Title: Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend Age Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: When Mattie tries out for the baseball team, she learns who she can trust to stand up for her. But can she learn to stand up for herself before her Tourette’s makes her strike out? First 250 Word of Manuscript: “How do you get out of this forsaken maze?” My dad rarely gets angry. He says it Read more…
Title: Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend Age Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: When Mattie tries out for the baseball team, she learns who she can trust to stand up for her. But can she learn to stand up for herself before her Tourette’s makes her strike out? First 250 Word of Manuscript: “How do you get out of this forsaken maze?” My dad rarely gets angry. He says it Read more…
Title: Scars We Bare Age Category: Young Adult Genre: sci-fi Word Count: 72,000 Pitch: When 17-year-old Olivia discovers her dad’s amputation scars, branding him as a sub-human wingless being from the planet Keres, she’s forced to confront her biases, or risk losing the only father she’s ever known. First 250 Word of Manuscript: Everyone dreams, at some point, of flying. Not going to the airport, getting scanned, and spending a few hours staring out Read more…
Title: STAGED Age Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 61,000 Pitch: After seventeen-year-old country singer Paxton Parker loses her record contract, she teams up with her bestie to stage tabloid pictures. But trusting he’ll only sell photos she approves might cost her career. First 250 Word of Manuscript: Skyscraper Louboutin’s and liquor were a bad combo. If my manager hadn’t nudged me through the stage curtain, I would’ve chucked those stilts. Barefoot. Now Read more…
Title: The Darkness Rises Age Category: Young Adult Genre: Speculative Thriller Word Count: 68,000 Pitch: After fourteen people die because Whitney saves the wrong man, she vows to stop rescuing people. But when someone sets out for revenge, Whitney must find the courage to save one last life—her own. First 250 Word of Manuscript: The Dallas night was like a sweaty palm clamped over my mouth, but a welcome improvement from the chaos inside—the Read more…
Title: Into the Skye Age Category: Young Adult Genre: YA – sci-fi Word Count: 83000 Pitch: One brother loves her, the other wants her dead. They both want the throne. Lucas and Ash land on Earth turning Skye’s junior year to chaos. Dune meets I am Number Four. First 250 Word of Manuscript: Skye’s Converse squeaked on the zombie gray linoleum. The oversleeping had to end. She headed to the office for yet another Read more…
Title: VITIUM Age Category: Young Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy Word Count: 73,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Superbia has an arrangement with Death: if she survives working as his newest assassin, he’ll resurrect her brother. But failing even one mission will transform her from Death’s favorite hitwoman to his newest target. First 250 Word of Manuscript: As an Aspect of Death, I know exactly when I’m supposed to die. Down to the very second. But standing at the Read more…
Title: Amanda Jones and the Quest to Save Zee Age Category: Middle Grade Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 53,000 Pitch: Amanda had one job: protect her little sister Zee, an eight-year old with Down Syndrome. But she failed. Now Amanda must brave a world of warring Goblins and Fae, or Zee will be lost forever. First 250 Word of Manuscript: In a land both far away and very close, the Goblin King paced before his Read more…
Title: Dandelions Age Category: Middle Grade Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 55000 Pitch: The worlds Quilla created by wishing on dandelions are dying. She is the only one who can save them, but her sister’s murderer swore to kill her if she returned. Time for an epic plan. First 250 Word of Manuscript: Aaron shouldn’t be here. My first day of middle school and my best friend from the world I made when I was Read more…
Title: Big Fat Pond Fish Age Category: Middle Grade Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 40,000 Pitch: When Jordan’s opera masterclass money goes missing, the overweight eighth-grader accepts a dangerous swimming dare to win the cash prize. But winning means losing more than lard. It may mean losing his life. First 250 Word of Manuscript: I eyeballed the dangling uvulas and pretended I wasn’t pee-myself nervous. Spinlow would know I hadn’t practiced, and she’d decapitate me before Read more…