CONGRADS everyone - here's Diana with the winners!
This was a hard decision, because there were so many great pitches in this contest! Thanks so much to Shelli for hosting it, and to everyone who entered.
Winners:
1st place: A. Lockwood, 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.
Comments: Post-apocalyptic dystopias, time travel, AND ancient Rome and the gods? I'm hooked!
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Pitch: A teen hacker is drawn into a war between parallel universes when she meets an alternate version of herself from another dimension.
Comments: I love the concept, it's kind of like Hackers meets Fringe.
Genre: YA Fantasy Technothriller
Pitch: Spy chick bypasses a top-of-the line security system to steal an object before the sorcerers do in this "Mission:Impossible w/ magic" tale.
Comments: This just sounds FUN!
Winners, please email your full manuscripts to submissions@foxliterary.com and mention the pitch contest in your subject line.
Top ten honorable mentions:
Jen, BOYFRIENDS, SPIES, AND LIES
Genre: YA Contemporary
Pitch: If Carissa's oppressive parents weren't paying her boyfriend to be her bodyguard, art school would have been her perfect escape.
Carmen Ferreiro Esteban, THE REVENGE OF THE WOLF KING
GENRE: YA Medieval Fantasy
PITCH: Princess Ines's love for her whipping boy is put to the test when the king accuses him of the queen's murder and sentences him to death.
Elizabeth, FLICKER
Genre: Sci-Fi YA
Pitch: A grl w/a bad ♥ learns shes being kept alive by an alien virus that gives her the pwr 2 bend reality &save the wrld from an insidious force
Lori M. Lee, SOUL WITHOUT A BOY
Genre: YA urban fantasy
Pitch: In a world where souls can be ripped free and harnessed as a weapon, a 17yo boy learns the hard way that standing out can be deadly.
Cheree Smith, SHADOW EMBRACED
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Pitch: To control the creature threatening to take over her, 16-year-old Scar joins an underground fight club of witches, werewolves and vampires.
Lindsay Cummings, CHANGED
Genre:YA dystopian
Pitch: After an ecological disaster caused by environmentalists, a girl uses enhanced vision to find where the Disappeared go in a walled-in world.
Tracey Neithercott, ALIVE
Genre: YA sci-fi
Pitch: When she discovers Eli's healing ability, Alex plans to bring her sister back to life. She never expects 2 uncover lies about her childhood.
Emma Hollingberry, SKYBORNE
Genre: Literary YA Sci-Fi
Pitch: The emperor forces a hardcore racer onto his assassin team and then pits her against the people who deserted her as a child in an inter-galaxy war she'll refuse to fight.
Janet Johnson, THE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY FRIENDSHIP
Title: The Peanut Butter and Jelly Friendship
Genre: MG Contemporary
Pitch: When selling her appendix on e-bay doesn’t work, ten-year-old Annie seeks other ways to save her best friend’s house from foreclosure.
Huntress, OF OAK AND DRAGONS
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pitch: An unexpected inheritance, a snarky rapier with delusions of grandeur, and a tall stranger put Leah in the middle of an ancient war.
If you have an honorable mention, I would LOVE to see your query and sample pages!
Please email me at submissions@foxliterary.com and mention the pitch contest in your subject line.
19 comments:
YAY Congrats to all the winners.
Congrats to the winners! And wow, I'm THRILLED to get an honorable mention. Thanks, Shelli, for hosting this!
Congrats winners! Go TN for getting an honorable mention :D
Congrats to everyone else who won or got an honorable mention! Those are some awesome-sounding stories! Hackers meets Fringe indeed!
Oh, and of course, a huge thanks to Ms. Fox and Shelli!
(Ok, enough with the exclamation points, Kyle.)
Wow thanks! Also congrats to everyone else. I know a bunch of the Honorable Mentions so I'm happy to see them listed. :D
Elizabeth, if "Hackers meets Fringe" is accurate, I'd totally steal that if I were you.
Haha, will do. I was using Matrix meets Fringe but Hackers is awesome too.
Congrats to the winners.
Awesome pitches - congrats to the lucky winners :)
Congrats to all the winners!! Those pitches sound awesome :)
Wow, thank you so much for hosting this contest, Shelli. I'm so excited to get an honorable mention.
Congrats to the winners and the honorable mentions!
Oh wow! Thank you! And thanks, Shelli, for hosting the contest.
@Elizabeth Yeah, The Matrix is much better known than Hackers, which is an awesome 90s cult film but was definitely not a huge hit, and might be a better comparison for the actual book... but I thought of Hackers because I love it plus it's YA since the characters are in high school.
Congratulations to all the winners!!!!!! How exciting!! I wish everyone the best of luck!!
Thanks for the opportunity! This was a ton of fun!! I hope to one day try again!
Congrats to all of you. Your pitches were great.
Congrats to everyone, especially my critique partner Jen Duffey w/ Boyfriends, Bodyguards and Spies. YAY!!!!!
Congratulations to the winners. You deserved to win.
I´m so thrilled with my honorable mention!
Congratulations to the winners and WTG to all the honorable mentions! Good luck with your query and sample pages. :-)
Congratulations to the winners! I seriously want to read a lot of them by just the pitch! Great job! :D
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