Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Another Pitch Madness Match up … Tom Mulroy & Carrie Howland!

I’m so thrilled to announce a Pitch Madness success story. Tom Mulroy has signed with the amazing Carrie Howland with Donadio & Olson, Inc.! Tom Mulroy Twitter Blog Tom has agreed to let me torture interview him. Here’s how it went down… B: So let’s get this party started. What made you decide to enter Pitch Madness, and how did you feel during the contest? Tom: I’d been a first alternate during PitchWars, so PitchMadness Read more…

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GABRIEL STONE AND THE WRAITH OF THE SOLARIANS by Shannon Duffy … release day!

Amazon Barnes & Noble Goodreads Kobo | The Book Depository | IndieBound Gabriel Stone is back from Valta, but the adventure is just beginning! His friend Tahlita is trapped in Willow Creek with no memory of Valta. Gabe, Piper, and Brent are determined to reunite Tahlita with her father. Yet even as they do, Prince Oliver arrives asking for their help. Menacing forces known as the Solarians have kidnapped the Empress and Princess and are threatening Read more…

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Announcing The Writer’s Voice!

“The Writer’s Voice” is a multi-blog, multi-agent contest hosted by Brenda Drake, Mónica Bustamante Wagner, Kimberly P. Chase, and Elizabeth Briggs. We’re basing it on NBC’s singing reality show The Voice, so the four of us will serve as coaches and select projects for our teams based on their queries and first pages. This year we get to have “celebrity” coaches and I’m so excited that Heather Webb author of BECOMING JOSEPHINE (Plume/Penguin) & RODIN’S LOVER (Winter Read more…

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Are you ready to get slapped? Pitch Slap event with Mina Vaughn!

Mina Vaughn is holding a panel at the RT 2014 convention about pitching called Pitchslap. Pitchslap will be a workshop on how to make your pitch tight, dynamic and ready for industry professionals. On her panel will be agents (Louise Fury and Laura Bradford), editors (my editor Micki Nuding from Simon and Schuster and Monique Patterson from St. Martin’s Press) and me. Yes I am totally star-struck and terrified. So, we thought we’d combine our Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Got YA Contemporary? Announcing a pitch event with Spencer Hill Contemporary!

We are looking for contemporary, realistic YA fiction only. This means anything that takes place in our world and abides by the generally accepted laws of reality, time, and space. For example: a historical fiction love story between a cowboy and a governor’s daughter set in 1954 would absolutely qualify. However, a paranormal romance where an alien cowboy falls in love with the governor’s daughter…who happens to be a vampire from 1954, would not. For Read more…

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THE BOOK OF BART by Ryan Hill … cover reveal!

Blurb: Behold! The cover for Ryan Hill’s debut YA Paranormal novel THE BOOK OF BART, coming May 22 from Curiosity Quills! Only one thing is so powerful, so dangerous that Heaven and Hell must work together to find it: the Shard of Gabriel. With a mysterious Black Cloud of Death hot on the shard’s trail, a desperate Heaven enlists the help of Bart, a demon who knows more about the shard than almost anyone. Six Read more…

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A Pitch Madness Match-up … Olivia Hinebaugh & Carrie Howland!

  I’m so thrilled to announce a Pitch Madness success story. Olivia Hinebaugh has signed with the amazing Carrie Howland with Donadio & Olson, Inc.! Olivia Hinebaugh Website Twitter   Olivia has agreed to let me torture interview her. Here’s how it went down…   B says: So let’s get this party started. What made you decide to enter Pitch Madness, and how did you feel during the contest? Olivia: I finished my manuscript in Read more…

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A Pitch Wars Success Story … Aimie Runyan!

The best part of the contests for us around here is when we hear about successes. Today we are so happy to have Aimie Runyan and her Pitch Wars mentor Susan Spann here for a little Q and A. Emily recently signed with Melissa Jeglinski with The Knight Agency. So as to not make this post a novel, we’ll jump right into the interview. Aimie, you were chosen for Pitch Wars, which was such a Read more…

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Pitch Wars Success Story … Caitlyn (C.H.) McFarland!

The best part of the contests for us around here is when we hear about successes. Today we are so happy to have Caitlyn (C.H.) McFarland and her Pitch Wars mentor Rae Chang here for a little Q and A. Caitlyn recently signed with Marlene Stringer with The Stringer Literary Agency, LLC. So as to not make this post a novel, we’ll jump right into the interview. Brenda: Caitlyn, what was it like when Rae Read more…

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MARKED, A Mindspace Investigations Novel by Alex Hughes … release day!

Amazon Barnes & Noble Apple iBook Books A Million   Telepaths, murder, and contagious madness… Adam Ward is having a very bad day.   FORESEE NO EVIL. Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn’t exactly a secure career; my job’s been on the line almost as much as my life. But it’s a paycheck, and it keeps me from falling back into the drug habit. Plus, things are looking up with my sometimes-partner, Cherabino, even if Read more…

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