Yay! We have winners into the critique event with The Teenaged Nitpick. Winners must send the first 250 words of their young adult manuscript to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com by September 21 at 5PM EDT. If we don’t receive your entry by the allotted time, we will choose a new winner. If you Read more…
Do you want to find out what a teen thinks about the opening pages of your young adult (all genres)? Sign up for The Teenaged Nitpick‘s critiques. Not only is The Teenaged Nitpick a teen, he’s a writer and an intern with Pam van Hylckama of Larsen Pomada. To Learn Read more…
Pitch your novella to my publisher, Month9Books October 1 -7 on my blog. Month9Books is looking for 15K (12K – 20K range) novellas for their Swoon imprint with a strong romantic element, any genre, any age range (YA, “new adult,” or adult). We’ll be taking five to six sentence pitches Read more…
We’re hosting a Twitter Pitch Party on Thursday, September 13 from 8AM to 8PM EDT on the hashtag #PitMad. How do you twitter pitch? You tweet your twitter pitch each time you see an agent on the hashtag. The agents will request the tweets in the feed that catch Read more…
It’s been a long week of reading through all the amazing pitches and our wonderful readers–K.T. Hanna, Kat Ellis, Rebecca Coffindaffer, Dee (@writefor apples), Stephanie Diaz, & Summer Heacock–have narrowed the slush, and your game hosts have chosen sixty of the best entries for the game. (Scroll down to view Read more…
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery Word count: 51,000 Merry and Cooper investigate an old jewel heist rumored to involve Merry’s uncle and Cooper’s dad. With the convicted thieves now released from prison, Merry and Cooper fight to save their families. All my life I waited for someone to talk Read more…
Genre:Young Adult, Magical Realism Word Count: 66,000 Libby’s art comes to life, literally. Her painted skies turn from day to night and sometimes her mystery boy will appear. She’s determined to discover who he is, even if it means becoming trapped forever. He vanished. Again. So did the rush Read more…
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy (based on a Russian fairytale) Word Count: 37,000 When a school bully breaks his Palekh box, Nick is thrust into medieval Russia where he must learn to appease an autocratic tsar and outmaneuver a jealous chamberlain in order to find his way home. The bathroom Read more…
Word Count: 60,000Genre: YA Historical While enjoying a captivating new social life during the summer of 1929, 15-year-old Dorothy Brooks must contend with anti-Semitism and bootlegging, two evils poisoning her New England resort town. You know that kid who always has whatever is new, better and best? The Read more…
Genre: Mystery/ Horror Word Count: 62,000 Forty-five years ago, ten children went missing and turned up dead in a cabin in the woods. Now history is repeating itself. Someone’s targeting children again. And their sight is set on Nathan and Leila. I was going to die. I coughed out Read more…