Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Isabel Davis Mentee Name: Christy Chao Title: EARTH TO LIA Category: Young Adult Own Voices Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Dahlia Yang-Lee is catapulted back in time and must outsmart space pirate Callum Davis to reclaim the artifact that’ll send her home. Historically, Lia knows Cal’s story doesn’t end happily. With time working against her and Cal’s looming death, Lia must defy history to save the pirate Read more…

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Lynnette Labelle and Destiny Cole Mentee Name: Meghan Jashinsky Title: COURT OF GLITTERING CRIMSON Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 75,000 words Pitch: Princess Skylla is a nightmare from which her kingdom will never wake. She’ll use their bones to clean her teeth and wear their intestines like ribbons. It’s the least they deserve after what they did to her family the night of the Slaughter. But the rebel Read more…

Manuscript Status: Six Weeks Delivery Mentor Name: Jamie Pacton & M.K. England Mentee Name: Nicole A. Brake Title: A BOUNTY OF RUNAWAYS Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy (with LGBT+ elements) Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: When lady bounty hunters Annora and Hellion add wanted-dead-or-alive Carina to their trio, they inherit her problems, too: the vengeful husband she fled and the rival bounty hunters he hired. The solution? Find the ultimate bounty—the one who got away, who crippled Read more…

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Katherine Webber Mentee Name: Ashia Monet Title: THE BLACK VEINS Category/Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy (ownvoices) Word Count: 97,000 Pitch: When a criminal sorcerer kidnaps her family, Blythe Fulton embarks on a supernatural road-trip across the US to gather the Guardians, a temperamental group of magic-wielding teens just like her. Blythe needs the Guardians’ cooperation to save her family, but every step towards her family’s rescue brings the Guardians closer to Read more…

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor: Dannie Morin Mentee: Sara C. Metz Title: THE BRAVERY OF ZOE AL-MANSUR Category/Genre: YA Contemporary (Own Voices) Word Count: 58,300 Pitch: Fifteen-year-old Zuhayra “Zoe” al-Mansur, a Muslim refugee who escaped ISIS in Syria, must relive memories of her father’s murder during a school shooting to save her classmates and herself. Excerpt: MARCH 2016 In the fifteen months since Zuhayra arrived at the Turkish refugee camp, it snowed more days than she cared Read more…