Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Holly Faur Mentee Name: Hema Penmetsa Title: BEYOND THE CARVED WALLS Category: Adult Genre: Historical Fiction, Own Voices Word Count: 98,000 Pitch: Sold by her family into a Muslim harem, Hindu girl Sundari must rise in power, even at the cost of losing herself, or Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Kristen Lepionka Mentee Name: Ernie Chiara Title: ONLY WHEN I FALL Category: Adult Genre: Upmarket fiction with elements of suspense and magical realism Word Count: 80k Pitch: Tristesse, a homeless but talented artist, is out of second chances–until Mia, his drug-dealer and ex-girlfriend, secretly enters his painting Read more…
MANUSCRIPT STATUS: Finished Mentor: Karma Brown/Susan Bishop Crispell Mentee: Julie Clark Title: THE ONES WE CHOOSE Category/Genre: Adult / WF Word Count: 94,000 Pitch: When geneticist Paige Robson decided to use an anonymous sperm donor, she believed she was protecting her child from the abandonment she faced with her own Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: J.C. Nelson Mentee: Ian Barnes Title: Slow Burn Armageddon Category/Genre: Sci-Fantasy Word Count:89,000 Pitch: Asher broke the hacker’s number one rule: Never steal from your employer. Then he broke rule number two: When you do, don’t get caught. Now, he’s on the run through Boston, sporting unknown Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Margarita Montimore Mentee Name: Zoje Stage Title: BABY TEETH Category: Adult Genre: Psychological Suspense/Domestic Thriller (#ownvoices) Word Count: 99,000 Pitch: Recovering from Crohn’s disease surgery and overwhelmed by her mute seven-year-old’s increasingly defiant behavior, Suzette’s health and sanity hinge on finding professional help for her Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Kara Leigh Miller & Meredith Ireland Mentee: Elissa Grossell Dickey Title: Those We Left Behind Category/Genre: Adult / Apocalyptic Women’s Fiction Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: With an asteroid on course to hit Earth, best friends Lilia and Magda journey across an apocalyptic Midwest toward one last Read more…
Manuscript status: FINISHED Mentor: E.B. Wheeler Mentee: Dianne Freeman Title: A LADY’S GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE AND MURDER Category/Genre: Adult Historical Mystery Word Count: 81,000 Pitch: A high society burglar. A marriage-mad sister. A murdered footman. When the London Season turns deadly, Victorian widow Frances Wynn fears one of her sister’s Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Tamara Mataya Mentee: KK Hendin Title: LIES UNDERCOVER Category/Genre: Adult Commercial Fiction Word Count: 97,000 Pitch: Miss Congeniality meets 21 Jump Street Serious field operative to fake Youtube beauty Vlogger? Not the CIA career trajectory Kira anticipated. When a lethal drug circulates the NYC modeling community, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Tamara Mataya Mentee: Kelli Newby Title: EX, EX, OH Category/Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction Word Count: 85,000 Pitch: Losing fiancé to the head of a roleplaying game empire? X Burying herself in 80-hour work weeks to forget? X Dating the ex of the woman who stole her Read more…
MANUSCRIPT STATUS: 1 month delivery Mentor: Marie Meyer Mentee: Brianna Lespinasse Title: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE CHANCES Category/Genre: NA Contemporary Romance Word Count: 80,000 Pitch: Kira is days away from killing herself when she confesses her plan to Chase, her handsome neighbor. Determined to rekindle her passion for life, Chase Read more…