Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Charlie Holmberg Mentee: Heather Elliott Title: SONG OF SULEIMAN Category/Genre: Young Adult Historical Fantasy Word Count: 93,000 Pitch: NATIONAL TREASURE meets ALADDIN when sixteen-year-old Israelite Peni discovers an ancient mystery hidden in the Song of Solomon. Desperate to escape her abusive betrothed, she disguises herself as Read more…
Manuscript Status: Six Weeks, Maximum Mentor: Dionne McCulloch & Fiona McLaren Mentee: Megan Peterson Title: NO PLACE LIKE HOME Category/Genre: Young AdultContemporary Word Count: 72,000 Pitch: 17-year-old Piper isn’t just the beloved daughter of a freak show family; she also wants to be its main attraction. When she’s kidnapped and held Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Kip Wilson Mentee Name: Sam Taylor Title: STARS AND REEDS Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: Falsely accused of killing a wealthy merchant, Jameelah faces life in bondage unless she clears her name with star magic, a power inaccessible to Marsh Dwellers Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Isabel Davis Mentee Name: Christy Chao Title: EARTH TO LIA Category: Young Adult Own Voices Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Dahlia Yang-Lee is catapulted back in time and must outsmart space pirate Callum Davis to reclaim the artifact that’ll send her home. Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Jeanmarie Anaya Mentee: Erin Brambilla Title: LOVE LETTERS AND BROKEN THINGS Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Word Count: 60,000 Pitch: Tori’s supposed to feel thankful. A horrific accident left her boyfriend Sanjay miraculously alive. But she wants to go back. Before the drunk driver and the traumatic Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Lynnette Labelle and Destiny Cole Mentee Name: Meghan Jashinsky Title: COURT OF GLITTERING CRIMSON Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 75,000 words Pitch: Princess Skylla is a nightmare from which her kingdom will never wake. She’ll use their bones to clean her teeth and Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: RuthAnne Snow Mentee Name: Tosha Sumner Title: BETWEEN NEVER AND ALWAYS Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 83,000 Pitch: Track star Callie has spent her whole life outrunning rumors that her late father used performance enhancing drugs. Callie knows who her dad was—an honorable, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Six Weeks Delivery Mentor Name: Jamie Pacton & M.K. England Mentee Name: Nicole A. Brake Title: A BOUNTY OF RUNAWAYS Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy (with LGBT+ elements) Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: When lady bounty hunters Annora and Hellion add wanted-dead-or-alive Carina to their trio, they inherit her problems, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Names: Rosalyn Eves and Erin Summerill Mentee Name: Kit Grant Title: A COURT OF MIRACLES Category: Young Adult Genre: Alternate History, Diverse Word Count: 95,000 Pitch: Retelling of both LES MISERABLES and THE JUNGLE BOOK via Six Of Crows. The French Revolution has failed. In the violent jungle of a Paris divided between Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Katherine Webber Mentee Name: Ashia Monet Title: THE BLACK VEINS Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy (ownvoices) Word Count: 97,000 Pitch: When a criminal sorcerer kidnaps her family, Blythe Fulton embarks on a supernatural road-trip across the US to gather the Guardians, a temperamental group of magic-wielding Read more…