Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy (LGBQTIA): MEMORIES OF THE FALLEN Word Count: 100,000 Pitch: When Elijah was ten years old he was supposed to kill a stranger, a girl. That girl became his best friend. Six years later, he’ll now have to protect her against those who sent him. Excerpt: Something is trying to break through the wall above my bed. A vibration, then three deep blows so hard they rattle my headboard against the Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Word Count: 80,000 Pitch: What happens when a sixteen-year-old superfan and the eighteen-year-old actor she’s obsessed with meet in a New York City psychiatrist’s office? He’s a patient. She’s the afternoon receptionist. Her mother is the psychiatrist. Excerpt: The clock read 3:15 but the 3:00 still hadn’t shown – a woman in her thirties who’s been Mom’s patient for more than a year to deal with her chronic lateness. I’ve been Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Gothic Horror Word Count: 66,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Dilly Rothbart finds body parts in her father’s hidden laboratory. When murdered prostitutes appear on the streets of Whitechapel with missing organs, she’s afraid her father is the man they call Jack the Ripper. Excerpt: It’s my fault she’s a recluse. A familiar feeling of guilt washes over me. The changes in my twin sister Deirdre are as tiny as the jagged stitches that run Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Word Count: 55,000 Pitch: Devya Mallick is not a murderer, even if she’s killed in 649 past lives. Even if her basement is full of bodies. She’s not a killer, so why is there blood under her fingernails? Excerpt: Always, someone is watching. Right now it’s Mam eyeing me from across the dinner table, a crease between her eyebrows—so deep that her bindi is folded in half, hiding all sign of Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy Word Count: 60,000 Pitch: Mona’s usually careful with magic. But when debt endangers the enchanted orchard—the source of her power—she must choose between losing the very thing that defines her and selling magic to the highest bidder. Excerpt: The man sitting across from me on Dad’s faded, faux-leather couch wants a complete overhaul. New nose and chin, brown eyes to blue, different color hair. He also wants new fingerprints, which Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Mythological Fantasy Word Count: 85,0000 Pitch: Ending up in ancient Egypt is not the kind of experiment teen scientist Jane thought she would be conducting, especially when she’s roped into a deal with a vengeful god to steal King Tut’s heart. Excerpt: Light spots my vision and I blink as everything shifts focus. My brother, Duncan, stands in my doorway, laughing. There’s a familiar ache in my neck and I groan as Read more…
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Word Count: 51,000 Pitch: Crummings’ Home for the Dispossessed is no ordinary orphanage. When Emma Winters discovers the porcelain dolls that strangely resemble her friends, she knows they aren’t being adopted. They’re disappearing. What secret is Viola Crummings hiding? Excerpt: It rained the day of my mother’s funeral. A hard, soaking rain. I remember leaning over the deep grave hole, her casket down below, surrounded by four walls of red, slimy, Read more…
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Word Count: 76,000 Pitch: When dares don’t win Eden back, Zac resorts to the truths he never wanted to reveal. Reeling, she resists him, and he must prove he’s got more than games in mind. Excerpt: Sneaking across the walkway connecting Zac’s bedroom to mine feels like a special kind of stupid. All the memories of coming over here with no dares needed dance through my head. Those days shadow my Read more…
Genre: Women’s Fiction Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: Three best friends are challenged when one woman’s crumbling sanity threatens to destroy their friendship. Can two of them save the third woman from destroying herself and the relationship? A darker, Jewish Steel Magnolias. Excerpt: If the soul of their small synagogue, Bnai Israel, rested in the sanctuary, its heartbeat emanated from the kitchen. Naomi always said the service brought them to the shul, but the food and Read more…
Genre: Historical Fantasy Word Count: 82,000 Pitch: Non-magicker Wayward is blackmailed into the service of a rich wizard. When he is dragged into a murder investigation, he must sacrifice his safety and learn to survive in his new position of power. Excerpt: I’ve been a valet for four days, and hated every second of it. ‘Chin up, Collins. You’re not at a funeral.’ Lord Alfred Gordon Byron Lyte Cadogan. A long name for a long Read more…