Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Brenda Drake and Heather Cashman Mentee Name: Kara McDowell Title: NOT HER STORY Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 73,000 Pitch: Cute boy, Max, doesn’t recognize Claire from her mother’s blog, so she hides her fame. When Claire poses as someone’s girlfriend for publicity, Max Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Ashley Hearn Mentee: Tomi Adeyemi Title: CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE Category/Genre: Young Adult West-African Fantasy (Own Voices) Word Count: 105,000 Pitch: With magic, Zélie’s family could stand against the royal guard. Her people wouldn’t live in fear. Her mom wouldn’t have hanged from that tree. Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Nikki Roberti Mentee: Katie O’Shea Title: The Friend Zone Hypothesis Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Word Count: 83,000 Pitch: When his nerdy sidekick swipes a copy of Cosmo claiming it holds scientific secrets to winning any girl’s heart, seventeen-year-old Mikey launches an experiment to transform his status from best Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Stephanie Scott Mentee: Sarena and Sasha Nanua Title: A TASTE OF DARKNESS Category/Genre: Young Adult Mystery (Own Voices) Word Count: 67,000 Pitch: When seventeen-year-old Tessa Gill is chosen to compete in Bite Size—the televised teen cooking competition—she’s set on fighting for a scholarship her family could never Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Chelsea Bobulski Mentee: Laura Robson Title: SALTWATER BLOOD Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Astrid Stroud is cursed with magic she can’t control. When she gets hurt, her body heals itself—by taking someone else’s life. Astrid’s brother Liam fears her grisly abilities, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Sharon M. Johnston Mentee: Rosanne Rivers Title: ALL OUR VILLAINY LAID BARE Category/Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Word Count: 99,000 Pitch: Lucks only slides her blade into the duke on instinct, hoping to protect her sister. But her action sees the young, sly, and rather dashing, Seaborne, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Tabitha Martin Mentee: Lisa Moore Ramee Title: WE ARE NOT ALONE Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary, Own Voices Word Count: 69,000 Pitch: THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW – When a sinkhole traps sixteen-year-old Nia and her classmates, they must fight to survive against hunger, paranoia, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Names: Katie Bucklein and Megan Lally Mentee Name: Julia Darcey Title: FAMINELAND Category: Young Adult Genre: Historical Fantasy Word Count: 105,000 Pitch: In an England where World War I never ended, chemical weapons have created an army of mutant cannibals fighting to enslave humanity. Cannibal hunter Kimae is determined to defeat them Read more…
Manuscript Status: Three weeks delivery Mentor: Tobie Easton Mentee: Jennieke Cohen Title: DANGEROUS ALLIANCE Category/Genre: Young Adult Historical Word Count: 99,000 Pitch: Impetuous seventeen-year-old Victoria Aston wants nothing more than to live a pastoral existence on her family estate in Hampshire. But when her sister escapes an abusive husband, Vicky has Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Judi Lauren Mentee: Alice Reeds Title: EVERYTHING IS EPHEMERAL Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary LGBT Word Count: 87,000 words Pitch: When boyfriends Joey and Benji embark on their first European tour promoting their debut album, Joey’s happiness slowly begins faltering as he struggles with inexplicable sadness and negativity. Read more…