Three teen editors on three blogs with three prizes. Win!
Submission Post!
THE SUBMISSION WINDOW IS CLOSED! COME BACK SOON TO FIND OUT WHO HOOKED A TEEN.
THE SUBMISSION WINDOW IS CLOSED! COME BACK SOON TO FIND OUT WHO HOOKED A TEEN.
Today, I’m hosting editor, Brent Taylor of TEEN EYES EDITORIAL on my blog for the Can You Hook a Teen? contest. The submission window will be July 31 from 8AM to 12AM EST. Go here for more details and to learn about the other editors.
Brent will judge 35-word pitches here on my site. The winner will receive a 20K in-depth manuscript critique.
This contest is for new adult, young adult, and middle grade manuscripts only.
Enter your 35-word pitch for your manuscript in the comments of this post. Here’s how to format them…
Name: Your Name
Title: TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT
Genre: Manuscript’s genre
Title: TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT
Genre: Manuscript’s genre
Your 35-word pitch here. (No double spacing. No indentions.)
After you finish, make sure to stop by my co-hosts’ blogs and enter for a chance to win a prize from the other two editors of Teen Eyes Editorial.
Authoress will host editor, Taryn Albright who will judge query letters. The winner will receive a $100 gift certificate to use toward any of Taryn’s editorial services.
Krista Van Dolzer will judge the 1st pages (250-word max.). The winner will receive a 20K in-depth manuscript critique.
Please be patient. The editors will read the entries during the week and will contact us with the winners.
Here’s the great part, you can enter on one, two, or all three of the blogs for a chance to win the prize on that blog (one prize per person).
You don’t have to follow us on our blogs or on twitter or spread the word to win, but we’d love it if you did. All you have to do is enter in the comments below.
109 Comments
Veronica Bartles · July 31, 2012 at 5:07 am
Name: Veronica Bartles
Title: KISSING FROGS
Genre: YA Contemporary
After a brutal attack, Alaina’s afraid of most boys. When a boy she trusts steals a not-so-innocent kiss, she’s afraid she’ll never find someone who isn’t just trying to get in her pants.
Jeannette · July 31, 2012 at 5:08 am
Name: Jeannette Smejkal
Title: WHAT SILENCE HEARD
Genre: YA thriller
First abandoned, then hunted, nine strangers have to fight together in order to survive, but that includes finding a way to protect the one among them who is there to ensure their failure.
CherylAnne Ham · July 31, 2012 at 5:14 am
Name: Cheryl Ham
Title: WHERE THERE IS DARK
Genre: YA Fantasy
In a world ravaged by darkness, obeying the Shadow Council and avoiding the rebels are essential to survival, but when Jazzlyn’s boyfriend goes missing, she must choose between self-preservation and rescuing the boy she loves.
Marcia W · July 31, 2012 at 5:14 am
Name: Marcia Wells
Title: HANNA AND THE HORSEMEN
Genre: YA Paranormal Comedy
For Hanna Graves, growing up is difficult. Her adoptive father is Death, her uncles the Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Famine, Disease, and War. They are loving. Overprotective. And the most powerful forces on the planet.
sbibb · July 31, 2012 at 5:15 am
Name: Stephanie and Isaac Flint
Title: DISTANT HORIZON
Genre: YA Dystopian Adventure
When eighteen year old Jenna Nickleson leaves a utopian society, she must find her place in a world of super powers and beasties, where a manipulative telepath wants Jenna as a pawn in her schemes.
Dan Burns · July 31, 2012 at 5:17 am
Name: Dan Burns
Title: PENDANT OF POWER
Genre: Middle grade fantasy
In THE PENDANT OF POWER, my 38,000 word middle grade fiction book, fantasy meets a strong sense of realism as Jon Bidwell battles dragons who are determined to take over the world.
Lanette · July 31, 2012 at 5:19 am
Name: Lanette Kauten
Title: WITHOUT BORDERS
Genre: NA Commercial
While in Hungary to research her grandfather’s childhood, Amanda falls in love with a Gypsy whose family’s past is entwined with hers. This revelation could shatter their romance and Amanda’s view of her beloved grandfather.
Utsav · July 31, 2012 at 5:21 am
Name: Utsav Mukherjee
Title: AVERAGELY EXTRAORDINARY
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
A daydreaming teenager from Earth, Jimmy Ranfaz, is heralded as the new saviour of the tree-descendant humans of Ulfitron. The problem: He is the villain reincarnated.
A.L. Laster · July 31, 2012 at 5:24 am
Name: Ashley Laster
Title: SHADES AND SHADOWS
Genre: YA contemporary fantasy
In Uncertain, everything is a shade of grey. The line between Heaven and Hell is blurred when Ari Jones discovers a world where Shades – vampires, witches, shifters, and those called the Lumenes – exist in disgrace.
Juliana Haygert · July 31, 2012 at 5:27 am
Name: Juliana Haygert
Title: AMBER ENERGY
Genre: NA romantic fantasy
Recaptured by the guards, criminal Ellanue is given a choice by the ruling council of her realm: execution or go to Earth to train the new Warden and save his world.
Susan Fobes · July 31, 2012 at 5:32 am
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Nicole Zoltack · July 31, 2012 at 5:38 am
Nicole Zoltack
THE PRINCESS’S TREASURE HUNT
MG Fantasy Adventure
When Princess Cassandra’s friend is hurt during their latest adventure, the reckless royal ten-year-old is willing to do anything to save him, even embark on a dangerous treasure hunt.
Anonymous · July 31, 2012 at 5:50 am
Name: Jeff N.
Title: The Pirate of Vallenta
Genre: MG fantasy
A girl pirate uncovers a royal servant’s plans to destroy her country. She’d consider stopping him, but he’s locked her in the castle dungeon with a warrior-in-training and a wizard intern – her annoying long-lost brothers.
Caitlin Hemphill · July 31, 2012 at 5:50 am
Name: Caitlin Hemphill
Title: WHISPERS ON HER HEART
Genre: Adult – Historical Fiction Mystery
In 1886 Oak Ridge, Colorado, someone is going out of their way to frame George and Alex Holland. After George is wounded in an ambush, Daisy leaves Boston society behind to help her brothers.
M.T. · July 31, 2012 at 5:51 am
Name: Molly Trainor
Title: TALENTED
Genre: YA Contemporary sci-fi
When you can control fire, it seems like your goals should be a little bigger than finding your parents and living happily ever after. For Gail, they’re not. Until she encounters the Community.
Jenn · July 31, 2012 at 5:59 am
Name: Jenn Brisendine
Title: MIRROR OF SAND AND FLAME
Genre: Upper MG Fantasy
Through abandoned coal mine tunnels in the smoldering ruins of the hometown he destroyed, twelve-year-old Zeb Reardon enters the eerie setting of his father’s novel to save his cousin and mend his own guilty heart.
Fiction Writer · July 31, 2012 at 6:00 am
Name: Carolyn
Title: DANCING WITH ANDROIDS
Genre: YA SciFi
Blasted to the planet Roxanna for a ballroom dance contest, a teen must stop an android from kidnapping her before the nefarious Dr. Sorga destroys Earth.
Ryan · July 31, 2012 at 6:06 am
Name: Ryan Hancock
Title: AN UNCOMMON BLUE
Genre: YA Fantasy with Sci-fi elements
In a world where children are segregated by the color of their glowing palm, sixteen-year-old Bruno Nazaire must either become someone else to earn his freedom, or confess his murder and save an innocent boy.
Wendy · July 31, 2012 at 6:18 am
Name: Wendy Wilson O’Connell
Title: Wolf Drawing
Genre: YA Horror
Protecting the town means sacrificing someone to the wolf every year. Seventeen-year-old Red wants to rip out beating hearts. Good thing she’s a wolf, too bad love stands in her way.
Mary Holm · July 31, 2012 at 6:19 am
Name: Mary Holm
Title: DARKLING
Genre: YA Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Taela isn’t a murderer, but when her sister is arrested for treason and executed, she vows to kill the man responsible, even if he’s the kingdom’s only hope for salvation.
Sarah Nelson · July 31, 2012 at 6:21 am
Name: Sarah Nelson
Title: SHUT UP AND KILL ME
Genre: YA thriller
It takes a lot to faze alleged teen murderer, Claire Alexander. But a serial killer going to town with her M.O? That’ll do it.
Stephsco · July 31, 2012 at 6:21 am
Name: Stephanie Scott
Title: THE ASTRONAUT’S DAUGHTER
Genre: YA Historical
In 1963 Texas, 16-year-old Evelyn risks her social standing – and her father’s position with NASA – when she falls for the enigmatic civil rights leader from the all-Negro rival school.
Kate Brauning · July 31, 2012 at 6:33 am
Kate Brauning
THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE
NA mythological fantasy
Nineteen-year-old Ava wants to die, so risking her life to stop Ares from overthrowing human governments isn’t so bad. But finding a family with the Olympians makes her value the life she’s about to lose.
earth · July 31, 2012 at 6:40 am
Suja Sukumar
MIRE
YA paranormal Mystery
An insecure teen falls for the smoking hot guy who hauls her out of her wrecked car – only to realize he’s involved in the recent murders in her town, and he’s not normal.
Meredith · July 31, 2012 at 6:41 am
Name: Meredith Johnson
Title: Southern Gypsy
Genre: YA Paranormal
After rejecting her Gypsy culture to fit in with the oh-so-proper southern belles, 16-year-old Rawnie Stevens rediscovers her secretive roots to save her boyfriend after witnessing his future murder during their first kiss.
erin · July 31, 2012 at 6:45 am
Name: Erin Rosener
Title: TIME STOLEN
Genre: YA Sci-fi (soft!)
When seventeen-year-old Lily finds a time portal, it challenges everything she thinks she knows. When she steps up–and in–to find her mom and save her friend, she begins the adventure of a lifetime.
michelleimason · July 31, 2012 at 6:51 am
Name: Michelle Mason
Title: DUET WITH THE DEVIL’S VIOLIN
Genre: MG magical realism
Being whisked into the music is ok when it’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” but 13-year-old violin prodigy Miranda Harper could do without visiting “Psycho” or–even worse–being trapped forever in an alternate reality.
Chris V · July 31, 2012 at 6:52 am
Name: Chris V
Title: Ungifted
Genre: middle-grade epic fantasy
Branded “ungifted,” twelve-year-old Dwyth flees his village of telepathic Luddites and enters the enemy technocracy, Metrod City, where he discovers his true talent—an awesome power he’ll need to prevent his homeland’s decimation.
Laurie Litwin · July 31, 2012 at 6:54 am
Name: Laurie Litwin
Title: GRIPPED
Genre: YA Contemporary
When she is unexpectedly dumped, Taylor Stewart’s delicate facade crumbles and she finds herself turning to alcohol to solve her problems, only to find herself in a dangerous situation that will change her life forever.
Chantee Hale · July 31, 2012 at 6:56 am
Name: Chanteé Hale
Title: NINE
Genre: MG Dark fiction
In ancient Egypt, a Pharaoh’s runaway cat outwits the keeper of death to save nine souls.
Angelica R. Jackson · July 31, 2012 at 6:57 am
Name: Angelica R. Jackson
Title: CROW’S REST
Genre: YA Urban fantasy
Avery wants to evict the creature who has taken residence in her boyfriend’s body–until she learns sending him back before he fulfills his mission will plunge our world into another Dark Age.
Writer Tessa · July 31, 2012 at 6:58 am
Name: Tessa
Title: UNDERCOVER
Genre: YA Thriller
Sixteen-year-old P.I. agency intern Jayna Kumar pisses off the wrong people while investigating her best friend’s murder, a death the police ruled a suicide. Jayna needs to catch the killer before the killer catches her.
Robin · July 31, 2012 at 7:08 am
Name: Robin
Title: Lovesense
Genre: YA Magical Realism
Rae can smell the stench of relationships in photographs like stink on cheese. She doesn’t believe in love until she sees a photo of her soul mate. The catch: she doesn’t know who he is.
Julia · July 31, 2012 at 7:12 am
Name: Julia Byers
Title DREAMCATCHER
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller
When sixteen year old Lauren discovers she is living in a dream world, due to being in a coma, she must find a way to wake up in order to reunite with her fractured family.
Kaitlin Adams · July 31, 2012 at 7:13 am
NAME: Kaitlin Adams
TITLE: THE SHOW MUST NOT GO ON
GENRE: YA Fantasy
Sixteen-year-old Lori Gibbs’s parents have entered her in Easten’s Talent Show. If she impresses the judges, her parents get to move into the Palace for life. If she fails to impress, she’ll hang.
ryanjamesburt · July 31, 2012 at 7:16 am
Name: Ryan James Burt
Title: Bodyguarding Evil
Genre: YA Paranormal
Word Count: 54,000
She is pure evil and has a plan to take over and control the world. Thousands will do anything and everything to kill her. There is only one problem. I am her bodyguard.
Chris B. · July 31, 2012 at 7:17 am
Name: Chris B.
Title: WATERMARKED
Genre: YA Paranormal
Seventeen-year-old Kristen Holbrook saves a teenager from drowning, and then suffers the consequences. The explanations of her heroic act only further justify that she’s not normal, and Sentries of the Water can’t be exposed.
Sareh · July 31, 2012 at 7:19 am
Name: Sareh Lovasen
Title: NIGHT LIES
Genre: YA science fiction
In the future, seventeen-year-old Xander Fletcher, just wanted to win a hoverbike tournament, but when his friends and family are charged with crimes, can he prove their innocence or will more people die?
Andrea Mack · July 31, 2012 at 7:22 am
Name: Andrea Mack
Title: The Grand Chef’s Apprentice
Genre: MG dystopian
When 13-year-old Maya sneaks into a cooking competition in a forbidden city, her outcast status gets her caught in a dangerous plot to overthrow the city’s leader.
Wendy Jo · July 31, 2012 at 7:23 am
Name: Wendy Knight
Title: Feudlings
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Two teenagers on opposite sides of a magical war. Only one can survive. Now Arianna is falling in love with the nemesis she has been hunting her entire life. Until he tries to kill her.
Robbin · July 31, 2012 at 7:24 am
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Rachel · July 31, 2012 at 7:26 am
Name: Rachel Horwitz
Title: Havoc’s Knot
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy
After finding himself on a foreign world, Jake’s attempt to fulfill a stolen prophecy soon transforms into a race to defeat the wolf king before everyone he has come to love is exterminated.
Feaky Snucker · July 31, 2012 at 7:30 am
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Jeanmarie Anaya · July 31, 2012 at 7:43 am
Name: Jeanmarie Anaya
Title: OPERATION BREAKUP
Genre: Contemporary YA
Crushing on the hottest senior in school whose already got the perfect girlfriend is a lose-lose situation for sixteen-year-old artist Abby Wheeler, until a shady frenemy proposes a foolproof plan for attaining the unattainable.
Melinda · July 31, 2012 at 7:47 am
Name: Melinda Gray
Title: UNVISIBLE
Genre: YA Light Sci-Fi
In hiding from the organization that turned him invisible, 17-year-old Owen can’t let anyone know he exists—until he meets a girl he has to confide in if both of them are to remain free.
R.A.Desilets · July 31, 2012 at 7:52 am
Name: R.A.Desilets (Rachel)
Title: RUHE
Genre: YA Contemporary
After Sophie’s vicious gossip ruins her friendships, she refuses to speak in college. But with a new, complicated social circle, Sophie needs to find the courage to use the voice that once destroyed her.
DC Morin · July 31, 2012 at 7:55 am
Name: Dannie Morin
Title: FINE
Genre: YA Contemporary
When her rockstar father is murdered, Abbie finds herself a reluctantly emancipated minor. Alone in grief, Abbie seeks distraction in a boy her friends despise. But Abbie knows Cole is dangerous. She’s counting on it.
Amber · July 31, 2012 at 8:02 am
Name: Amber Mauldin
Title: PERFECTLY BROKEN
Genre: YA narrative memoir
Fifteen-year-old Amber has to choose between extending her foreign exchange trip to stay with the boy she loves, or returning to Va. to testify against the man who kidnapped and raped her.
Sarah Turnbull · July 31, 2012 at 8:03 am
Name: Sarah Turnbull
Title: AND WE ARE ALL DAMNED
Genre: YA dark fantasy
On an isolated island, beneath a canopy of resurrection ferns and palmettos, a preternatural plague is unleashed on a grotesquely insular Victorian colony when orphans Haeden and Veanne unearth the dark legacy of their bloodline.
Mrs. Dub · July 31, 2012 at 8:07 am
Name: Laura + Ginny Sanderson
Title: GROUP SEVEN
Genre: YA contemporary
Liesl Jelly and Minji Pak have nothing in common until they discover that their parents’ employer has played a role in developing the prodigious talents of the 100 youth aboard a company cruise to Alaska.
Kristen Wixted · July 31, 2012 at 8:09 am
Name: Kristen Wixted
Title: RED LEMONADE
Genre: YA Contemporary
Even though life in the big house on the lake is singed with cruelty, fifteen-year-old Penny Devlin doesn’t choose to leave and live in the safety of her brother’s home—she stays; she stays too long.
Robbin · July 31, 2012 at 8:17 am
Name: Robbin Luckett
Title: SPARKLE
Genre: YA Contemporary
Taylor Schuman unravels a famous fashion designer’s adoption secret like it’s a loose hem on one of her favorite designer dresses―only the secret is Taylor’s BFF, and she’s forced to keep quiet―or face juvie.
Amanda · July 31, 2012 at 8:19 am
Name: Amanda Burckhard
Title: THE UNLEASHING
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Caught in a wager between God and Lucifer, psychic Alita accidentally unleashes The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Sending them back to the stinking hellhole they crawled out of requires sacrificing the boy she loves.
Silvia · July 31, 2012 at 8:26 am
Name: Silvia Park
Title: A TWO-FACED GOD
Genre: YA Fantasy
When a terrorist attack puts her mother, an infamous politician, in a coma, timid fourteen-year-old Misha decides to disguise herself as her mother in order to find out why someone would want her mother dead.
Robin Weeks · July 31, 2012 at 8:30 am
Name: Robin Weeks
Title: DUSTED
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
When human-pracin hybrid Brina proves she’s too powerful for a half-breed, supernatural rebels launch a world-changing coup—and Brina will have to choose between freeing the cursed pracin and preserving humanity.
Laura Moe · July 31, 2012 at 8:34 am
Name: Laura Moe
title: CHASING THE DRAGON
Genre : YA
Kicker Stevens believes her problems are solved by joining the Flygirls, a girl gang. Yet the stakes for staying in the gang grow increasingly deadly.
Laurie Dennison · July 31, 2012 at 8:39 am
Name: Laurie Dennison
Title: TRESPASSERS
Genre: YA fantasy
Trapped in an ancient, time-suspended realm, Etta must forsake the modern world for a chance at love and eternal life. If the tribe discovers she’s a trespasser, she’ll become their next human sacrifice.
Brandi M. Lynch · July 31, 2012 at 8:42 am
Name: Brandi M Lynch
Title: INSATIABLE
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
When seventeen-year-old Charlie’s need for energy leads him to draw from the aura of rock singer Len, he discovers the only energy that truly satisfies his hunger—and that her band wants to sacrifice him.
janealfalor · July 31, 2012 at 8:46 am
Name: Janeal Falor
Title: YOU ARE MINE
Genre: YA Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Serena struggles against her Father’s beatings and hexes. When she gains a new unpredictable master, she must decide if she can take a chance and stand up for herself.
A. E. Welch · July 31, 2012 at 8:46 am
Name: April Wall
Title: In the Midst of Monsters
Genre: MG fantasy adventure
Becoming a monster protector at twelve is crazy enough, but when Jonathan Vygil’s creature-teacher goes missing, he must find him—and fast—or his guide won’t be the only one in danger – his family’s next.
valerierlawson · July 31, 2012 at 8:47 am
Name: Valerie Lawson
Title: INSTITUTIONALIZED
Genre: YA Contemporary
Sara Peterson, admitted to Whispering Sands under false pretenses, has to navigate the violent world of deviants and sociopaths to return home and protect her sister from the real psycho in the family.
Chris Shaw · July 31, 2012 at 8:48 am
Name: Chris Shaw
Title: SECOND SHATTER
Genre: YA Fantasy
When Rian learns his brother could’ve saved their father but didn’t, Rian becomes a half-willing pet for an evil that wants Rian’s brother dead.
rlynn-solomon · July 31, 2012 at 8:54 am
Name: Rachel Solomon
Title: THE ALMOST ADULTS
Genre: NA contemporary
Grad school dropout Jordan waits tables at an Indian restaurant to pay her student debt. With kadhi-stained clothes, she chases a real career but can’t resist her dead-end job’s dysfunction — or a customer’s savory romance.
Stacey Hays · July 31, 2012 at 8:57 am
Name: Stacey Hays
Title: Seer Touch
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Seventeen-year-old psychic apprentice, Ashton Greenly, is a master at predicting the future except her own; when Paul Monday trudges into her mom’s psychic shop, she never foresees falling for a vampire prince.
RAD - Dot Painter · July 31, 2012 at 8:59 am
Name: Rachel A. Dillon
Title: The Lion Within
Genre: YA Light Science Fiction
Renna has a virus from a lion bite and is the only one that can end a natural disaster. She must learn to control her lion-like abilities and rage in a button-pushing place–high school.
Lauren Harris · July 31, 2012 at 9:06 am
Name: Lauren Harris
Title: THE MARK OF FLIGHT
Genre: NA High Fantasy
When Princess Arianna’s kidnapping threatens to rekindle war, she faces a difficult choice: warn her kingdom of the enemy’s approach or risk her life to help the slave who sacrificed his freedom to rescue her.
Krista McLaughlin · July 31, 2012 at 9:34 am
Name: Krista McLaughlin
Title: NAMELESS
Genre: YA Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Edom is the oldest healer in a country where his kind are hunted and killed for their gifts. After accidentally kidnapping Princess Dalia, Edom must choose between protecting his sister or trusting his enemy.
Jamie Krakover · July 31, 2012 at 9:43 am
Name: Jamie Krakover
Title: The Adviera Adventures: Abducted
Genre: MG Science Fiction
Gary’s abduction left him with an amazing ability that comes with a price; service to the aliens who gifted it. He must learn to control his ability and discover why he’s their prime interest.
S.Q. Eries · July 31, 2012 at 9:45 am
Name: Sakura Eries
Title: Cynisca and the Olive Crown
Genre: YA historical
The Games at Olympia have ever been a competition of men–until Princess Cynisca’s brother convinces her to race her chariot for the sake of the Spartan Royal Family.
Emily · July 31, 2012 at 10:02 am
Name: Emily Cushing
Title: RACE TO BUTCH CASSIDY’S GOLD
Genre: MG Adventure
Two cousins, with quirky Grandpa Jim, search for Butch Cassidy’s gold to save a ranch for troubled youth. Racing across Utah in a beat-up motorhome, they must outsmart dangerous thieves to find the treasure first.
D.R. Graham · July 31, 2012 at 10:05 am
Name: D.R. Graham
Title: The Handler
Genre: New Adult
While searching for the outlaw biker who murdered his dad in front of his little sister, Cain learns the truth about his dad and discovers the person he’s willing to become to protect the people he loves.
Kelly Metz · July 31, 2012 at 10:12 am
Name: Kelly Metz
Title: REMEMBERED
Genre: ya paranormal romance
AJ Ashford unknowingly gets dragged into the eternal battle for Earth when she dies and is sent back with a mission from a sarcastic angel to help the antagonistic punk who caused her death.
Anonymous · July 31, 2012 at 10:17 am
Name: Cindy Bindy Boo
Title: The Perfect Adam
Genre: NA Contemporary
Seratonus is searching for the perfect man. Twenty failed relationships have scarred her hope but not discouraged her. She believes in her heart he’s out there somehwere. Even if it means creating him from scratch.
A.J. · July 31, 2012 at 10:17 am
Name: A.J. Cattapan
Title: Seven Riddles to Nowhere
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Pitch: In this “39 Clues Meets The DaVinci Code,” seventh grader Kam must solve seven riddles tied to religious artwork in order to become heir to a fortune and save his financially-distressed Catholic school from closing.
Leigh Michael · July 31, 2012 at 10:17 am
Name: Leigh Michael
Title: Sprite (Annabelle’s Story Part One)
Genre: YA paranormal adventure
Imagine waking up one day as a normal teenager. The next thing you know you are abducted, drown, and told you are the only one who can fulfill an ancient prophecy.
Abby Byrd OREGON · July 31, 2012 at 10:27 am
Name: J.E. Neville
Title: Caught Away
Genre: YA
The last time Abby wanted to live was two years and seventeen days ago. Then, on the day she receives a surprising signal from her long lost father, everyone seems to want her dead.
Durango Writer · July 31, 2012 at 10:35 am
Name: Mandy Mikulencak
Title: Hannah’s Half
Genre: YA Paranormal Mystery
Reluctant psychic Hannah ignores her daily ghostly visitors until Adam, who possesses the other half of her soul, returns to beg for her help, even though she’s already died for him three times.
Petre Pan · July 31, 2012 at 10:47 am
Name: Jen Veldhuyzen
Title: Issue 339
Genre: YA
After alien invasions, a girlfriend gone zombie, and his parents’ deaths, this young comic book character’s suffered enough–he kills his writer.
Jolene Louise · July 31, 2012 at 10:48 am
Name: Jolene Haley
Title: Bump in the Night
Genre: Urban Fantasy
16-year-old Samantha has an interesting profession: monster hunter. Her mentor has died, leaving Sam to protect her town against deadly creatures, while experiencing love and loss for the first time.
Shelley Koon · July 31, 2012 at 11:05 am
Name: Shelley Koon
Title: Axiom
Genre: YA Dystopic Mystery
Trained as a killer for an elite army, a teen girl discovers she may be killing those who most need her protection.
Ashley Maker · July 31, 2012 at 11:11 am
Name: Ashley Maker
Title: SEER
Genre: YA sci-fi
After a few freaky visual occurrences, Clare Palmer finds out she’s a Seer. Against her will she’s immersed in the world of the Corasha, scientifically enhanced humans at war with an underground society of rogues.
Rachel · July 31, 2012 at 11:19 am
Name: Rachel Pudelek
Title: DARK WATERS
Genre: YA dark fantasy
As part of a secret society of deadly female folkloric creatures, sixteen-year-old Allura takes center stage in a plan to revert back to the man-hunting ways of her ancestors.
Relle · July 31, 2012 at 11:25 am
Name: Eric Sandler
Title: TRAVELERS: The Lightning God
Genre: YA Fantasy
A homeless boy from the streets of Brooklyn meets a woman who can travel to different universes. Together they explore new worlds, fight monsters and evade a murderous god bent on revenge.
Anonymous · July 31, 2012 at 11:26 am
NAME: Ashley Gipson
TITLE: Drego’s Sword
GENRE: YA epic fantasy
After leaving his quiet hometown to stop a ruthless dictator, Drego is caught up in a sprawling war as he falls in love, becomes an assassin’s target, and fights a startling darkness inside of himself.
Aimee L. Salter · July 31, 2012 at 11:44 am
Name: Aimee L. Salter
Title: Where’s the Love
Genre: YA Magical Realism
Nikki Hamilton’s ex-best-friend, Jake, shows up in her dreams, offering a glimpse of her past, present and future. But what she learns threatens more than her popularity. She just might lose Jake. Forever.
Joan Stradling · July 31, 2012 at 11:58 am
Name: Joan Stradling
Title: BOOKS OF BESTOWAL: DESTROYER’S HOPE
Genre: MG Fantasy
Twelve-year-old Rachel Clark loves getting lost in a good book, until she’s pulled into one and finds herself a part of a story from which she may not be able to escape.
Susie · July 31, 2012 at 11:58 am
Name: Susan Taitel
Title: Random Acts of Nudity
Genre: Contemporary Young Adult
Fifteen-year-old Viola goes from nobody to Notorious when her ex leaks their sex tape to the entire school. Now Vi must reconcile her old identity with her new reputation.
Anonymous · July 31, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Name:Dee White
Title: The Chat Room
Genre: YA thriller
Mindy Palmer is searching for her rapist in the TeenSpeak chat room where nobody is who they seem. But her obsession with bringing her attacker to justice could prove fatal…and not just for her.
Katharina Gerlach · July 31, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Name: Katharina Gerlach
Title: BEAST HUNTER
Genre: MG Fantasy
To turn his ghostly sister Sally back into a human, twelve-year-old fraidy-cat Tom, his mentor, and a not-so-doggish dog must fight the Beast, a century old demon stealing kid’s souls.
Ella Schwartz · July 31, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Name: Ella Schwartz
Title: Temple Falls
Genre: MG Fantasy
Nara, 14 year old banished princess, must work with her nemesis, a mere commoner, to decipher the cryptic clues sent by the Gods and end the plagues battering the kingdom.
Ellen Rozek · July 31, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Name: Ellen Rozek
Title: THE RECRUITED
Genre: YA thriller
Recruited by the government to help fight Renegade terrorists, Naomi must keep her growing friendship with a gang member a secret from her employers—and the Renegades themselves—if both of them are to survive.
SM Johnston · July 31, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Name: Sharon Johnston
Title: Karma
Genre: YA Speculative Fiction (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Greek Mythology mix)
Justin is proud to be an Apportioner, someone who dishes out karma to unrepentant scum, but when his next assignment is to bring in an innocent girl he must decide between duty and what’s right.
Shiela Calderón Blankemeier · July 31, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Name: Shiela Blankemeier
Title: To The Bones
Genre: YA Paranormal
Fifteen-year-old Valerie Garcia-Daniels is going to save the world. A lot. But as her community’s newest curandera, she must first rescue her grandmother’s soul from the Underworld of her Aztec ancestors. That, and pass geometry.
ninidee · July 31, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Name:Maribeth Graham
Title: Scents
Genre: YA
Mel Whitlock thinks doing “Scents” at the secret underground clubs of NYC is awesome until she gets kidnapped and taken to The Orphanage. A place where people are hypnotized into believing it’s where they belong.
Mia K Rose · July 31, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Name: Mia K Rose
Title: OF FIRE AND SHADOW
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Sixteen-year-old Talitha Martin’s whole body manifested into smoke three years ago, and now two battling factions and their war have spilled down on earth–one wants her help to surive, and other wants her dead.
jennifermhartsock · July 31, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Name: Jennifer M. Hartsock
Title: Battleground
Genre: Realistic YA
Sixteen-year-old Lilly Dawson was never one to question fate, but when she meets Parker, a troubled yet persuasive realist, new meaning shapes Lilly’s world — our choices, not some ultimate plan, define who we are.
Carrie-Anne · July 31, 2012 at 3:57 pm
(Pen) Name: Carrie-Anne Brownian
Title: THE VERY FIRST
Genre: Upper MG historical with elements of social satire
When Katherine Brandt immigrates in 1938, she dreams of becoming a real American girl without compromising her Jewish faith, while her new best friend Cinnimin learns there’s more than one way to be an American.
Kimberly · July 31, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Name: K. Garnick Giarratano
Title: Grunge Gods & Graveyards
Genre: YA Paranormal
Set in 1996, seventeen-year-old Lainey Bloom must uncover a greedy councilman’s hand in the murder of her ghostly ex-boyfriend, but in order to save her lover’s soul, she must lose him forever.
lee · July 31, 2012 at 5:48 pm
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lee · July 31, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Name: Lee Richardson
Title: THE FORGET-ME-NOT LETTERS
Genre: YA Contemporary
Marissa Davis swore she’d hate every second of her community service–and she did–until the grumpy Alzheimer’s patient she read to began to matter. And now, with his condition worsening, Rissa’s fighting just to be remembered.
beck nicholas · July 31, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Name: Beck Nicholas
Title: Allies
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Inexperienced sixteen-year-old assassin Noemi must choose between restoring her family honor and saving the boy she’s falling for. But her target’s secret has the power to free them both or begin a revolution.
Sarah Negovetich · July 31, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Name: Sarah Negovetich
Title: THE WATCHERS
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
When Stacie learns she can hear thoughts, theoretically, she discovers even powers you don’t want have strings attached. She’s got to get her ability under control before she loses the new life she never wanted.
Avery Marsh · July 31, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Name: Avery Marsh
Title: BIRD OF PREY
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Sixteen-year-old amnesiac, Peregrine Fallon, has to remember the people responsible for her planet’s deactivation and stop them from killing again.
Lorie · July 31, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Name: Lorie Steed
Title: ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS
Genre: YA Contemporary
When Leslie gets dumped, Meredith hands her the Kleenex and saves her seat at the popular table. Suddenly she’s got a new best friend and two interested guys—and Meredith’s boyfriend is one of them.
heatherriffle · July 31, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Name: Heather Riffle
Title: CREEPING SLOWLY & EVAPORATING
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Ali suspects a Vampire illegally glamoured away two days from her memory. Hypnotherapy confirms it. Now she needs to know how she fell for him and why she’s the target of another, more powerful Vampire.
Louisa · July 31, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Name: Louisa Clarkson
Title: THE SILVER STRAND
Genre: MG Fantasy Adventure
Mastermind Academy’s latest recruit, Isabelle Tresdon has five days to save her magical, silver strand of hair before it drains her life. Shame the two tricksters sent to revive it have other plans.
Morgan Hyde · July 31, 2012 at 8:18 pm
Name: Morgan Hyde
Title: WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE
Genre: YA Fantasy
Breaking her cousin out of the king’s jail goes horribly awry and lands farmer’s daughter Renata in the gladiatorial arena. It’s a good thing Ren’s a quick study, because she’s fighting for both their lives.
Susan Fobes · July 31, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Name: Susan M. Fobes writing as T. J. Shelkey
Title: LEGEND OF TAIRN GIRE: A PROPHESY REVISITED
Genre: YA Fantasy
As Prince Agmund ages, failing race relations continue despite his best efforts, and he must fight an unknown sorcerer he thinks is his uncle to keep the Kingdom of Tairn Gire together.
Brenda Drake · July 31, 2012 at 9:04 pm
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