tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post1307408959003324181..comments2024-03-28T11:13:36.211+01:00Comments on We Do Write: Three-Two-One Pitch Contest Official Entry PostDorothy Dreyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07359417869474783409noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-48514612750458116422012-08-22T05:21:00.738+02:002012-08-22T05:21:00.738+02:00Julián Seco
todoquizas at/ gmail.com
28.000
Graph...Julián Seco <br />todoquizas at/ gmail.com<br />28.000<br />Graphic Novel wihout images<br /><br />Two friends think they are Superheroes and travel around stealing socks.<br /><br />All best.Juliánnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-80022800921160935892012-08-22T05:12:00.026+02:002012-08-22T05:12:00.026+02:00Lauren McKellar
laurenmckellar@gmail.com
LOSING IT...Lauren McKellar<br />laurenmckellar@gmail.com<br />LOSING IT<br />NA Contemporary <br />42,500 words<br /><br />When 17 year-old Amy is abandoned by her rock star father and sent to live in rural New South Wales she must learn to fit in, and fast. Drinking, partying, and losing her everything to the wrong guy sees Amy quickly spin from depression to self-destruct mode as her dangerous habits spiral out of control. <br /><br />Wallowing in a haze of booze and repressed grief from her mother’s death, Amy must pick up the pieces of her life and choose between respect and rebellion; before she self-destructs.Lauren McKellarhttp://www.laurenswrittenword.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-88813999515338315362012-08-22T05:11:57.670+02:002012-08-22T05:11:57.670+02:00Lauren McKellar
laurenmckellar@gmail.com
LOSING IT...Lauren McKellar<br />laurenmckellar@gmail.com<br />LOSING IT<br />NA Contemporary <br />42,500 words<br /><br />When 17 year-old Amy is abandoned by her rock star father and sent to live in rural New South Wales she must learn to fit in, and fast. Drinking, partying, and losing her everything to the wrong guy sees Amy quickly spin from depression to self-destruct mode as her dangerous habits spiral out of control. <br /><br />Wallowing in a haze of booze and repressed grief from her mother’s death, Amy must pick up the pieces of her life and choose between respect and rebellion; before she self-destructs.Lauren McKellarhttp://www.laurenswrittenword.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-38004811552959302212012-08-22T05:11:56.878+02:002012-08-22T05:11:56.878+02:00Lauren McKellar
laurenmckellar@gmail.com
LOSING IT...Lauren McKellar<br />laurenmckellar@gmail.com<br />LOSING IT<br />NA Contemporary <br />42,500 words<br /><br />When 17 year-old Amy is abandoned by her rock star father and sent to live in rural New South Wales she must learn to fit in, and fast. Drinking, partying, and losing her everything to the wrong guy sees Amy quickly spin from depression to self-destruct mode as her dangerous habits spiral out of control. <br /><br />Wallowing in a haze of booze and repressed grief from her mother’s death, Amy must pick up the pieces of her life and choose between respect and rebellion; before she self-destructs.Lauren McKellarhttp://www.laurenswrittenword.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-37834280537313242842012-08-22T05:11:54.865+02:002012-08-22T05:11:54.865+02:00Lauren McKellar
laurenmckellar@gmail.com
LOSING IT...Lauren McKellar<br />laurenmckellar@gmail.com<br />LOSING IT<br />NA Contemporary <br />42,500 words<br /><br />When 17 year-old Amy is abandoned by her rock star father and sent to live in rural New South Wales she must learn to fit in, and fast. Drinking, partying, and losing her everything to the wrong guy sees Amy quickly spin from depression to self-destruct mode as her dangerous habits spiral out of control. <br /><br />Wallowing in a haze of booze and repressed grief from her mother’s death, Amy must pick up the pieces of her life and choose between respect and rebellion; before she self-destructs.Lauren McKellarhttp://www.laurenswrittenword.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-128469626747818622012-08-22T05:01:15.150+02:002012-08-22T05:01:15.150+02:00Kate Brauning katebrauning(at)gmail.com
THE OTHER ...Kate Brauning katebrauning(at)gmail.com<br />THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE<br />Mythology-based adult/NA fantasy. 101,000 words<br /><br />Non-magical 19 year old Ava and antisocial historian Douglas must stop the rebelling god of war and his witches from invading Earth. But he’s come back from the dead, so he can’t be killed again. If they don’t figure out how to stop him, he’ll destroy their world & the family they’ve found with the Olympians.<br />Kate Brauninghttp://katebrauning.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-82779602355533275832012-08-22T04:11:49.348+02:002012-08-22T04:11:49.348+02:00Caitlin Whitaker
saycaity (at) aol (dot) com
BURN
...Caitlin Whitaker<br />saycaity (at) aol (dot) com<br />BURN<br />New Adult (suspense)<br />58k <br /><br />Maggie inherited a lot from her grandma--her brown eyes, her sense of humor, and her cause of death. Unaware she's starting the countdown to a reenactment of her grandma's death by fire, Maggie spends the summer with her hot-as-hell boyfriend and accidentally sets off an unstable stalker.<br /><br />It's only a matter of time before Maggie Parrish is going to burn.Caitlin Whitakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04305557668837593186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-3960259164885147172012-08-22T02:42:38.578+02:002012-08-22T02:42:38.578+02:00Name: Mary Vettel
Email: MVettel2 (at) aol (dot)c...Name: Mary Vettel<br />Email: MVettel2 (at) aol (dot)com<br />Title: GATSBY DELANEY – 7TH GRADE IMPRESARIO<br />Genre: Contemporary MG <br />Word Count: 38,000<br /><br />Pitch: When a growth spurt leaves twelve-year-old Gatsby Delaney looking like a scarecrow and there’s no money for new clothes, he decides to sell F. Scott Fitzgerald's Muse for sale on eBay. Now Gatsby fears he’s losing his best friend, Mugsy, when she gets a training bra and ‘becomes a woman’. Just when he celebrates the eBay sale, he learns the winning bidder’s an author anxious to meet the seller and he’s coming to Gatsby’s parents’ indie bookshop for a book signing. <br />Mary Vettelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16095755720390348707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-79879387771111991722012-08-22T01:51:37.547+02:002012-08-22T01:51:37.547+02:00Author: Taryn Hall-Smith
Email: taryn@bladerecruit...Author: Taryn Hall-Smith<br />Email: taryn@bladerecruitment.com<br />Novel title: Believe<br />Genre: Contemporary Middle Grade<br />Words: 33,200<br /><br />Think Karate Kid meets Wimpy Kid.<br /><br />Leigh sees herself as a failure and declares war on her perfect twin. Will she learn there's more to success than beating her sister?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-29964938466291520812012-08-22T01:34:37.676+02:002012-08-22T01:34:37.676+02:00Name: Stephanie Scott
Email: stephsco at gmail
Tit...Name: Stephanie Scott<br />Email: stephsco at gmail<br />Title: THE ASTRONAUT'S DAUGHTER<br />Genre: YA Historical (1960s)<br />Word count: 74k<br />Pitch:<br />When sixteen-year-old Evelyn’s father accepts a position with NASA to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade, she pushes aside shyness to embrace her newfound popularity. Then Evelyn meets David, a rising student civil rights leader who inspires her to speak out against segregation, despite the damage to her reputation. If she keeps silent, she protects her family name, but if she pursues the cause, will she risk her father’s chance to set foot on the moon?Stephscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06328839483008086049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-74691031800353525602012-08-22T01:09:03.597+02:002012-08-22T01:09:03.597+02:00Name: Gayleen Rabakukk
email: gayleen.rabakukk@gma...Name: Gayleen Rabakukk<br />email: gayleen.rabakukk@gmail.com<br />Title: PHOEBE FOGG AND THE LOST LIBRARY<br />Genre: MG steampunk adventure<br />30K words<br />pitch: Phoebe Fogg is tired of her dad leaving her behind, so she stows away on his airship. She knows she can help him find the Lost Library of Alexandria. Unfortunately, they aren't the only ones looking for it.<br />Gayleen Rabakukkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10891876471248055723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-77876296678524884402012-08-22T00:03:23.432+02:002012-08-22T00:03:23.432+02:00Name: Lindsey Duga
email: lscribe14@gmail.com
Tit...Name: Lindsey Duga <br />email: lscribe14@gmail.com<br />Title: Scribe of the Stars<br />Genre: Upper Level Middle Grade Fantasy<br />79,000 words<br /><br />Pitch: Twelve-year-old Riley Jenkins believes that Constellations exist only in the sky until one viciously attacks her on Earth.The reason behind the attack lies with her true identity—a powerful member of an ancient race with untold celestial power. To stop the attacks, return to her normal life, and maybe save the world, she must find the exiled 13th Zodiac, Ophiuchus<br /><br />Lindsey Dugahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04760692433172826865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-61808052641943939622012-08-21T23:08:39.408+02:002012-08-21T23:08:39.408+02:00Author: Richard Pearson
Email: RichardTPearson@gma...Author: Richard Pearson<br />Email: RichardTPearson@gmail.com<br />Title: The Role <br />Genre: New Adult <br />Wordcount: 93,000 words<br /><br />Pitch: <br /><br />Mason Burroughs has finally landed the role of a lifetime in a Broadway show, but getting cast turns out to be the easy part. To make it to opening night, he must prove to his director and co-star that he will do whatever it takes. But when his offstage life begins to crumble, Mason must decide how far he’ll go to realize his dream. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08422966137222289926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-31826161924386513382012-08-21T23:02:25.372+02:002012-08-21T23:02:25.372+02:00Name: Alice M.
Email: notveryalice@gmail.com
Title...Name: Alice M.<br />Email: notveryalice@gmail.com<br />Title: "Maybe & the Wolf"<br />Genre: New Adult Dark Fantasy (themes of mental illness and drug abuse)<br />Word Count: 110,000<br /><br />Once upon a time, an ugly young drug addict named Maybe looked up from the floor of her District Line train and saw, sitting across from her, a wolf in a pinstripe suit and shining Oxfords.<br /><br />Would she like to go to a party, he wanted to know -- well, nothing to be done of course except assume she's walked blithely into a fairy tale.<br /><br />But fairy tales are written in dark places, and the world she finds is stricken with grief, war, and poverty; worse, there is something watching -- something that, when it is ready, will snatch her away in the night.Alice M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08318287930180672070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-35763764222792990992012-08-21T23:00:17.581+02:002012-08-21T23:00:17.581+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alice M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08318287930180672070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-11573968476654500582012-08-21T22:53:20.921+02:002012-08-21T22:53:20.921+02:00Name: Tristina Wright
Email: tristina@tristinawrig...Name: Tristina Wright<br />Email: tristina@tristinawright.com<br />Title: CHILDREN OF THE GODS<br />Genre: YA Mythpunk (Steampunk/Mythology mash-up) <br />Word Count: 75,000<br /><br />"I'm a Titan. She's an Olympian. If the Moirai find out I love her, they'll execute us."Tristinahttp://tristinawright.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-21146005829603327752012-08-21T22:41:25.322+02:002012-08-21T22:41:25.322+02:00Name: Nazarea Andrews
Email: nazareanandrews@gmail...Name: Nazarea Andrews<br />Email: nazareanandrews@gmail.com<br />Title: Edge of the Falls<br />Genre: YA Dystopian Fairytale retelling. <br />Word Count: 80,000<br /><br />Pitch: For Sabah living on the outskirts of a shielded city is all she's ever known. There's nothing better for the outcasts of the Commission, but when she's saved by a genetically engineered human, she'll find there is more in the wild Outside than just danger and death. If she's willing to give up all she's ever known, for a chance of living life on her own terms. Nazarea Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644521286572844909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-26500431951307130462012-08-21T22:33:45.589+02:002012-08-21T22:33:45.589+02:00Name: Charlie Holmberg
Email: CNHolmberg@gmail.co...Name: Charlie Holmberg <br />Email: CNHolmberg@gmail.com<br />Title: Followed by Frost<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Word count: 73,000<br /><br />When 17-year-old Smitha scorned Mordan’s affections, he cursed her to be as cold as her heart. Followed by an eternal winter and cast from her village, Smitha’s only aid comes from Death himself: an offer to escape into the world beyond. But can a newfound love in a mortal man she cannot touch be enough to warm her heart, or will Death forever still it?<br />Charlie N. Holmberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13546802577363686054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-62764341995137542042012-08-21T22:07:15.648+02:002012-08-21T22:07:15.648+02:00•Megan Orsini megan.orsini@gmail.com
•Fall of a S...•Megan Orsini megan.orsini@gmail.com<br /><br />•Fall of a Sparrow<br /><br />•YA contemporary<br /><br />•60,000<br /><br />•Set within the confines of a traveling freak show, in this modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic tragedy Hamlet, Ben McPherson, son of the proprietor of McPherson's Traveling Carnival of Wonders, must avenge his father's untimely death. Narrated by Ben's best friend Liam, Fall of a Sparrow explores the monsters and madness that hide in the shadows and the secrets that can eventually become our downfalls.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13918452561986317500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-66225443217881853382012-08-21T21:46:28.249+02:002012-08-21T21:46:28.249+02:00Author: Lara Cummings
email: lursin@yahoo.com
Titl...Author: Lara Cummings<br />email: lursin@yahoo.com<br />Title: DARCY HALL<br />Genre: MG contemporary<br />WC: 38,000 words<br /><br />Eleven year old Lauren Tatterman is stuck living with her much older, and bossier, brother in a college campus dorm for the summer. Just as she’s making her plan to lay low until her Aunt’s return from England, she discovers a secret that might tear her family apart. <br /><br />Will there be enough time to unravel the mystery or will she have to surrender and leave everyone and everything she knows?Larahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10569956870292431661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-66242565647113428502012-08-21T21:45:17.433+02:002012-08-21T21:45:17.433+02:00Name: Nikki Urang
Title: BROKEN
Genre: YA Dark Con...Name: Nikki Urang<br />Title: BROKEN<br />Genre: YA Dark Contemporary<br />Word Count: 59,000<br /><br />After an accident kills her older sister and dad, sixteen year old Dylan uses drugs to drown her guilty feelings and shut out the world. When she falls for Matt, she must decide if she’s strong enough to quit using heroin and take a chance on life. Because if she’s not, the drugs will destroy her, and she’ll end up just like the family she loved--dead.Nikki Uranghttp://nikkiurang.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-25143400696323079022012-08-21T21:37:46.235+02:002012-08-21T21:37:46.235+02:00Sharon K. Mayhew
sharonkmayhew at gmail dot com
MG...Sharon K. Mayhew<br />sharonkmayhew at gmail dot com<br />MG HF<br />31,470<br /><br />Joyce and Gina, aged 11 and 6, survived the horrors of the German blitz on London, only to find out that doing their part for the war effort involved being evacuated to live with complete strangers in the countryside. Terrified that they would be separated, they clung to each other as they were paraded down the streets of Leek. Thankfully, a host family chooses both of them and their adventure in the countryside begin.Sharon K. Mayhewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07799235347319851345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-26028793462374831182012-08-21T21:04:52.646+02:002012-08-21T21:04:52.646+02:00Nicole Feldringer
feldringer@gmail.com
WONDERMAKER...Nicole Feldringer<br />feldringer@gmail.com<br />WONDERMAKER'S DAUGHTER<br />YA science fiction <br />78,000 words<br /><br />Kris Wolfe spends every waking minute thinking about rugby, even when she's stuck prepping samples in her father's bioengineering lab. But strange reports of superhuman feats on the rugby pitch are trickling out of New Seattle. When her father disappears days after the news breaks, Kris must enhance herself with the experimental genetic engineering tech and rescue her father, before every super-athlete in Seattle, including herself, is conscripted into the militarized city border police.Nicole F.http://nicolefeldringer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-60039129576997531502012-08-21T21:01:55.149+02:002012-08-21T21:01:55.149+02:00Melanie Conklin
melanie.conklin@mac.com
Title: TH...Melanie Conklin<br />melanie.conklin@mac.com<br /><br />Title: THE MAGICIAN'S NOTEBOOK<br />Genre: MG Adventure<br />WC: 35,000<br />Pitch:<br /><br />The small, worn notebook Perry receives from a circus magician seems unimpressive until he discovers that whatever he writes will come true, one wish per page, for ten wishes in all. <br /><br />Which is incredible, of course, until his awful little brother mucks everything up with a pirating wish that sets real, rotten pirates loose on their town—not to mention the giant, reddish-orange bird that arrives to fulfill his wish to fly somewhere!<br /><br />As the brothers scramble to wish away the pirates and conceal their half-ton pet bird in the garage, Perry questions why the wishes keep going wrong, and why the magician gave him the notebook in the first place if it only leads to trouble.<br />Melanie Conklinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593672562888738055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6603374637711904147.post-54639929221777622572012-08-21T20:44:48.021+02:002012-08-21T20:44:48.021+02:00Damn your talent!Damn your talent!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com