Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Pitch Wars Team Interview with Megan Peterson and her mentors, Dionne McCulloch & Fiona McLaren

Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have . . . Megan Peterson – Mentee Twitter | Website Dionne McCulloch – Mentor Twitter | CornerstonesUS Fiona McLaren – Co-Mentor Twitter | Read more…

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Pitch Wars Team Interview with Elliot Smith and his mentor, Gabrielle Byrne

Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have Team Fiery Stakes . . . Elliot Smith – Mentee Twitter | Website Gabrielle Byrne – Mentor Twitter | Website Elliot: Why did you Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Pitch Wars Team Interview with Michelle Iannantuono and her mentor, Michelle Hazen

Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have . . . Michelle Iannantuono – Mentee Twitter | Website Michelle Hazen – Mentor Twitter | Website Mentee Michelle: Why did you choose Mentor Michelle? Michelle and I Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Pitch Wars Team Interview with R.R. Baker and her mentor, Laura Brown

  Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have #TeamShmexyCrutches . . . R.R. Baker – Mentee Twitter    Laura Brown – Mentor Twitter | Website   Rosalyn: Why did you choose Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Pitch Wars Team Interview with Steph Mignon and her mentor, Laura Heffernan

  Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have . . . Steph Mignon – Mentee Twitter | Website Laura Heffernan – Mentor Twitter | Website   Steph: Why did you Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Pitch Wars Team Interview with Erin Brambilla and her mentor, Jeanmarie Anaya

    Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have . . . Erin Brambilla – Mentee Twitter | Website | Instagram: erinbrambillawriter Jeanmarie Anaya – Mentor Twitter | Website   Erin: Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Pitch Wars Team Interview with Nikki Roberti and Katie O'Shea

  Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you’re making progress on your own manuscript! While we’re all working toward the Agent Showcase on November 3rd-9th, we hope you’ll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2016 Pitch Wars Teams. And now, we have . . . Katie O’Shea – Mentee Twitter | Blog | YouTube | Facebook Nikki Roberti – Mentor  Twitter | Website | Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Magnetic Magic by Terry Catasús Jennings . . . Book Release and Giveaway!

  TITLE: Magnetic Magic AUTHOR: Terry Catasús Jennings ILLUSTRATOR: Andrea Gabriel PUBLISHER: Arbordale Publishing RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2016 Book Page  |  Author Interview  |  Teaching Activities Guide  |  Buy Magnetic Magic Dena loves using magnets to perform magic tricks for the kids at the pool. When Enrique arrives in town, he doesn’t like that Dena is fooling the others. He gives her a century-old treasure map and Dena uses her compass and tools to plot the Read more…

By Heather Cashman, ago

Winners of the editing prizes from the Pitch Wars Mentors!

Today we have the winners of the editing prizes donated by some of our amazing Pitch Wars mentors. Thank you everyone for entering Pitch Wars and thank you to those who donated. We’re excited for next year and all the wonderful changes coming next year. A few things first. We have some amazing giveaways for those of you who didn’t make it into the mentoring round. Here they are … Cornerstones Literary Consultancy is offering Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

FAITHFUL by Pitch Wars mentor Michelle Hauck … cover reveal and giveaway!

Today Michelle Hauck and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for FAITHFUL, book two in the Birth of Saints series which releases November 15, 2016! Check out the gorgeous cover and enter to win a SIGNED copy of book 1 GRUDGING!   On to the reveal! Title: FAITHFUL (Birth of Saints #2) Author: Michelle Hauck Pub. Date: November 15, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Formats: eBook ISBN: 9780062447173 Find it: Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Goodreads Following Grudging–and with a mix of Terry Goodkind and Bernard Cornwall–religion, Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago