Mentor Name: Jessie Devine Mentee Name: Linsey Miller Title: THE AUDITION Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: Magic is long gone, the country is long united, and gender-fluid Sal finally sees a chance to escape poverty. When auditions open to become the next royal assassin, Sal will Read more…
Mentor Name: Jessie Humphries Mentee Name: Mara Rutherford Title: WINTERSOUL Category: Young Adult Genre: Fairytale Retelling Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: Raised in Russia by her Japanese-American father, 17-year-old Akira is as different from her classmates as her sword fighting is from her ballet lessons. When she discovers chilling links between Read more…
Mentor Name: Kate Karyus Quinn Mentee Name: D.A. Mages Title: THE MEMORY OF OBJECTS Category: Young Adult Genre: Paranormal Mystery Word Count: 80,000 Pitch: Megan Brown has four weeks to clear her dead brother’s name before the police brand him an addict and a criminal. When she discovers she can Read more…
Mentor Name: Kelly Loy Gilbert Mentee Name: Lilly Barels Title: THE HALF-LIFE OF HEARTACHE Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 90,000 Pitch: Hawaii isn’t all coconuts and rainbows. Seventeen-year-old Indigo Woods is trapped with her violent, alcoholic mother. She scrambles to find ways to escape, but it’s not until Read more…
Mentor Name: Kes Trester Mentee Name: Jennifer Hawkins Title: FALSE START Category: Young Adult Genre: Magical Realism Word Count: 79,000 Pitch: Friday Night Lights meets The Raven Boys. Delaney will do anything to help her football-star-bestie score college recruitment—even open her family’s playbook of cursed magic. But when she accidentally Read more…
Mentor Name: Lauren Spieller Mentee Name: Allison Ziegler Title: AETERNIUM Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 87,000 Pitch: When the Church launches a hunt for spell-casters in her city, apprentice sorcerer Hazel pledges the fire in her fingertips to fighting back. But as murder and magic mingle in Allegheny Read more…
Mentor Name: Trisha Leaver/ Lindsay Currie Mentee Name: Jen Vincent Title: HIS KISS Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 63,000 Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Nina Whitfield has never been kissed. Last summer, her crush, Hayden, made his move, but she panicked. Now Nina’s relying on her best friend Ev, a lip-lock Read more…
Mentor Name: Lori Goldstein Mentee Name: Justine Winans Title: WHERE YOU FOUND ME Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 61.000 Pitch: Six weeks ago, Estelle Graham fell in love. Four weeks ago, the first body was found. Two weeks ago, Estelle’s entire world shattered. Now, locked away in a Read more…
Mentor Name: Maggie Hall Mentee Name: Fiona Ivey Title: DOES THIS APRON MAKE ME LOOK AMISH? Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 81,500 Pitch: When sixteen-year-old fashion-obsessed blogger Milan Worthington violates her mother’s trust by secretly applying for a Hollywood reality show, she is banished to Amish country. There, Read more…
Mentor Name: Marieke Nijkamp Mentee Name: Brandi Ziegler Title: THE SILENT SALT SHAKER Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: A royal heist is supposed to be her greatest stunt yet, but when a mute sixteen-year-old acrobat discovers the object she’s forced to steal is a powerful relic, Read more…