Mentor Name: Cole Gibsen Mentee Name: Laura DiamondTitle: BEAT Category: Young Adult Genre: Thriller Word Count: 77,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old heart transplant recipient, Adam Gibson, must pair up with a snarky artist to fight the demons in his mind if he’s to survive the psychological torment of someone dying Read more…
Mentor Name: Dannie Morin Mentee Name: Heather Truett Title: RENASCENCE Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 67,000 Pitch: Eighteen-year-old Chrissy reapplied her lipstick and shot her teacher in the heart. Priscilla can’t imagine a future where her pacifist best friend is remembered as a school shooter. She must uncover Read more…
Mentor Name: Diana Gallagher Mentee Name: J.A. Ward Title: KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: Desperate to atone for the life he ended in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Roland stakes out on a bridge infamous for suicide in hopes he can save Read more…
Mentor Name: Dionne McCulloch Mentee Name: Corey Ryan Title: LEFT WITH US Category: Literary Genre: Young Adult Word Count: 81,000 Pitch: Ellery Cole cleans to forget. Scraping brains off walls and sanding blood-soaked floors in the family business helps him forget that day, seven years ago, when a shooter walked Read more…
Mentor Name: Elizabeth Briggs Mentee Name: Tara Sim Title: TIMEKEEPER Category: Young Adult Genre: Historical Fantasy/LGBTQ Word Count: 84,000 Pitch: When clock mechanic Danny falls for Colton, a boy who controls time, he’ll have more to worry about than what his mother will think. A terrorist is freezing time across Read more…
Mentor Name: Emily Martin Mentee Name: RuthAnne Snow Title: THE GIRLS OF MARCH Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 71,000 Pitch: Elin swears she wasn’t trying to kill herself. Her best friends have vowed to keep it secret, and Elin is convinced a perfect prom is her ticket to Read more…
Mentor Name: Erica Chapman Mentee Name: Whitney Taylor Title: DEFINITIONS OF INDEFINABLE THINGS Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 64,000 Pitch: 17 year-old Zoloft expert Reggie Mason has depression down to a science. That is, until she meets Prozac poster kid Snake, whose adult responsibilities give her a second Read more…
Mentor Name: Evelyn Skye Mentee Name: Summer Spence Title: OF NIGHT AND STONE Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 92,000 Pitch: One girl in present day. Two lost princes from long ago. All three very much alive… When seventeen-year-old Elisabeth is forced to spend her summer at Bell Hall, Read more…
Mentor Name: Fiona McLaren Mentee Name: Carleen Karanovic Title: HOPE ON A FEATHER Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 65,000 Pitch: Modern-day Stand By Me meets The Outsiders. The tie between fifteen-year-old Bobby and his friends is challenged when Bobby falls for a girl from a street gang invading Read more…
Mentor Name: Jaye Robin Brown Mentee Name: K.A. Reynolds Title: LE CIRQUE DU LITERATI Category: Young Adult Genre: Literary Fantasy Word Count: 91,000 Pitch: A repressed trauma haunts poet Josephine. Her best friend, visionary Nikolai, hides the deadly truth she seeks. When they flee town, magicians from a Utopian artist’s Read more…