Title: TIME BOUND Genre: YA Historical Fantasy Word Count: 64,000 Query: Sixteen-year-old Holly Kimura expects her annual visit to her grandmother in Japan to be just another summer of boredom and sushi, until she meets a mysterious local boy, Tamashi. When he saves her from a gang of thugs Read more…
Title: LIGHTSTORM Genre: Paranormal Romance Word Count: 80,000 Query: Humanity’s survival lies in the hands of misanthrope Irina, and only her elemental bodyguard, Fontaine, can convince her to save them. When Irina sees a man appear from a puddle of water, she considers checking into the nearest psych ward. Read more…
Title: PLUGGED IN Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Word Count: 72,000 Query: When sixteen-year-old Misty Evans discovers a hidden notebook in her mother’s art room, she’s excited and terrified. Paper is against the law. In the pages of the notebook, Misty finds events leading up to her mother’s disappearance might have Read more…
The Writer’s Voice Twitter Pitch (Twitter hashtag: #WVTP) You know how much we love you? Well, we have the amazingly sexy, talented agent, John M. Cusick of Scott Treimel NY , and the beautiful, and equally talented agent, Vickie Motter of Andrea Hurst Literary Management, throwing a twitter pitch party Read more…
link Queries are difficult to master. I decided to post my query as a sample. This is for my upcoming debut novel, LIBRARY JUMPERS (Month9Books 2014). It was bought in a three-book deal at auction. Queries, I find, work best when they are short and enticing. Here it is. I’ve Read more…
I wanted to take a moment away from The Writers Voice to announce my book deal. (The picture above has nothing to do with my book other than the library thing.) Anyway, quick and sweet, here’s a copy of what it said on Publishers Marketplace last Thursday and in Publishers Read more…
The Writer’s Voice – THIRD SUBMISSION ROUND WILL OPEN AT 12PM EDT! Please note that WE’RE ONLY ACCEPTING 25 MORE ENTRIES (STOPPING AT ENTRY #200) IN THE THIRD SUBMISSION WINDOW. We’re closing the widget at 200 entries, so if it goes over 200, WE WILL DELETE THE ADDITIONAL ENTRIES and Read more…
Third Submission time added for The Writer’s Voice Due to an issue while setting up the widget for the evening submission time, we’ve decided to open the widget up to accept 25 more entries into the contest. When running such a large scale contest, something can go wrong. And it Read more…
The Writer’s Voice – SECOND SUBMISSION ROUND NOW OPEN! Please note that WE’RE ONLY ACCEPTING 100 MORE ENTRIES (STOPPING AT ENTRY #175) IN THE SECOND SUBMISSION WINDOW. We’re closing the widget at 175 entries, so if it goes over 175, WE WILL DELETE THE ADDITIONAL ENTRIES and notify those people Read more…
The Writer’s Voice – FIRST SUBMISSION ROUND NOW OPEN! Please note that WE’RE ONLY ACCEPTING 75 ENTRIES IN THE FIRST SUBMISSION WINDOW. We’re closing the widget at 75 entries, so if more than 75 people sign up, WE WILL DELETE THE ADDITIONAL ENTRIES and ask those people to try again Read more…