You’ve asked for it and here it is … Put the children books to bed, you’re invited to an adult only pitch event on June 27 through June 29! After many requests from Adult writers and agents, I’m kicking off the summer with a pitch event for adult only fiction. Read more…
“The Writer’s Voice” is a multi-blog, multi-agent contest hosted by Cupid of Cupid’s Literary Connection, Brenda Drake of Brenda Drake Writes, Mónica B.W. of Love YA, and Krista Van Dolzer of Mother. Write. (Repeat). We based the contest on NBC’s singing reality show The Voice, so the four of us selected projects Read more…
Genre: YA Thriller Word count: 54,000Query: Pretending to be someone else has its difficulties. Seventeen-year-old Prism Chase thought it would be fun until the game turns deadly. She has exactly forty-eight hours to stop her charades and come clean about who she really is or people will die.After she witnesses the Read more…
Genre:Contemporary YA Word Count: 67,000 Query: 16-year-old Kelsey knows kidnapping’s a crime. But helping someone escape is a whole different story. When Kelsey’s house burns down, her family loses everything. Someone has to pay, and Kelsey’s sure it should be Jay – the boy she caught breaking into her house Read more…
Genre: YA Contemporary Fantasy Word count: 60,000 Query:Sixteen-year-old Catalina Bramson has never seen the sky. As a mage, it’s illegal for her to leave the underground city she lives in. But when Catalina stumbles upon a tunnel leading to the surface, she can’t resist the temptation. Expecting to enjoy a Read more…
Genre: Middle Grade Adventure Word Count: 54,000 Query: Thirteen-year-old gamer, Copernicus ‘Nic’ Wilhelm, has one chance to win fifty thousand dollars and prevent his dad from losing his laboratory to the devious inventor, Geoffrey Zorn–The Digital Zone video game tournament. But when Geoffrey Zorn unveils a new virtual gaming console Read more…
Genre:MG contemporary Word count: 30,000 Query: When eleven-year-old Mary-Jane “MJ” Lennox’s mother dies and her father is deployed to Korea, she never cries. Not once. Sent to live with her grandmother on the icy tundra of Alaska, she thinks her young life is over, until she discovers an abandoned and Read more…
Genre:Middle Grade Adventure Word Count: 45,000 Query: Thirteen-year-old Matt Muldoon is content spending 7thgrade at Spook Hill Middle School jamming with his best friend Chester Tubbs and working on album art for their non-existent band. That is until Chester surprises Matt and drags him on stage at the Autumn Festival to Read more…
Genre:Middle-grade science fiction adventure Word Count: 48,000 Query: Twelve-year-old Orion Carrera never wanted to save the world, much less the entire solar system. But when the President of the Milky Way shows up at his dad’s auto repair shop, Orion learns his dad has been keeping secrets. Big secrets—like the fact Read more…
Genre: YA Psychological Thriller Word Count: 63,000 Query: Nineteen minutes. That’s all the time it took for eighteen-year-old Brynn’s life to unravel. Nineteen minutes that left her scarred and three people dead, including Will, her boyfriend. Nineteen minutes she can’t seem to remember. Now, after nearly a year in a Read more…