It’s time to go trick or treating! Can we get our bags filled with treats? Trick or Treat entrants, thank you for joining the fun! You guys seriously rocked our inbox. Your entries were PHENOMENAL and we had a very HARD time narrowing them down to 39. If you didn’t make the cut, that doesn’t mean we didn’t love your pitch. Just ask Kim- she had to cut quite a few from her final list Read more…
Title: QUINCY STRANGE AND THE TEN Category: MG Genre: Mystery Word Count: 48,000 Pitch: For Quincy Strange, forgetting to button your top button is just like walking out of the house with no pants on. With his button firmly fastened, and driven by his 187 IQ, he discovers that a canceled CIA project involving genetic testing on students is resurfacing at his middle school. As Quincy pieces together the puzzle, he balances trying to find Read more…
Title: CROWDED Category: YA Genre: Speculative Fiction Word Count: 63,000 Pitch: As a slum rat beneath the futuristic mega-city of New York, 16-year-old Leo has never seen a sunrise. Just when he’s expected to become a slave to NYC’s totalitarian power, Authority, he busts out into the chaos of an overpopulated city at rush hour. News of the breakout gets leaked to Authority, spurring a citywide manhunt that could leave the only home he knows Read more…
Title: FOREVER YOURS Category: Adult Genre: Contemporary Romance Word Count: 85,000 Pitch: After her fiancée went off to war and never returned, School Principal, Kat Chavis, never intended on dating again, much less another man in uniform. After his wife left him and his son without a second look back, single father Marine, Micah Peterson doesn’t plan on trusting his heart, or his son’s, to anyone else. Then plans change when Micah’s meddling eight-year-old son Read more…
Title: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Grace Armstrong is falling for the handsome guy who appears in her bedroom mirror, and he’s not alone. There are horrible monsters that taunt her through the glass and follow her wherever her reflection hits. When the monsters possess her mom, Grace flings herself into the mirror linking both worlds to save her, but the guy isn’t the only one Read more…
Title: WANTED Category: NA Genre: Contemporary Romance Word Count: 60,000 Pitch: Sam Waters is a Wanted man. Aston Hopewell is the next CEO of her father’s corporation. When they collide on the South Carolina coast, a fireworks display of steamy romance, heartbreaking betrayal, and Sam’s harboring secret erupts around them. Question 1: In your MC’s voice, what costumed character do you relate most to and why? Answered by Sam Waters: I’m like the not-experimented-on version Read more…
Title: SARA AND THE STEPPS Category: MG Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Word Count: 45,000 Pitch: A wise lizard named Randalf tempts 10-year-old Sara with the perfect escape from her seven new Stepp brothers. She can slip into any book in the Book House library – learning tips and tricks she can use against her brothers from classic stories she only thought she knew. But, when she accidentally falls into “Alex in Danderland”, she realizes she doesn’t Read more…
Title: HURRICANE DAUGHTER Category: YA Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 74,000 Pitch: Farmer’s daughter and southern heartbreaker, seventeen-year old Daisy has kept her friendship with Beau Cooper hidden from everyone, but these days her steady and sure cowboy from the wrong side of the swamp is busy keeping his own secrets. Daisy, armed only with her stubborn heart, pushes her way into his hidden life and consequences blow away like dandelion seeds as their connection intensifies Read more…
Title: THE UNRAVELING Category: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy Word Count: 89,000 Pitch: In the heart of Montmatre, Paris, touch-phobic songwriter Callie Kincaid’s best friend is murdered by a terrifying creature seeking something Callie’s accused of taking. Forced to partner with enigmatic alchemist Remy Dane, a man she gets along with as well as oil does with water, Callie attempts to harness the extrasensory abilities hidden behind her phobia. As the fabric of the world begins Read more…
Title: OF BLOOD AND ROSES Category: NA Genre: Urban Fantasy Word Count: 70,000 Pitch: The city of Salem has come alive for Halloween, but for undergrad Maggie Carter, the magic is missing. So when she hears a voice on the radio that makes her bones melt, Maggie steals away to The Hall – a labyrinthine rock club in the heart of “Witch City” – to meet the young man who spins folksongs into rock ‘n’ Read more…