Manuscript Status: Finished Mentors: Fiona McLaren and Dionne McCulloch Mentee: Joe McCourt Title: OLIVE UNNEEDED Category: Middle Grade Genre: Animal Adventure Word Count: 49,000 Pitch: Olive the Sheltie can’t make her humans happy. After failing to impress them as a Retriever dog, Police dog, Guide dog – even Cadaver dog – Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Cat Scully Mentee Name: Kendal Snow Title: THE FLYING GARZINIS Category: Middle Grade Genre: Mystery Word Count: 63,000 Pitch: Elsie doesn’t believe in magic—or curses. But when the strongman goes missing and fires threaten to destroy her parents’ trapeze troupe, she must uncover the truth Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Kevin Springer Mentee: Jamie Pacton Title: MARCO POLO & THE MAGICIAN’S RING Genre: MG Category: Adventure-Fantasy Word count: 40,000 Pitch: Marco Polo’s travels made history, but his childhood was also full of adventure and danger. When a vengeful goddess kidnaps his aunt and cousin, 12-year-old Marco Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Kevin Springer Mentee: Jamie Pacton Title: MARCO POLO & THE MAGICIAN’S RING Genre: MG Category: Adventure-Fantasy Word count: 40,000 Pitch: Marco Polo’s travels made history, but his childhood was also full of adventure and danger. When a vengeful goddess kidnaps his aunt and cousin, 12-year-old Marco Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Kendra Young Mentee Name: Heather Murphy Capps Title: SPOOKY JANE Category: MG Genre: Horror Word Count: 44,000 Pitch: The family rule is simple, never bring anything back from the dead. But when twelve-year-old Ivy breaks it by reviving a decayed flower, a malevolent family ghost Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Phil Stamper Mentee Name: Lucinda Troy Title: CAST IN SHADOW Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 61,000 Pitch: Tomoe Ikeda is as skilled in her ninja training as she is at getting into trouble. But when a failed heist ignites a feud with rival Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Sarah Glenn Marsh Mentee Name: M.K. England Title: SPACE ACADEMY REJECTS Category: YA Genre: Space Opera Word Count: 80,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Nax Khan, Academy washout and wrongly-accused outlaw, must band together with his fellow failures to steal a ship, evade space murderers, clear their Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Kim Graff Mentee Name: Jenny Rosen Title: THE RUNAWAYS Category: YA Genre: Thriller Word Count: 88,000 Pitch: When seventeen-year-old Hailey unearths her U.S. Senator father’s ties to a mass murder, he hires Caleb—teenage-Casanova-turned-killer—to make her disappear. Caleb forgoes duty for runaway love; trading twisted family loyalties for Hailey’s life. Caught between dirty Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Erica M. Chapman and Brenda Drake Mentee Name: Jenny Chou Title: VANISHED Category: Young Adult Genre: Thriller Word Count: 93,000 Pitch: When Sasha’s jewel-thief father dies before completing his greatest heist, she and her brother resolve to pull off the job themselves. But their perfectly Read more…
Manuscript status: Finished Mentor Name: Kes Trester & Jennifer Hawkins Mentee Name: Michella Domenici Title: LADY HAMLET Category: YA Genre: Contemporary w/LGBTQ elements Word Count: 72,000 Pitch: Alice Li will do anything to play Hamlet, even stage her own gender-swapped production. But her panic attacks threaten everything when her best Read more…