Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Jenni Walsh & Trisha Leaver Mentee Name: Bethany Sampson Title: MARGO TATE’S LIST (Of Things More Important Than Being Skinny) Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 69,000 Pitch: After spending three months in treatment for an eating disorder, sixteen-year-old Margo Tate comes home to Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Diana Gallagher Mentee Name: Kelly Garcia Title: ACING ATHERTON Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 73,000 Pitch: When an honors student with master hacking skills stumbles upon her school’s richest bad boy in a compromising situation, she schemes to improve her senior standing, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Lisa Maxwell Mentee Name: Pasha Westbrook Title: A PALE, DARK SUMMER Category: YA Genre: Magic Realism Word Count: 65,000 Pitch: In a town too small to exist on an Arizona map, sixteen-year-old Summer can’t free herself from her brother’s tragic death. Then Levi comes along—a beautiful, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Trisha Leaver Mentee Name: Anne Slease Title: A BROTHER’S OATH Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 58,000 Pitch: Fifteen-year-old Dylan Truman is used to his brother’s erratic moods; he’s been dodging nasty comebacks and the occasional flying fist for years, never imagining Cole’s behavior Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Trisha Leaver Mentee Name: Anne Slease Title: A BROTHER’S OATH Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 58,000 Pitch: Fifteen-year-old Dylan Truman is used to his brother’s erratic moods; he’s been dodging nasty comebacks and the occasional flying fist for years, never imagining Cole’s behavior Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Linsey Miller Mentee Name: Maria Mora Title: GATHOS Category: Young Adult Genre: LGBTQIA + Science Fiction Word Count: 73,000 Pitch: When the drug keeping him alive runs out, sixteen-year-old, genetically engineered Nate must choose between dying gruesomely but free with the boy he loves by his side Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Names: Renée Ahdieh & Traci Chee Mentee Name: Kristen Ciccarelli Title: ASKARI Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 96,000 Pitch: Asha must hunt a deadly dragon and bring her father its head, or be forced into a political marriage. In the vein of GRACELING Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Lizzy Charles Mentee Name: Tanya Spencer Title: WHISPER Category: YA Genre: Contemporay Word Count: 66,000 Pitch When her family relocates to Wyoming to escape her dangerous ex, seventeen-year-old Chloe takes a summer ranch job rehabilitating horses. Vowing to remain guy-free, she doesn’t expect threats seeping Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Brianna Shrum Mentee Name: Michelle Tran Title: DIAMOND QUEEN Category: Young Adult Genre: Vietnamese-Inspired Fantasy Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: Avere is blessed with the ability to turn rocks into diamonds, and cursed with a royal title that got her mother murdered. Before the emperor’s assassins kill her, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Mara Rutherford; co-mentor Jessie Humphries Mentee Name: Joan He Title: HESPERIA Category: YA Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 88,000 Pitch: When Princess Hesperia unwittingly hires a legendary assassin to investigate the king’s murder, she discovers that the centuries-long persecution of magicians and seers is building toward a revolution. Read more…