Releasing July, 2018 About the book … Hard-charging and irrepressible, eighteen-year-old Amelia is just fine being known as Rolldemort, her alter ego on the roller derby track where she wipes the floor with her opponents. But when a rare liver disease she was born with flares up unexpectedly, she finds Read more…
The submission window for Pitch Wars 2018 is now open! You have until it closes on Wednesday, August 29 at 10:00PM Eastern Time to submit your entry form. This mentorship program is open to Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult completed, never before published, works of Read more…
Welcome to our Mini Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2018 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query or first page critique from one of our mentors. Each mentor has graciously critiqued a query or first page from our lucky winners. Read more…
Welcome to our Mini Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2018 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query or first page critique from one of our mentors. Each mentor has graciously critiqued a query or first page from our lucky winners. Read more…
Welcome to the mentors’ wishlist blog hop! From today until submission day, use the linkies below to hop to all the mentors’ websites/blogs to read their bios, wishlists, and what categories and genres they want to mentor. For those unfamiliar with Pitch Wars, it’s a mentoring program where published/agented Read more…
Congratulations to Pitch Wars mentor, Mia Manansala for winning the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award for 2018! We’re thrilled we had a chance to talk with Mia about the award and what she’s working on. Tell us about the manuscript that the Sisters in Crime said was Read more…
I’m so excited for today’s release of HOLLYWOOD ENDING by our own Pitch Wars Managing Director, Kellye Garrett! I loved the first book in the series, HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE, which won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, 2018 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel and 2018 Independent Publisher Award (IPPY) Gold Medal for Best First Book – Fiction. It was also nominated for a Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, a Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and Anthony Award for Best First Novel. If you haven’t read it yet, you so should. I can’t wait to read this follow up! Now enough gushing and onto the information about the book. (more…)
Today we’re super excited to reveal the cover for Pitch Wars mentor Kristin Wright’s LYING BENEATH THE OAKS!
Here’s some praise for the book …
“I was fortunate enough to read an early copy of this debut, and it stayed with me for weeks afterward. The southern setting is rich and vivid, the writing swift and effortless. Molly’s backstory kept me enthralled and flipping pages, while her chemistry with Cooper spiced up the nuanced story. The suspense snippets heighten every plot turn. Can’t wait until it’s in print so I can hold a copy in my hands!” Kelly on Goodreads (more…)
When we had to cancel the Pitch Wars query and first page workshops this year, I was sad. So I asked our 2018 and past mentors if they’d be up to doing a critique giveaway in its place. Many jumped in, and I’m thrilled to announce our 2018 Pitch Wars Read more…
Book links:
E Shaver (Mike’s local indie)
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Indiebound
Congratulations to Pitch Wars mentor and committee member Michael Mammay for the release of his debut novel, PLANETSIDE.
PLANETSIDE was Michael’s Pitch Wars novel when he was a mentee in 2015, mentored by Dan Koboldt. Dan and Michael were co-mentors in 2016 and 2017, and have returned as mentors for 2018 as well, mentoring in the adult category. Michael also serves on the committee as a mentor liaison (basically he keeps mentors informed, works with new mentors, and answers questions.)
PLANETSIDE is about an aging military officer named Carl Butler, who travels to a war-torn planet to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s son. When he arrives, evidence goes missing and witnesses disappear. People who are supposed to be his allies seem to be working against him. To find the truth, he has to go planetside, into the combat zone. (more…)