{"id":2027,"date":"2014-02-03T22:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2014-02-27T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:40:31","slug":"pitch-wars-contest-mentee-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"Pitch Wars Contest: Mentee Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited! As a mentor in the Pitch Wars contest, I was tasked with picking one author out of the slush to prepare him for the agent round, and that I did. I read his book, massaged his pitch, and released it to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>That book got one request from an agent during the bidding window, and she asked for the full manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, she offered representation.<\/p>\n<p>My mentee signed with her today.<\/p>\n<p>My Pitch Wars mentee&#8211;now known as Whitney Fletcher&#8211;is the newest client of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. He has entrusted his urban fantasy&#8211;working title, QUEEN OF SHARDS&#8211;to the capable and enthusiastic Lana Popovic. And it was all made possible by little old meeeee, and Brenda&#8217;s Pitch Wars contest. Huzzah! I&#8217;m so proud of him.<\/p>\n<p>May his submission adventure go well!<\/p>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/juliesondradecker.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/pitch-wars-follow-up-why-i-am-best.html\">a more involved explanation of how everything happened<\/a> on my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so excited! As a mentor in the Pitch Wars contest, I was tasked with picking one author out of the slush to prepare him for the agent round, and that I did. I read his book, massaged his pitch, and released it to the wild. That book got one request from an agent during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-contests-2","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}