BookPitch.com Launches Publishing out of the 1950s by Creating A Revolutionary “Match.com for Manuscripts”
BookPitch.com has launched and will serve publishers, writers, agents, authors, vendors and associated talent. Exclusive software and services will facilitate the flow of proposals, manuscripts, ideas and information, and help move the publishing industry easily into the electronic age.
Burlington, WA, May 31, 2005 --(PR.com)-- BookPitch.com, an Internet publishing portal serving the global writing and book publishing community, has launched. Book publishing, which has lagged behind every other entertainment business in its use of the power and reach of the Internet, has been given an online full-service facilitator for the first time. BookPitch.com will serve publishers, authors, writers, agents, vendors and associated talent.
The Founder and CEO of BookPitch.com is Patricia M. Kelley, originally from Anacortes, WA., who now resides in the beautiful Skagit Valley area of Washington state.
For over a year the author and business consultant has been working with software developers, designers, editors and content providers to develop a way to offer writers, agents and publishers the equivalent of a literary online dating service.
Such an online interactive mechanism would mean no more book proposals stuck on desks. No more slush pile. “Proposals should lead to marriage, after all,” Kelley says. “And I’m very happy to be the matchmaker.”
Even though almost every one of book publishing’s design and production functions is now digital, the industry’s acquisitions capability has been left behind, virtually alone, back in the 1950s. This has remained true despite the fact that a huge percentage of publishing people are Internet users and the amount of time all Americans spend on the Internet has doubled in five years.
The extensive planning and developing of BookPitch.com services and software have been rewarded with rave initial reviews.
“Wow. Is this ever impressive and exciting. There is no site like it,” responded Ron Chepesiuk, internationally renowned journalist, Fulbright Scholar and member of the UCLA faculty, “It’s going to make a tremendous splash. Congratulations. I think a revolution is about to begin.”
“Your site looks fabulous and I can hardly wait to really dig into it,” wrote Kathy Cordova, best selling author and TV talk show host.
Exclusive BookPitch.com software allows publishers, agents and writers to offer rights to their books, proposals and projects easily and efficiently. The same efficiency and exclusivity is also the aim of the website’s unique Calls for Submission software.
Other features include Deal Talk, a deal-reporting database; a full-featured jobs board with resume-maker; exclusive eCards that are publishing industry-specific; personal blogs for every member; a BookPitch.com email address for members; forums; columnists reporting exclusively from inside the industry on subjects ranging from the increasingly influential independent houses to the latest “Hit Lit”-- black writing with street cred-- to agents hiring press agents, to Hollywood’s take on graphic novels and cartoons. Even the BookPitch.com Horoscope is being specially written with the needs of the industry in mind.
Podcasts and vlogs—the new video generation of blogs—will soon be seen on BookPitch.com, and so will moblogs, mobile video blogs. As the fast-breeding new technologies produce new communications possibilities, they will be seen on BookPitch.com.
BookPitch.com is a division of Pitch Portals, LLC. The website address is www.BookPitch.com. The mailing address is P.O. Box 969, Burlington, WA. 98233 and the corporate phone number is 1-360-542-8304.
Contact and Interviews:
Patricia Kelley, CEO and Founder
1-360-542-8304
pkelley@BookPitch.com
Ask for 30-day membership pass available for journalists
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The Founder and CEO of BookPitch.com is Patricia M. Kelley, originally from Anacortes, WA., who now resides in the beautiful Skagit Valley area of Washington state.
For over a year the author and business consultant has been working with software developers, designers, editors and content providers to develop a way to offer writers, agents and publishers the equivalent of a literary online dating service.
Such an online interactive mechanism would mean no more book proposals stuck on desks. No more slush pile. “Proposals should lead to marriage, after all,” Kelley says. “And I’m very happy to be the matchmaker.”
Even though almost every one of book publishing’s design and production functions is now digital, the industry’s acquisitions capability has been left behind, virtually alone, back in the 1950s. This has remained true despite the fact that a huge percentage of publishing people are Internet users and the amount of time all Americans spend on the Internet has doubled in five years.
The extensive planning and developing of BookPitch.com services and software have been rewarded with rave initial reviews.
“Wow. Is this ever impressive and exciting. There is no site like it,” responded Ron Chepesiuk, internationally renowned journalist, Fulbright Scholar and member of the UCLA faculty, “It’s going to make a tremendous splash. Congratulations. I think a revolution is about to begin.”
“Your site looks fabulous and I can hardly wait to really dig into it,” wrote Kathy Cordova, best selling author and TV talk show host.
Exclusive BookPitch.com software allows publishers, agents and writers to offer rights to their books, proposals and projects easily and efficiently. The same efficiency and exclusivity is also the aim of the website’s unique Calls for Submission software.
Other features include Deal Talk, a deal-reporting database; a full-featured jobs board with resume-maker; exclusive eCards that are publishing industry-specific; personal blogs for every member; a BookPitch.com email address for members; forums; columnists reporting exclusively from inside the industry on subjects ranging from the increasingly influential independent houses to the latest “Hit Lit”-- black writing with street cred-- to agents hiring press agents, to Hollywood’s take on graphic novels and cartoons. Even the BookPitch.com Horoscope is being specially written with the needs of the industry in mind.
Podcasts and vlogs—the new video generation of blogs—will soon be seen on BookPitch.com, and so will moblogs, mobile video blogs. As the fast-breeding new technologies produce new communications possibilities, they will be seen on BookPitch.com.
BookPitch.com is a division of Pitch Portals, LLC. The website address is www.BookPitch.com. The mailing address is P.O. Box 969, Burlington, WA. 98233 and the corporate phone number is 1-360-542-8304.
Contact and Interviews:
Patricia Kelley, CEO and Founder
1-360-542-8304
pkelley@BookPitch.com
Ask for 30-day membership pass available for journalists
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