Manuscript Status: 1 week delivery Mentor Name: N.K. Traver Mentee Name: Genevieve Angelique Title: THE MOON THIEF Category: Young Adult Genre: Diverse Fantasy Word Count: 64,000 Pitch: An Ojibway-inspired fairytale: Luna may have escaped a life-draining Windigo, but she was forced to leave behind the boy she loves. To save him, Read more…
Manuscript Status: 2 weeks delivery Mentor Name: Kim Graff Mentee Name: Courtney Gilfillian Title: IF ONE OF THEM IS DEAD Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 50,000 Pitch: After a disastrous hookup leads to vicious gossip, seventeen-year-old Melissa wants revenge. With the help of her bestie, Jack, she creates an app to expose everyone’s secrets. Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Rachel Lynn Solomon Mentee Name: Tracy C. Gold Title: THE ACCIDENTS Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: All Olivia wants is to go to art college. Then boyfriend-stealing Bethany beats her in an art contest, and Olivia starts a fistfight that gets both girls Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished. Mentor Name: Lori Goldstein and Chelsea Bobulski Mentee Name: Kris Li Title: OUT OF LEFT FIELD Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 67,000 Pitch: A love of baseball has bonded Marnie and Cody since the first grade. But when a 90-MPH pitch sidelines Cody and Marnie takes Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Jessica Souders w/a J.A. Souders Mentee Name: Sean Easley w/a E.S. Wesley Title:THE OUTS Category: Young Adult Genre: Speculative Thriller Word Count: 98,000 Pitch: When global, memory-stealing blackouts turn seventeen-year-old Caleb into a kidnapper with a sadistic voice in his head, it’s up to his aphasic Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Kate Brauning Mentee Name: Ashley D. MacKenzie Title: THE STAGGERING FORCE OF WANT Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: The senior trip to Europe isn’t helping Hayley find her passion or fix her friendship with Lexi, so Hayley risks expulsion and ditches Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Laura Salters Mentee Name: Rebecca McLaughlin Title: THE NAMELESS QUEEN Category: YA Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 105,000 Pitch: Coin is Nameless—no home, no family, no legal rights—but she’s just been named Queen. If she finds her name, the Royals will fit her for a Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Marieke Nijkamp Mentee Name: Erin Foster Hartley Title: ALL HAPPY FAMILIES Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 61,000 Pitch: Sixteen-year-old drag queen Alexander and his half-siblings travel to South America in search of their biological father—a movie star who auctioned his sperm before going into seclusion. Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Emily Martin Mentee Name: Taryn Bashford Title: GAME FACE Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: When a losing streak shakes her confidence, seventeen-year-old tennis pro Harper clings to something more certain—her sister’s ex. But training with rising star Colt becomes a game-changer, and Harper Read more…
Manuscript Status: 2 week delivery Mentor Name: Jeanmarie Anaya Mentee Name: Jessica Fonseca Title: SOMETHING LIKE GRAVITY Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: Texting her boyfriend’s best friend Lucas is okay. Sexting him late at night, not so much. As seventeen-year-old Allie’s family life crumbles, she can’t imagine Read more…