Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Lynnette Labelle Mentee Name: M.C. Vaughan Title: THE RELUCTANT PRINCESS Category: Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance Word Count: 90,000 Pitch: After a fire destroys her paintings, Zara needs two things to fulfill the art gallery’s contract for multiple masterpieces—a quick hit of cash for supplies Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Natasha Raulerson Mentee Name: Ava Quinn Title: A SHOT AT FOREVER Category: Adult Genre: Romance Word Count: 90,000 Pitch: First rule of hustling: Know the game better than your opponent. Not a problem for Sheridan as she travels to her last big score. But when she Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Margarita Montimore Mentee Name: Sarahlyn Bruck Title: FIT Category: Adult Genre: Women’s fiction with speculative elements Word Count: 92,000 Pitch: Sentenced under the new obesity laws, Nora is sent to Fat Camp, where she’s forced to diet and exercise until she’s “fit” enough to return Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Hayley Stone Mentee Name: Brian O’Conor Title: THE RADIANCE OF BLACK Category: Adult Genre: Dark Fantasy Word Count: 91,000 Pitch: In a city divided into constant day and night, ex-cultist Ferris Foust and disgraced paladin Sesily Marigold form an uneasy alliance to stop fanatics from Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Scarlett Cole Mentee Name: Leah Collum Title: THE LOVE TEST Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: Immigration officer Sarah Wright’s chance encounter with a handsome Greek man leaves her hoping he could be the one to turn her lousy romantic luck around—until Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Scarlett Cole Mentee Name: Leah Collum Title: THE LOVE TEST Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: Immigration officer Sarah Wright’s chance encounter with a handsome Greek man leaves her hoping he could be the one to turn her lousy romantic luck around—until Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Emmie Mears Mentee Name: Bennett North Title: BLUE DAWN Category: Adult Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 88,000 Pitch: Letty Salazar, assistant director of Corporate Warfare at Blue Dawn, designed a death ray to destroy rival corporation PanTech. Her wife soups up supersoldiers with Kevlar skin implants. But Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Charlie N. Holmberg Mentee Name: AS Olivier Title: THIS LOATHSOME MAGIC Category: Adult Genre: Historical Fantasy Word Count: 89,000 Pitch: After a botched exorcism at a local brothel, Wayward Collins has two options: rot in jail or serve the aristocratic wizard, Lord Cadogan. When one of Cadogan’s footmen is brutally murdered, Read more…
Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Sonia Hartl Mentee Name: Jen F. Title: THE BODY IN THE ROSES Category: Adult Genre: Upmarket Mystery Word Count: 92,000 Pitch: To hemispherectomy survivor Carey, Greer Russo—sharp-lipped mystery chick and original bad feminist—is way-too-real for a dead girl. Discovering who whacked her leads Carey to Read more…
Manuscript status: Finished Mentor name: Holly Faur Mentee name: Brian Palmer Title: A SILENCE WORTH BREAKING Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: After a mysterious voice tells her she has ten thousand words left to speak before she dies, Annaliese trades popularity for silence—until she meets Colton. Read more…