Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Day 2 (Part 1) of the Pitch Wars Mentor Workshops with Sarah Underwood

Welcome to the Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2021 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query and first page critique from one of our mentors. We’ll be posting some of the critiques leading up to the Pitch Wars submission window. Our hope is that these samples will help you in shining up your query and first page. We appreciate our mentors for generously dedicating their Read more…

By Stephanie Scott, ago

Day 1 (Part 3) of the Pitch Wars Mentor Workshops with Lyn Liao Butler

Welcome to the Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2021 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query and first page critique from one of our mentors. We’ll be posting some of the critiques leading up to the Pitch Wars submission window. Our hope is that these samples will help you in shining up your query and first page. We appreciate our mentors for generously dedicating their Read more…

By Stephanie Scott, ago

Day 1 (Part 2) of the Pitch Wars Mentor Workshops with Amy Lea and Alicia Thompson

Welcome to the Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2021 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query and first page critique from one of our mentors. We’ll be posting some of the critiques leading up to the Pitch Wars submission window. Our hope is that these samples will help you in shining up your query and first page. We appreciate our mentors for generously dedicating their Read more…

By Rochelle Karina, ago

Day 1 (Part 1) of the Pitch Wars Mentor Workshops with Susan Crispell

Welcome to the Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2021 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query and first page critique from one of our mentors. We’ll be posting some of the critiques leading up to the Pitch Wars submission window. Our hope is that these samples will help you in shining up your query and first page. We appreciate our mentors for generously dedicating their Read more…

By Stephanie Scott, ago

2021 Mentor Critique Workshop Giveaway … Sign up now!

It’s that time again! I’m excited to bring you the Pitch Wars Mentor Critique Workshop featuring some of our talented current and past mentors! The mentors will be giving away query and first page critique packages to some lucky winners of our drawing. That means each winner will have both their query and first page critiqued. So far we have 32 critique packages to giveaway, but we just announced mentors and they are still signing Read more…

By Brenda Drake, ago

Your 2021 Pitch Wars Mentors!

For months leading up to this announcement, tons of work has gone on behind the scenes to bring you Pitch Wars 2021. We are an organization run solely by volunteers, and we couldn’t put this mentorship program on with out our amazing board and committee members. Everyone involved gives so much of their time to help other writers. We are truly blessed to have each of them. Pitch Wars has had many successes with mentees Read more…

By Brenda Drake, ago

Cover Reveal for HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Pitch Wars mentor Sequoia Nagamatsu

HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu William Morrow/Harper Collins and Bloomsbury UK Adult – Literary/Speculative January 18, 2022 Pre-Order Links and Description: https://www.sequoianagamatsu.com/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark Media Inquiries to: Eliza.Rosenberry@HarperCollins.com For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a Read more…

By Brenda Drake, ago

Day 5 (Part 3) of the Pitch Wars Mentor Workshops with J.A. Crawford

Welcome to the Pitch Wars Workshops with some of our amazing past and 2021 mentors. From a lottery drawing, we selected writers to receive a query and first page critique from one of our mentors. We’ll be posting some of the critiques leading up to the Pitch Wars submission window. Our hope is that these samples will help you in shining up your query and first page. We appreciate our mentors for generously dedicating their Read more…

By Erin Hardy, ago

Pitch Wars Success Story with Alex Samuely and her mentor, Jennieke Cohen

We’re back with another Pitch Wars Success Story! Please join us in congratulating Alex Samuely and her mentor, Jennieke Cohen! Alex signed with Tara Gonzalez at Erin Murphy Literary Agency. We’re so excited for them! About the Team… Alex Samuely – Mentee Website | Twitter Alex Samuely is a communications professional and former journalist. She writes young adult contemporary and fantasy novels inspired by her favorite locations, and strongly believes that setting is a character. Read more…

By Brenda Drake, ago

Happy Release to BIG WILD SUMMER by Stephanie J. Scott

Today, I’m excited to bring to you a new release by past Pitch Wars mentor and blog team member, Stephanie J. Scott. BIG WILD SUMMER is book three in her young adult Love on Summer Break series. I’ll give you more details about the first two books below. But for now, here’s the details for this latest release. About the book … Sometimes summer is one wild ride. I’d set my heart and summer plans Read more…

By Brenda Drake, ago