{"id":103,"date":"2007-12-09T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/pitch-engine\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T07:54:11","slug":"pitch-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pitch-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the mailboxes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwg.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Writers Guild<\/a> members, associates and supporters were crossed with the Guild&#8217;s revived and renamed quarterly magazine, <em>Pitch Engine<\/em>. A successor to the quarterly <em>WriteUp<\/em> that shifted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writeup.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> for a couple of years, <em>PE<\/em> intends to Get Out There and Build Awareness. Props galore to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwg.org.nz\/about-us.php#006\" target=\"_blank\">executive director <strong>Steve Gannaway<\/strong> and editor supremo <strong>Dara McNaught<\/strong><\/a> for getting the mag up and running in a mere few months.<\/p>\n<p>Issue One includes interviews and articles from the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outrageous_Fortune_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Outrageous Fortune<\/a> creators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0341219\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Griffin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1899105\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Lang<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0808265\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ferryman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0251415\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stickmen<\/a> scribe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1056766\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Ward<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facelift_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">Facelift<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/poll.imdb.com\/title\/tt0414998\/\" target=\"_blank\">Futile Attraction<\/a> writer <a href=\"http:\/\/poll.imdb.com\/name\/nm1644599\/maindetails\" target=\"_blank\">Benedict Reid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Available at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitcoulls.co.nz\/b2c\/init.do\" target=\"_blank\">Whitcoulls<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperplus.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Plus<\/a> near you.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Disclosure:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I have a couple of articles in there &#8211; one I&#8217;d impulsively pitched on the spot to them (and then had to deliver), and the other an amalgam of <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/awful-awful-awful\/\">these<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/making-it-compelling\/\">two<\/a> posts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the mailboxes of New Zealand Writers Guild members, associates and supporters were crossed with the Guild&#8217;s revived and renamed quarterly magazine, Pitch Engine. A successor to the quarterly WriteUp that shifted online for a couple of years, PE intends to Get Out There and Build Awareness. Props galore to executive director Steve Gannaway &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pitch-engine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pitch Engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4,6],"tags":[521,500,519,520,515,18,518,514,512,513,517,516,345],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-benedict","tag-dara-mcnaught","tag-facelift","tag-futile-attraction","tag-james-griffinrachel-lang","tag-new-zealand-writers-guild","tag-nick-ward","tag-outrageous-fortune","tag-pitch-engine","tag-steve-gannaway","tag-stickmen","tag-the-ferryman","tag-writeup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}