Pitch Wars Blog Archive

Pitch Madness B-12: THE MCTAVISH ACADEMY

Genre: NA Urban Fantasy Word Count:80,000 words  He wanted an education. They gave him a gun. Now eighteen-year-old Mike Solomon must defend his school’s dangerous secret against a ghoul from the First Crusade. She just wouldn’t stop crying. Ugly, choking gasps for air between exaggerated sobs. Kneeling there on the dining room carpet, snot dripping down her rather plain face, she looked up at him and babbled incoherently. Something about not hurting her boy. Çöl Çelik Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness B-13: BETTER LIVES

Genre: YA Science Fiction Word Count:94,000  Arrogant 17 year-old prep school student Marc is abducted and replaced by aliens to avert a future in which he’s the president who starts WWIII. When Gil and Lew came to my dorm room with the idea of stealing the physics final, I normally wouldn’t have considered such a dumbass move. It wasn’t that I had any moral objections to cheating or stealing. An “A” in one class, even Jeffrey Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness B-14: THE GRAVES

Genre: MG Mystery w/paranormal elements Word Count:66,000 When 12-year-old Charlie stumbles over a dead girl in the cemetery behind his house, he works with the girl’s ghost to prove his grave-robbing father is actually innocent of her murder. When Dad told me that burying Mom in the backyard wasn’t technically illegal, I believed him. The Cranbrook County Cemetery was just over the back fence, after all. Still – all those dead people in the cemetery Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness B-15: FUTURESHOCK

Genre: YA time travel Word Count:68,000  Seventeen-year-old Grace Harper is destined to become President–or so says Colin, her time-traveling fanboy from the future. But that knowledge brings Grace to the attention of a sinister agency tasked with protecting that future. “They can take our freedom, but they can never have our French fries!” If there had been a desk in front of me, I would have smacked my head against it. Repeatedly. The auditorium erupted into Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madnes B-16 Slush Zombie Save: WIDE AWAKE

Genre: NA contemporary romance Word Count:90,000  When PTSD proves to be too much, the only person who can help the college freshman pass her math class is a sexy engineering student who wants to add her to his list of conquests. Keep low to the ground. That’s the first rule firefighters teach you in elementary school. What they fail to mention is how to escape when you’re locked in your own private hell. Heat claws at Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness … the rules

The agent round for Pitch Madness starts tomorrow. If you aren’t sure what Pitch Madness is, check out this post or this post for information. Each team has picked their top pitches to go onto the agent round. For a list of agents competing in the game, go to this post.   It was such a difficult decision to pick our final entries, and there were many talented writers we couldn’t choose. A total of Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

My teams’ pick for #PitchMadness!

  Pitch Madness agent round picks! I want to thank my wonderful Dream Team for Pitch Madness for wading through the wonderful slush and picking our top 15 to go into the agent round. You guys are AWESOME! My co-host ….   Erica Chapman @ericamchapman Our awesome slush readers … Dahlia Adler @MissDahlELama   Heather Webb @msheatherwebb Sarah L. Blair  @SarahLBlair It was a tough decision and there were so many awesome pitches that didn’t Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

After the Madness Twitter Pitch Party 3/29!

For those of you who didn’t make the cut into Pitch Madness, 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 pitches! Please keep in mind that many industry Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness … introducing the agents!

Pitch Madness is fast approaching and we have a crazy, awesome line up of agents competing for your pitches! If you‘re not sure what Pitch Madness is, check out this post here. And here are the agents … Andrea Somberg Harvey Klinger Agency  Website Twitter: @andreasomberg  Andrea represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including projects aimed at a young adult and middle grade audience. She’s always actively looking to take on new authors Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Madness … Submission Window now open!

The submission window is now open for Pitch Madness! Submit your pitches to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com from 6AM EST until 12PM EST.  THE SUBMISSION WINDOW IS NOW CLOSED! Here’s the submission details again … There will be no cut off number. Everyone who submits during the window will make it into the contest. You will receive a receipt, if you don’t, check with me here on the blog or on Twitter (@brendadrake).  This is for completed, unpublished fiction Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago