Genre: YA FantasyWord Count: 91,000 Query: In an underwater village where talking to the Grey species is forbidden, sixteen-year-old Alphi McClure ignores her mother’s orders to desert her darker-skinned friend. In moments, her innocent friendship turns the villagers into a mob. Forced to flee, Alphi swims across the watery planet Read more…
Janice Sperry SHE CAME FROM THE HILL Genre: YA Gothic Fantasy Word count: 56,000 Query: Clay went to Strawberry Hill for the camping, not the ghost hunting. His friends’ stories about a dead little girl and her rainbow-winged fairy friends are not exactly the stuff that nightmares are made out Read more…
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Word count: 60,000 Query: Ms. Fury, Sixteen-year-old Kitty is a Chinese weredragon and an operative for the US government’s Draconic Intelligence Command, or as she likes to call it, DIC. When a rookie under Kitty’s supervision breaks the number one rule (don’t let humans know what Read more…
Genre: YA/ChristianWord Count: 63,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman, Rachel Harker prayed for God to change someone’s life; she never imagined it would be hers. When sixteen year old Rachel gets lost in the woods during a church sponsored hiking trip with skeptic Asher Jenkins, she expects help to come quickly. Read more…
Genre: YA Urban fantasyWord count: 82,000 Query: Dear Erica, Seventeen-year-old Caleb Dunnelly spends his weekends searching the net for clues about his parents’ disappearance. Which is why his best friend has to trick him into going out one Friday night. The two end up at Confessions, local hotspot and—apparently—the perfect Read more…
Genre: sassy spy novelWord count: 81,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman, Being an American spy in Ottawa, Canada, of all places, is pretty much the bottom rung of the ladder in terms of detecting threats and being in danger for CIA operative Talia Reynolds. But when the options are be careful Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Word Count: 61,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman: Taylor Stewart leads a life that,while privileged, is wrought with pressure-filled expectations. Although she has successfully navigated her way through the first three years of high school meeting, and often exceeding, these expectations, she has not done so without a Read more…
source When YA writer, Kathy Bradey, contacted me to get the word out about a writers auction she’s holding to raise funds for the late Andy Whitfield’s (Actor – Spartacus) documentary about cancer awareness this Wednesday, I quickly agreed. Some of you may know that my son, my adoptive daughter, Read more…
link We have winners into the Super Intern Contest with the awesome agent intern, Erica M. Chapman, for Louise Fury with L. Perkins Agency . If your name is below, please send your query letter and the 1st 250 words of manuscript to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com now and not later than Tuesday, Read more…
I’m so thrilled to announce another Pitch Madness success story. Gina Ciocca has signed with the beyond awesome agent and writer, John M. Cusick with Scott Treimel NY (yes, I’m a fangirl, and yes, he knows it). SQUEE!!! Gina Ciocca Gina has agreed to let me torture interview her. Here’s Read more…