Genre: YA ContemporaryWord Count: 62,000 Pitch: Cancer: five. Stella: zero. On the brink of death, Stella is leading a double life. At home there’s her dedicated and protective boyfriend. And at the hospital there’s the quirky boy who’s stealing her heart. Excerpt: It happens quick. Like a lightning strike. Read more…
Genre: Adult Thriller Word count: 90,000 Pitch: With the body count climbing the more he probes, homicide detective Jack Easley’s latest case points to his own family—the one that still tells him his sister’s death was a cut-and-dried suicide. Excerpt: I leaned against the Plexiglas divider of our lane, Read more…
Genre: Adult – MysteryWord Count: 75,000 Pitch: A single mom with something more deadly on her mind than coupons and babysitters stumbles through the mess of her life tossing cynical quips in her wake while trying not to trip over dead bodies. Excerpt: Jules mopped up the trail of blood Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary RomanceWord Count: 60,000 Pitch: Bound by memory-erasing seizures, Juliet swears by her scrapbooks until a fire destroys everything. Now she is left to choose between the life they say she’s always known and the boy she can’t forget. Excerpt: Fractured memories. That’s all I have left. Read more…
Genre: MG contemporary fantasyWord Count: 37,000 Pitch: Gideon is eleven years old and going blind. After befriending Baku, a nightmare eater, he is tempted to abandon his parents and real life for a dream world where he can still “see”. Excerpt: Gideon Hardy stood on the stage of a Read more…
PITCH MADNESS The Agent Game Rules Starting on September 6 at 8AM EST through 12PM (Noon) EST on Septemer 10 the agents will stop by the host blogs, read the entries, and make their Monopoly plays (bids) for the pitches they want to read more of. (See the ranking sheet Read more…
THE SUBMISSION WINDOW FOR PITCH MADNESS IS NOW CLOSED. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! The submission window for Pitch Madness is now open for 25 hours from 11:01PM EST to 11:59PM EST (That’s 8/24). There will be no cut off number. Everyone who submits during the window will make it into the contest. Read more…
The submission window for Pitch Madness is this Saturday, August 24, and will be open for 24 hours (12:01AM EST to 11:59PM EST). There will be no cut off number. Everyone who submits during the window will make it into the contest. You will receive a receipt, if you don’t, Read more…
Pitch Madness is fast approaching and we have a crazy, awesome line up of agents competing for your pitches! For those of you not familiar with Pitch Madness, Pitch Madness is a contest where agents compete in a game against their peers for pitches. This time the game is Monopoly. Read more…
We’re getting close to Pitch Madness submission day, and I wanted to introduce the host blogs and their teams. The teams will choose from the slush the best entries for their teams. Likes are subjective, so by having teams, we can have many opinions on each entry. The teams have Read more…