Amazon Link Barnes & Noble Link Book Description: What you don’t know can kill you . . . Ever since she could remember, Elle has had to hop from town to town to keep up with her dad’s demanding career as a corporate insurance agent. Each time, a reoccurring nightmare followed her wherever she went–until the day that the frightening figures haunting her at night became all too real. When news of a serial Read more…
We have winners for the giveaway for HOW TO DISCIPLINE YOUR VAMPIRE by Mina Vaughn!The three winners for a copy of an eBook are … Tiffany Treichel Valia Lind Kenya Wright The winner for the query critique by agent Jessica Sinsheimer with Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency is … Camille Eckert The winner for the query & first chapter (15 pages max) critique by Mina Vaughn is … Sonia Hartl The winner for the query Read more…
For those of you who didn’t make the cut into Pitch Madness and those who just want to join us, we’re holding an After the Madness Twitter Pitch Party. So get your 140 character twitter pitch ready. Make sure to include the hashtag #PitMad and try to fit the genre (YA, MG, Adult, NA, and so on) in the pitch. We’ve had some success stories come out of our previous #PitMads so shine up the Read more…
It’s been a long week of reading through all the amazing pitches and our wonderful readers have narrowed the slush, and your game hosts have chosen sixty pitches, along with four pitches saved by our slush readers, for the game. If you’re new to Pitch Madness you can check out the details here and our fantabulous agents here. Here’s the hosts’ blogs… Brenda Drake Sharon Johnston Shelley Watters Summer Heacock (Scroll down to view all Read more…
Genre: YA Historical RomanceWord Count: 80,000 Pitch: A modern adaption of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, set in a 1920′s speakeasy, about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words. Excerpt: Uncle Leo is hollering into the telephone again, though I’ve told him a hundred times it doesn’t help the person on the other end hear him any better. It’s 1926; we had the phone installed years ago, but Read more…
Genre: Upper MG FantasyWord Count: 71,000 Pitch: Lang Sawyer’s quest for glory as a teenage monster hunter becomes a struggle for survival when he matches wits with ruthless scientist Alistair Frankenstein, whose research threatens to destroy the worlds inside beloved storybooks. Excerpt: Here’s the thing about finding out your great-great grandfather Tom Sawyer was a big time monster hunter, that he killed Dracula, and that your Dad’s running the family business out of the former Read more…
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Word Count: 75,000 Pitch: When the livin’ in sin couple next door is murdered, Aniyah, 15, finds herself face to face with Mr. Most Wanted, who claims to be her deceased neighbor, trapped in the killer’s body. Excerpt: Desecrate one little grave, then cram for finals. I didn’t budget time for macho security man, who’s hunting me on his tiptoes to make himself look taller. “The dead never complain about my Read more…
Genre: Adult upmarket fiction Word Count: 80,000 Pitch: Colin can’t help slicing open his patients’ sutures—suppose he left behind an instrument? As his OCD consumes him, Colin must seek help. But falling for a cutter in therapy isn’t in his recovery plan. Excerpt: It’s been said that middle children, in their pathetic quests for attention, will sabotage their own lives. This assertion may not apply to normal families, whatever normal is, but it rings true in Read more…
Genre: YA/soft Sci-fiWord Count: 94,000 Pitch: 17-year-old Ibbie collects numbers. They’re logical, safe; everything her life isn’t. The most important number; thirteen—how many days till she’s forced to mate with Logan, whether she likes him or not. Except: Speciation: An evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. LE4XI8––A label, more importantly, what is tattooed on the inside of the wrist of my right arm. It is my identification; it is my name. Numbers Read more…
Genre: New Adult Word count: 98,000 Pitch: Jo, who can bring fictional characters to life, creates a boyfriend for her best friend but runs into trouble when Mr. Write refuses to cooperate in her matchmaking scheme and falls for her instead. Excerpt: The first boy I ever loved did not exist. I was ten years old when I read Anne of Green Gables and met Gilbert Blythe. Kind, handsome and funny, he loved Anne no Read more…