Genre: Upper Middle Grade Word Count: 54,000 After receiving a mysterious inheritance, thirteen year-old Marnie learns life as a teenage heiress is one mixed bag of crazy in CAN’T BUY ME LOVE. Is it totally wrong to be jealous of someone else’s coffin? I mean, it’s not like I Read more…
Genre: YA Contemporary with a time-twist Word Count: 89,000 When Stacy looks in the mirror she can talk to her future self. But her future self lies. A lot. And it could cost Stacy the love of her life. He’s made his office look like a living room, complete Read more…
Genre: Science Fiction Suspense Word Count: 67,000 Designed to survive a nuclear holocaust, 17-year-old Ginny’s survival depends on taking down the immoral senator who placed her and her genetically engineered DNA on the international chopping block. The overhead light flared on. Ginny grumbled as she opened one eye, and Read more…
Genre: YA Contemporary Word Count: 59,000 After an accident kills half her family, Dylan uses drugs to drown her feelings. When she falls for Matt, she must decide if she’s willing to quit using heroin and take a chance on love. Red and blue lights dance off the roof Read more…
Genre: Humorous Contemporary YA Word Count: 78,000 Crushing on the hottest senior in school who already has the perfect girlfriend is a lose-lose situation for sixteen-year-old artist Abby Wheeler, until a shady frenemy proposes a foolproof plan for attaining the unattainable. Ian Koch had no business telling me where Read more…
PITCH MADNESS. GAME ON! THE RULES On September 7 through 12 until 12PM EST the agents will haunt the host blogs, read the entries, and make their shots (bid shots from the ranking sheet) for the pitches they want to read more of. Here’s the participating blogs Read more…
While we’re busy reading the slush and waiting for game day, we thought we’d take this opportunity to introduce the wicked awesome, crazy talented, good looking (I think that’s enough adjectives. Yeah, agents love adjectives, right? Oh? More?) badalious gamers, sneaky competitors, and on any day but game day, Read more…
An event as big as this requires many people working behind the scenes to pull off. In order to open the contest up to more submissions, we kidnapped bribed asked some awesome slush readers to back us up. They’ll be up to the ears in entries, searching for the Read more…
link First off, I want to thank all the agents who made this such a success. There were a few glitches but everyone was so kind and they were fixed quickly. John Cusick – Scott Treimel NY Sarah LaPolla – Curtis Brown Sara Sciuto – Full Circle Literary Molly Ker Read more…
A big welcome to all of the agents, readers, and participants who are excited about the Pitch Madness event! All comments will be moderated from here on out so that the agents can play their hands in secret. They’ll have until March 14th at 12pm EST when comments will be Read more…