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PW #416: Adult Women’s Fiction with speculative elements: FIT

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Margarita Montimore Mentee Name: Sarahlyn Bruck Title: FIT Category: Adult Genre: Women’s fiction with speculative elements Word Count: 92,000 Pitch: Sentenced under the new obesity laws, Nora is sent to Fat Camp, where she’s forced to diet and exercise until she’s “fit” enough to return to society. Now she must decide whether to conform, or fight the law, which could cost her marriage, her career, and her freedom. Orange is Read more…

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PW #417: Adult Fantasy: THE RADIANCE OF BLACK

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Hayley Stone Mentee Name: Brian O’Conor Title: THE RADIANCE OF BLACK Category: Adult Genre: Dark Fantasy Word Count: 91,000 Pitch: In a city divided into constant day and night, ex-cultist Ferris Foust and disgraced paladin Sesily Marigold form an uneasy alliance to stop fanatics from extinguishing the city’s artificial sun and resurrecting a primordial evil. Excerpt: Sesily Marigold’s armor stuck to her skin as the light of Aubade, the great Read more…

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PW #418: Adult Women’s Fiction: THE LOVE TEST

Manuscript Status:    Finished Mentor Name: Scarlett Cole Mentee Name: Leah Collum Title: THE LOVE TEST Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: Immigration officer Sarah Wright’s chance encounter with a handsome Greek man leaves her hoping he could be the one to turn her lousy romantic luck around—until he shows up for his green card interview with a wife on his arm. Excerpt: “What’s the first thing your husband does when he wakes Read more…

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PW #418: Adult Women's Fiction: THE LOVE TEST

Manuscript Status:    Finished Mentor Name: Scarlett Cole Mentee Name: Leah Collum Title: THE LOVE TEST Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 78,000 Pitch: Immigration officer Sarah Wright’s chance encounter with a handsome Greek man leaves her hoping he could be the one to turn her lousy romantic luck around—until he shows up for his green card interview with a wife on his arm. Excerpt: “What’s the first thing your husband does when he wakes Read more…

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PW #419: Adult Science Fiction: BLUE DAWN

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Emmie Mears Mentee Name: Bennett North Title: BLUE DAWN Category: Adult Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 88,000 Pitch: Letty Salazar, assistant director of Corporate Warfare at Blue Dawn, designed a death ray to destroy rival corporation PanTech. Her wife soups up supersoldiers with Kevlar skin implants. But when Blue Dawn’s CEO starts “volunteering” POWs for experiments and Letty suspects she’s also tampering with staff minds, Letty’s no longer certain which side her Read more…

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PW #420: Adult Historical Fantasy: THIS LOATHSOME MAGIC

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Charlie N. Holmberg Mentee Name: AS Olivier Title: THIS LOATHSOME MAGIC Category: Adult Genre: Historical Fantasy Word Count: 89,000 Pitch: After a botched exorcism at a local brothel, Wayward Collins has two options: rot in jail or serve the aristocratic wizard, Lord Cadogan. When one of Cadogan’s footmen is brutally murdered, Wayward grudgingly joins the quest for justice, but if he can escape the magical forces behind the murder and the investigating police, Wayward’s enforced servitude Read more…

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PW #421: Adult Upmarket Mystery: THE BODY IN THE ROSES

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Sonia Hartl Mentee Name: Jen F. Title: THE BODY IN THE ROSES Category: Adult Genre: Upmarket Mystery Word Count: 92,000 Pitch: To hemispherectomy survivor Carey, Greer Russo—sharp-lipped mystery chick and original bad feminist—is way-too-real for a dead girl. Discovering who whacked her leads Carey to a skull-and-bones study group, where a secret you’d kill to keep is required entry in a corrupt town. THE LOVELY BONES meets VERONICA MARS. Excerpt: Read more…

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PW #422: Adult Women’s Fiction: A SILENCE WORTH BREAKING

Manuscript status: Finished Mentor name: Holly Faur Mentee name: Brian Palmer Title: A SILENCE WORTH BREAKING Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: After a mysterious voice tells her she has ten thousand words left to speak before she dies, Annaliese trades popularity for silence—until she meets Colton. Despite his tormented past, he reminds her to live, not just survive, and that love—star-crossed or otherwise—is worth risking her life for. Excerpt: I haven’t Read more…

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PW #422: Adult Women's Fiction: A SILENCE WORTH BREAKING

Manuscript status: Finished Mentor name: Holly Faur Mentee name: Brian Palmer Title: A SILENCE WORTH BREAKING Category: Adult Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: After a mysterious voice tells her she has ten thousand words left to speak before she dies, Annaliese trades popularity for silence—until she meets Colton. Despite his tormented past, he reminds her to live, not just survive, and that love—star-crossed or otherwise—is worth risking her life for. Excerpt: I haven’t Read more…

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PW #423: Adult Mystery: BEYOND THE CALL OF BEAUTY

Manuscript Status: Finished Mentor Name: Sarah Henning Mentee Name: Lucy Goacher Title: BEYOND THE CALL OF BEAUTY Category: Adult Genre: Mystery Word Count: 90,000 Pitch: Miss Marple with a makeup bag, shop girl Ella dreams of using her deductive talents for more than matching foundation swatches and catching shoplifters. So when a gaudy-but-famed ring goes missing, Ella can’t resist blagging her way onto the case and into British high society—but searching for the truth in six-inch heels soon turns Read more…

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