Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Mentor Name: Dannie Morin Mentee Name: Heather Truett Title: RENASCENCE Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 67,000 Pitch: Eighteen-year-old Chrissy reapplied her lipstick and shot her teacher in the heart. Priscilla can’t imagine a future where her pacifist best friend is remembered as a school shooter. She must uncover the motive behind the crime or Chrissy will face the death penalty. Excerpt: I’m shackled now. Wrists and ankles connected, a chain running between my Read more…

Mentor Name: Dionne McCulloch Mentee Name: Corey Ryan Title: LEFT WITH US Category: Literary Genre: Young Adult Word Count: 81,000 Pitch: Ellery Cole cleans to forget. Scraping brains off walls and sanding blood-soaked floors in the family business helps him forget that day, seven years ago, when a shooter walked into Bear Street Elementary and took 17 lives. Now two fellow survivors want Ellery to join them on a road trip. Forgetting is no longer Read more…

Mentor Name: Emily Martin Mentee Name: RuthAnne Snow Title: THE GIRLS OF MARCH Category: Young Adult Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 71,000 Pitch: Elin swears she wasn’t trying to kill herself. Her best friends have vowed to keep it secret, and Elin is convinced a perfect prom is her ticket to erasing the worst mistake of her life. But when prom night crashes and burns (not Carrie bad, but bad) and Elin disappears, her friends discover Read more…

Mentor Name: Evelyn Skye Mentee Name: Summer Spence Title: OF NIGHT AND STONE Category: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 92,000 Pitch: One girl in present day. Two lost princes from long ago. All three very much alive… When seventeen-year-old Elisabeth is forced to spend her summer at Bell Hall, she expects only a crumbling medieval castle. But when she discovers a centuries-old mystery within the walls, she’ll have to decide whether it’s worth disturbing Read more…

Mentor Name: Jaye Robin Brown Mentee Name: K.A. Reynolds Title: LE CIRQUE DU LITERATI Category: Young Adult Genre: Literary Fantasy Word Count: 91,000 Pitch: A repressed trauma haunts poet Josephine. Her best friend, visionary Nikolai, hides the deadly truth she seeks. When they flee town, magicians from a Utopian artist’s circus offer them sanctuary. But at Le Cirque Du Literati, they will have to confront their darkest fears, test their newfound love, and risk their Read more…