tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post2779180161944631240..comments2024-03-26T03:36:28.357-04:00Comments on S.R. Johannes: Today's Agent Pitch Contest!Shelli (srjohannes)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17123227845032402600noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-45891512073063600412010-09-15T23:45:56.120-04:002010-09-15T23:45:56.120-04:00Title: Time Warden
YA Dystopian
Kidnapped and br...Title: Time Warden<br />YA Dystopian<br /><br /><br />Kidnapped and brainwashed into believing that he time-traveled to the year 1692, a rebellious teen is taken in by a secluded village of time-traveling misfits and their offspring. Sixteen-year-old Ryan adapts well to his new life and falls in love with the founder’s granddaughter. When Ryan discovers that the town is nothing more than an elaborate modern-day deception, he struggles with how the truth will affect his girlfriend and makes plans to escape. Too bad no one has made it out of Stevenstown alive. <br /><br />ChristyEvers (at) att (dot) netC.R. Evershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09034891037873664976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-91417148217456064642010-09-15T23:18:44.277-04:002010-09-15T23:18:44.277-04:00Title: Moonstone
Genre: YA paranormal romance
Pitc...Title: Moonstone<br />Genre: YA paranormal romance<br />Pitch:<br />Seventeen-year-old Emily Shaw never thought her dream guy would actually be the guy from her dreams. But prophetic visions and her burgeoning love life are the least of her problems when she stumbles upon family secrets that may have lead to her mother's death nearly a decade earlier. Now she must decide whether unraveling the mystery of her mother's past is worth losing everything - including her life. <br />Email: jenross@yahoo.com<br /><br />Thanks!!Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05092122440467883429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-39048006636610590712010-09-15T22:29:42.964-04:002010-09-15T22:29:42.964-04:00Title: Edge of the Falls
Genre: YA Dystopian
Saba...Title: Edge of the Falls<br />Genre: YA Dystopian<br /><br />Sabah has lived her whole life Outside the Commission controlled City. She likes it that way--giving away all choice and freedom is too steep a price to pay for safety. But when she is saved by a ban-wolf, the rejected genetic experiments of the Commission, she begins to question everything she knows. Arjun is wild and dangerous and honest in a way the her childhood friend, Berg, never has been. And despite the fur and claws, she can't help the attraction she feels for him.<br />Faced with the oppurtunity to live withing the safety of the City, under the protection of the Commission, Sabah must decide: does she love a monster? Is safety worth the sacrifice of choice? <br /><br /><br />Email: nazareanandrews@gmail.com <br /><br />Thanks so much for the oppurtunity!!Nazarea Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09644521286572844909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-32973214329050997092010-09-15T17:58:03.720-04:002010-09-15T17:58:03.720-04:00Title of the book: The Lion Awakens
Genre: YA
Para...Title of the book: The Lion Awakens<br />Genre: YA<br />Paragraph pitch:<br />Annie Lange thought her mom died when she was four. David McClure thought his dad died when he was four. Both are dead wrong. Their parents live in a parallel universe ruled by a tyrant hell-bent on taking over Annie and David’s world because his is dying. It’s up to teens to stop him and bring their parents home. <br />Email: Buffy@ydr.comBuffy Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033283884801658206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-44727912103746111952010-09-15T17:55:23.682-04:002010-09-15T17:55:23.682-04:00Title: Unlives of the Undead
Genre: YA Paranormal
...Title: Unlives of the Undead<br />Genre: YA Paranormal<br />Pitch:<br /><br />George, a dim-witted zombie, is on Unlives of the Undead, a reality show too dull for viewers to care about. That changes when one of the cast members, a snarky vampire, gets a stake through her heart. The show becomes must-see TV as audiences follow the hunt for the slayer. Unfortunately for George, all the evidence points to him. To avoid spending the rest of his unlife in jail, George must use all the power in his cognitively-challenged zombie brain to elude overzealous detectives, swirly-obsessed jocks, and vengeful vampires long enough to solve the crime and figure out who framed him.<br /><br />Email: dustin.warren(at)nc.rr.comduwarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01984057240748766051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-84899564842444391502010-09-15T17:43:52.040-04:002010-09-15T17:43:52.040-04:00Title: Alternate
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Pitch:
Sixteen y...Title: Alternate<br />Genre: YA Sci-Fi<br />Pitch:<br />Sixteen year old Sara Morgan is drawn into a war between parallel universes when she meets Elira Black, an alternate version of herself from another dimension. Elira is the chosen one, a leader of the resistance trying to stop an empire from conquering all the worlds of the multiverse. The two girls share the same DNA, but couldn't be more different - Sara is no hero and has spent her entire life running away from her problems, while Elira has trained for her destiny since birth. But when the chosen one dies and Sara discovers Earth is the empire's next target, she must pretend to be Elira Black and find a way to make the prophecy come true to save everyone she loves.<br /><br /><br />My email is ebriggs23 at gmail.com. Thanks for this great contest!Elizabeth Briggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14572251749088056704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-14232118476076317622010-09-15T17:41:51.860-04:002010-09-15T17:41:51.860-04:00Title: Unseen Beauty
Genre: YA Fantasy
Paragraph P...Title: Unseen Beauty<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Paragraph Pitch:<br /><br />Claudette must make the beautiful Seline fall in love with Beast before the castle is destroyed. Unfortunately Claudette is invisible, and no one from outside of the castle, including Seline, can hear her either. Such circumstances make encouraging Seline's romance with the arrogant Beast difficult enough, but then Claudette has to fall in love with Beast herself. Could an impertinent parlor maid's love be good enough to break the spell on the enchanted prince? <br /><br />amity (dot) irene (at) gmail (dot) comAIThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256420680945546328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-47137261455030866532010-09-15T16:47:45.251-04:002010-09-15T16:47:45.251-04:00Title: DESTINED
Genre: YA retelling (Cupid & P...Title: DESTINED<br />Genre: YA retelling (Cupid & Psyche)<br />Paragraph pitch:<br /><br />Sadie's not just the most beautiful girl in ancient Greece, she's also Cupid's super-secret love interest. But Cupid can only keep his identity secret by visiting Sadie at night, veiled in darkness. Somehow, Sadie has to learn to love a god she will never see after being told in a prophecy that he's a monster. When Sadie finally gives into her fears, and takes a peak at his face, she loses Cupid's immortal love. As Sadie journeys alone through ancient Greece to reclaim Cupid's heart, she finds the strength to take on the gods and challenges the ancient adage: you cannot escape what is destined.Jessie Harrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11581727105030086814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-59052137617059033282010-09-15T13:41:54.846-04:002010-09-15T13:41:54.846-04:00Title: Slipperage
Genre: YA science fiction
Paragr...Title: Slipperage<br />Genre: YA science fiction<br />Paragraph Pitch:<br /><br />The young king Zuku of the planet Mardyth doesn’t want to get married, and he especially doesn’t want to marry any of the daughters of his sworn enemy, Ali Alam Alem, no matter what his advisors say. But when Ali Alam Alem’s twelve oldest daughters, along with their entire space ship, keep disappearing only to return with tales of dancing and demon princes, Zuku can’t resist looking into the matter. After all, he is better at talking to machines than he is at talking to girls. The more he researches, the more involved he gets and now Zuku must figure out how to save the princess he doesn’t want to admit to loving before he loses her forever. <br /><br />Email: jeni.any.dots (at) gmail (dot) comJenilyn Collingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166139358513659892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-79714107433055185252010-09-15T13:27:35.167-04:002010-09-15T13:27:35.167-04:00Title: LOCK 19
Genre: YA Fiction
Pitch:
When Tabb...Title: LOCK 19<br />Genre: YA Fiction<br />Pitch:<br /><br />When Tabby's brother is killed by a car bomb that incinerates her father's genetics lab, she refuses to believe he is a part of the terrorist group blamed for the explosion-- until she finds his confession. Heartbroken and desperate for answers, she follows a trail of clues he left behind, uncovering a dark family secret, a gang of genetic outcasts with magnetic powers and an obscure code only she can crack. As her brother's mystery unravels, Tabby comes to understand his sacrifice and realizes the only way to make his life matter is to take up his cause and destroy her father's legacy. Even if doing so may cost her her life.<br /><br /><br />Email: sabrina.wolford(at)gmail(dot)comBreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071207240841595421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-4884138852872853632010-09-15T12:56:50.031-04:002010-09-15T12:56:50.031-04:00Title: You Were Forever
Genre: Literary Fiction
...Title: You Were Forever<br />Genre: Literary Fiction<br /><br />From the Civil War when New York City’s fire department was still a volunteer force through September 11th and its aftermath, You Were Forever moves through time to tell the stories of women and girls whose lives are intertwined with the FDNY—the mothers, wives, mistresses, sisters and daughters of New York City firefighters. <br /> <br /> Among them are eight-year-old Katie Doyle of Long Island who loses her adoptive father, a lawyer, on September 11th and her birth mother, Maggie O’Reilly, the daughter of a Brooklyn fireman killed in the line of duty in 1982 who never tells her boyfriend, also from a fire-family and waiting impatiently to join the FDNY himself, that he is a father. Katie’s great-grandmother, Annie-Rose, must stand by as her husband begins an affair with the widow of another fireman—Matty, who works at the firehouse as a matron (housekeeper) to support her children, customary in the days before the city offered benefits to fire widows. And Bridie Earley, a famine immigrant from Ireland working as a maid, who falls in love with the ghost of Civil War solider, a fireman who went to war as a paid substitute for her employer. <br /><br />In the years that follow September 11th, it will be Katie’s search for her birth parents that ties the narratives in You Were Forever together. <br /><br />Email: kathm317@gmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-54509764598335536282010-09-15T10:04:38.625-04:002010-09-15T10:04:38.625-04:00Title: THE GHOST WRITER
Genre: YA Ghost Story
Emai...Title: THE GHOST WRITER<br />Genre: YA Ghost Story<br />Email: marcykate (at) gmail (dot) com<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Tessa James can’t even watch <i>Casper the Friendly Ghost</i> without nightmares, so when letters written in a French appear on her nightstand she does her damnedest to ignore the implications. <br /><br />Soon Tessa realizes the letters are pieces of a diary, and the tale of Ava Dubois, a runaway millgirl turned rising starlet, begins to unravel. The Castle Theatre, her employer and once Ava's, is about to produce <i>Hamlet</i>, the very play canceled by Ava’s untimely death in 1935. A bizarre series of accidents plague the theatre staff, while the steady stream of letters and rumors of ghosts force Tessa into a dangerous game. She wants no part, but with the body count piling up—in the past and present—she must checkmate her ghosts and Ava's if she wants to live long enough to have a future.MarcyKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303670174583471227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-33558794896261738122010-09-15T10:00:38.578-04:002010-09-15T10:00:38.578-04:00Title: LOOKING GLASS HOUSE
Genre: YA Contemporary
...Title: LOOKING GLASS HOUSE<br />Genre: YA Contemporary<br /><br />When you’re trapped inside the looking glass, the only way to get where you're going is to face the thing you most want to escape.<br /> <br />Alice Crawford appears from the outside to be a privileged sixteen-year-old, but she believes Seth will turn away when he sees inside her world, where Mum self-medicates bipolar disorder with gin and Dad turned his back years ago. Ally tries to escape the way her sister does - with pills, alcohol and the touch of a stranger. She risks losing Seth because of her own behavior, not her mother’s. When Ally realizes she must confront her parents’ world instead of running from it, she’ll find love, life and freedom from her LOOKING GLASS HOUSE.<br /><br />Email: underthecoverswriter at gmail dot comMari Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14705269922678029068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-22734386371722196282010-09-15T09:23:47.435-04:002010-09-15T09:23:47.435-04:00Just thought I'd check in and am so impressed ...Just thought I'd check in and am so impressed by these pitches! (Way to make it easy for me, writers...)Sarah LaPollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14266812619209867411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-49161296365961429142010-09-15T09:22:45.867-04:002010-09-15T09:22:45.867-04:00Title: The Spirit-Hunters
Genre: YA Steampunk
Pit...Title: The Spirit-Hunters<br />Genre: YA Steampunk<br /><br />Pitch:<br /><br />When a decomposing body delivers a ransom note for Eleanor's brother, she resolves to do anything to get him back. To face the armies of dead that have him, she joins forces with a three-man spirit-hunting team. Now Eleanor has to kick undead butt and deal with her growing attraction to the team's inventor, an exasperating but gorgeous ex-con. From the steampunk lab of the Spirit-Hunters to the emptied cemeteries of Philadelphia, Eleanor must follow the clues – and the bodies – to find her brother and stop the Dead before it's too late.<br /><br />Email: stowersd (at) gmail (dot) comSusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05845175069859421305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-43950492456474099502010-09-15T01:01:22.474-04:002010-09-15T01:01:22.474-04:00Title: Colors Like Memories
Genre: YA Paranormal
P...Title: Colors Like Memories<br />Genre: YA Paranormal<br />Pitch:<br />Julia has a secret: she killed the guy she loved. It was an accident—sort of. Julia is a Sary, the soul of a child who died before birth, assigned to help those on the verge of ending their lives; she must save Marcy, or leave the Sary. When Marcy pieces together the truth about who her best friend really is, it shatters their friendship and any chance Julia had of helping her. The only way Julia can fix everything is by facing her past, but that’s going to require risking her role with the Sary, and endangering Marcy’s life.<br /><br />Email: mrs.which (@) gmail.com<br /><br />Thanks for holding this contest!Meradeth Houstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06741790047121063893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-64802761387220227142010-09-15T00:35:29.065-04:002010-09-15T00:35:29.065-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Breehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071207240841595421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-33599116831698090532010-09-15T00:31:54.225-04:002010-09-15T00:31:54.225-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Breehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071207240841595421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-15152110677107645472010-09-15T00:04:47.425-04:002010-09-15T00:04:47.425-04:00In the Shadow of Vesuvius.
YA Historical Fiction
...In the Shadow of Vesuvius.<br />YA Historical Fiction<br /><br /><br />Vesuvius awakens. To save the infant she cares for, fifteen-year-old Mira must escape her master, and the slave ordered to shadow her, or share Herculaneum's fate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09988467549547651495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-29069510618307627172010-09-14T23:57:27.292-04:002010-09-14T23:57:27.292-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09988467549547651495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-22365878860678862172010-09-14T23:29:21.312-04:002010-09-14T23:29:21.312-04:00LOVE your pitch contests Shelli!!! Such a fantast...LOVE your pitch contests Shelli!!! Such a fantastic opportunity :)Rachael Harriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16764930101064527321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-20802757086836277472010-09-14T23:26:29.607-04:002010-09-14T23:26:29.607-04:00Title: From The Other Side
Genre: YA Horror
Email:...Title: From The Other Side<br />Genre: YA Horror<br />Email: rachael[dot]harrie[at]gmail[dot]com<br /><br />For misfit Verity Ronson, being brutally murdered in a dark magick ceremony is only the beginning of her problems. As a ghost, Verity finds herself filled with uncontrollable rages and an unquenchable desire for vengeance against the teens who killed her---including the boy she once loved.<br /><br />Struggling to harness her unpredictable and deadly new powers, Verity haunts and possesses her murderers, determined to make their lives---and deaths---as painful as possible. But as her world becomes darker and more drenched in blood, Verity begins to lose herself. And she soon realizes that, once you’ve started killing, it can be very hard to stop.Rachael Harriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16764930101064527321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-57147646427283010662010-09-14T23:25:31.134-04:002010-09-14T23:25:31.134-04:00Title: Waking the Binding Tree
Genre: YA Fiction
...Title: Waking the Binding Tree<br />Genre: YA Fiction<br /><br />Elliana thought the stories her abuela told her were just family legends. But when her clumsy behavior lands her in alternative school, obsessive-compulsive Jillian and mind-reading wannabe Javier help her delve into her own untapped power. While on a trip to Mexico to visit her grandmother, Elliana accidently unleashes the spirit of an ancient ancestor, banished inside the binding tree, who has been waiting to return to power for over four hundred years. As the ghost gains strength by stealing the memories of her loved ones, it’s a race between deception that’s centuries in the making and awkward teenage self-discovery. Can Elliana realize her own strength before she loses her family- and their history- forever? <br /><br />jlhendricks924 at yahoo dot come<br /><br />I am learning so much from both blogs! Thanks so much!jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15153186255035297708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-59010373797249809512010-09-14T22:48:36.378-04:002010-09-14T22:48:36.378-04:00Title: High Hopes
Genre: Contemporary YA
Paragrap...Title: High Hopes<br />Genre: Contemporary YA<br /><br />Paragraph Pitch:<br /><br />HIGH HOPES is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey,” but instead of going to Bath, eighteen-year-old Katie Moreland takes a trip to Florida for Spring Break week. There, she meets Hal Tilney, who quickly wins her over with his charm and wit, and who also happens to live in one of the most haunted houses in America – the home where the events of “The Amityville Horror” took place. When Katie is invited to visit for the weekend, her horror-obsessed brain goes into overdrive and she imagines ghosts and ghouls around every corner. Hal tries to explain to her that all the sinister stories about the house are just rumors, but Katie is convinced that the Amityville home is hiding a dark secret. Katie tries to find the source of her supernatural suspicions, but doesn’t know she also runs the risk of something truly scary – losing the guy she loves. <br /><br />Email: lisagalek at gmail dot comLisa Galekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02438927319122874125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33821110.post-16620328077878563872010-09-14T22:37:06.379-04:002010-09-14T22:37:06.379-04:00I know, Lisa! I noticed that as I read through. I ...I know, Lisa! I noticed that as I read through. I think I'm the fourth or fifth Tess.Jessie Oliveroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06232456334069794107noreply@blogger.com