Friday, May 6, 2011

Contest of Epic Awesome With Agent Sara Megibow!

As promised, we bring you the official contest thread for our first ever agent-judged contest!


UPDATE: Sara just told us she is so impressed with these that she'll read the first 30 pages of THREE winners!!

This contest is now closed to entries. Stay tuned for Sara's top picks!


Meet the awesome agent who's agreed to be our first judge!
Sara Megibow of Nelson Literary Agency!

Sara is the Associate Literary Agent at Nelson Literary Agency. She's actively and enthusiastically acquiring new clients!

Nelson Literary Agency specializes in representing young adult and middle grade, science fiction and fantasy, romance (all genres except category or inspirational), commercial fiction, women's fiction (including chick lit) and high concept literary fiction.

Sara is particularly interested in "contemporary YA and MG novels - stories set in the real world, preferably with a multicultural or historical aspect." And would also "love to work on more science fiction and fantasy books." She loves "fantastical stories - especially when they are unique and beautifully written," and says "My favorite young adult reads in 2010 were ASH by Malinda Lo and THE DUFF by Kody Keplinger."

For those of you that don't write YA, Sara also likes romance books that are "super sexy and intelligent" and commercial fiction that has "a unique story and superior writing."

Some of Sara's clients and their upcoming books include:
Miranda Kenneally - SCORE (Sourcebooks, December 2011)

Allison Rushby - SHOOTING STARS

Jennifer Shaw Wolf - BREAKING BEAUTIFUL


And now for the best part, THE PRIZE. Sara has offered to review the first 30 pages of the THREE manuscripts whose pitches she liked the most!


How it works:
This contest is for COMPLETED POLISHED MANUSCRIPTS ONLY. If you wouldn't want an agent to read it yet, don't enter.

You have 140 characters to pitch your novel. NO ABBREVIATIONS--if the word is "When" please do not give us "whn". You may use numbers (16 instead of sixteen) but no abbreviated words. We have a great post with examples of elevator pitches in the archives, but remember, 140 characters ONLY. This includes punctuation and spaces. If you can not fit it in a tweet (hence the term "twitter pitch"), your entry will be disqualified. It's tough, but you can do it.

We will only accept entries in the genres that Sara Megibow represents. (See her bio above.)

While following our blog and spreading the word about the contest is not required, and won't get you any extra points, we would greatly appreciate it. The more the merrier!

Please put your entries in the comments of this post as follows:

Name:
Title:

Genre:


140 character pitch.


Entries will be accepted until 11:59 pm ET Saturday, May 7th 2011. Any entries submitted after that time will be disqualified.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS about the contest, please ask them in the announcement thread from Monday. We would like to keep this post for entries only.

Only one entry per person.

**UPDATE**
It has been brought to our attention that some of you are receiving emails from a third party. We are not affiliated with any third parties, and we apologize if these emails have inconvenienced you in any way. We will not be contacting winners via email, we will simply post here on the blog. If you would like to remove your entry, to delete your email, and submit again, you are welcome to do so before the entry window closes at 11:59pm May 7th.
Again, we apologize for any inconvenience.

Sara is thus far very pleased with your entries! Thank you all!

108 comments:

  1. Name: Jennifer Daiker
    Email: jenniferdaiker(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: IN THE MIND OF A CELEBRITY STALKER
    Genre: Chick Lit
    Pitch: Journaling and stalking shouldn’t go hand in hand but with Jules Ausborn on the case, they’re the perfect match.

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  2. Name: Lynne Schmidt
    Email: sschmidt1026@gmail.com
    Title: Igniting a Firestarter
    Genre: YA

    Pitch: We’ve all heard “sticks and stones” but what if words really do hurt you? Well, it happens in Igniting a Firestarter, a young adult novel, so pick your words carefully.

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  4. Name: Marquita Hockaday
    Email: marquita_hockaday@yahoo.com
    Title: The Blues
    Genre: Contemporary YA Mystery

    Pitch: Blake uncovers a secret high school drug scene when his pill pushing best friend turns up dead.

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  5. Name: Martina Boone
    Email: kidlit at writeedge dot com
    Title: Wind Walker
    Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy

    A teen must use her inner monster to prevent the forbidden love between Watchers and their human charges from destroying those she loves.

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  6. Brandon Crowder
    bcrowder06@gmail.com
    Justin Alward Boy Superhero
    YA urban fantasy

    Justin Alward's superpowers will kill him, and if they don't, the people trying to steal them will.

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  7. Name: Lorelie Brown
    Email:LorelieLong@gmail.com
    Title: WAYWARD ONE
    Genre:Historical Romance

    In a dark, sensual twist on Great Expectations, an orphan at an expensive boarding school discovers her benefactor is a London crime lord.

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  10. Name: Katie Flanagan
    Email: kflanagan@u.northwestern.edu
    Title: Far From the Apple Tree
    Genre: Upmarket Women's Fiction

    Pitch: A single mother trying to raise a good man is challenged by her son’s bad behavior and her infatuation with his history teacher, all while hiding her true identity.

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  11. Name: Jeanmarie Anaya
    Email: janaya75@hotmail.com
    Title: MAGNETIC
    Genre: paranormal YA

    Pitch: Carly detests her new life as a paranormal medium, particularly when her soul becomes the target of rogue mediums who trap spiritual energy.

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  12. Name: Artemis Grey
    Email: Greyvaledesigns(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Thornbriar
    Genre: YA, Fantasy Retelling

    Pitch: Most Ladies get china sets for their wedding. Beauty got a Beast with multiple personalities and a cursed magic kingdom nobody believed in.

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  13. Name: Tina Moss & Yelena Casale
    Email: TinaMossWrites@gmail.com
    Title: BLOOD BOND
    Genre: Urban Fantasy
     
    Sick demons and vile angels battle for half-breed Cassie. Her power can open portals, but if she can't control it, she’ll lose her freedom.

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  14. Name:Dana Rose Bailey
    Email: dana.bailey@roanoke.com
    Title: Firebird
    Genre: YA, light Science Fiction

    Pitch: After Grace Peregrine grows bright red wings and gets the feeling she’s being followed, the only person who can help is the boy she hates.

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  15. Name: Theresa Paolo
    Email: Tmpmarkmajor@aol.com
    Title: Unchartered Territory
    Genre: YA

    Pitch: Dean is homeless, bitter and alone but when he meets Anna he realizes that he’s not the only one trying to come to terms with the past.

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  16. Name: Jessie Andersen
    Email: Jessievdlandersen@yahoo.com
    Title: AT WHAT COST
    Genre: Contemporary YA
    Pitch:Teen mom or abortion? Seems like a no-brainer until everyone offers Maggie their opinions. Now she has to choose: obligation or freedom.

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  17. Name: Nina Smith
    Email: ninamazon@hotmail.com
    Title: Shiny Things
    Genre: Fantasy

    One disgruntled writer, one unstable muse, one shifty faun and one fairy armed to the teeth. Welcome to Shadow. Don’t get killed.

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  18. Name: Martha Lancaster
    Email: artbymartha5150@comcast.net
    Title: TWO DEGREES FROM ZERO: A SNOWBOARDING ADVENTURE
    Genre: Middle Grade
    Pitch: What are the odds that a cool Burton snowboard could ruin a ski vacation for an impulsive teen who is plagued by survivor’s guilt?

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  19. Name: Amie Kaufman
    Email: amiekaufman (at) gmail (dot) com
    Title: CURSED
    Genre: Humorous middle grade fantasy.


    It started with a chicken stampede and ended with a curse that Samuel can't shake. If he can't break it, his family will be broken instead.

    (What a fun competition! Twitter pitches are tricky stuff! I've spread the word on my blog.)

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  21. Name: Kalen O'Donnell
    Email: kalenodonnell(at)gmail(dot)com
    TITLE: Dust to Dust
    GENRE: YA CONTEMPORARY FANTASY

    The youngest in a magical family cursed to kill each other, Micah was last to know who cursed them — and the first to want to fight back.

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  22. Name: Heather McCorkle
    Email: hmccorkle(at)wildblue(dot)com
    Title: TO RIDE A PUCA
    Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
    Pitch: During the 12th century invasion of Ireland, Emily must master her druid power to keep the last of her kind from behind annihilated.

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  23. Name: Becky Mahoney
    Email: ringhappy @ comcast . net
    Title: THE HUNGRY GROUND
    Genre: YA Fantasy/Paranormal


    When the population of a nearby city vanishes overnight, aspiring detective Kalinda joins the search party. But the city isn't empty.

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  24. Name: Donea Weaver
    Email: donealw(at)aol(dot)com
    Title: The Glass Prince
    Genre: YA Contemporary Fantasy

    Pitch: When a family heirloom binds a girl to a curse, she must work with Snow White’s immortal (and obnoxious) son to break it, or die trying.

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  26. Name: Kerensa Brougham
    Email: kerensabrougham-at-gmail-dot-com
    Title: DEBRIEFING THE DEAD
    Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

    To save her nephew, Hyacinth must beat Demons, rob Satan, and defy Angel of Death. But when she meets a sexy ghost, things get complicated.

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  27. Name: Amber Hackstadt
    Email: amhackstadt (at) hotmail (dot) com
    Title: Unnatural
    Genre: YA Fantasy
    Pitch: Imagine in our world being a super hero is normal, cities are built in the clouds and the cliché the sky is the limit doesn’t apply anymore.

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  28. Name: Heidi Hormel
    Email: Heidi(at)HormelWriting(dot)com
    Title: P-Wow & Demons
    Genre: Romance (Paranormal)

    A Southern belle gets what she doesn’t want—stalked by paparazzi and discovered by demons—when a superstar with “issues” asks for her help

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  29. Name: Laurie Muench
    Email: lamuench(at)gmail(d0t)com
    Title: Call Us Legion
    Genre: YA paranormal

    Possessed by spirits and haunted by madness, Bram descends a tortured path where deception and murder unite in a savage struggle for power.

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  30. Name: Dorothy Dreyer
    Email: dorothyanndreyer@gmail.com
    Title: BITTERSWEET MELODY
    Genre: YA paranormal romance

    Pitch: Rule #1 of being a muse: Don't fall in love with your case subjects. Too bad Melody's such a screw-up; it could cost her her immortality.

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  31. Name: Charlie Holmberg
    Email: CNHolmberg@gmail.com
    Title: WEIRS
    Genre: Fantasy

    The Carnal have been sacrificed to the Sun for ages. Now, with the Reapers at her back, Teague must break her curse or meet the same fate.

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  32. Name: John Zeleznik
    Email: john.zeleznik@gmail.com
    Title: WINTER'S DISCORD
    Genre: YA fantasy

    An attempt on Ben’s life stirs an old conflict, forcing Ben and his friends to deal with issues of loyalty, friendship and responsibility.

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  33. Name: Pamela Roach
    Email: pamela(at)pamelaltodd(dot)com
    Title: KISMET
    Genre: YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
    Pitch: Cali has always been average, but now a Greek god has her in his sights – and the gods aren’t known for their patience, or their morals.

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  34. Name:Tanya Hanamaikai
    Email:tanyamaikai@gmail.com
    Title:THE KYRATHIM
    Genre:SciFi/Fantasy

    Scorned teen is adopted into a cult making angel warriors only to find that her new family may not have humanity’s best interests at heart.

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  35. Name: Audrey Lockwood
    Email: lockwood(dot)audrey(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Olympus Gate
    Genre: YA Historical Fantasy

    Pitch: A girl from a broken future travels back to ancient Rome to stop her sister's murder, confront the gods, and prevent the coming apocalypse.

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  36. Name: Sherry Auger
    Email: ricksgalsherry@msn.com
    Title: Willow Brook
    Genre: YA paranormal

    pitch:
    Janet's town is dissapearing,sees 6 year old hung as witch in 1600learns she's a witch,how can she save the town and herself in time?

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  37. Name: Laura Pauling
    Email: laurapauling (at) yahoo (dot) com
    Title: HEIST
    Genre: MG

    Fiasco must solve a famous art heist to free his dad from jail, but each trip back to the crime screws up life in the present.

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  38. Name: Sara Riouch
    Email: riouch.sara@gmail.com
    Title: THRICE BORN
    Genre: YA urban fantasy
    Pitch:

    Armed with magical bangles, liquid courage and sheer desperation, witch-in-training Andra struggles to save her twin from a gruesome death.

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  39. Name: Elaine Smith
    Email: elaineamsmith@live.co.uk
    Title: HUMAN, BEING
    Genre: MG Sci-fi

    Pitch: Thursday's organs are reversed and her injuries fade overnight...she must be alien. The agents think it. She knows the truth.

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  40. Name: Ellen Rozek
    Email: ellenmrozek(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: The Recruited
    Genre: YA
    Pitch: Two teenage killers end up working for the government to bring down an American terrorist organization trying to take over the country.

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  41. Name: Erin LaVallee
    Email:erinlavallee@yahoo.com
    Title:The Eyes Beneath
    Genre:YA

    140 character pitch.

    Unlikely teen lovers are thrown in peril at a Civil War reenactment field trip when an ancient demon sets his sight to possess one of them.

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  42. Name: Stacey Wunsch
    Email: staceywunsch@hotmail.com
    Title: The Prime
    Genre: MG

    Ben,13, dies and becomes the Prime. He must get himself & others through hellish purgatory to protect future generations from enslavement.

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  44. Name: Sarah Click
    Email: sarahlclick@gmail.com
    Title: The Prophecy of a Gatekeeper
    Genre: Urban Fantasy

    Ali is next in line for the Gatekeeper of Hell. Refusal means demons will consume humanity. Accepting means she will end humanity herself.

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  45. Name: Kristine Rudolph
    Email: kristinerudolph@gmail.com
    Title: The Myth of Jake
    Genre: Women's Fiction

    Maggie Carlton wrote a book about her dead best friend. Then she slept with him.

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  46. Name: Jessica Mazone
    Email: jessicaolivarez.mazone@gmail.com
    Title: Forsaken
    Genre: YA Dark Fantasy/Paranormal

    Pitch:Blood is the entrance to everything. Seth has found the strongest line of curandera blood in Miranda Rios, all he needs is for her to choose.

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  47. Name: Taryn Albright
    Email: tarynalAThotmailDOTcom
    Title: SPLASHBACK
    Genre: YA contemporary
    Pitch: Burnt out but still top ranked, Lottie wants to quit the sport that ruined her life. Too bad swimming is the only way to save her sister.

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  48. Name: Ruthanne Reid
    Email: ruthanne@ruthannereid.com
    Title: THE SUNDERED
    Genre: YA sci-fi
    Pitch: A world that hates you is pretty bad; survival based on slavery is worse; but nothing tops having to choose between the survival of someone else’s species or your own.

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  49. Name: Charity Bradford
    Email: charity.bradford@gmail.com
    Title: Sendek
    Genre: Science Fantasy

    Science or magic? One woman struggles to bring the two halves of her life into balance in the midst of aliens, dragons, and a hot new love.

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  50. Name: Kerri Carpenter
    Email: kerri.carpenter@gmail.com
    Title: Question of the Day
    Genre: Women's Fiction

    Pitch: A 28 year old begins to question her own life as she hosts a Question of the Day blog. What is it really going to take to make her happy?

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  51. Name: Nathan Major
    Email: theuselessgod(at)gmail.com
    Title: The Might of the Steelgods
    Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

    Pitch: Proclaimed “The Destroyer of the World” at birth, sixteen-year-old Cevan is constantly on the run in a steampunk world that wants him dead.

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  52. Name: Leiann Bynum
    Email: slbynum3(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Superteens in Training
    Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

    Pitch: Five 16-year-old girls of various races develop a bonding friendship while dealing with the stress of becoming secret teenage superheroes.

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  53. Name: PK Hrezo
    Email: pakazo77@gmail.com
    Title: X Dare and The Quest for the Gatekeeper
    Genre: MG Fantasy/Sci-fi

    Pitch: 13yo X Dare excels at 1 thing: video games. But that skill will only go so far once he's transported to a planet with bugs the size of cars.

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  54. Name: Misty Waters
    Email: mistydawnwaters(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Oracle
    Genre: YA high fantasy
    Pitch: Sloan got a new destiny for her birthday that doesn’t include high school. An entire realm awaits her return and a king wants her dead.

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  55. Name: Michelle Mason
    Email: mfaszold(at)hotmail(dot)com
    Title: ESCAPE FROM THE UNDERGROUND CITY
    Genre: MG Adventure
    Pitch: Trapped. Literally. In a city buried underground. To rescue everyone, Ethan must conquer the Deep Caves and the secrets they conceal.

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  56. Name: Elizabeth Arroyo
    Email: elizabeth(dot)arroyo5(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Some Kind of Trouble
    Genre: Contemporary YA

    Pitch: Arianna finds herself in some kind of trouble after a car chase with Marcus (involving bullets) leaves her forgetting she doesn’t like him.

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  57. Name: Amey Zeigler
    Email: ameyzeigler@yahoo.com
    Title: Swiss Miss
    Genre: Chick Lit
    Pitch: Lainey deletes a chain e-mail, triggering a cascade of misfortune just as she starts a coveted internship in Switzerland with a hot boss.

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  58. Name: Amy Shelor Dye
    Email: amydye@jetbroadband.com
    Title: White Lightning
    Genre: YA
    140 Character Pitch:
    Haunted by thoughts of a less than epic existence after a big move to a small southern town, Sallie soon finds she has far more to fear.

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  60. Name: Bekah Snow
    Title: Hunted Humans
    Genre: MG Science fiction/Fantasy

    Pitch: Twins Haley and Wyatt are sucked into a dimension where aliens use human bone cells for genetic experiments. And they're next.

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  61. Name: Matt Williams
    Email: houseofwilliams@yahoo.ca
    Title: Source
    Genre: Sci-fi
    Pitch: No one said survival was easy, but when the teeming colonies of Earth run out of water, Sheila and Andrew will do whatever it takes to save the ones they love!

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  62. Name: Nicole Singer
    Title: Windfarer
    Genre: Fantasy

    Pitch: A seafaring star-mage and mountain-born dragonrider unite against a ruler who plans to avenge a long-dead woman and extinguish the stars.

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  63. Name:
    Email:
    Title:
    Genre:
    Pitch: No one said survival was easy, but when the Earth Colonies run out of water, Sheila and Andrew will do whatever it takes to save their loved ones!

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  64. Name: Matt Williams
    Email: houseofwilliams@yahoo.ca
    Title: Source
    Genre: Sci-fi
    Pitch: No one said survival was easy, but when the Earth Colonies run out of water, Sheila and Andrew will do whatever it takes to save their loved ones!

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  68. Name: Peter Teixeira
    Email: peteteix@gmail.com
    Title: A Promise To Azfal
    Genre: Commercial

    Pitch: Jassim can either sign with his favorite soccer club, or fulfill a promise by joining the priesthood and uncovering church secrets.

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  69. Name: Rachel Glenn
    Email: rachelmglenn@gmail.com
    Title: THE PARANORMALISTS
    Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
    Pitch: Faerie attacks, terrifying visions and one mysterious boy. Will Grace Stewart solve this dangerous mystery before it destroys her world?

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  71. Name: Caitlin Darrell
    Email: caitie(dot)darrell(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: ROBYN HOOD
    Genre: Historical YA
    Pitch:
    Disguised as a man, Robyn seeks revenge on the Sheriff of Nottingham for her father's death with help from her fiery partner in crime, John.

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  72. Name: Miranda Kenneally
    Email: mirandakenneally @ gmail.com
    Title: BEST. DAY. EVER.
    GENRE: YA Contemp

    Pitch: For school "Shadow Day," 17 yo Savannah jokingly says she wants to be a singer. Never imagined she'd get to shadow bad boy of country music.

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  73. Name: Dawn Buthorn
    Email:
    Title: ZEBRA SISTERS
    Genre: MG Contemporary

    Pitch: Lena is determined to get her newly adopted sister sent back to Rwanda, until tragedy forces both girls to look beyond their differences.

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  74. Name: Delano Roberts
    Title: Phantasmagoria
    Genre: Middle School

    Pitch: 13 year old Oliver falls down a well to another dimension where he has caught the eye of the nightmare stealing Virtuosus on his way home.

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  75. Name: Ann Braden
    Title: Swimming With Tchaikovsky
    Genre: YA Magical Realism

    Pitch:
    When a Russian journalist is kidnapped for exposing corruption, rescue is impossible until Sally’s music conjures visions of Russia’s past.

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  76. Name: Penny Wright
    Email: penny@penelopewright.com
    Title: Destiny's Minions
    Genre: Middle Grade

    Pitch: Owen has always hated the idea of destiny. Unfortunately Destiny is the new headmistress at his school and she doesn't like him much either.

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  77. Name: Sara Baker
    Title: Soul To Keep
    Genre: YA-Dark Paranormal Romance

    When Aamira's manic-depressive mom tries to kill herself, Death intervenes. If she can face the past, they can save her mom from Purgatory.

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  78. Name: Chris Scena
    Email: chrisscena(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: The Tertiary
    Genre: Urban Fantasy

    A Federal agent with magic items must stop an evil Russian sorceress from obtaining an evil artifact that could destroy the world.

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  79. Name: Alicia Caldwell
    Email: aliciacald(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Quintessence
    Genre: YA Urban Fantasy


    The Walker sisters are tricked into becoming witches, obligated to perform an earth saving ritual, and destined to die. Phew--what a week.

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  80. Name: Jami Gold
    Title: The Resurrected
    Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

    Pitch: A reformed con artist is the only one who can stop an immortal from enslaving humanity, but she would have to sacrifice her husband and son.

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  81. Name: Angela Scott
    Email: acornmail@gmail.com
    Title: Desert Rice
    Genre: YA

    Pitch: Hiding her identity as a girl is one thing. Hiding from the law, another. Being only twelve-years-old trumps it all.

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  82. Name: Nicole Zoltack
    Email: Nicole.Zoltack(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Hidden in Shadows
    Genre: Urban Fantasy

    Pitch: Lorna isn't your average assassin. A newfound paranormal ability and love threaten her life's goal - to avenge her father's murder.

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  83. Name: Malin Larsson
    Email: malinm(dot)larsson(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: Shadow on the Road
    Genre: Urban Fantasy

    Biker wizard Mikael Storm tracks his stolen familiar, but traces are thinning and people on the road aren’t who they seem - not even Gemma.

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  84. Name: Allison Schellong
    Title: Tell Me This
    Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

    Pitch: A teenage girl must help a family of highly intelligent beings stay hidden from a man seeking revenge for answers they refused to give him.

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  85. Name: L.H. Dougherty
    Email: riterswithattitude@gmail.com
    Title: SPARK
    Genre: YA

    Ever been told you're destined for greatness? Did you believe it? Ben doesn't believe or want it, but what he wants never seems to matter.

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  86. Name:Sage Hyden
    Email:sagehyden@rogers.com
    Title:LORIDIAN
    Genre:Fantasy
    Pitch:To save his brothers, Anthony must cross a desert in the company of thieves and rebels. Inspired by roman history and indian mythology.

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  87. Name: Cethan Leahy
    Title: The Rise and Fall Of Florence Follicle
    Genre: MG Comedy Fantasy

    140 character pitch.
    A girl has problems of the dead dad, talking books and local missing persons variety. Worse still, she is having a bad hair week.

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  89. Name: Ella Schwartz
    Title: Gateway of the One
    Genre:MG Fantasy

    Pitch:

    Videogamer and spunky friend might be the chosen ones. But to prove everyone wrong, and be allowed back to Earth, they must save the world.

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  90. Name: Catherine Drake
    Email: catherinedrake11(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: The After List
    Genre: YA

    Pitch: To cope with her brother’s death, Grace takes on his life’s unfinished to-do list, unearthing a family secret he took with him to his grave.

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  91. Name: Catherine Drake
    Email: catherinedrake11(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: The After List
    Genre: YA

    Pitch: To cope with her brother’s death, Grace takes on his life’s unfinished to-do list, unearthing a family secret he took with him to his grave.

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  92. Name: Elisabeth Aikins
    Email: elisabethaikins(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title: For Her Love of the Game
    Genre: YA Contemporary

    Pitch: A softball pitcher uses secrets to mend her broken arm, a game of truth or dare to hide her doubts and baseball to heal her heart.

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  93. Name: Jess R. Sheaffer
    Email: jessrsheaffer@gmail.com
    Title: Firsts
    Genre: Contemporary YA

    Pitch: Coping with teen vicissitudes, Jerrica finds solace in her new stepbrother & confuses lust for love, leading to a controlling relationship.

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  94. Name:Debra Corbin
    Email:powerpuff_debbie@yahoo.com
    Title:Relationships Only Lead To Pain
    Genre:Romance/Heartbreak
    Pitch:Tina was in love with the most popular kid in school,Chase,but she was dating a glee club loser named James.What will she do,follow her heart or keep tearing her heart in pieces.

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  95. Name: Erin Butler
    Email: erinmel00(at)gmail(dot)com
    Title:The Witch's Curse
    Genre: YA
    Pitch: A neglected teen runs away to seek memories of her long dead father and what she uncovers entangles her into a centuries old witch's curse.

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  97. Name: Laurie A. Green
    Title: The Outer Planets
    Genre: SF Romance

    When a hunted journalist seeks refuge aboard a research vessel, she encounters the one man who could blow her cover but salvage her heart.

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  99. Name: Sharon Johnston
    Email: smjohnston@live.com.au
    Title: Mishca
    Genre: YA Speculative Fiction

    Pitch: Mishca thought her birth parents would be a fairytale, but her journey is plagued by nightmares as someone has a different destiny in mind for her.

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  100. Lea McFalls Zeqiri
    UNCLASSIFIED
    YA Dystopian

    16 Ezra should be assimilating, but her period proves biochip, a goner. Raped, pregnant, & marked for destruction, she fights 1Globe alone.

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  101. Name: A. J. Spindle
    Email: ajspindle(at)yahoo(dot)com
    Title: Bennett Nelson and the Maker of the Stones
    Genre: MG Fantasy

    Pitch: When the one man keeping the island safe goes missing, 12 year old bennett Nelson sets out to find him.

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  102. Name: Sandra Cormier
    Email: sfcormier(at)rogers(dot)com
    Title: A DIFFERENT WINTER
    Genre: Literary YA
    Pitch: When Rebecca's busy dad dumps the family in Mallorca in 1974, she deals with an alcoholic mom, a futile crush & also has to learn Spanish.

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  103. Name: Marlene Moss
    Title: Gate Series: Stone of Orenda
    Genre: YA Fantasy

    Pitch:
    Grieving teen follows father to Tirasvara and is immersed in her newfound duty to protect that world from one who would destroy the gateway.

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  104. Name: Jenn Nguyen
    Email: phanhnguyen1 at yahoo.com
    Title: JUST A CON
    Genre: YA contemporary romance


    One Sentence Pitch: 16-year-old con artist in training Megan Benson scores a place in the Keller mansion only to realize too late that she genuinely likes them.

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  105. Name: J. Perry Kelly
    Title: Quantum Fires: The Sibyl Reborn
    Genre: Soft Science Fiction
    Pitch: "Erin Brockovich" meets the "X-Files" when an environmentalist finds the key to our eco-doom allows our parent race to take over our bodies.

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  106. Name: Laurie Muench
    Email: lamuench@gmail.com
    Title: Call Us Legion
    Genre: YA paranormal thriller

    Possessed by spirits and haunted by madness, Bram descends a tortured path where deception and murder unite in a savage struggle for power

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  107. Name: Holly VanDyne
    Title: The Talented Hand of Sophia
    Genre: YA Paranormal Mystery

    When Sophia writes Heaven & Earth align in a freaky magical way. Can she keep her secret and her life when her diseased fingers won’t work?

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  108. Name: Chase Baldwin
    Title: THE DARK HOUR OF AUTUMN
    Genre: YA

    On Halloween night, an evil enchantment transports a group of trick-or-treaters to a haunted parallel world. Dylan and Parker must survive in this world of ghosts and monsters to rescue their friends, who have been kidnapped by an evil witch.

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