Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Charlie Holmberg!

Release date: September 1, 2014. Published with 47North. Pre-order The Paper Magician on Amazon Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever. Yet the spells Ceony Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Stacey Lee!

Release Date March 17, 2015 Available for preorder now! Amazon Missouri, 1849: Samantha dreams of moving back to New York to be a professional musician—not an easy thing if you’re a girl, and harder still if you’re Chinese. But a tragic accident dashes any hopes of fulfilling her dream, and instead, leaves her fearing for her life. With the help of a runaway slave named Annamae, Samantha flees town for the unknown frontier. But life Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Cole Gibsen!

Preorder: Amazon | B & N | Book Depository | B-A-M | IndieBound | Powells   The Social Media Experiment Publication Date: September 23rd, 2014 When you play with people’s lives the biggest casualty may be your own. On the surface, seventeen-year-old Reagan Fray appears to have everything. She’s popular, Ivy League–bound, and her parents are rich enough to buy her whatever she wants. Behind the scenes, Reagan is a girl with an anxiety disorder struggling to hold the fraying threads of her life together. It Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Jessie Humphries!

Available at Amazon, BAM, IndieBound, Barnes and Noble And other local & national retailers. Ruby Rose has killer shoes, killer SAT scores…and a few killer secrets. In this dark and witty thriller, seventeen-year-old Ruby Rose goes from valedictorian to vigilante, forced to kill a series of infamous criminals while uncovering an explosive family secret.     “With a fierce and witty heroine, this dark and twisty mystery is everything I love in a book. KILLING Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with L.S. Murphy!

Rena Woods has a great life. She recently landed the contract to decorate the home of basketball wife, Cecilia Hood, her business is growing, and this contract could make her the elite decorator in St. Louis. Rena’s sacrificed her personal life for her company without a single regret. When Staff Sergeant C.J. Riker moves in across the hall, Rena can’t stand to be around him. He may be on the volcanic side of hot, but Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Kristen Strassel!

THE NIGHT SONGS COLLECTION: Contemporary and Paranormal Romance Available to buy now! Seasons in the Sun Because the Night Night Moves We Own the Night–Available September 1, 2014 Title: Because the Night Genre NA Paranormal Romance Sex, Blood And Rock n’ Roll Immortal Dilemma is the hottest band in the Las Vegas vampire rock scene. They draw insatiable fans from around the globe, thanks to a supernatural attraction called Bloodlust. Tristan craved such an opportunity Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Veronica Bartles!

Veronica Bartles Website | Twitter | Blog | Facebook | Pinterest | Goodreads | Tumblr Veronica Bartles grew up in Wyoming and currently lives in New Mexico with her husband and four children. As the second of eight children and the mother of four, Veronica Bartles is no stranger to the ups and downs of sibling relationships. She uses this insight to write stories about siblings who mostly love each other, even while they’re driving Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with Kate Karyus Quinn!

Kate Karyus Quinn Website | Blog  | facebook Twitter | tumblr | Goodreads Kate is a young adult author of creepy paranormal tinged novels. Her debut novel, ANOTHER LITTLE PIECE, was published by Harperteen in 2013. (DON’T YOU) FORGET ABOUT ME, also with HarperTeen, came out this past June. She lives in Buffalo, NY (which she considers one of the best places ever – GO BILLS!) with her husband, two children, and two comically mismatched Read more…

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Pitch Wars updated agent list.

Now that the submission window for Pitch Wars has closed, and as we wait for the mentors to pick the writers they want to coach, I thought I’d post an updated agent list. The mentors picks will go live on September 3 and the agent round is November 4-5. If you don’t make it into Pitch Wars, we’re holding a Twitter Pitch Party on #PitMad on September 9 from 8AM to 8PM EDT. For more Read more…

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Pitch Wars Mentor Book Spotlight with E.M. Caines!

E.M. Caines aka Ella Caines Website | Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Instagram Ella Martin is a prep school survivor and a Southern California native. She writes books about spunky teenagers who are way cooler than she ever was, and she totally believes in love and happy endings. She likes sunny places and is terrified of snowy winters, so she now lives in Florida with her husband and son. Will the Real Prince Charming Read more…

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