Monday, October 15, 2012

Get Your #PitchOn Submission Window 2



THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED

This is the final submission window for GET YOUR PITCH ON with Commissioning and Managing Editor of Hardie Grant Egmont, Marisa Pintado.

Marisa is looking for YA in any genre and is accepting submissions from any where in the world. It's your chance to skip the slush pile and put your pitch right under the nose of a fantastic editor. There's even better news - there is no limit on how many requests Marisa will make from the contest. Marisa will contact writers directly if she wants to see more and we will aim to have a summary post as well once Marisa has been through all the entries.

Only 100 entries will be taken via comments.  Any after the 100 entries will be deleted.

Here's the rules:
  • Your manuscript must be complete, polished and ready to query - this means no first drafts or almost finished manuscripts.
  • It must be YA.
  • Your entry detail needs to include a 50 - 70 word pitch.
  • You can enter more than once if you have more than one complete, polished, ready to query manuscript.
Your contest details should be formatted like this:

Name: Sharon Johnston
Email: smjohnston [ @ ] live.com.au
Country of residence: Australia
Title: SLEEPER
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Word-count: 58,000
Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Mishca Richardson is a sleeper soldier with a weak heart. She has no idea that a life saving heart transplant has accidentally triggered her programming. In the search for answers, she discovers the truth and that her creator, Wirth, has classified her remaining "sisters" from her experiment group as defective, scheduling them for termination. Mishca sets out to save them before they're eliminated.

I'm so excited to bring this competition. So now it's time for you to Get Your Pitch On!


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65 comments:

  1. Name: Rhiann Wynn-Nolet
    Email: rhiannwn(at)yahoo(dot)com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: TENDRIL
    Genre: Dark Contemporary Fairy Tale retelling (YA)
    Word Count: 68,000
    Opal MacBride’s inheritance includes magical hair, a lecherous uncle, and a curse that says she’ll never find true love. The curse suffers a mortal blow when two brothers, one living and one dead, fall in love with her. But happy endings don’t just happen. First Opal must foil her uncle’s depraved abduction plot, and then choose between the boys she loves—a choice of life, or eternal life

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  2. Name: Seth Z. Herman
    Email: sethzherman [ @ ] gmail.com
    Country of residence: Israel
    Title: THE GUARDIAN LINEAGE
    Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
    Word-count: 91,000
    Pitch:

    TO DO LIST:
    Protect Gargoyles during the daytime? Check.
    Escape from ex-girlfriend trying to kill you? Check.
    Figure out if new crush is enemy spy? Um... still pending.

    Mike Prior is a Guardian, a protector of the Gargoyle clans. He loves being able to throw fire, manipulate energy, and fight alongside steriod-abusing bat-wrestlers.

    It's just the other perks of the job that have him worried.

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  3. Name: Melissa Gorzelanczyk
    Email: melissa [ @ ] peaceandprojects.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: THE CHANNELS
    Genre: YA Paranormal
    Word-count: 62,000

    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Hannah Clare can hear people’s thoughts, but a family history of mental illness creates a fine line between what is delusion and what is paranormal. Only Colin’s touch can make the voices melt away, but Hannah’s already heard the one secret she can’t keep: Colin’s cousin is stalking his next prey.

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  4. Name: Ranee` S. Clark
    Email: raneesclark (at) yahoo (dot) com
    Country of residence: United States
    Title: BLOOM
    Genre: YA Contemporary Fantasy
    Word-count: 85,000
    Pitch: The government of the Enchanter Kingdom is on the verge of collapse, and the man everyone thinks will save it, isn't. It's up to Finna, a 17-year-old girl who can't get through the day without messing up her magical powers. And her best chance at success is to trust a boy she hates.
    Otherwise the whole kingdom is screwed.

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  5. Name: Kaitlin Adams
    Email: jkaitlinadams (at) gmail (dot) com
    Country of residency: USA
    Title: FORCED TO FLY
    Genre: YA Fantasy
    Word Count: 70,000

    Pitch:

    Sixteen-year-old Lori Gibbs can fly, a rare gift, so her power-hungry parents register her in Easten's talent show. If she impresses the judges, her parents earn the opportunity to serve on Easten's ruling Council. If she fails, she'll hang.

    The Council hanged Lori's best friend, and she hasn't forgotten it. Once she impresses, she plans to kill them all, even if that includes her parents.

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  6. Name: Carla Cullen
    Email: carlalunacullen(at)gmail(dot)com
    Country of residency: USA
    Title: PIPER GIRL
    Genre: YA Science Fiction/Urban Fantasy
    Word Count: 75,000

    Pitch: In a modern twist on The Pied Piper, seventeen-year-old Marisa possesses the magical ability to charm animals with her silver flute. When crazed rats from a research lab infest her rundown neighborhood, she uses her music to help capture the rodents. But after a powerful scientist learns Marisa's powers also affect humans, she stands in danger of becoming his next lab rat.

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  7. Name: Shari Arnold
    Email: shariarnoldwrites@gmail.com
    Country of residency: USA
    Title: KATE TRIUMPH
    Genre: YA Paranormal/Sci-Fi
    Word Count: 81,000

    Pitch: Normal is so overrated. At least that's what seventeen-year-old Kate Triumph tells herself everyday. But the truth is she lives in constant fear that someone will discover how not normal she really is. With her startling speed and her unusual ability to heal, Kate believes she's something of a freak.
    But when she discovers someone is trying to kill her, life for Kate gets a bit more complicated. And a lot less normal.

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  8. Name: Margay Leah Justice
    Email: Margay1122 [ @ ] gmail.com.
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: The Goode Girl
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 55,227
    Pitch: Irene Goode is a plain girl in a beautiful person's world, navigating the pitfalls of the impressive teen years with a wit and charm that can often be disarming. Complicating matters is her obsession with Sam Cassidy, the boy next door, who's everything she's not: Popular, attractive, and part of the in crowd. He's not looking for a relationship with Irene, but she won't take no for an answer.

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  9. Name: David Purse
    Email: pursedavid(at)gmail.com
    Country of residence: Scotland
    Title: Dead Awake
    Genre: Paranormal Mystery (YA)
    Word-count: 57,000
    Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Lenna Gallows can speak to the dead. Or so she’s told by Alicia, a dead girl who decides to wake up on a slab in her family’s funeral parlour. Alicia insists that she was murdered, and demands that Lenna find her killer before her funeral. Lenna doesn’t have to search very far. He’s looking for his next victim and his eyes are set on her. Think Veronica Mars meets The Sixth Sense.

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  10. Name: David Purse
    Email: pursedavid(at)gmail.com
    Country of residence: Scotland
    Title: The Tainted Ones
    Genre: Urban Fantasy (YA)
    Word-count: 67,000
    Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Connor expected to see a lot of things at his first college party. A demon wasn’t one of them. After being saved from a vicious attack by teenage demon hunters, he learns that he now carries the mark of a demon, which basically puts him on special at the demon cafe. Connor has seven days to kill the demon that marked him or he will transform into one himself. And he thought high school was hell.

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  11. Name: John Back
    Email: mrjohnaback [@] gmail.com
    Country of residence: Australia (Brisbane)
    Title: One Hundred Moments of Beautiful Doubt
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 51,000
    Pitch: On Pluto Greene's fourteenth birthday, colour disappears from his life: not from the world itself, only from the skins of other people. His father has run away and his mother is unable to cope, leaving only Pluto’s two sisters – also colourless – for support. These so-called Blanks now surround him. A year and a half later, a girl with violet eyes becomes the subject of his attraction, and surely enough he becomes obsessed with the possibilities of change. If only he can find the courage to say hello.

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  13. Name: Amber Mauldin
    Email: amberkmauldin(@)gmail.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: PERFECTLY BROKEN
    Genre: YA memoir
    Word-count: 68,000


    Pitch: At fifteen I was kidnapped and raped. When he set me free I went straight to the police. Three days later he was captured. While preparing for court I learned I was his third victim, but my case was the only solid one.


    A summer foreign romance came at the worst time. With court a month away, I had to choose between living abroad or returning to put a monster away.

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  14. Name: Lauren Fobbs
    Email: Lfobbs226[@]gmail.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: One of Darker Blood
    Genre: YA Dark Fantasy
    Word-count: 62,000

    Pitch: Cursed with the ability to see and touch spirits, sixteen-year-old Fay has been connected to a prophesy telling of one who will annihilate her entire civilization. She has no desire to be known as a killer and will do whatever it takes to fight against her destiny. Unfortunately, she'll have to overcome the racism and hatred from her community, a murder-bent ex crush, and her own violent tendencies first.

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  15. Name: Melanie Stanford
    Email: mmstanford(at)hotmail(dot)com
    Country of residence: Canada
    Title: DAZE AND KNIGHTS
    Genre: YA time-travel Romance
    Word-count: 93,000
    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old daydreamer Jessica Jacobs winds up in Crazy Medieval Land with no idea how she got there or how to get home. While working for a medieval diva and trying to fend off Lord Pervy, she falls for Lord Alric, aka: knight-in-sexylicious-armor. Jessica must choose: find a way back to her family or stay in a strange world for the kind of love found only in fairy tales.

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  17. Name: Brianna Shrum
    Email: brianna(dot)shrum(@)yahoo(dot)com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: CORRUPTED
    Genre: YA Cyberpunk
    Word Count: 77,000

    Pitch: Cyber Hacker Rynn 713 lives in a world rigidly controlled by technology. When her friend and the disabled daughter she’s been hiding are brutally killed because of Rynn’s mistake, it radically alters her world. And when she and the boy she illegally loves discover they will be executed too, they must flee a nation that tracks their every word and move, and fight with the only weapon Hackers have: Tech.

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  18. Name: Amber Mauldin
    Email: amberkmauldin(@)gmail.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: UNYIELDING
    Genre: YA dark fantasy
    Word-count: 70,000

    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Gabe’s best friend is missing and a couple of men tried to kill him. Thankfully a petite ninja woman came to his rescue. When she offered to protect Gabe, and help him find his friend, it seemed like a no-brainer. He had no idea he’d end up working with a group of powerful delinquents who seem more like enemies than friends.



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  19. Name: Donea Weaver
    Email: donealw[ @ ]aol.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: THE GLASS PRINCE
    Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
    Word-count: 72,000
    Pitch: When 17-year-old Clara finds out her grandma isn’t dead, it’s not just her mother’s lies she has to deal with. She’s now cursed to the same fate that killed her father unless she can break a 500-year-old curse. Problem is – the prince who’s supposed to help her doesn’t want to, Grandma’s keeping dangerous secrets, and her new best friend just might be a son of a witch plotting her demise.

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  20. Name: Jane Ellen Freeman
    Email: janefreemanbooks@gmail.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: Cross Over
    Genre: YA speculative fiction
    Word-count: 66,590
    Pitch:With the death of old Nonnah, Tara believes she is the last being on earth. Tara is young, beautiful, and unknowingly gifted with both Sight and an ability to shift from her dying world into another dimension. As she crouches in fear, she suddenly finds herself before a crystal clear lake. A boy, Nate, stands before her. Nate's family takes her in, but will her mind allow her to stay?

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  23. Name: Alexandra Singer
    Email: alexandra.singerpubs(@)gmail.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: MINOTAUR
    Genre: Young Adult, Science-Fiction, mythological retelling
    Word-count: 70,000

    Pitch: Banished to the Labyrinth for a crime she's convinced she didn't commit, Ikki's one hope for escape is maze's caretaker: a young man known as the Minotaur.

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  24. Name: Debra Elliott
    Email: anngrayelliott1960@gmail.com
    Country of residence: US
    Title: THE GUARDIAN
    Genre: YA Fantasy Fiction
    Word-count: 50,000
    Pitch: Fifteen year old Dorothy fantasizes about time travel and warrior princesses. When her dreams become reality, She must decide if she wants to be plain, ordinary Dorothy and find her way back to her world or Alice, the warrior princess who has to defend the Kingdom of Pandora against an evil snail colony and retrieve an ancient box which holds the secret of the Guardian's power.

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  25. Name: Will Klein
    email: oslowe@yahoo.com
    Country of residence: US
    Title: JERSEY DEVILS
    Genre: contemporary fantasy
    Word-count: 70,000
    Pitch: When Nick Syn meets the devil on his fifteenth birthday, he expects things will get interesting. He doesn't know he could become the bad guy. Thrust sideways into a mystical world he'd only hoped existed, whispered folklore and superstition come to life and Nick discovers the world is darker than he had any reason to think.

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  26. Name: Laurie Treacy
    Email: laurieltreacy [ @ ] gmail.com
    Country of residence: US
    Title: STRAYS
    Genre: Futuristic YA
    Word-count: 78,000
    Pitch: What does a loner do when the crowd won’t leave her alone. Anya Holmes, 16, has never fit in until she’s classified a “stray”—a genetically altered human possessing otherworldly DNA. Caught by a scientist bent on testing her, while two groups with members claiming to be like her fight to convince her to join them, Anya has to figure out what she is before choosing alliances. And remain alive.

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  27. Name: Joyce Scarbrough
    Email: joycescarbrough at mediacombb dot net
    Country of residency: USA
    Title: PENANCE
    Genre: YA Contemporary/Paranormal
    Word Count: 77,000

    PITCH: After she’s murdered, 17-year-old Jada must stay among the living until she finds and stops the Internet stalker who killed her. When the Afterlife Admissions Office assigns the now “transdead” Jada to a foster home, she assumes the identity of a homeless teen and is expected to fit in as she hunts down her killer. But blending in isn’t so easy when you’re a hot zombie chick channeling Chuck Norris.

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  29. Name: Andrea Stanet
    Email: Andrea.Stanet@gmail.com
    Country of Residence: United States
    Title: Keepers of Glamour and Flame
    Genre: YA Contemporary Fantasy
    Word Count: 56,000

    Pitch: A sensory integration disability transforms into a fiery power that leads Talair Flint on a journey to the Emerald Isle where she learns that love, confidence and strength can defeat the deadliest of tormentors.
    Not all faeries are cute and cuddly. Some want to kill you.

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  30. Name: Natasha Hawkins
    Email: natasharhawkins [at] yahoo [dot] com
    Country: USA
    Title: IGNITE
    Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
    Word Count: 65,000

    Pitch: Branded with PTSD, seventeen-year-old Alison is desperate to find her grandma’s killers and prove she’s not crazy. With the help of a fire-wielding Watcher from a top-secret protection agency, Ali is led to a discharged agent determined to eliminate supernatural abilities. When he learns Ali possesses a new power, she becomes next on his to-cure list.

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  31. Name: Tlotlo Tsamaase
    Email: rosewentberg [@] ymail.com
    Country of Residence: Botswana
    Title: EDEN FALLS
    Genre: YA Fantasy
    Word-count: 90,000

    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Emma Blekbyrd has twenty-two days to live. Every winter, winged men in the skies hunt humans. Emma knows this because she has a scar from an attack that’s slowly killing her. She realizes that people in her town are being kidnapped to be body donors for a possession scheme, and the winged men intend to have her body for someone else . . . without her in it.

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  32. Name: Kate Larkindale
    Email: katelarkindale (at) gmail (dot) com
    Country of residence: New Zealand
    Title: The Boyfriend Plague
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 84 000

    Shaken by her sister’s cancer, her mother’s desperation and abandoned by her friends, Livvie finds comfort and an attraction she’s never felt before with Bianca, but persecution and bullying force Livvie to decide how far she’s willing to go for the people she loves.

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  33. Name: Shannon Wixom
    Email: swixom(at)gmail(dot)com
    Country: USA
    Title: Aussie Outsider
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    WC: 62,000
    Pitch:
    Once upon a time Rory Turner had a typical American family, and then poof! It was gone. Now she's an Aussie outsider, living on a tiny island with the dad she never knew until now. As she tries to settle into her new life, someone keeps sabotaging her efforts. Rory is determined to find out who and why, but there's more to the story than she ever could have imagined.

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  34. Name: Meagan Rivers
    Email: meagan (at) happyowlbooks (dot) com
    Country of residence: United States
    Title: GRAND SCHEME
    Genre: Contemporary
    Word-count: 75,000
    Pitch: Sixteen-year-olds Bianca and Yessica make a pact to commit suicide at the Grand Canyon. Only Yessica follows through, and the lingering guilt haunts Bianca daily. When Yessica's ex finds a suicide note, his questions circle the truth. He threatens to reveal Bianca's secret, and she'll have to decide if it's worth it to keep her pain hidden anymore, or if she should finally accept help.

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  35. Name: Shannon Wixom
    Email: swixom(at)gmail(dot)com
    Country: USA
    Title: Frankendad
    Genre: YA Contemporary w/ sci-fi element
    WC: 76,000
    Pitch:
    The most eye-rolling, sigh-inducing summer of Trinity Holbrook’s life quickly morphs into a Gothic novel when she’s stuck babysitting her brothers on a remote South Pacific island. Eerie screams, disappearing dogs, dying sharks and mutilated eels all point to some kind of monster on the loose. As Trinity unravels the island’s secrets, one thing becomes clear: her dad is Frankenstein. But will this discovery make her the next victim?

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  36. Name: Candice Montgomery
    Email: candicemontgomery2 [ @ ] gmail.com
    Country of residence: America
    Title: BREAK
    Genre: YA Epic Fantasy
    Word-count: 96,000

    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Karsten Summers discovers her ability to Break into and manipulate the dreams of others in any way she chooses, in addition to learning her father’s kept this a secret from her all her life. While simultaneously managing the normal aspect of her life (social cliques; the dark secret of her high school crush, Noah; the death of her parents; recovering from self-harm habits) Karsten must learn the ins-and-outs of her power and choose how she’ll use it—for the people who are like her, the society of Breakers, or for the Aphotix, a team of nightmare-inducing scum, who promise to show Karsten what real power is like.

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  37. Name: Kate Larkindale
    Email: katelarkindale (at) gmail (dot) com
    Country of residence: New Zealand
    Title: Chasing the Taillights
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 87 000

    If Lucy doesn’t confess her secret about the accident that killed her parents, she might lose her mind. If she does, she may lose the only person left who loves her.

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  38. Name: Leah Goodreau
    Email: goodreauleah [@] yahoo.com
    Country of residence: United States
    Title: ACCIDENTS
    Genre: Urban Fantasy
    Word-count: 73,000

    Pitch: After one disastrous year as a vampire, seventeen-year-old Artemis finds a way to undo what was done to her: never mind the assortment of beasties with a taste for new blood in her way and her tendency to end up on the menu. Being human again will free her from her creepy sire, maybe even stop the nightmares. She doesn't know there are worse things to lose than humanity.

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  39. Name: Lee Ann Ward
    Email: leeann(at)leeannward(dot)com
    Country: USA
    Title: HARD CORE
    Genre: YA Mystery
    Word Count: 67,000
    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Julia Reynolds struggles with her parents’ hand-to-mouth lifestyle. Anywhere has to be better than living above a New Orleans strip club. When Julia discovers the mystery surrounding the Ursuline Convent, its banned third floor and the blessed nails sealing its windows shut, reporting the story could be her way out of poverty. But there’s a catch: others who have explored this mystery have one thing in common…they’re all dead.

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  40. Name: Georgeann Swiger
    Email: georgeannswiger(at)atlanticbb(dot)net
    Country: USA
    Title: BECOMING
    Genre: Paranormal Romance
    Word Count: 80,000
    Pitch: When seventeen-year-old Anya finds out she’s going to become an angel, the rules about right and wrong change. Micah, the angelic soldier ordered to protect Anya, is determined to keep her pure for the transition from human to angel. Unwittingly, Micah becomes Anya’s greatest threat when she begins falling for her protector, a love that’s forbidden in heaven.

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  43. Name: Amelia Priestley
    Email: curiositywaits (at) gmail (dot) com
    Country: USA
    Title: RADIO HEARTS
    Genre: Contemporary YA
    Word Count: 64,000
    Pitch: When eighteen-year old pastry chef Junie Conway meets a mysterious popstar on the run, she concocts a plan to save her late father's restaurant from foreclosure―if she doesn’t fall in love with him first.

    (Whoops, forgot the title the first time I commented! That's embarrassing.)

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  44. Name: Paula L. Jones
    Email: paula [@] yourvervemagazineonline.info
    Country of Residence: USA
    Title: We're Only Human
    Genre: YA Science-Fiction
    Word Count: about 95, 000 words

    At seventeen years old, Lanie Russell understands a lot about life. She understands what it is to grieve the loss of her mother, to live with OCD, and to have a secret crush on her best friend. But, Lanie doesn’t understand the depth of her own potential. Only after her best friend reveals his secret powers, does Lanie realize that her greatest strength is her potential to be vulnerable.

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  45. Kathleen S. Allen
    gaelicfairie(at)gmail.com
    USA
    NA Space Opera
    86,000 words
    Seventeen year old Olwen Pendragon is forced to resign from the office of presidency after her power-hungry sister, Anna exposes Olwen as a Selchie (half-seal/half human) since only humans are allowed to hold office. Exiled to work on a spaceship as a translator and embroiled in a deadly war, Olwen vows to return to the office of presidency and restore peace despite Anna’s continuing attacks against her.

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  46. Name: E. L. Adams
    Email: memzi@live.co.uk
    Country of Residence: UK
    Title: DARKNESS WATCHING
    Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy (YA)
    Word Count: 56,000

    Demons follow 18-year-old Ashlyn wherever she goes. Having withdrawn from the outside world out of fear that she’s going mad, Ash is thrown back into reality when she moves away to university.

    But the small village of Blackstone has its own secrets. Ash finds herself torn between her new life and the lure of the Darkworld. For the demons want something from her, and not everyone is who they seem…

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  47. Kathleen S. Allen
    gaelicfairie(at)gmail (dot)com
    USA
    YA Futuristic Thriller
    62,000 words
    Sixteen-year-old genetically enhanced Vidden, Devonny Willcox is commissioned to join the Vidden Army. One by one the recruits die. Devonny suspects that the Tagen are plotting a way to get rid of those they deem unworthy. She discovers her blood is the catalyst for a deadly virus the Tagen will use to “vaccinate” the citizens in order to eradicate the deadly disease. She must stop them from using the virus.

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    1. Again, no title, jeesh. The title is: THE VIDDEN

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  48. Name: Ellen Rozek
    Email: ellenmrozek@gmail.com
    Country of Residence: USA
    Title: THE RECRUITED
    Genre: YA thriller
    Word Count: 76,000

    Convicted murderer Naomi expects a transfer to an adult prison for her eighteenth birthday. Instead, she gets a job offer. Recruited by the government to help fight domestic terrorists, Naomi learns quickly that trusting anyone outside her organization is an easy way to die. But if that’s the case, why can’t she keep from befriending an outsider—a boy with dangerous connections who could either kill her, or help her?

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  49. Name: Jeremy Hinshaw
    Email: jeremy.j.hinshaw@gmail.com
    Country of Residence: USA
    Title: Andy the Angel and the Battle for Christmas
    Genre: YA Christian Historical Fantasy
    Word Count: 50,000

    The birth of Jesus is quickly approaching. Angels are frantically verifying prophecies of His birth, the Heavenly Host practicing constantly, and warriors training for battle against Satan and his forces. When the positions are posted Andy finds himself jobless. Andy resigns himself to helping his friends. Andy is finally assigned a task, but will he be able to get through the demon infested Bethlehem to fulfill his mission?

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  50. Name: Pam Vickers
    Email: pam-vickers @ comcast.net
    Country: USA
    Title: GLORY
    Genre: YA contemporary
    Word count: 70,000
    Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Glory has already been through hell—losing her mom in a car accident that left her in a coma for three weeks—but her life is about to get worse. Forced to move across the country and into the projects with a half-sister she’s never met, and living with two gang members, the last thing she expects to do is fall in love.

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  51. Name: Julie K. Wise
    Email: juliekandrews@me.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: CAUGHT INSIDE
    Genre: Contemporary YA
    Word-count: 68,000

    Pitch: 17-year-old Kate falls hard for mysterious Marcos just before her reckless friend disappears. As Kate searches for Jillian, Kate learns Marcos’s secret; he is on the run from his Chilean family, the Vega drug cartel. Is the Vega cartel responsible for Jillian’s disappearance? Kate must learn why Marcos’s and Jillian’s paths have crossed before Jillian is lost forever.

    Caught Inside is Traffic meets Gossip Girl with a dark, literary feel.

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  53. Name: Arianna Sanchez
    Email: ariasanchez42@gmail.com
    Country of residence: United States of America
    Title: The Life of a Teenaged Hero
    Genre: Action/Fantasy YA Fiction
    Word-count: 74,000
    Pitch: Sixteen-year-old Momoko Yoshimi is your everyday average teenaged girl, except for one small twist, she's also her country's greatest hero. As if balancing a double life was hard enough already, her life is thrown into even more chaos as a robotic fiend threatens her world and she is forced to tighten her cape up and try to save the day once again.

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  54. Name: Mary Holm
    Email: worddance8[@]aol.com
    Country of Residence: USA
    Title: THE FATAL CROWN
    Genre: YA Fantasy
    Word Count: 72,000
    Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Taela does what she must survive, but she doesn’t think of herself as a murderer. When the sister she idolizes is executed for treason, Taela vows to avenge her death--even if it means killing the kingdom’s only hope for salvation. When Taela discovers the truth about her sister’s death, it forever ties her destiny to the very man she wants to destroy.

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  56. Name: Fiona McLaren
    Email: fionamarie1981 [ @ ] gmail.com
    Country of residence: UK
    Title: STARTING WITH AMBER
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 50,000

    Pitch: Teenage Seth and his family are thrown into a media feeding frenzy when his child-star sister is abducted from their grandiose family home. As the investigation deepens and the time for finding his sister runs out, Seth must decide if being the only person who knows where she is and why is worth the price of the family secrets.

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  57. Name: Fiona McLaren
    Email: fionamarie1981 [ @ ] gmail.com
    Country of residence: UK
    Title: THE BREADTH OF ME
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 50,000

    Pitch: Dealing with Asperger Syndrome, a mum that drinks too much Irish in her coffee and a father who bunked off when she was six, Libby’s life isn’t exactly a royal flush, even before her mother’s fatal drunk driving accident. Planning to follow her mum to the grave, Libby’s decision to join an online suicide cult is turned on its head when fellow member Jude becomes more than just friends.

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  58. Name: Fiona McLaren
    Email: fionamarie1981 [ @ ] gmail.com
    Country of residence: UK
    Title: OVERTOUN BRIDGE
    Genre: YA Gothic Horror
    Word-count: 60,000

    Pitch: When seventeen-year-old Dillan's friend is sucked through the stonework of Overtoun Bridge and into a terrifying labyrinth run by Jack the Ripper, Dillan must decide whether to go after her. When he does, he discovers he has more than serial killers to deal with, because there is man called Gideon who aims to steal the souls of those who have crossed over. Only Dillan can stop him.

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  59. Name: Katherine Ernst and Chelle Bruhn
    Email: kernstwriter[at]gmail[dot]com
    Country of residence: United States
    Title: VEILED
    Genre: YA Science Fiction
    Word-count: 87,000
    Pitch: In Eskifalia, women control nothing, not even their own minds. When a woman’s skin is exposed to the touch of a man, biology dictates that she’s forced to take on the personality he desires. A thin veil stands between Aveza and having her mind enslaved by the man her father has chosen for her. Her sister burned herself alive to avoid the same fate, but Aveza has a different plan.

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  60. Name: Leiann Bynum
    Email: slbynum3 [@] gmail.com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: DAY OF NIGHT
    Genre: Science-fiction
    Word-count: 52,000
    Pitch: Some people believed the world would end in 2012, and now the sun has gone out, causing major weather disasters. Vanessa, an eighteen-year-old African-American, has followed in her dad’s footsteps of being a firefighter, and her skills are put to the test during this worldwide catastrophe. When strange nocturnal carnivores also start emerging from the darkness, Vanessa must unite with a group of survivors in a fight to stay alive.

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  61. Unsure if I enter here or on the "Down Under Wonderings" blog. To be safe:

    Name: Anne Marie
    Email: annemariwerites [@] gmail [dot] com
    Country of residence: USA
    Title: THE SERPENT'S CONVENANT
    Genre: Urban Fantasy
    Word-count: 80,000
    Pitch: Based on American Indian folklore, my YA Urban Fantasy 'The Serpent's Covenant' is about Cori, a cursed girl who hears disembodied voices. When the Winter Chief kidnaps Cori's brother instead of her, a mysterious stranger materializes and leads her inside a concealed Denver where Cori must battle cannibal dwarves and a giant winged serpent to save her brother's life.

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  62. Name: Kristin Lenz
    Email: kristinbartleylenz@gmail.com
    Country: USA
    Title: The Art of Holding On and Letting Go
    Genre: YA Contemporary
    Word-count: 77,000
    Pitch: The Art of Holding On and Letting Go is about competitive rock climber Cara Jenkins, a sixteen-year-old uber-nature girl who is forced to abandon her California mountain home to live with her grandparents in Detroit. Rock climbing meets Walk Two Moons in this story about love and loss, family secrets, and discovering that home can be somewhere very different than where you started.

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  63. Please note this contest has closed. Any entries posted after this time will be deleted.

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