education departments
    • Outreach to local writers organizations
    • Maintaining our calendar
    • QuickBooks
    • Setting up Pitchapalooza consultations
    • Writing press releases and contacting media
    • Running a weekly Twitter event
    • Posting and finding content (stories and quotations about writing, writers, books and publishing)
    • Making/editing/posting movies about publishing and chronicling our Pitchapaloozas and workshops.

    The Book Doctors Book Report: Milking Goats, Army Dogs, & Rocking New England

     

    Radiant reds, opulent oranges, puffy pinks, burnt burgundies, and mellow yellows fill the trees, there’s a nip in the breeze, and as fall fades, old man winter slowly rolls his frozen bones into our hearts and homes.  Since we last checked in, we milked goats in Santa Cruz; had an Obama sighting in Martha’s Vineyard; partied in an antebellum mansion in Richmond, ate pineapple shrimp taquitos in Austin, Texas; got free lunches and books in Madison; and basked in spectacular Technicolor foliage in Lake Placid.

    We heard pitches from judges, lawyers, a former topless musician, a special ed teacher, a 13-year-old and an octogenarian, slackers and hackers, pet vets and Army vets.  We heard pitches about menopausal dragons, catgut mythbusting, maniac murderers, New Age gurus, Austin boxing noir, cute kitties, dogs of war, an Australian graphic novel, soccer lunatics, rich girls, and bad dads.  We went to some of the greatest bookstores in the country, from Book Passage in Marin, to RJ Julia and Flying Pig (read owner Elizabeth Bluemle’s most excellent blog in Publishers Weekly) in New England, to Bookshop Santa Cruz, to Bunch of Grapes in Martha’s Vineyard. Not to mention great book festivals in Cape Cod, Texas, Baltimore, and Richmond.  We met so many generous and altogether awesome writers, booksellers, readers, mayors, dogs, and chickens.

    We heard from our Kansas City Pitchapalooza winner Genn Albin (part 2, part 3, part 4) about her wild ride from unknown writer to published author with a juicy three-book, six-figure deal.  We interviewed our friend Sam Benjamin on the Huffington Post about how he got his memoir published.  We finally got ahold of the video of Helen Armstrong, our 15-year-old winner from Chester County, PA—it’s pretty astonishing if you haven’t seen it.  We were made honorary citizens of Santa Cruz.  We did two bi-coastal Pitchapaloozas in 24 hours.  We were interviewed on Rick Kleffel’s on Bookotron.  And here’s our very first Pitchapalooza Podcast, courtesy of Lori Culwell and Stephan Cox.

    We are doing a Pitchapalooza Rocks New England Tour in November, then one last 2011 event at Book Revue in Huntington, Long Island—the first anniversary of our historic show there last year. In 2012, we already plan to go to New Orleans for the Tennessee Williams Festival, and it looks like a tour of Alaska and Hawaii are in the works.

    See you at the Bookstore,
    The Book Doctors

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    Thank You for Your Wonderful Words

    We’d like to thank everyone who has given us a testimonial about our Pitchapaloozas and workshops. Check out what both writers and booksellers are saying.

     


    See you at the bookstore, or in cyberspace.
    Thanks, Arielle & David

  • Pitchapalooza Rock the Bay Area Corte Madera to Santa Cruz to Berkeley to San Francisco

    The Book Doctors, aka, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, will be making house calls all over the Bay Area. They want YOU to pitch your book at Pitchapalooza, which was recently featured in The New York Times, and in mini-documentaries for Newsday and NBC. Pitchapalooza is like American Idol for books–only without the Simon. 20-25 writers get one minute to pitch their book ideas to an all-star panel of publishing experts. The winner receives an introduction to an appropriate agent or publisher for his/her book. Plus, anyone who buys a book gets a free consultation worth $100. In the last month THREE Pitchapalooza participants have signed book deals with great publishers. Two of them are from the Bay Area.
    July 23, Mystery Writers Conference, Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
    July 24, 1 PM, Green Apple Books, (Rock-It Room) San Francisco, California w/ Publishers Group West superstar Elise Cannon
    July 25, 7pm, Books Inc, Berkeley, California w/ Soft Skull top dog Laura Mazer
    July 28, 7 PM, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
    July 30, 10 AM, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (workshop)

    Arielle Eckstut has been a literary agent for 18 years. She is also the author of seven books and the co-founder of the iconic brand, LittleMissMatched. David Henry Sterry is the best-selling author of 12 books, on a wide variety of subject including memoir, sports, YA fiction and reference. His last book appeared on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Together, they’ve helped dozens and dozens of talented amateur writers become published authors. They’ve appeared everywhere from NPR’s Morning Edition to USA Today, and have taught publishing workshops everywhere from the Miami Book Fair to Stanford University. Find more at www.thebookdoctors.com.

    Stanford Workshop: How To Get Your Book Published
    It is the greatest time in history to be a writer. The barrier to publishing has been torn down and now anyone can get published. But to get published successfully is a whole other matter. Eckstut and Sterry take you through the entire publishing process, from choosing the right idea, to writing a door-opening proposal or manuscript, to finding the right agent and/or publisher (or going right to self-publishing), to promoting and marketing your work, to effectively using social media. This all-in-one, soups-to-nuts workshop will leave attendees with a compass and map to a successfully published book.

    Here’s what people are saying about The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published:

    “I started with nothing but an idea, and then I bought this book. Soon I had an A-list agent, a near six-figure advance, and multiple TV deals in the works. Buy it and memorize it. This little tome is the quiet secret of rockstar authors.”—New York Times best-selling author Timothy Ferris, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich,

    “It is a must-have for every aspiring writer… thorough, forthright quite entertaining.”—Khaled Hosseini, New York Times bestselling author of the Kite Runner

    “Before you write your own book, read this one first.”—Jonathan Karp, editor-in-chief, Simon and Schuster