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Jackson Pearce and Maggie Stiefvater are collaborating on a new middle grade series entitled Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures.
Pearce will pen the story and Stiefvater will create the artwork. Stiefvater has become well-known for her popular young adult fiction books; this project marks her debut as a children’s books illustrator.
Scholastic editorial director David Levithan negotiated the deal with Laura Rennert from the Andrea Brown Literary Agency and Josh Adams from Adams Literary. Levithan secured world rights; the publishing house plans to release the first installment in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
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It's time for our December agent twitter pitch contest!
Today, the pitch is being judged by Josh Adams from Adams Literary.
Here are some other interviews to help you get to know their taste and style:
Josh Adams Interview
Agent Spotlight on Josh Adams
Tracey Adams Interview
Winner: Gets to submit the manuscript pitched for consideration! (Thanks Josh! :)
When: Begins today, (Thurs Dec 9th) at 10AM EST and ends tomorrow (Fri, Dec 10) at midnight EST (I will close comments when it officially ends so if you get a comment in, you are counted.)
Why Twitter pitch? Because if you can't get your book in a Twitter pitch, you need to work on narrowing down the story and hook. You can check your character count either on Word (file, Tools/Word Count/Characters with spaces), on Twitter, or here.
Eligibility/Rules:
- Your pitch MUST only be 140 characters to be counted so please check it twice! This includes spaces and punctuation so you might have to be creative. If your pitch is over 140 characters when I test it, it will not be eligible.
- Your pitch must be for children. No adult books. They do not represent them.
- This is for unagented/unpublished book writers only. (if you've published articles or essays - you may enter!)
- You can only enter ONCE so choose wisely!
- You must be a follower of my blog (and Twitter account if you have one). It's only fair to those who are .
What To include: In the comments you
MUST leave the following information to be considered:
- title of book
- genre
- your Twitter (140 characters) pitch
- your email
Example:
Title - Untraceable
Genre - YA Survival Suspense
Email - [email protected]
Pitch - When her forest-ranger father disappears,Grace uses her survival skills to search the NC mtns & finds a secret group plotting against natureReferences: Here are a few articles on writing short, one sentence pitches:
Nathan Bransford (agent)
75 Comments on Agent Pitch Contest starts today!, last added: 12/11/2010
Josh Adams from Adams Literary stops by before our Agent Pitch Contest tomorrow.
Hey Josh, tell us about yourself/your agency.
Together with my wife Tracey, I run Adams Literary, a full-service, boutique literary agency exclusively representing children's and young adult authors and artists. Given the focus of your blog, your readers may be interested to know that in addition to my editorial background, I received my MBA from Columbia Business School, where I won the marketing award—and, prior to co-founding Adams Literary with Tracey, worked for several years in marketing and brand strategy. These are all things that have served me well, and perhaps uniquely, as a literary agent for the children's and YA markets.
How do you, as an agent, encourage your authors to market themselves?
The first thing I'd encourage our—or any authors—to do is to write truly unforgettable books. Their work is their strongest marketing tool. But beyond that, I'd encourage them to build a network of contacts and friends in the industry, to attend conferences as participants and/or faculty, to line up school and library visits so they can connect with their readers, to think creatively about publicity, and, especially for young adult authors, to use social media to their advantage.
How have things changed with agencies promoting their author books? What things do agents/literary agencies do to help promote their author's books?
At Adams Literary, we've always tried to be forward-looking in promoting and marketing our authors' work. While it may seem rather quaint now in hindsight, when we started the agency in 2004, we were among the first literary agencies to have a web site and the first that we know of to publicly provide their client list (some surprisingly still do not). While the site is certainly helpful for people to learn about us as an agency (and most agencies use their sites that way), we view it, and indeed everything we do, as a way for people in the industry—and readers in general—to learn more about our authors and their work. Being tireless advocates of our clients' work—and publicizing them at every opportunity, including at regional and national writers' conferences—is one of our main roles as literary agents.
For people in the industry, we produce professionally designed, full-color printed and e-catalogs for major international fairs (Bologna and Frankfurt), highlighting our authors' work and available rights. For years, we've produced a newsletter that has gone to more than 1,000 people, including editors and publishers here and abroad, although more recently, it has been largely replaced by Twitter updates about our authors' new books and achievements. We also work
Yes - so I've missed you guys.
I've been working tons and with the holidays can't post as often.
But don't fret - I'll be back on the ball in January!!! with marketing contests and more.
To tie you over, I have a special holiday surprise for all my followers - just for being so loyal and hanging in with me during my blog hiatus.
An Agent Pitch Contest!
Josh Adams from Adams Literary will be reading your pitches and choosing the winners who will get to submit to him personally.
I have met Josh several times and trust me - you WANT to enter this contest. Not only is he smart and has a good eye for books. But he is hilarious and fun! What more could you want.
So polish up your Twitter Pitches and get them ready for Thursday!
Some deets:
- The pitch contest will start this Thursday 9am EST and last until midnight EST Friday night.
- Your pitch must fit into my twitter count test of 140 characters. This includes punctuation and spaces. So try to be creative!
- Must be a MG or YA.
- You must follow the directions and include your entry in the comments.
- You must be a follower to enter.
Tomorrow, Josh will stop by to answer a few questions and give you an idea of what he likes.
So come back tomorrow.
More
deets to come!
First something that's not a secret: agents take 15% commision (sometimes 20%)
As an agents he's there to provide support for their authors. He's also there to negitiate rights, but that's just one of the many services we provide.
What's their strategy? Do what we know. Do what we love. Do it really well. Do it really really well. "Agenting is not a 9 to 5 job for us. It's out lives."
Agents, he says, don't "sell books" Instead, he sayd, they license an array of rights for clients.
Josh says it's not always about looking for which publisher offers that highest advance. A publisher offering long-term commitment and support is more valuable. (He gave a great example of a long-term view versus a short-term view.)
Contracts, says Josh, are bot the least interesting and the most important aspect of his job as an agent.
For an agents, it's all about who you know. Josh has (295 editors as contacts in his phone.) Adams Lierary works with a large array of editor on many levels (from associate to VP) to find the right match for their clients.
He reminds writers that agents aren't magicians. Supply and demand affects that they do, and finding a writer-editor match involves a lot of hard work.
0 Comments on Josh Adams: Agent Secrets as of 1/1/1900
Literary Agents View the Market Place
moderated by Lin Oliver
Together with his wife Tracey, they started
Adams Literary in 2004. They represent everything from picture book to young adult.
"I'm here to say today that the state of the market is strong." Editors in today's market are being cautious, but there is a resurgence in hiring and acquisitions.
Timeless is what Adams Literary strives for. They are in the business for the long run and want to build careers.
"Timeless will always be timely."
Lin: Explain a little bit about foreign markets.
You want someone who will aggressively market foreign rights. Generally, it's a much better deal for you as an author having your agents negotiate foreign rights for you directly (the publishers get a percentage too).
They've seen that authors' advances can be higher in foreign markets.
Lin asks about sub rights, especially in this time of new publishing platforms.
Authors want to keep all their rights.
More and more publishers are asking for audio rights because they are looking to recoup their investment, especially with a high advance.
1 Comments on Agent Panel: Josh Adams (Adams Literary), last added: 8/4/2010
The Agents Panel is starting!
From Left To Right: Ginger Clark (Curtis Brown), Ken Wright (Writers House), Josh Adams (Adams Literary), and Lisa Grubka (Foundry).
Team blog is covering each agent individually - look for those posts coming up in the next minutes...
Peeking in at Josh Adams who runs Adams Literary--I was lucky enough to hear his descriptions of Preempts and Auctions. It was fascinating to see the differences, when one is the better path. He also told us how anytime he goes on vacation or goes for a drive, the offers seem to come in :-)
Suz
So as you take your plane, car, or unicycle to the 2010 SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles, here are some new exclusive interviews with the Conference faculty for you to enjoy. (Uh... don't read them while driving or riding your unicycle. But you know, for all those hurry-up-and-wait travel day moments, these will be great reading... and they even count as doing your homework for the conference!)
Check out:
An interview with National Book Award-Winning Author M.T. Anderson, who is giving a Keynote tomorrow (Friday) morning. See what M.T. thinks is the difference between writing for MG and writing for YA. (hint: It has something to do with voice and duct tape.)
M.T. Anderson
An interview with Scholastic Editor Nick Eliopulos, in which you'll find out how many pages it takes for an editor to "know" whether a manuscript has potential for them or not, and also about how social media for a writer is like icing:
Nick Eliopulos
An interview with Literary Agent Josh Adams, where we talk boutique agencies, online portfolios, and if a writer (or an agent) needs a business card:
Josh Adams
Jolie Stekly's interview with Bonnie Bader, Editor-in-Chief of Grosset and Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan, where you can found out the scoop on Bonnie's two-part first page workshop - which is sure to be incredible!
Bonnie Bader at last year's conference
Martha Brockenbrough's interview with Newbury-Winning Author Linda Sue Park (Okay, it's not a NEW interview - , but I learn so much from Linda Sue Park every time I listen to her - if you missed it, check it out now!)
3 Comments on SCBWI Team Blog Suggests Some Travel Day Reading, last added: 7/31/2010
This past weekend I went to the Spring Mingle for the Southern Breeze Region (SCBWI). It was here in Atlanta.
I must say at first I was not sure if I was going to go. I had alot of things I needed to do and I did not know if I could handle a weekend of writing. In a way, I felt like I needed a weekend - away from writing.
Not to mention, my "normal" possee was not going. I was going this one alone. Don't get me wrong, I knew people there and love everyone in my Region. But having the comfort of a few girls that know me, my journey, and my deepest fears and dreams is nice when you enter a room of 150 people.
I'm not very good in a large room. I'm a bit shy, definitely an introvert, and I really stink at small talk. I usually resort to bad jokes and probably put my foot in my mouth at least twice.
I'll even tell you all a secret.
Part of me kinda wondered if I would learn much. I mean, I have an agent so the agent talk would probably not apply to me and wondered if the sessions would help me at the stage I'm at in my writing process. (this embarressing because I have so much to learn! I dont' know what I was thinking~)
Anyway, I went to Springmingle.
And am so glad I did.
I think the BEST thing about the conference was hanging out and getting to know Jennifer Jabaley and Kristin O'Donnell Tubb. These girls are definately soul sisters of mine (I hope they thin so :). I adore them and can't wait to see them again. They made me laugh, listened as I cried, and gave me advice and words of encouragement that I needed at this stage in my writing journey. I felt like I had known them for years and found myself sharing things that I NEVER share with anyone outside my normal friend circle. (and most of my friends have known me for at least 10 years.) If I'd hung out with my normal "crew" - I would have missed kicking off these great friendships. And that would have been a true loss. Check out Kristin (author of Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different) at her blog/twitter and Jennifer (author of Lipstick Apology) at her blog!
I also hung some other great people. Karen Strong, Sheri Dillard, and Heather Montgomery (who knows everything there is to know about how to be safe during a earthquake!!)
The next thing that was Sooooo worth it was meeting and hearing Josh Adams from Adams Literary. He was funny and open and shared some secrets to agenting that helped me feel even more confident in my agent and her process. It also gave me critical insight into the submission/agenting/publishing world that we writers don't get to see very often. If any of you are looking for an agent, be sure to read what he is looking for and query him because he rocks!!! (from what I can tell, he also kicks ass and takes names for his clients).
Another highlight was seeing Cheryl Klein again. I was on faculty with her at MidSouth in the fall and had dinner/drinks with her. For those who don't know who she is...she is the continuity editor at Arthur Levine for Harry Potter. Not only is she the sweetest but she is BRILLIANT! She talked on the 22 steps to revising that gave so many great suggestions (and a few crazy ones :) - that my head was spinning.
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Title: Bittersweet Melody
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Email: [email protected]
Pitch:
Being a teen can suck - as muse Melody discovers when she is forced to choose between the human boy she loves and her immortality.
Thank you, Shelli!
PREPARE TO BE REPAIRED
MG Fantasy Adventure
Eighth grade is a villain's senior year, but Robert has no plans to graduate, what with his evil twin plotting revenge on the headmaster.
katrina (dot) lantz (at) gmail (dot) com
Title: GORGEOUS BOYFRIEND + KILLER GHOSTS = MY SUMMER VACATION
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
E-mail: tessadevan at hotmail dot com
Pitch:
When ghost seer Kayley realizes she can't identify killer ghosts, she wonders if her boyfriend is a homicidal ghost out to murder her.
Title: THE SLEEPERS
Genre: YA fantasy
Email: [email protected]
Elite fighter. Adoptee. Rage-filled teen with untamed magic. Will Lianne protect or destroy when lies & betrayal threaten the kingdom?
Title: SEAN MCDONALD'S ELIXIR OF INFINITE WISDOM
Genre: Contemporary MG
To earn money for his dying sister's last wish, 12-year-old Sean McDonald enlists a crazy Irishman to help him make and sell wisdom elixir.
bonny.anderson@gmail(dot)com
Thanks Shelli and Josh!
Title: Edge of the Falls.
Genre: YA Dystopian
Email: [email protected]
Pitch:
It should be an easy choice--give up choice in favor of protection. But when love is an option, no matter how dangerous, nothing is easy.
Title: Anchoring the Rain
Genre: YA Fantasy Adventure
As if accidentally freeing an imprisoned necromancer weren't bad enough, Denton must rescue the girl the so-called God of Death has kidnapped.
Email: writer(at)DebSalisbury(dot)com
Title: Library Jumpers
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Pitch:Yanked into a gateway book that links the great libraries, Gia finds that she's a long lost knight and must now fight to stop an apocalypse.
Email: bdrake(at)comcast(dot)net
Title: Time Breaker
Genre: Contemporary YA Sci-fi/Fantasy
Email: davinashbury (at) gmail (dot) com
After teenage Aly discovers she's a time walker she must convince her allies she's not the Time Breaker, while stopping her brother, who is.
Title: A Willow's tale
Genre: M/G fantasy
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: Eleven-year-old Amber discovers her power to control the wind is the key to stop an evil fae's plague on the human and faerie worlds.
Title: 9:59 REWIND
Genre: Edgy YA with magical realism/paranormal elements
Email: candaceganger[at]yahoo[dot]com
Pitch: At 9:58 pm Thursday Night Scum singer, C.J. Greyson, catches a bullet to the chest. But at 9:59 pm, she presses rewind.
Thanks for the contest!
Title: HEIST
Genre: MG contemporary fantasy (time travel)
Email: [email protected]
A thirteen-year-old boy's struggle for truth. His dad. The cute girl. Her kidnapping. An art heist. And an impossible decision.
Title: Not Your Average Fairy Tale
Genre: YA Fantasy
Armed with wings and a blue wand, being a fairy godmother should be easy. Unless your name is, Ash. And you're a dude.
email: chantelesedgwick(at)yahoo(dot)com
Alexia's Pen
YA Fantasy
[email protected]
When fifteen-year-old Alexia is given a magical pen, she discovers the Land of Imagining, a world overrun by demons that only she can save.
Title: Devolutionaries
Genre: YA dystopian
email: shalleemcarthur [at] gmail [dot] com
Ash must sacrifice his ability to talk in order to hone the telepathic skills he needs to rescue his grandpa from a Government experiment.
Title: Wayward Angels
Genre: MG Fantasy
email: [email protected]
Seriously? A Therapy dog? What can an abandoned mutt teach a 15-year old tough girl who isn’t afraid of anything—except of dogs.
Title - Saltwater
Genre - Contemporary YA
Email - [email protected]
Pitch - After the death of Tavi's little brother, her family wins the lottery and falls apart. Tavi's gotta keep it together & fend off a stalker.
Thanks for this contest!! :D
Title: Out of My Body
Genre: YA paranormal (55,000 words)
Email: moni.bw at gmail dot com
Tanya needs to do everything to save her mom’s kidnapped soul—even if it means risking her life & becoming a US Government out-of-body spy.
Title: Ben Holloway: Time Guardian
Genre: MG Action-Adventure Mystery
email: [email protected]
Kidnappings. Angry Ghosts. War. Time Travel can really ruin your day.
Title- 1790: On The Edge
Genre- Middle Grades Historical Fiction
E-mail- annbbraden @ gmail dot com
In 1790, a stranger’s death prompts 5 teens to overcome barriers of race and class in search of the truth. Independence itself is at stake.
Thanks very much!
Title - Seventy-Seven
Genre - Urban Fantasy YA
Email - chanelle(@)chanellegray(.)com
Pitch - As Death's daughter, it's Winter's job to kill those who appear on her list. Until she falls in love with her next case and he won't die.
Title - Scott and the Naughty Boy Factory
Genre - Chapter Book
Email - mrso_d at yahoo dot com
Pitch - The Naughty Boy Factory transforms boys into Scott’s worst nightmare—perfect gentlemen—and Scott is not about to let that happen to him.
PERFECTION
YA Dystopian
[email protected]
Created to rid the world of imperfections, a genetically-engineered girl learns there is more to her than what she was bred to be.
Title: Angel of the Waters
Genre: YA urban fantasy
Monster slayer, Feng Huang, finds there’s something out there more intimidating than horned freaks: the parents she never knew she had.
hollyloiseau @ hotmail dot com
Title - THE DEMONS YOU KNOW
Genre - YA Urban Fantay
Email - sarah.nicolas.ya(at)gmail(dot)com
Pitch -
1. Rescue her mother from demons.
2. Deny the dark power of the Books.
3. Find love with a young Holy Knight.
-- Miranda can only pick two
Title - The Enamel Gnome
Genre - MG Fantasy
Email - [email protected]
Pitch - A nasty gnome, an ogre, a ninja fairy, a monstrous nerd, a Titan and 300 samurai rats. What else would you expect after losing a tooth?
Title: INVISIBLE
Genre: Paranormal YA
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: When Angeline goes from ‘INVISIBLE’ to disappearing, she discovers that being noticed is a little more interesting than she anticipated.
Title of book:
Why My Love Life Sucks: The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer
Genre:
YA Humorous Science Fantasy (like Doctor Who or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Pitch:
Gilbert had big plans. He was going to fix the world, and it was going to be perfect. But a funny thing happened on the way to the future...
Email:
[email protected]
Free Bread Girl
YA Contemporary
When repeated scholarship rejections bombard Mattie, she must reach out for her one last hope to find a cure for Gran’s fatal disease.
sixbird(at)msn(dot)com
MELISMA
YA Light Fantasy
karenmkrueger(at)gmail(dot)com
After a breakdown Tessa gives up singing,but when she enters a world where music is magic she must find her voice if she ever wants to leave
TITLE: THE FOREST AVENGERS
GENRE: Middle Grade Adventure
with magical realism
EMAIL: [email protected]
Jason must save the Blue Karner butterflies from a poacher who is stealing them for their power to grant a wish to whoever catches it first.
LOVE this! Thanks Josh for the opportunity!
Title - Counting with Bella and Finny - A Poodle See Poodle Doo Book
Genre - Picture Book
Email - [email protected]
Pitch - Poodles driving cars, washing dishes and flipping pancakes oh my! Children can laugh and learn counting hilarious photos of real dogs!
Thanks for the contest!
Title-The Siren Song
Genre-YA paranormal romance
Email-christinaferko(at)gmail.com
Pitch-
It only take one song to destroy two lives. Coral's siren song crashes over Jackson, threatening to pull them both down to unknown depths.
Title: Faking The Aurora Borealis
Genre: contemporary middle-grade
E-mail: [email protected]
Pitch:
Victoria's the only one not convinced the bizarre imprint is a crop circle. For someone, she's one too many.
Title - Black Amethyst
Genre - YA Magical Realism
Email - [email protected]
Pitch - Alissa is alone and hunted. So when a celestial fox-boy offers to help her save her mom, she can't fumble the chance. Lucky stars much?
Thanks for this contest!
Title - JOSHUA FALLEN AND THE MATTER OF DARKNESS
Genre - MG Science Fiction
Email - mvkevin (at) gmail (dot) com
Pitch - 13-year-old Joshua Fallen awoke with the ability to wield dark matter, and then found out only he could save the universe from destruction.
Title: The Spiritualists
Genre: Contemporary Middle Grade Mystery
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: The mountain. The secret. A mission from Gran: find the natural bridge, find the truth. Don’t be scared, Oliver. You are not alone.
Title: Some Kind of Trouble
Genre: YA Contemporary
Pitch: After a drive-by shooting leaves Arianna with an unexpected boyfriend, she finds that love alone won’t save him from life on the streets.
[email protected]
Title: SPITFIRE
Genre: YA Fantasy
Email: shayda.bakhshi (at) gmail (dot) com
When Mattie's gift of fire is discovered, she must escape to a world where magic rules--and where having her gift is punishable by death.
Thanks for the contest.
Title: Unraveled
Genre: YA Mystery
Email: bradley_susan(at)yahoo(dot)com
Pitch: Sixteen year old Autumn dreams of being an FBI profiler so when her sister is murdered she investigates on her own and sets a dangerous trap to catch the killer.
Thank you!
Title: Kinesthesia
Genre: YA alternate history
Email: nora.e.coon[at]gmail[dot]com
Meriwether Davis leaves home to escape a future as a fisherman’s wife – the chance to fight Nazis is just a bonus.
Title: Pieces of Moon
Genre: YA magic realism
Email: jessicaloliveros(at)gmail(dot)com
Belize is a perfect summer escape for Tess. The 15th century, a cursed Mayan city, & a Spanish soldier that hates her? Not so perfect.
Title – The Lion Awakens
Genre – YA
E-mail – [email protected]
Pitch – Modern David vs. Goliath. 2 teens find gifts that lead to parallel universe and an enemy hell-bent on taking over their world. Trilogy.
Title: Caenus And The Quiver Of Artemis
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: When a Greek prince loses the Isthmian games, he is banished from his kingdom. A wise centaur trains him and helps him to return home.
Man getting the pitch down to 140 characters is hard. Thanks for having this contest though!
Title: THE PLASTIC SLIPPER
Genre: Upper MG Fairy tale
Email: phanhnguyen1 @ yahoo.com
Pitch: Getting a happily ever after is hard. But when Rosy’s evil cousin makes her get amnesia & forget she’s a princess, its damn near impossible.
Thanks so much for the awesome contest.
Title: THE THIRD TOWER
Genre: Upper middle grade fantasy
E-mail: [email protected]
Pitch: Jasmine convinces her BFF to follow a talking doorknob. Now she must learn how her adoptive mom’s love unlocks her magic or watch him die.
Thank you, Ms. Shelli, this is fantastic!
Title: The Song of the Summer King
Genre: MG Fantasy
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: Shard is a gryfon in danger of exile. After learning the secret of his past, he must decide whether to fight with his king - or against him.
Title: MAX IS DEAD
Genre: YA
E-mail: tab[at]zaeya[dot]com
Pitch: Max is young. Obnoxious. And dead. And he's going to stay that way unless he can figure out how to get one person on earth to wish him back.
Title: EVERNOW
Genre: Dystopian YA
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: Fey folk may have displaced humans, but Evernow is determined to find peace between those who caused a cataclysm and those who survived it.
Title: WHAT WAS MINE
Genre: YA Contemporary
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: When you're living on pretense, you need more than booze and weed to save you. Ronni's learning it the hard way.
Title - I'm Here to Save Your Day
Genre - MG Adventure/Fantasy
Email - iwillwhisperno(@)gmail.com
Pitch - A brazen boy faces a playground bully to reclaim the jungle gym, only to discover the bully's mom– the lunch lady— is a far worse enemy.
Title: RUMP
Genre: MG Fantasy
email: [email protected]
If a name determines your destiny, then Rump’s destiny really stinks, and spinning gold only makes things worse.
Title: In the Shadows
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Pitch:
When the hottie from Emily's recurring dream shows up at school, she discovers her prophetic powers. But dream guys and family secrets can have a serious dark side.
jenross(at)yahoo(dot)com
gah! These are so good!
and I love all the new people I'm meeting :)
Good luck to all.
Title: Moriarty's Ink
Genre: MG Fantasy Adventure
email: heatherzundel[AT]gmail(dot)com
Abigail's family can enter books but when a strange teen uses their machine they must stop him before both book & real worlds are destroyed.
Title: requiem
Genre: YA Contemporary
email: [email protected]
When his “perfect” older brother commits suicide, Ben must unravel the enigma that was his brother's life in order to move on with his own.
Title: THE ALYSCRAI
Genre: YA Steampunk Adventure
email: deren(dot)hansen(at)gmail(dot)com
Alysseren evades war machines to stop a rebellion when she learns the tochtin, lemur-like familiars, will use their human hosts as weapons.
Title - LOCK 19
Genre - YA Science Fiction
Email - sabrina.wolford(at)gmail(dot)com
Pitch - When Tabby's brother is killed, his rebel friends need her help to stop a clone war. The problem is, her dad's the one creating the army.
Title: Kwizera Means Hope
Genre: YA
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: Rwandan teen struggles to care for her family and save enough money to pay for school despite the survivor guilt that threatens her efforts.
Title: Kwizera Means Hope
Genre: YA
Email: [email protected]
Pitch: Rwandan teen struggles to care for her family and save enough money to pay for school despite the survivor guilt that threatens her efforts.
Title - The Secret of Elijah
Genre - YA Historical Fiction
Email - [email protected]
Pitch - Leah searches for her brother Elijah, kidnapped by a hoodoo conjurer, and falls for both a man-ghost and a Civil War soldier who aid her.
I apologize if this double-posts; I'm having technology trouble.
Title: Countdown to Mourning
Genre: YA fantasy
Email: regiddings [at] gmail [dot] com
Liria knows a sorcerer wants to overthrow Voltara & its laws against magic. Can she convince them to trust her when she uses magic herself?
Title- The Siren Song
Genre- YA paranormal romance
Email- christinaferko(at)gmail.com
Pitch-
One song can destroy two lives. When Coral meets Jackson, her siren song crashes over him, pulling them both down into its unknown depths.
Title: FATE CREST
Genre: YA Fantasy
Email: kanonei (at) gmail (dot) com
Pitch: Angelyn Bowmoore, the first female knight in known history, must do everything in her power to claim her birthright at the Knights Academy.
Title: What a Boy Wants
Genre: YA contemporary romance
email: kdvitollo (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
Pitch:
Sebastian is his school’s best secret,The Hook-up Artist. Too bad his undercover matchmaking skill didn’t prepare him for falling in love.
Title: Fulcrum
Genre: YA sci-fi
email: rachel.searles(at)gmail.com
An amnesiac boy seeking his identity must navigate his way through a dangerous galaxy after the planet where he first awoke is destroyed.
Title: Out There
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Pitch: When Carly’s dad defends Perry Smith in court she must come to grips with the attacks @ her family for defending the man that killed her BFF
Email: [email protected]
Title: Gates of Hell
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Email: [email protected]
Pitch:
15 Y/O Gerhard cant stand by & let his adoptive father Heinrich Himmler & the Nazis do to his pal Ari, what has been done to a # of Jews
Title: Addie's Big Break
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Email: lisa[at]llowens[dot]com
Pitch: Can Addie save her family from becoming vaudeville laughingstocks w/o sacrificing her chances for success & love away from the spotlight?
Title: Sing Me Away
Genre: YA Contemporary
Email: [email protected]
Anya forgot how to live. Since her bandmates died she's felt numb; now, in a summer without music, she has to learn how to be herself again.
Title: The Cipher of Anu-k'ai
Genre: MG Adventure/Mystery
Email: [email protected]
The search for a lost treasure leads Abigail and Quin deep into a clandestine world—and even deeper into a mountain forged by A.I.
TITLE: The Bleeding Cure
GENRE: YA Paranormal
EMAIL: [email protected]
Chase and her two best friend capture a vampire in an Ill-fated attempt to cure Chase's leukemia.
Title: Embrol
Genre: YA Science Fiction
Email: abbyannisblog(at)earthlink(dot)net
To stop the renegade alien sent to Earth to control her, Olivia Ryan must join forces with the boy responsible for her mother’s death.
Title: Destiny's Minions
Genre: Middle Grade Fiction
Twitter Pitch: Owen hates destiny. Too bad, because Destiny’s the new headmistress at Owen’s school, and she doesn’t like him much either.
Email: penny [at] penelopewright [dot] com
Title: The Last Onset
Genre: YA dystopia
email: chersti.nieveen (at) gmail (dot) com
This time Armageddon was planned - a form of Eugenics, where only the government's elected survive.