MANUSCRIPT STATUS: Finished Mentor: Laura Heffernan Mentee: Tabitha Forney Title: 101 NORTH Category/Genre: Adult upmarket women’s fiction Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: On September 11, Erin sips cocktails on a Spanish beach while her husband, who didn’t want her to go on this girls’ trip, is at work on the 101st Read more…
MANUSCRIPT STATUS: Finished Mentors: Dan Koboldt and Michael Mammay Mentee: Elise Bungo Title: ERGO SUM Category/Genre: Adult Science Fiction Word Count: 99,000 Pitch: Ethan Ogden, a robotics prodigy suffering from PTSD, returns to Africa to work for a company with dubious motives. After an experimental nanotechnology treatment saves his life, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Names: Kellye Garrett & Sarah Henning Mentee Name: Mary Keliikoa Title: DERAILED Category: Adult Genre: Mystery Word Count: 83,000 Pitch: Second-generation P.I. Kelly Pruett has a deaf daughter, an over-protective ex-husband, and her first real case involving a woman who drunkenly stumbled into the path of Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Names: Sarah Henning and Kellye Garrett Mentee Name: Suzanne Park Title: MY NAME IS NOT JULIE Category: Adult Genre: Humorous Women’s Fiction (#ownvoices) Word Count: 76,000 Pitch: MASTER OF NONE meets BRIDGET JONES: Drowning in a never-ending onslaught of parental nagging, work catastrophes, and romantic blunders, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Jennie Nash Mentee: Emma Nelson Title: SOLSTICE SISTERS Category/Genre: Adult Supernatural Suspense Word Count: 86,000 Pitch: After her grandmother passed away, Cici Dardompre left America’s most haunted city in search of proof that death isn’t as final as her mortician father believes. But when an upstart Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Kara Leigh Miller & Meredith Ireland Mentee Name: Alexa Martin Title: #INTERCEPTED Category: Adult Genre: Contemporary Interracial Romance (own voices: biracial) Word Count: 85,000 Pitch: When Marlee Harper learns her NFL-star boyfriend is wide-receiving other women, she swears off athletes, but new quarterback Gavin proves Read more…
Manuscript status: Finished Mentor: Brighton Walsh Mentee: Jen DeLuca Title: ONCE WHEN YOU WERE MINE Category/Genre: Adult Romance Word Count: 89,000 Pitch: Twenty years. Two continents. A third chance at first love. On a whirlwind trip to Leningrad, a sheltered American and a sweet but pragmatic Soviet fall in love as Read more…
Manuscript status: Finished Mentor: Brighton Walsh Mentee: Helen Hoang Title: RELATIONSHIP ON RETAINER Category/Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance (#ownvoices) Word Count: 89,000 Pitch: In this gender-swapped Pretty Woman, a brainy economist desperate for love but struggling with intimacy issues stemming from her autism hires a male escort—a complex Hapa man escaping Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Rebecca Yarros Mentee: Tricia McKee Title: MOONLIGHT & WHISKEY Category/Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance (Body-Positive) Word Count: 93,000 Pitch: When a plus-sized engineer with body issues collides with a tattooed, commitment-shy frontman, Avery learns to rock her curves. But as her connection with Declan deepens and Avery’s Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Nazarea Andrews Mentee: Elesha Teskey Title: SHARDS OF SOULS Category/Genre: Adult Speculative Fiction (mystery) Word Count: 88,000 Pitch: Cole Lachlan and his brother Reese use their abilities to hold souls to save lives. When Reese disappears, Cole discovers evidence suggesting his brother is involved in soul trafficking. Cole Read more…