Genre: Magical RealismCategory: Middle Grade Title: FLUTTER Word Count: 42,000 Three sentence pitch: Twelve-year-old Mandy finds an ancestor’s journal at Grandpa’s farmhouse, reads a flying spell… and grows strange, leathery wings! Flying is fantastic, but at school Mandy’s an outsider, too different. Her absentee mother shows up with Hollywood plans Read more…
Genre: Fantasy SteampunkCategory: Young Adult Title: ACE OF SHADES Word Count: 82,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Enne Alfero roams the magical Victorian-like shadow world searching for her lost mother. Her only ally is Levi Glaisyer, a hot street lord and card dealer at a casino. When the casino’s owner tricks Read more…
Genre: Paranormal HorrorCategory: Young Adult Title: JENNIFER STRANGEWord Count: 50,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Fifteen-year-old Marcus is next in line to lead his family of Ghost Hunters, but only if he can find a powerful Medium with a unique gift to join their clan. While on assignment to help a mother Read more…
Genre: Contemporary/SupernaturalCategory: Young AdultTitle: ISLE IN THE SEA OF GHOSTSWord Count: 65,000 Three Sentence Pitch: While Blair lies comatose, his soul wanders limbo. A dead girl offers to help him wake if he brings her back with him, but he’ll have to sail across the Styx, duel the grim reaper, Read more…
Genre: Women’s FictionCategory: AdultTitle: THE OTHER SIDE OF LAUGHTERWord Count: 84,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Emily Cooper has been kicked out of her life. Once a member of one of Georgia’s wealthiest and most highly esteemed political families, she is now left with nothing due to their manipulative tactics and Emily’s Read more…
Genre: Contemporary/Magical RealismCategory: Young AdultTitle: THE UNFORTUNATE WISHES OF MATTHEW WATSONWord Count: 79,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Former private schooler, Matt, uses an aloof genie to get out of his crappy bully-filled public school. But the genie doesn’t use magic; he “makes things happen,” which apparently translates to “ruins everything.” Now Read more…
Genre: Magic Realism Category: Middle Grade Title: MOLLY LONG LEGS AND THE SLEEPING BUG Word Count: 40,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Eleven year old English schoolgirl, Molly Jeffries, discovers she can physically enter the world of any book she reads. When a number of Molly’s possessions go missing at school and her friendship Read more…
Genre: ContemporaryCategory: Young AdultTitle: AUSSIE OUTSIDERWord Count: 63,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Rory Turner used to have the typical American family, but now she’s an Aussie outsider, living on a Dr. Pepper can-sized island with the dad she’s only just met. Settling into her new life is hard enough without Read more…
Genre: FantasyCategory: Young AdultTitle: WE WHO REMAINWord Count: 75,000 Three Sentence Pitch: An African-inspired fantasy of a young aspiring scientist who befriends an “untouchable” preparer of the dead and joins him to do the unthinkable–grave robbing–to stop a deadly plague ravaging her world. Question 1: In your MC’s voice, what Read more…
Genre: Fantasy with Romantic ElementsCategory: AdultTitle: THE PAIN BEARERWord Count: 117,000 Three Sentence Pitch: Rosalina DeMagna suffers from a mysterious affliction—unexplained pains which neither medicine nor prayer can cure. Though she believes the affliction is penance forced upon her by vengeful gods, the arrival of Warlord Thorne Kierin reveals she Read more…