Pitchapalooza, the American Idol for books (only without Simon)

NaNoWriMo Online Pitchaplaooza: The Entries

March 5, 2012

Epic punks, self-Googling, teenage cowboys, hired assassins, a ynkedra, Steve Jobs in heaven, fantasy kingdoms in galaxies far far away, and of course a couple of vampires. Once again, we were totally blown away by the diversity, quantity and quality of pitches we got in our NaNoWriMo Pitchapalooza. But of course we’ve come to expect [...]

Post Script

March 5, 2012

P.S. Many of you have emailed us to ask if we’re still offering free 20-minute consultations (worth $100) to anyone who buys a copy of The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published. The answer is yes! Click on the book link to order. And then send us a copy of your sales receipt. The [...]

College Times Reports on Pitchapalooza

March 4, 2012

Have an idea for a book but don’t know the first thing about pitching it? The Book Doctors can help. David Henry Sterry, author of such varied works as “Confessions of a Sex Maniac” and “The Glorious World Cup: A Balls-Out Guide,” and his wife, literary agent and author Arielle Eckstut, help aspiring authors bring [...]

Adventures in Vermont (Northshire Books) & Madness in Arizona (Changing Hands)

February 28, 2012

Watchung Books Podcast: Workshop and Pitchapalooza

February 23, 2012

Click here to hear!

Scott Armstrong: My Self Publishing Journey or How I Stumbled into Becoming an Author

February 9, 2012

It began small, as things often do. A line in a dinner conversation which could easily have been swept away in the sometimes lively swirl. My teenage daughter, Helen, the writer in our family, said, “NaNoWriMo is almost here.” “What’s that?” I asked. “National Novel Writing Month. You have to write a 50,000 word novel [...]

NaNoWriMo Online Pitchaplaooza

February 8, 2012

You wrote your 50,000 words (or got pretty close!). You’re a winner. You’ve been congratulated. You felt the high. But here’s the 64-gigabyte question: What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious manuscript? If you’re like the approximately one gazillion writers we know, you want to get published. And you want [...]

The Book Doctors on Huffington Post: How to Get Your Book Published When the Everyone Keeps Rejecting It

February 8, 2012

The crazy tale of Nura Maznavi & Ayesha Mutta, & how their book Love InshAllah finally got published by Soft Skull Press. http://huff.to/ADAzEz

Nura & Ayesha Get Published, or From ‘He’s just not that into you’ to ‘As good as it gets’ in under one minute

February 7, 2012

From ‘He’s just not that into you’ to ‘As good as it gets’ in under one minute by Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi We came to the Book Doctors with our book on life support. Three years earlier, we had an idea for a book: a collection of stories written by American Muslim women about [...]

Pitchapalooza Podcast from Book Revue, Huntington Long Island

January 3, 2012

The Book Doctors had a great time at the 2nd annual Book Revue in Long Island. Here’s the podcast!

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