Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Get to know the Pitch Wars Mentors … mini interviews with MG & YA mentors

For the past couple weeks we’ve been getting to know mentors on live chats on the Whiskey, Wine, & Writing site and by hopping to our mentors’ blogs to read their bios and wish lists. Today we have some mini-interviews with the mentors who couldn’t make the live chats. At the bottom of this post you’ll find YouTube links to some of the live chats. There are three more live chats happening this week. The Read more…

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BEYOND WHAT IS GIVEN by Rebecca Yarros … cover reveal!

Rebecca Yarros New Adult Entangled: Embrace Publishing Release Date: September 28, 2015   Synopsis Lt. Grayson Masters is focused on graduating the Apache helicopter course, and the last thing he needs is his gorgeous new roommate Samantha Fitzgerald distracting him. While her smart mouth and free spirit are irresistibly irritating, he can’t deny their off-the-charts chemistry, no matter how hard he tries. Having just been expelled from college, Sam has no business digging for Grayson’s Read more…

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It’s release day for SWEET MADNESS by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie!

Today we’re celebrating the release of the Sweet Madness ebook by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie. Sweet Madness is a retelling of the infamous Borden Murders told from the POV of Lizzie’s Irish maid, Bridget Sullivan. About the book … Seventeen-year-old Bridget Sullivan is alone in Fall River, a city that sees Irish immigrants as nothing more than a drunken drain on society. To make matters worse, she’s taken employment with the city’s most peculiar Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Blog Hop

Welcome to the mentors’ wishlist blog hop! From today until submission day, use the linky below to hop to all the mentors’ websites/blogs to read their bios, wishlists, and what categories and genres they want to mentor. At the end of this post, you will find the rules and submission guidelines for August 17. For those unfamiliar with Pitch Wars, it’s a contest where published/agented authors, editors, or interns choose one writer each, read their Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Teen Eyes Editorial Contest … Can you hook a teen?

Have you ever wondered if your manuscript would hook a teen reader? We all have. So what better way to find out than a contest with the talented teens of TEEN EYES EDITORIAL. How is this going to work? You’ll post a 35-word pitch and the first 250 words of your young adult or middle grade manuscript in the comments of the submission post that will go live on August 18 and we’ll take entries Read more…

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Chameleon by K.T. Hanna Releases Today!

“Wow! A fast-paced, science fiction delight with fabulous action, a seamless world, and the most unique characters I’ve read in a long time.” Elana Johnson, Author of the Possession Series. When Sai’s newly awoken psionic powers accidentally destroy her apartment complex, she’s thrown into an intensive training program. Her only options are pass or die. Surviving means proving her continued existence isn’t a mistake–a task her new mentor, Bastian, takes personally. Her abilities place her Read more…

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FROSH by Mónica B. Wagner … cover reveal!

  I’m so excited to reveal Pitch Wars mentor Mónica B. Wagner’s cover for FROSH! It’s so hot! check it out …   Add it to Goodreads! Releasing from The Studio/ Paper Lantern Lit on October 20,  2015 Here’s the synopsis … During welcome week at Hillson University, the FROSH will hit the fan. Type-A aspiring journalist Ellie plans to take freshman year by storm. But hell-bent on breaking a huge on-campus scandal, she risks Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Cover Reveal Spotlight … Sarah Glenn Marsh

Sarah Glenn Marsh Twitter | Website Hop on over to Pop! Goes the Reader to see the exclusive cover reveal for FEAR THE DROWNING DEEP by Pitch Wars mentor, Sarah Glenn Marsh, today! The cover is amazing and there is a signed ARC giveaway, too! Here’s a little something about Sarah … A Southern girl spinning dreams and tales… Sarah writes young adult (YA) novels and picture books in Virginia, where she lives with her Read more…

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THE COINCIDENCE OF COCONUT CAKE release day … Why Coconut Cake? by Amy Reichert

Amy Reichert Why Coconut Cake? Writers make a lot of decisions when creating their worlds. Where to set the story, when to set the story, eye color, hair color, car color. We invent facial tics and favorite curse words. We create elaborate back stories for secondary characters that may never make it into the book. Point is, it’s all there for a reason, even if it’s because the actor we based the character off of Read more…

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A Pitch Wars Success Interview with Summer Spence and Evelyn Skye

The best part of the contests for us around here is when we hear about successes. Today we celebrate Summer Spence and her Pitch Wars mentor Evelyn Skye! Nina recently signed with Heather Flaherty of The Bent Agency, and we couldn’t be more thrilled for her. So without further ado, please meet Summer and Evelyn as they recap their epically awesome Pitch Wars success story. Summer, what made you decide to send a Pitch Wars application Read more…

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