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Super Intern Contest – PLUGGED IN

Genre: YA Dystopian Word count: 72,000 Query: Dear Ms. Chapman, When sixteen-year-old Misty Evans discovers a hidden notebook in her mother’s art room, she’s excited and terrified. Paper is against the law. In the pages of the notebook, Misty learns that events leading up to her mother’s disappearance might have something to do with the Mainframe, the self-aware computer that monitors the safety of the bio-city she lives in. Those who question the Mainframe or Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – FREEBORN

Genre: YA Sci-FiWord count: 79,000 Query letter: Dear Mr./Mrs. Uber-Agent, The Surgeon Generals are liars. The lives squirming inside the guts of Katia and the other clones aren’t parasites. They’re Freeborns. The squirming in Katia’s gut means two things: she is infected with the dreaded parasite, and her boring life as a sixteen-year-old clone is over. Despite her precautions, the infection—which attacks regardless of gender or age—has implanted a living tumor inside her. Katia knows Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – ONLY ONE TIME

Genre:  YA Paranormal SuspenseWord count: 55,000 Query: River Morgan’s petite, pink-haired and not quite twenty, but she has already mastered the art of how to erase a memory from those who are haunted by their past.  River must write the memories in her Memory Book or else they become her own. So when the book is stolen, River’s no longer able to tell the difference between her memories and the memories she’s wiped away. Unless Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – DRAGONS ARE PEOPLE, TOO

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Word count: 60,000 Query: Ms. Fury, Sixteen-year-old Kitty is a Chinese weredragon and an operative for the US government’s Draconic Intelligence Command, or as she likes to call it, DIC. When a rookie under Kitty’s supervision breaks the number one rule (don’t let humans know what you are) her entire race is exposed to the public, causing a worldwide panic and media frenzy. The CIA imprisons the dragons, including Kitty’s parents, Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – VIS DECOR: ALPHI

Genre: YA FantasyWord Count: 91,000 Query: In an underwater village where talking to the Grey species is forbidden, sixteen-year-old Alphi McClure ignores her mother’s orders to desert her darker-skinned friend. In moments, her innocent friendship turns the villagers into a mob. Forced to flee, Alphi swims across the watery planet to her uncle’s magical city. The only thing she wants is the open-mindedness of a larger civilization, but her hopes are shattered when her uncle, Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – BROKEN

Genre: YA Dark Contemporary Word Count: 53,000 Query: Sixteen-year-old Dylan Halstrom will do anything to stay numb; she snorts Oxycontin, cuts her thighs, and settles for the boyfriend she’ll never love.  Nothing keeps the deaths of her sister and dad out of her mind. When her dealer, Matt, introduces her to heroin, she’s instantly hooked.  As her addiction rages, she becomes aware of her feelings for Matt, and she can no longer bury the intimacy Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – WHAT THE WATER GAVE US

Genre: Dystopian Literary Fiction Word count: 97,000 Query: On a planet ravaged by a horrific virus, a family blessed with genetic immunity controls a growing empire with a treatment derived from their blood. As the virus spreads, so does their power; as their power grows so do their secrets. To the public, the Verkovs put out a strong united front. Unity. Order. Happiness. Behind closed doors they do everything they can to undercut each other. Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – BETTER LIVES

Genre:YA Sci fi Word count: 90,000  Query: A popular junior at an elite New England prep school, Marc is on his way to becoming his charming, power-hungry U.S. Senator father. Marc’s friendships and short-lived hook-ups are as selfish and self-serving as everything else he does. After stealing a test and blackmailing his teacher into silence, Marc’s life goes to hell.  He thinks he’s going crazy, only continuous drinking, quieting the thousands of other people’s thoughts in Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – AN ABSENCE OF LIGHT

Genre: YA light Sci-FiWord Count: 90,000 Query: The first time Leah saw the Shadows,they clung to the man who kidnapped and murdered her friend. That was the Shadows playing nice. After they murdered her family, Leah fled Los Angeles in a stolen BMW with one thing on her mind: survive long enough to kill the Shadows. Leah doesn’t know why she alone can see the Shadows, or why they influence humans to commit rape, murder, Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago

Super Intern Contest – GRIPPED

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Word Count: 61,000  Query: Dear Ms. Chapman: Taylor Stewart leads a life that,while privileged, is wrought with pressure-filled expectations. Although she has successfully navigated her way through the first three years of high school meeting, and often exceeding, these expectations, she has not done so without a little help. Taylor is an alcoholic. Alcohol has been the perfect partner,giving her the boost of confidence she needed to become the captain of the Read more…

By brendaadmin, ago