Genre: YA Contemporary Title: TROUBLED Word Count: 57,000 Query: Sixteen-year-old Kyle Grimstone will do anything to escape the barbaric regime at St. Bonaparte Military Academy. He can’t endure two more years under Headmaster Sterm. The deranged dictator’s questionable disciplinary methods drive cadets to the brink of suicide. The school board’s Read more…
Genre: MG Magical Realism Title: ONE OF THOSE TIMES Word Count: 30,000 Query: When twelve-year-old Sam Heans finds a tattered datebook on the sidewalk, it doesn’t take long for him to realize it’s everything but ordinary. The book contains clues of things that will happen to him—or so he thinks. Read more…
Genre: Contemporary Romance Title: THE HEAD TRIP Word Count: 76,000 Query: Ballsy Los Angeles publicist Lettie Gold has the kind of life plenty of women fantasize about, studded with red carpet events and celebrity clients. But when her musician fiancé David abruptly breaks things off at his shrink’s suggestion and Read more…
Genre: MG Fairytale Retelling Title: BEAST Word Count: 54,000 Query: Twelve-year-old Elliot wants nothing more than to prove he’s got guts. The schoolyard bully thinks he’s a wuss, and even Elliot’s best friend, Hammer, and his overprotective mother both know he isn’t very tough. So when the town begins the Read more…
“The Writer’s Voice” Blogfest is live! Over the next week, the coaches will review your queries and first pages on the blogs listed below, and if one of the coaches wants you on her team, she’ll leave a comment on your post that says something like, “I want you!” (Please Read more…
Since I’m deep in revisions for THE SEVENTH HEIR (book two in the Library Jumpers trilogy), I thought I’d share the characters I’ve been living with for years now. They’ve become a big part of my life and, at times, I forget they exist only in my mind and live Read more…
DIVIDE IS LIVE! DIVIDE IS LIVE! Today we’re celebrating the release of DIVIDE–Jessa Russo’s upper young adult fantasy fairytale redux of Beauty and the Beast (what a mouthful!)! Please join us all day (4/17) on Facebook for the Release Day CELEBRATION!!! Author visits, surprises, and giveaways you don’t want to Read more…
“The Writer’s Voice” is a multi-blog, multi-agent contest hosted by Brenda Drake, Mónica Bustamante Wagner, Kimberly P. Chase, and Elizabeth Briggs. We’re basing it on NBC’s singing reality show The Voice, so the four of us will serve as coaches and select projects for our teams based on their queries and Read more…
Mina Vaughn is holding a panel at the RT 2014 convention about pitching called Pitchslap. Pitchslap will be a workshop on how to make your pitch tight, dynamic and ready for industry professionals. On her panel will be agents (Louise Fury and Laura Bradford), editors (my editor Micki Nuding from Read more…
We are looking for contemporary, realistic YA fiction only. This means anything that takes place in our world and abides by the generally accepted laws of reality, time, and space. For example: a historical fiction love story between a cowboy and a governor’s daughter set in 1954 would absolutely qualify. Read more…