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Sharon Y. Cobb

We’d love to hear from you if you have suggestions or questions. Or if you have answers, that’s cool, too!

Here’s how to contact us:

Sharon@WritersPitchBook.com

33 Responses to Contact Us

  1. Corbin Johnson says:

    Dear Ms. Sharon Y. Cobb
    Hi Congrads on “Writers Offers Peer Advice For Pitching”! I was wondering if it would be possible to have a face to face meeting? If so i would be forever greatful!
    Sincerely,
    Corbin

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Corbin, Thanks for the kind words. Right now we only have a little over a week before the Pitch Book submission deadline and I’m trying to answer all questions and process incoming pitches. And, of course, I’m researching and contacting agents. Can you contact me after the Pitch Book goes to agents, editors and producers the week of September 12? Thanks for your understanding. Sharon

  2. Claudia Harris says:

    Sharon,
    I am interested in submitting several manuscripts at the Spring 2012 Writers Pitch Book. I have copyrights on these manuscripts and registered them under a pseudonym. Will I be able to conttinue to use my pseudonum when I submit them to Writers Pitch Book?
    Thank you.

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Claudia, Thanks for your question. Definitely, you’ll be able to use your pseudonym in Writers Pitch Book. What will happen is: you’ll use your pen name on pitches you submit with a note at the bottom of the email reminding me of your legal name. I promise to delete your legal name before cutting and pasting your pitches into the Pitch Book. That way, I can match up your pitches with your payments which I’m sure will be processed using your legal name. I’m I making this too complicated? Gosh, I think I need to open my current manuscript and start writing!

  3. Howie says:

    Hey Sharon: I just discovered your new venture. Best of luck with it. After my website redo is finished, I’d be happy to help promote it.

    I hope you and Robert and doing well.

    Happy Holidays!

    Howie M.

  4. Free says:

    Hi. I would love to show the world what I can offer. I have worked hard in 2011 to deliver a powerful new chiller, meant for Hollywood. How can I pitch?

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi there. I’ll be opening the Spring 2012 Writer Pitch Book for submissions soon. Do you have a script or a book? We include pitches for books, scripts and we also have a section for film rights. I’ll email you when we open submissions.
      Thanks for your interest.
      Sharon

  5. Jimmie Moore says:

    Soon I will be putting to use all the classes I took from you.
    I need to be in the next pitch book.
    I can’t wait for your opening night, this is our year.
    The world in coming to an end, good grif. Not until you
    see “Walking the Dog” on the big screen. Gosh this is fun.
    Take care and thank you for all you do, YOUR ARE A GAINT.
    Your friend
    Jimmie
    akaKnightDog

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Jimmie! Happy New Year! I’m counting on your book getting published and seeing it adapted into a film. 2012 will be HUGE!

  6. Tracy Plehn says:

    Hi,
    I stumbled on your website and I’m definitely intrigued. I got a book published two years ago and have sold a lot to family and friends. Everyone seems to love it and is anxious for me to finish the sequel. So much has happened in the last two years and I haven’t had the motivation or money to do the research as to how to get my book out there. My life is finally settling down and I really want to get the word out there and I know it would be a great movie, I just don’t know how to reach the right people. I know we all say that but I really believe it would. lol It is called Silent Twin and the sequel will be called Mist and Vengeance. It’s sort of the same genre as Twilight but not vampires. I’m anxious to learn more about your organization and maybe submit a pitch in the fall.

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Tracy, Congrats on publishing your book and especially on selling your book. Love the titles. Is it YA (young adult)? Most every thing you need to know about the Writers Pitch Book is here on the website if you click around. If you have questions, just email me at sharon@writerspitchbook.com.
      Write on!
      Sharon

      • Tracy Plehn says:

        Thank you Sharon. Yeah, the books are YA. The characters are, most of them, mid 20′s and thanks for the compliment on the titles. I’m having a lot of fun and now that my life is a little more settled I’m hoping to finally finish the sequel.

  7. Edward Cerda says:

    I have written three (3) action/horror manuscripts with Xlibris and I would like to offer them to someone in the hollywood movie making business. Possibly you can offer me some advise/guidance in the process. Many Thanks

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Edward, A BIG congrats on writing three action horror scripts. It’s always a good idea to write several screenplays in the same genre. Agents like that a lot and so do producers. It makes you more of an expert in that genre. Here’s some advice: there are several pitch festivals where you can go to LA and pitch to producers OR you can research production companies and find the ones who usually produce horror. Then find their contact information and pitch your scripts. If you don’t have agency representation, most production companies have release forms for you to sign so you can submit your scripts to them without representation. You can use the logline formula on our website to create your pitch. OR you could submit a pitch to Writers Pitch Book in the Fall of this year. The Pitch Book goes to film production companies and if a producer likes your pitch, he will request your script. Hope this is helpful. Write on! Sharon

  8. Sharon, can you please help me?
    Adventure on a DARE is NOT a political, religious, cure all, or how to book. It’s just a story based on a true- life adventure.
    Adventure on a DARE is the first in a series of true-life accounts describing Fritz T. Sprandel’s journey into himself in which he discovers his capricious nature and raises questions about the nature of faith. During the course of his adventure, Fritz visits a variety of natural wonders, small towns, and fascinating people on a budget of ten cents and his own amazing resourcefulness. After overcoming the challenges of the wild, he finds himself in a foreign country, falsely charged with espionage. Then he faces, and incredibly survives relatively unscathed, a revolutionary tribunal trial in Castro’s Cuba.
    The people he meets, the experiences he encounters, and the lessons he learns all become part of him. They form steps in his journey to meaning, although it’s a voyage that contains a deeper significance he doesn’t fully comprehend while he’s traveling.
    Adventure on a DARE hearkens back to the travels of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and satiates our irresistible urge to fulfill our dreams of adventure. It explores the theme of personal freedom and challenges the promise of the American dream. There’s something for everyone in this story: a travelogue with interesting locations, colorful characters who lend drama, adventures in facing nature’s wrath alone, and the suspense of a Communist courtroom are all elements of the journey. Above all else, it is fun and engrossing—a worthwhile escape from everyday life.

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Fritz, I love how you describe your book. It sounds a bit like magical realism meets the Hero’s Journey. What genre would you say your book is categorized as? You may consider submitting it as a pitch for the Fall 2012 Writers Pitch Book, if you’re looking for an agent, publisher or think producers maybe be interested in a film adaptation.
      Sharon

  9. Erin Gillis says:

    Dear Sharon Cobb,
    I want to submit a screen script of a television series that I have created and thought of for a very long time. I have already written the pilot script, the first episode, of my television series. The problem is that I do not know what television production company to send my story to and will the company let me be the television writer for my series? Most importantly though, how do I keep my writing, my story, from being stolen by someone else or another company?
    Thank you for your help and i look forward from hearing your advice from you.

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Erin, Congrats on completing your TV pilot script and first episode. You really should register both with Writers Guild of America to protect them. You may also want to register them with the Copyright Office in Washington, D.C. Is your series a sitcom or drama? The way new series are born is usually like this: a show runner (executive producer) of a popular show or even a hot writer for a popular show pitches their series idea to the network or cable outlet. If the network likes it, they will pay to have the writer write a pilot. Then when all the pilot scripts come in, the network picks the few that will go to production. One of the things many writers don’t understand about the series process is that networks are looking for show runners to work with because they have a track record of delivering a show on a weekly basis. So it’s not just about a great pilot script. That being said, I have had the experience of an international TV production company (Granada) asking me to pitch feature ideas to be adapted into series. They were planning on teaming me with a show runner with experience in producing a weekly show. Several of the film production companies that request the Pitch Book also have TV production departments. Perhaps we should allocate a section of the Pitch Book to TV series pilot scripts. Let me think about it. It’s a long shot for a writer to break-in that way…but not impossible.

  10. Plase disregard last request for cost info as I found it on another page (I am not computer savvy either). I am definitely interested in the Pitchbook due out August 31, 2012 but don’t know if I have the right stuff to pitch it as I would like. It is already pretty well described in the blog and further excerpts on the book itself, but I don’t know that this would be enough to attract anyone interested in making it a movie. It is a Fiction/psychological thriller that draws the reader into the characters and what they are feeling in the moment. DNA has not yet been discovered as a forensic tool which makes trying to discover the killer almost impossible. Although the reader knows who the killer is all along, it is how he is able to get away with it for long that captures the reader (or hopefully, the movie goer).

  11. Just waiting for what Sharon has to say. Highest regards, ronne

  12. Tracy Plehn says:

    I have my pitch ready and I tried to put my debit card info and it told me to use another card. I don’t have another debit card. I don’t have a Pay Pal acct. and don’t want to pay interest. What should I do?

  13. Shakeema says:

    I had my first book published and I am interested in making a movie out of my book. I need some help on how to write a pitch.

  14. Dee says:

    My friend is an amazing woman. When you begin to check her out, pass it along, she deserves a break. She is self taught with everything she does. Artist, Graphic, Artist, Singer, Writer and Published Author… wait till you hear her true story!
    Everyone is speechless… you CAN NOT put this book down. I attached her website, I am a true friend is all and I know her talent and gifts beyond any thing I have ever seen. Her strength… non like her.

    Just helping a friend by passing along the info to everyone I can… you will see, she will floor you in every way! People who know her know this… she has spiritual gifts not many know about, must less have.

    Her book: “Flashback Artist” by Lisa L. Everly is GREAT MOVIE MATERIAL!!!

    The Director will THAN YOU, when he gets his/her hands on this story. I promise.

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Dee, You are a true friend to tell us about your friend’s book and story. Hollywood loves true stories, especially books based on true stories. Encourage your friend to check out our website and submit a pitch to go to producers in April in our Spring 2013 Writers Pitch Book. Sharon

  15. Patricia A. Smith says:

    I am story writer, song writer and composer and a dancer as well, creates jokes and inspirational sayings, or speech. I am from West-Africa Ghana and worked in the Ghanaian movie Industry as independent screenplay writer for 4 years. I’m now living in California trying to pursue my dreams to a higher level as Screenplay writer. But need your help to get me an agent for my works. Tell me how i can get stated with you. Thanks.

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Patricia, Congrats for getting to LA. Not an easy thing to do. Now selling your work should be your top priority. Remember the old saying, “You can’t get an agent until you don’t need one?” Well, not so old…I think I made that up when I lived in Hell-A. But here’s the thing to do: first network like crazy. You should be out at Film Independent screenings and Writers Forum meetings often. Attend some workshops at Sherwood Oaks Experimental College (I used to teach there). And submit a pitch to our next Pitch Book. Just read about how to do that on this website. Best of luck! Sharon

  16. James L. Avery says:

    I would like to sell the movie rights to my novel. Read the information below and please contact me if you have any interest.
    Author and Seer James Lynn Avery’s Grace and Vengeance: Scepter or Scythe Risks His Life and Brings to Light what Experts and Authorities Want to Keep Hidden in the Dark
    Truths Behind the O. J. Simpson Murder Unveiled in New Book

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PRWEB) January 23, 2013

    The O. J. Simpson murder case shook the American nation and the whole world almost two decades ago. Although the case has long been closed in court, it still remains fresh and open in one seer’s mind, heart and soul. Today, to enlighten readers on certain truths about what many referred to as “the trial of the century,” and warn the public of similar dangers, author and seer James Lynn Avery publishes his new historical fiction, titled Grace and Vengeance: Scepter or Scythe. “Neither of the polarized opinions about the homicides had any validity because the entire truth was not of knowledge,” claims Avery. “Not one crime scene expert can offer the truth better than this seer can about the issues of the double homicides. I am offering the truth because those experts failed God with their expertise gifted by him to do his will.” Offering the truth is Avery’s primary and most important intent in publishing his novel. Unable to call for a press conference, historical fiction is the next best platform available to him to reveal evidences and detail his efforts and experience with the case. Courageously, he offers the truth that the government, the media, and the involved principals did not want people to know, despite lawsuits and threats that he expects to experience. “Some knew the truth and did not say it,” Avery adds. “Others knew the truth, and they lied. More and more of you are in the same danger as Mr. Ron Goldman and Ms. Nicole Brown-Simpson…I have offered the information to all the law enforcement departments and agencies, applicable. They ignore it to this day.” Bold, daring and risky, Grace and Vengeance: Scepter or Scythe is a book that will reveal astonishing details about the highly publicized case. It brings into the spotlight all that people have tried to keep in the dark.
    For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to http://www.Xlibris.com.
    About the Author James Lynn Avery is a seer called in the same way as others that are called by God to preach, heal, speak in tongues and discern the spirits which are all spiritual gifts. Those spiritual gifts are also the powers of Jesus Christ He accomplished during His time on earth. Avery’s calling began actively during the time of the homicide of Polly Klass in October 1993. Avery was given a profile drawing to remember. When the time arrived, the profile drawing was also a match to the image of the killer/main conspirator of Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Avery’s life is at most about serving God.
    Grace and Vengeance * by James L. Avery Scepter or Scythe Publication Date: September 25, 2012 Trade Paperback; $23.99; 518 pages; 978-1-4797-1756-9 Trade Hardback; $34.99; 518 pages; 978-1-4797-1757-6 eBook; $3.99; 978-1-4797-1758-3
    Members of the media who wish to review this book may request a complimentary paperback copy by contacting the publisher at +0800-644-6988. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at 44-203-006-8880 or call +0800-644-6988.
    For more information, contact Xlibris at +0800-644-6988 or on the web at http://www.XlibrisPublishing.co.uk.
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    Thank you and God bless,

    James L. Avery

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Wow, James, this is astonishing. It seems to me that this could be of interest to cable networks, but can’t make promises, of course. I assume you’re interested in selling film and TV rights. You may want to consider submitting a pitch for the Spring 2013 Pitch Book under Film & TV Rights and see what happens. You’ll need to condense your pitch and bio to 150 words. I know that can be challenging. But think about what would hook a TV producer and that may help. Hope to see you in the Pitch Book. Sharon

  17. Marcus Stout says:

    Hello I have two movies and a pitch written and was wondering. How do i find out weather my pitch is good before presenting it? Can you help me?

    • Sharon Y Cobb says:

      Hi Marcus, Of course I can help you. Just send make sure your pitch is written as a logline. Examples and instructions are on this website. Then send the pitches to me in an email: Sharon@WritersPitchBook.com. I’ll get back with you ASAP. Thanks! Sharon

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