Pitch Wars Blog Archive

PITCH WARS! ALT B-12: CINDERELLA'S GLASS STILETTO

NAME: Angela Parkhurst MENTOR: Deana Barnhart TITLE: CINDERELLA’S GLASS STILETTO GENRE: YA Fantasy WORD COUNT: 79K PITCH: Nora isn’t like other reincarnated fairy tale characters. She’s an Unknown, and her choices are changing fairy tales. Unless she figures out her place in the story, everyone’s Happily Ever After is in jeopardy.     Fairy tales weren’t real. This isn’t real. Heavy mist billowed around the giant trees and hills bordering us on all sides, offering the Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

February Love Scene Workshop Winners!

We have the winners for the love scene workshop. Check for your name on the list below. If you’ve made it into the workshop, please email your love scene immediately to brendadrakecontests@gmail.com by January 22 at 6PM EST. The first love scenes will go up on the blog on February 12. Here’s how to format your email … ““““““““““““““““““““““ SUBJECT LINE: February Workshop TITLE: The working titleGENRE:The genre SCENE: The love scene. 300 words max. Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

February Workshop…Need help getting your love scene on?

We’re heading into the most romantic month of the year, so what better time to hold a love scene workshop, right? Do you need help getting your love scene on? Well, I have some very talented friends to help you amp up the steam. Here’s how it’s going down … Love scenes can be in any category and genre. Yes, middle grade, too, especially upper middle grade. In some middle grades there can be a Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Wars stuff … and announcing upcoming workshop

Pitch Wars is coming at us fast. I wanted to give some reminders. The mentors’ picks must have their three sentence pitch (50 words) and first 250 words (total word count is 300 max) to their mentors by January 16. Alternates must have their 35 word (no more) pitch and first 250 words to the contest email brendadrakecontests@gmail.com by January 20. Make sure to format your pitch like this: NAME: Your NameMENTOR:Your Mentor’s full nameTITLE: Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Happy New Year … and back to work!

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. The labs where my husband works closes down for the week between Christmas and New Year’s each year, so I go missing to reconnect with him and the family during that time. We go offline, as much as we can. Yes, I did get eye twitches, but it was well worth it. Family time is rare as our family grows older and the time we spend Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Wars … the teams!

  CPSeek! Before announcing the teams for Pitch Wars, we wanted to tell you about a gift our wonderful mentors are extending to all the awesome writers in our community. It’s a site for hanging out, for finding critique partners and beta readers, and for asking questions about the industry or about writing to the mentors. We’re so thrilled how great it looks we have to shout out to Fizzygrrl’s husband, Andrew Heacock (@quickchaos), for Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Wars! … The agents

Are you ready for this? We have 16 incredible agents vying for our Pitch Wars team manuscripts. We’re so excited to see what pitches they fall in love with, and what teams will win the coveted Pitch Wars Most Requested Manuscript title.  And, in no particular order, here are the agents…Louise FuryL. Perkins Agency Twitter: @louisefury  Louise is seeking teen Sci-Fi and Young Adult horror.  She‘s also on the hunt for deep, dark contemporary YA Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Wars! … ninja mentors

Before I start, if you are in the NY area, you so have to go to this at Harper Colins Publishers on December 4! YPG December BBL: Not Your Grandmother’s Publishing Experience: An Author’s Path from Self-Pub to Traditional Pub. Louise Fury, agent extraordinaire, will be on the panel with editors from Harper Colins *pulls up browser to check flight rates*. I want to be THERE!  Panel: Louise Fury, Agent at L. Perkins Agency Julia Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Pitch Wars! … about me and submission information

PICK ME! Today the coaches for Pitch Wars are posting something about themselves and what they’d like to critique for the contest. So without babbling on and on, here’s mine… Something about myself… The youngest of three children, I grew up an Air-force brat and the continual new kid at school. My fondest memory growing up is that of my eccentric, Irish grandmother’s animated tall tales, which gave me a strong love for storytelling. So Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Thanksgiving Blog Hop … my final thankful thought

  With the craziness of NaNoWriMo this month and other writing stuff I’ve got to do, I’m taking a small break. For the days leading up to Thanksgiving, I’m going to post small snippets or pictures of things that I’m thankful for. I’ll post some small editing advices of things I’ve learned over the years. My final thankful thought… I am thankful that I got a chance to visit the live museum, Plimoth Plantation, where Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago