MENTOR: Erica M. Chapman MENTEES: Leah and Kate Rooper TITLE: ETERNAL CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Fantasy WORD COUNT: 90,000 PITCH: After Jane drowns and wakes up in the Egyptian underworld without her heart – the only ticket to paradise – she’s offered a deal to steal the heart of King Tut. But falling in love with Anubis, Read more…
MENTOR: Molly Lee MENTEE: Felicia Anderson TITLE: THE SCALES ON OUR EYES CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Fantasy Romance WORD COUNT: 62,000 PITCH: When Leila discovers a connection between school tyrant Hazel and her missing father, she’ll have to use new-found powers to save him from a shared fate. Trouble is, he Read more…
MENTOR: Sarah Nicolas MENTEE: Amanda Klase TITLE: AMPED CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Weird Western WORD COUNT: 106,000 PITCH: Teenage mercenary Cervena vows to give up killing after she triggers a brutal, uncontrollable superpower. When her warlord grandfather schemes to keep her on the battlefield, she flees to the Free West, a Read more…
MENTOR: Lindsey Sprague MENTEE: Paula Garner TITLE: PHANTOM LIMBS CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Contemporary WORD COUNT: 89,000 PITCH: Sixteen-year-old Otis copes with grief by swimming, training to fulfill the lost Olympic dream of his tyrannical one-armed friend/self-appointed coach, Dara, but her hold on him is threatened when the only girl he’s Read more…
MENTOR: Megan Whitmer MENTEE: Tara Harte TITLE: HUNTER HIGH CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Horror/Comedy WORD COUNT: 86,000 PITCH: When horror movie lover Barbra discovers she’s the granddaughter of the original zombie hunter, she’s forced to master her brain-bashing skills STAT and figure out who’s behind the zombies shuffling through town. Her survival as Read more…
MENTOR: Michelle Painchaud MENTEE: Ashley DeYoung TITLE: AURORA CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Sci-Fi WORD COUNT: 80,000 PITCH: 16-year-old Cassandra Vicars knows two things – the lizard alien Serokans who’ve taken over Earth and turned it into a human meat factory have to be stopped, and she’s the best Alliance soldier for the job. EXCERPT: The Read more…
MENTOR: Fiona McLaren MENTEE: Jordan Teos TITLE: MERLIN’S FLIGHT CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Sci-Fi WORD COUNT: 72,000 PITCH: Amelia Earhart meets MORTAL ENGINES with an Arthurian twist. When sixteen-year-old Gwen stumbles into a plot to destroy her beloved sky city, she’s thrown overboard in a broken plane. She fights to return Read more…
MENTOR: Fiona McLaren MENTEE: Jordan Teos TITLE: MERLIN’S FLIGHT CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Sci-Fi WORD COUNT: 72,000 PITCH: Amelia Earhart meets MORTAL ENGINES with an Arthurian twist. When sixteen-year-old Gwen stumbles into a plot to destroy her beloved sky city, she’s thrown overboard in a broken plane. She fights to return Read more…
MENTOR: Mónica Bustamante Wagner MENTEE: Rachel Coleman TITLE: SCAPEGOAT CATEGORY/GENRE: Contemporary YA WORD COUNT: 75,000 PITCH: After eighteen-year-old Gideon disables his girlfriend, Lilly, in a car accident, his life spins out of control and he ends up in rehab. But when his mom falls ill, he leaves treatment early Read more…
MENTOR: Meredith McCardle MENTEE: Addie Thorley TITLE: WHERE DEVILS BREED CATEGORY/GENRE: YA Fantasy WORD COUNT: 91,000 Pitch: When her sister and friends are sold to the Imperial harem, seventeen-year-old Nia vows to save them— even if that means conspiring with mystic Bedouins, betraying the boy she loves, and slitting Read more…