Manuscript Status: Finished
Mentor Name: Rachel Lynn Solomon
Mentee Name: Marisa Kanter
Title: TO BE MISREAD
Category: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary (Jewish #ownvoices)
Word Count: 75,000 words
Pitch:
IRL, seventeen-year-old Halle is a bookworm with severe social anxiety. Online, she’s Kels, an anonymous book blogger with (almost) 10K followers. When a boy with a blog of his own shows up at her new school, she must reconcile her dual identities—because while she’s falling for him as Halle, he’s in love with Kels.
Excerpt:
I can’t believe I packed my car charger. In the big suitcase. In the trunk.
What was I thinking?
My phone blinks. The backlight dims and the battery symbol turns red. Warning, it says. Refresh your email. Hurry, Halle. I’m dyingggg—
The screen cuts to black at three percent.
How dare it? How dare it die on the day I’m waiting for The Most Important Email of My Life, an email that can poof into my inbox at any moment between two p.m. and ten p.m. EDT?
It’s waiting for me now, for all I know.
Subject: You are NOT a BookCon panelist!
Subject: Why did you even apply?
Subject: If only you had more Twitter followers…
I drop my phone into the cup holder and look at my brother, Ollie. He’s out cold. I kick his foot so he’ll quit manspreading. Actually, manspreading might be giving Ollie too much credit. It’s more like pubescent-teenage-boy-spreading.
Regardless, it’s unnecessary.
I reach for the e-reader in my tote, loaded with dozens of YA novels on my TBR. According to Helene, our GPS, we’re two hours away from our destination: Middle of Nowhere, Connecticut.
“Stay. On. I-95. For the next. Fifty miles,” says Helene.
“Thanks, babe,” Mom says. For a second, I’m glad my parents are going to Africa, if only because it means I get a break from their perpetual weirdness.
Mostly, I want to burst into tears whenever I think about it too hard.
18 Comments
Brent Taylor · November 2, 2017 at 9:44 pm
Would love to read this. Please send as a Microsoft Word document to brent(@)triadaus(.)com. Looking forward!
Justin Wells · November 2, 2017 at 9:45 pm
Hi Marisa – I am incredibly intrigued by your pitch! Having been a blogger for nearly 9 years prior to becoming an agent, this really speaks to me! I would love to take a look at your full manuscript! Please send it (along with other info needed in form) via my Pitch Wars QM form here: https://querymanager.com/query/Justin_Wells/Pitch_Wars
Laura Crockett · November 2, 2017 at 10:36 pm
I’m interested in reading more! Please send the query in the body of the email, attach the full manuscript in a Word doc, subject line “Pitch Wars: [MS title],” to laura(at)triadaus(dot)com. Thanks! –Laura
Saba Sulaiman · November 2, 2017 at 11:23 pm
Hi Marisa,
This looks great—I’d love to read more! Please send a query, synopsis, and the first 50 pages (Word documents will suffice) to ssulaiman@talcottnotch.net — and don’t forget to mention #PitchWars in your subject line. Thanks—looking forward to my read!
Good luck,
–Saba
Jessie Devine · November 3, 2017 at 1:51 am
I love this! Please query me and upload the full manuscript here: QueryMe.online/devinequeries/PitchWars
Erica Bauman · November 3, 2017 at 7:26 am
Hi Marisa,
I’d love to see more! Please send a query and the full manuscript to ebauman@aevitascreative.com and put “Pitch Wars” in the subject line.
Thanks!
-Erica
Leon Husock · November 3, 2017 at 10:12 am
I would love to read more of this! Please send me a query, the full manuscript, and a one-sentence description of the basic premise at leon@lperkinsagency.com. Thanks!
Jess Dallow · November 3, 2017 at 10:12 am
Hi Marisa,
I’d love to read more! Please send the full manuscript attached in a word doc with your query letter in the body of the email to Jess@Browerliterary.com with #PitchWars and your title in the subject. Looking forward to reading!
Jess
Hillary Jacobson · November 3, 2017 at 10:20 am
Marisa, I love this idea! Please send the full manuscript as a word document to hjacobson@icmpartners.com. Thank you!!
Rena Rossner · November 3, 2017 at 11:28 am
I’d love to read this! Please send the full manuscript attached as a word document to: rena@thedeborahharrisagency.com
So excited! Can’t wait!
– Rena
Katie Shea Boutillier · November 3, 2017 at 12:29 pm
Love this! Please send query and the first 50 pages in word doc to ksboutillier@maassagency.com and put “PITCH WARS YA” in the subject like. Thanks so much and looking forward to reading! Always, Katie <3
Catherine Drayton · November 3, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Hi Marisa,
I’d love to read more of this. Please send your query to catherine@inkwellmanagement.com with the full manuscript attached.
Thanks!
Natascha Morris · November 3, 2017 at 4:02 pm
I love a good romance. Please send me the manuscript at QueryMe.online/1067/PitchWars2017. Thank you!
Tracey Adams · November 3, 2017 at 5:18 pm
I’d love to read the full! Please email to tracey@adamsliterary.com with your query letter and “Pitch Wars – YA” in the subject line. Thank you!
Roseanne Wells · November 3, 2017 at 7:38 pm
Haha, loved so much of this, I’d love to read more! Please use the guidelines on jdlit.com to send 100pp (instead of the normal 20), and include #Pitchwars in the subject line. I can’t wait to dive in!
Roseanne Wells
The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
Whitley Abell · November 4, 2017 at 1:38 am
Love, love, love! I’d love to see more! Please submit your query, synopsis, and first 50 pages to https://querymanager.com/query/inklings_whitley/PitchWars. I can’t wait to dive in!
Pam Victorio · November 4, 2017 at 4:13 pm
I love this! Please send a ‘query’ through my Query Manager and I’ll request the full through the system. http://QueryMe.Online/QueryPam
Melissa Nasson · November 6, 2017 at 3:41 pm
Marisa, I love this concept! Please send the first 50 pages as a Word doc or PDF attachment to melissa@rpcontent.com. Please also include your query letter in the body of the email, and Pitch Wars in the subject line.
I look forward to reading!
Thanks,
Melissa Nasson
Rubin Pfeffer Content
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