tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post2199261262724592838..comments2023-12-28T02:49:31.085-06:00Comments on Renae Mercado: Agent Pitch ContestRenaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08190361875174742351noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-3262539010770880262010-06-22T22:31:14.494-05:002010-06-22T22:31:14.494-05:00Thanks Sarah and Ranae for the terrific interview....Thanks Sarah and Ranae for the terrific interview. Though, this tale is in revision, here’s my pitch for my 70,000 word literary supernatural suspense novel: MOONDANCERS.<br /><br />When thirty-eight-year-old class-driven Rohan King and fifty-three-year-old retiree, Jake Koss, discover they were corralled for the Netherworld’s Taskmaster replacement scheme, they pull together a group of disenchanted souls to battle for their past.<br /><br />Thank you both, Sarah & Ranae, for the opportunity.Douglas E Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17827194767672555897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-28836158828894156612010-06-22T21:49:58.565-05:002010-06-22T21:49:58.565-05:00Thank you Sarah and Renae for this great opportuni...Thank you Sarah and Renae for this great opportunity. PAWN'S GAMBIT is a contemporary fantasy novel, complete at 115,000 words.<br /><br />Steven Bauer always thought chess was just a game, until the sexy brunette in the black dress did her level best to incinerate him. He assumes the role of White Pawn in an ancient conflict that pits light against darkness for the fate of the world. Before the Game can begin, though, Steven must gather the remaining forces of the White, and he isn’t alone in seeking his brethren as the opposition led by his attempted assassin, the Black Queen, is also on the hunt.Darinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15583987518063647008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-11447856641931640852010-06-22T21:47:37.003-05:002010-06-22T21:47:37.003-05:00First, thank you so much for holding this contest....First, thank you so much for holding this contest.<br /><br />Jadonites, prbibilrps and talking animals aren’t exactly what Lexy expected to find in the library of her new home. The creatures of Shyando are expecting her and her friends to save them from the evil king, Dusaro. My novel, Lexy, is a young adult, urban fantasy complete at 62,000 words.<br /><br />Thank you for considering my submission.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817662932912538052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-53278943261231068022010-06-22T21:01:17.647-05:002010-06-22T21:01:17.647-05:00Thank you ladies for this wonderful opportunity!
...Thank you ladies for this wonderful opportunity!<br /><br />Here's my pitch for Steamed Up, a 67k YA Steampunk mystery with a splash of romance. <br /><br />In a Victorian London where steam power rules and Bobbies don’t, two teens stumble onto a plot to defraud the Bank of England – and that’s the good news. The deaths of Nico’s mentor and Ella’s family bring the teens into an uneasy alliance to find answers and revenge. Using their tinkerings, the two find out more than some would like, and if they are to survive, they’ll need to trust in themselves, each other and an old man’s dream.Jemi Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214408467456320167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-70040509977675726572010-06-22T14:58:27.501-05:002010-06-22T14:58:27.501-05:00"Porked"
It’s 2007, Michigan leads the ..."Porked"<br /><br />It’s 2007, Michigan leads the country in unemployment, its main industry has collapsed and the state is nearing shutdown. Rather than passing a budget and righting the state’s finances, the narcissistic Republican Senate Majority Leader Thaddeus Crown, allows a bipolar colleague to change the fiscal debate to one concerning the political viability of renaming the Capitol Christmas tree, the Holiday tree.<br /><br />“Porked” examines how journalism, public apathy, racism and polarized political structures have contributed to the demise of the country’s most economically traumatized state.<br /><br />Thanks for the opportunity!Blue Pelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059986089117930471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-91280841025732335002010-06-22T14:24:39.651-05:002010-06-22T14:24:39.651-05:00Here's my 1-sentence pitch for BOUND, an urban...Here's my 1-sentence pitch for BOUND, an urban fantasy YA complete at 60,000 words:<br /><br />When wings of a murdered faerie fetch big bucks on eBay, a teenage girl realizes her kind aren't only being oppressed-they're being hunted.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05255908019822363456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-77894970132340358202010-06-22T12:28:52.417-05:002010-06-22T12:28:52.417-05:00Great contest! I'm going to pitch but this one...Great contest! I'm going to pitch but this one is just for fun because my novel is incomplete. I do love to practice. Still, I'd like to know what others thought of it anyhow. Great pitches everyone!<br /><br />Here it is, my YA science fiction suspense novel pitch:<br /><br />Tristan, a heart transplant specialist and surgeon, discovers he is in the ultimate race towards death as he struggles to restore free rein to the Immaculate Minority–the few still fighting for freedom against the Unjust Collective of America--and uncover the secrets of two clever and determined sisters caught in the middle of it all. How could he have known he would need to risk the love of his life and break an age old oath to uncover the truth? Can Tristan find a solution without becoming a pawn to the game of life and death?A Pen In Neverland: Angela Peña Dahlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979468109234357616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-52959751509877090542010-06-22T12:25:45.367-05:002010-06-22T12:25:45.367-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.A Pen In Neverland: Angela Peña Dahlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979468109234357616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-40405094537359915202010-06-22T11:41:10.447-05:002010-06-22T11:41:10.447-05:00Casting the Circle 114,000 word Dark Urban Fantasy...Casting the Circle 114,000 word Dark Urban Fantasy/Supernatural Mystery<br /><br />Christian O’Conner had a normal life working his way through college at a lousy job, fighting with his brother and falling in love with his childhood sweetheart until the night a supernatural entity destroyed it all. Now along with help from his troublesome Gypsy ex-girlfriend Alison Herne, Christian must find out why fellow investigators are disappearing before they’re next. Complicating matters, Christian’s childhood sweetheart returns from the dead asking for help. Sometimes what’s in the rural darkness between New England cities isn’t what you think.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01046515540256155412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-75218227549686791862010-06-22T10:58:30.012-05:002010-06-22T10:58:30.012-05:00Great contest! Here’s my pitch for my 69,000 word ...Great contest! Here’s my pitch for my 69,000 word YA romance, LOVING MAX HOLDEN: <br /><br />Junior year is shaping up to be one of the best of seventeen-year-old Jillian Eldridge’s life—she’s thrilled that Max, her childhood best friend, is now her boyfriend, and she’s surprised to find she adores her new baby sister. But Jill’s happiness is challenged in a major way when she uncovers shocking proof that her stepfather is cheating on her mother—and with the last person Jill could have imagined. Now Jillian is faced with an impossible decision: lie to the boy she’s been in love with her entire life, or tell the truth and destroy not only her family, but Max’s as well.Katy Uppermanhttp://www.amongdahlias.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-57272395396710842852010-06-22T10:40:42.755-05:002010-06-22T10:40:42.755-05:00THE GHOST WRITER is a YA Paranormal novel complete...THE GHOST WRITER is a YA Paranormal novel complete at 60,000 words.<br /><br />Eighteen-year-old theatre intern Tessa James can’t even watch Ghostbusters without nightmares, so when letters written in a foreign language appear on her nightstand she does her damnedest to ignore the implications. But when Tessa realizes the letters are pieces of an actress’s diary from 1935 and accidents from the past begin to happen in the present, she’s forced to face the facts: her dream-job internship at the Castle Theatre has turned into her worst nightmare.MarcyKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303670174583471227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-74828446500833464432010-06-22T10:37:31.061-05:002010-06-22T10:37:31.061-05:00Devil’s Garden is a 70,000 word, older YA urban fa...Devil’s Garden is a 70,000 word, older YA urban fantasy with legends from the Everglades. <br />Under the advice of a cunning psychic, Glory abandons her posh Floridian home and journeys into the enchanted swamps to right her mistakes, thereby saving her mother’s life. She meets the love of her life, Joel, and his pesky girlfriend, who lead her into Devil’s Garden where she must survive betrayal and entrapments in her search of the authentic Fountain of Youth.Feeling Fictionhttp://www.feelingfiction.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-42203753679588739932010-06-22T10:31:41.375-05:002010-06-22T10:31:41.375-05:00Sixteen year old Bee Hewlett struggles to understa...Sixteen year old Bee Hewlett struggles to understand her fledgling friendship with her new reclusive neighbor Jude, after she follows him during the night to the grave of a boy who died seven years ago. Preoccupied with uncovering the reason behind Jude’s night dwelling way of life, Bee’s relationship with her boyfriend Marcus spirals out of her control, lasting much longer and going further than she ever expected. <br /><br />YEAR SEVEN is a 52,000 word coming-of-age novel in which it is left to Bee to decode the mysterious circumstances surrounding Jude’s life and to decide for herself what she believes about his story, and what, if anything, she can do to change it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-72896338862762927942010-06-22T10:16:44.701-05:002010-06-22T10:16:44.701-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-60220672903024071512010-06-22T10:05:10.901-05:002010-06-22T10:05:10.901-05:00Great competition, ladies, and thank you for the o...Great competition, ladies, and thank you for the opportunity!<br /> <br />Here is my pitch for Waiting for April, a paranormal romance complete at 110,000 words:<br /><br />In an otherwise normal world, twenty-one-year-old college student, April Fletcher, has no idea she is living her fifteenth life as the same person. <br />Scott Parker, her ‘best friend’, is well aware, and has spent centuries trying to find a way to save April - his childhood sweetheart and fiancée - after becoming immortal with her very first, last breath. <br /><br />Unfortunately, what Scott Parker doesn’t know is that there is someone else out there who became immortal with April’s last breath - and that person is dead set on living forever.Jaime Lorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-15199069125316225292010-06-22T10:02:21.485-05:002010-06-22T10:02:21.485-05:00Wow, a lot of great pitches here! Here's mine ...Wow, a lot of great pitches here! Here's mine for BACK, a contemporary YA at 70,000 words:<br /><br />Heather loves her life in China, but after five years her parents make an abrupt decision to return to a small town in Washington State that has nothing to offer except wine grapes and sunsets. While Heather grapples with discontent and a longing for all she left behind, she must forgive the older sister who made their return necessary. She must also decide whether a neighbor boy’s love – as innocent as it is forbidden – is worth fighting for. <br /><br />Thanks for the great contest, Renae and Sarah!<br /><br />AmyA.L. Sonnichsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11358456786727534289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-15091859308990628502010-06-22T09:12:21.478-05:002010-06-22T09:12:21.478-05:00The Gatekeepers is a 89,000 urban fantasy
When sn...The Gatekeepers is a 89,000 urban fantasy<br /><br />When snarky bank teller Sabrina Lang is tossed into a dumpster and discovers that it's actually a gate to another realm, she learns she's a Vendarian, destined to guard the Gates leading on and off Earth so nothing dangerous gets in, or out.<br />To prepare for her illustrious new career as a Gatekeeper, Sabrina is partnered with Dayne, the old guy who threw her into the dumpster, and his off-limits hottie nephew Drache, who is determined to see to her mental—and physical—training.<br />When their enemies breed an unstoppable hybrid army and launch a full-scale invasion, Sabrina learns three very important things--Drache's not what he seems, "unstoppable" is a relative term when you're a hybrid yourself, and there's only one Gate large enough to support that kind of passage--hers.Jus Accardohttp://jusaccardo.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-45184935046191118292010-06-22T01:28:54.001-05:002010-06-22T01:28:54.001-05:00Excellent interview. Here's the pitch for my 6...Excellent interview. Here's the pitch for my 60K YA paranormal PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES:<br /><br />As seventeen-year-old Faith Daniels gradually pieces together the forgotten events that landed her on the neurosurgeon's table, she becomes haunted by her past — literally. And there's nothing worse than being stalked by a bunch of your dead classmates, except perhaps becoming one.<br /><br />When Faith eventually recalls the details of the catastrophe that lead to these unexpected and ghostly class reunions — and the horrific realization of her brother's involvement in the the death of her friends — she must make a heart-wrenching decision: hide the truth (and continue to be pestered by ghosts) or betray her family.Dorothy Dreyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07359417869474783409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-38210518762554266932010-06-22T01:23:08.937-05:002010-06-22T01:23:08.937-05:00Fantastic contest. Lots of fun.
Here's my pi...Fantastic contest. Lots of fun. <br /><br />Here's my pitch. The book is titled GIFTED, and is a YA magical realism.<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Abigail Johnson has never been an ordinary girl, but she never suspected her healing Gifts and psychic Sight are inherited from an ancient ancestor who was killed by a demon—a demon who now means to kill Abby. When the boy she loves is fatally wounded by dark forces, she must decide if she’s willing to risk her own life to save him, or if her Gifts are really a curse that will kill them both.<br /><br />Thank you.Nichole Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12536148445303996747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-87296928468703614692010-06-22T00:32:57.782-05:002010-06-22T00:32:57.782-05:00Thanks for this great opportunity!
This is my pit...Thanks for this great opportunity!<br /><br />This is my pitch for my YA historical romance WISTFUL LOVERS.<br /><br />When Julianne Avery Haynsworth is forced by her parents to marry an eighty year old man at the age of fifteen, she escapes in the middle of the night dressed as a stable boy. She soon finds shelter with the Bennetts and end up falling in love with their son Hayden Bennett despite the fact that he considers her “the brother he never had”. But she is far from safe when she gets a surprise visit from the last people she ever wanted to see—her parents.Jennhttp://twitter.com/JennPWilliamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-64106196210750200862010-06-21T23:56:23.114-05:002010-06-21T23:56:23.114-05:00Thanks for hosting this contest, and it's grea...Thanks for hosting this contest, and it's great to meet you, Sarah!<br /><br />Okay, here's the pitch for my 95,000-word literary historical, The Blood of A Stone:<br /><br />Didymus of Tiberias wants to forget he was a slave who murdered his abusive master to escape, but when his Jewish friend and fellow escapee reveals he's confessed their crimes to a prophet named Jesus of Nazareth, Didymus is willing do anything--even kill again--to keep his past a secret. He never expects to fall in love with Tabitha, a leper healed by Jesus. Now he must decide if telling her the truth about himself is worth the price: arrest and crucifixion.Jeanne Lyet Gassmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06686730700193236222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-49683533268911952462010-06-21T20:59:28.163-05:002010-06-21T20:59:28.163-05:00Hi Renae,
Thanks for letting me correct my bloope...Hi Renae,<br /><br />Thanks for letting me correct my blooper -- and thanks again for hosting this amazing opportunity for writers!<br /><br />When a 17-year-old half-mortal sees her stepfather punch her mother, the explosion of supernatural energy she uses to send him flying across the room fractures the protective barrier around the mortal world and intertwines her energy with that of a vengeful goddess. Plunged into a terrifying journey of magic and self-awakening, Michaela finds herself unable to resist the enigmatic immortal who helps her. But as her fascination for him and her danger both increase, she must choose between saving her mother, or braving forbidden love and risking her life to safeguard the human race.Martina Boonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03358736828122139189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-81741601195190604742010-06-21T19:57:18.253-05:002010-06-21T19:57:18.253-05:00Thanks for the awesome interview Renae and Sarah! ...Thanks for the awesome interview Renae and Sarah! Here's my two cents' worth for my 65K novel, 'Starlit Symphony':<br /><br />Having superheroes fight in a war was never going to lead to good things, as seventeen-year-old reluctant superhero Stella Wyatt finds out. <br /> <br />Sent into a war, and in a platoon made of marines and fellow 'supers', Stella finds friendship, betrayal, romance, brutality, and a murder-mystery or two. All's fair in love and war...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01445416054945632135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-82942154100255465342010-06-21T18:05:06.688-05:002010-06-21T18:05:06.688-05:00Here's the one line pitch for my81,000-word, Y...Here's the one line pitch for my81,000-word, YA romantic suspense novel, LOST IN A HEARTBEAT.<br /><br />When a terrifying secret puts her best friend’s life at risk, seventeen-year-old Calleigh has to live a lie, and keep her new boyfriend from discovering the truth.Stinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11415189347501942340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517258583444935285.post-28988518131235280802010-06-21T17:42:59.232-05:002010-06-21T17:42:59.232-05:00When Alex Laxa, a burnt-out card dealer on planet ...When Alex Laxa, a burnt-out card dealer on planet Voleron, witnesses an assault on the beautiful Lara Warren and rushes in to help, he becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt. He and his new companion discover that she unwittingly stumbled upon Project Shepherd, a program so secret that her employer, The Company, mind-wipes anyone who learns of its existence—which now includes Alex. SPYRE, a science fiction adventure, is complete at over 88,000 words.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />eliteaps98 (at) hotmail (dot) comeliteapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13394951266240160561noreply@blogger.com