tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post4413667683268611186..comments2024-02-21T05:25:03.233-05:00Comments on Adventures in YA Publishing: YA/MG Pitch-to-Query Contest & Mentored Workshop Starts TodayMartina Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03358736828122139189noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-68338422644773685972010-08-19T18:34:05.327-04:002010-08-19T18:34:05.327-04:00Name: Kimberley Rizzo
Title: THE BOOKWORM
Genre: M...Name: Kimberley Rizzo<br />Title: THE BOOKWORM<br />Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy<br />contact: k.d.rizzo@gmail.com<br /><br />Pitch:<br />Kara is a twelve-year old girl who isn’t able to make it through a single day of the seventh grade without escaping into the pages of a book. On her first day at a new school, she wastes no time getting lost in a new read, "The Princess of Tirolea." But Kara soon discovers that this is no ordinary book; when a Bookworm gnawed his way through the pages, he turned it into a portal into the world of the story, a portal through which anyone and anything can travel.<br /><br />Kara steps through the wormhole, hoping to help the enslaved pixies in the story to defeat a tyrannical Princess. But Kara comes to understand that the Bookworm doesn’t just create a bridge between the real world and the story world. He actually creates a wormhole between two stories, one that is about the pixies and the Princess, and one that is about Kara. Each world exists within the other as a written story, making Kara’s own world as much make-believe as all the stories she has read and loved. Despite this knowledge, Kara struggles to recognize that she is the hero of her own story, and even after defeating the Princess and restoring balance to the realm of Tirolea, she needs all the courage she can muster to go back through the wormhole and face her own antagonists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-57513837337478004332010-08-19T18:21:31.669-04:002010-08-19T18:21:31.669-04:00Name: Margay Leah Justice
Title: The Goode Girl
Ge...Name: Margay Leah Justice<br />Title: The Goode Girl<br />Genre: Contemporary YA<br />Contact: Margay1122@gmail.com<br /><br />Pitch:<br /><br /><br />Growing up in a family of physically unremarkable sisters, Irene Goode is under no illusions about how she is perceived by the world. She simply doesn’t allow that to keep her from pursuing her own dreams. Dreams that include hooking up with the boy next door, Sam Cassidy, the only guy – the only person – who’s ever taken the time to look beyond the wild hair and public perception of Irene to find her true beauty and appreciate it. And if there’s one thing that Irene and Sam learn during the course of their budding friendship, it’s that the road to happiness is often pitted with challenges and complications. Like their own mixed up feelings for one another, the prospect of playing the title roles in a modernistic high school version of Romeo and Juliet, and the revelation of family secrets. Life is anything but boring when you’re The Goode Girl.Margay Leah Justicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15490126898758440254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-23076370635880608602010-08-19T18:12:00.536-04:002010-08-19T18:12:00.536-04:00Name: Janet Lloyd Weber
Title: The Book of Makr
Ge...Name: Janet Lloyd Weber<br />Title: The Book of Makr<br />Genre: Contemporary YA <br /><br />In one horrible crash, 16 year old Mark Henderson’s abusive, meth-cooking, meth-addicted father is killed and Mark suffers the Traumatic Brain Injury that makes his already crappy life even more crappy. He is reunited with the mother who abandoned him 8 years earlier and starts a scary new life with her in a new town, at a new school with a new stepfather and new half-brother. Once school starts, Mark deals with drooling teachers, bitchy girls, green-toothed bullies, and crazy rumors, all while he tries to keep himself from sneaking looks down the top of his only friend, Glenda and stay the hell away from his stepfather who teaches at the very same school. While he tries to pretend that everything is all right, inside Mark is torn between the desire to feel better and the desire to make someone--anyone--pay for the pain of his past.<br /> <br />After the awful wreck, Mark tries to look normal and adjust to his new life. Along the way, he spies on his parents, makes friends with a bullied girl and deals with the seizures that are the result of the Traumatic Brain Injury he suffered in the wreck. When his worst nightmare comes true and he has a seizure in front of the entire student body, life becomes a constant struggle to control his fists.<br /><br />Life begins to look up for Mark when his best friend, the bullied girl becomes his girlfriend. As the desire for a driver's license builds in him and his doctor and parents won't let him drive, he convinces her to teach him. All of Mark's struggles come to a head when he wrecks his girlfriend's car. As he ponders the possibility of never getting leaving his parents' home, Mark has to decide if life is even worth living.<br /><br />mrsjanetweber@gmail.comJanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03023318089353193877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-72946809837933381442010-08-19T17:51:39.346-04:002010-08-19T17:51:39.346-04:00Name: Jared Larson
Title: I'm Here to Save You...Name: Jared Larson<br />Title: I'm Here to Save Your Day: The Adventures of Bo Wolf.<br />Genre: MG Adventure/Fantasy<br /><br /><br />Bo Wolf is just your average bully-slaying fifth grader. Sure, the other kids tease him about his arms looking like flexi-straws, and they tell him to go back to his home on Dweeb Island, but Bo doesn't care. With his mad fencing skills and soon-to-be ravishing good looks, he's convinced he's on the way to the pinnacle of his awesomeness.<br /><br />After impressing a school yard gang by defeating their leader in a broomstick combat, Bo agrees to help them take on the meanest, ugliest, and biggest bully known to man– Grendul– who's taken the playground jungle gym for his own.<br /><br />However, when Bo puts the smack-down on Grendul, he finds a much more powerful adversary in the bully's mom, the school lunch lady. Angered by her precious son's defeat, she plots to poison the entire school with her irresistible ginger snaps. When Bo discovers her diabolical plan, he must find his courage to save his friends and the new love of his life, Reagan, from an imminent cafeteria induced death.<br /><br />Email: iwillwhisperno@gmail.comJared Larsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015044660613908060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-79235837454698696802010-08-19T17:20:30.653-04:002010-08-19T17:20:30.653-04:00Name: Elizabeth Prats
Title: Tainted
Genre: YA Fan...Name: Elizabeth Prats<br />Title: Tainted<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br /><br />Synopsis:<br /><br />Evvie Nyx is an abomination within her world, both Light and Dark elf. <br /><br />She knew the rules; never let the village children see her, keep within the forest, and keep her secret or end up like her dead mother.<br /><br />Everything changes when she ignores her father’s first rule.<br /><br />Evvie saves a village boy from drowning and reveals herself to the outside world. Then taken under the wing of the village healing woman, she is able to live an almost normal life--until her sixteenth birthday, when a dark mage murders her friend. <br /><br />After the fight, dark powers surface within Evvie and an unknown female voice fights for control of Evvie’s thoughts. When a confused Evvie learns that the man who raised her is not her father, she sets out to find the truth about her parentage and instead finds the dark mage and the chance to save another child. In her haste to rescue the child, Evvie stumbles upon a deadly secret about her heritage that she never thought possible.<br /><br />elizabethsscroll@yahoo.comElizabeth Pratshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13007847710513283552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-5045510265798213072010-08-19T17:02:29.585-04:002010-08-19T17:02:29.585-04:00Name: Marlene Allen
Title of Project: "The F...Name: Marlene Allen<br />Title of Project: "The Frog and the Mermaid"<br />Genre: Illustrated Children's Book on the adventures of the frog and the mermaid<br />Synopsis: This book (which could be made into a series) will provide an adventurous tale about an adorable lovable frog who meets a beautiful mermaid. While entertaining the reader with adventures, the story will also provide learning opportunities for the children about safety, responsibility, accepting others for who they are, and other valuable lessons. Example: When the frog and mermaid first meet, they are afraid of each other because of their differences. But they soon learn to accept and eventually love each other for who they are, and learn that their various talents can benefit each other to become stronger together, and enjoy life more by having the other one in their life. <br />Email: marleneallen3@yahoo.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09065307557325260260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-82506922795443828272010-08-19T16:20:05.744-04:002010-08-19T16:20:05.744-04:00Valerie Norris
Title: Shattered Glass
Genre: YA Co...Valerie Norris<br />Title: Shattered Glass<br />Genre: YA Contemporary<br /><br />Shattered Glass is a young adult coming-of-age novel about Emily, a normal, happy 17-year-old from an intact family. The neighbors ask Emily to babysit their children at a lake rental for a month. They drink and argue and never say a nice thing to each other. While Mr. Locke works, Mrs. Locke messes around with the writer next door. The boy Emily likes was the object of Mrs. Locke’s attention last summer. Then Emily hears that the writer next door is writing about a woman and her teenage babysitter, and his exploits with both. The summer culminates in a drunken scene in which Emily is injured. When she finally gets home, she finds out that her father has had a relationship with Mrs. Locke. <br /><br />After a summer of trying to hold together another family, Emily faces the wreckage of her own. Her parents separate and give their daughters the choice of which parent they’d prefer to live with. She chooses her mother, the person who needs her more.<br /><br />valerie.norris@hotmail.comValerie Norrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-88975404261089927732010-08-19T16:05:23.323-04:002010-08-19T16:05:23.323-04:00Title: Hero and Villain
Genre: Middle Grade Advent...Title: Hero and Villain<br />Genre: Middle Grade Adventure/Humor/Fantasy<br />email: kidsbookjunky@gmail.com<br />Name: Charlie Eve<br /><br /><br />Mason Grey is 12 years old and has always been able to write to life her characters. <br /><br />Now her neurotic, adventurous cast of characters has taken over her home and inspiration. Hero is constantly dragging his loyal and definitely phobic friend, Sidekick, on his backyard blunders where Sidekick is always on the receiving end of swollen hips and bruised up lips. Villain loves Princess, but has an awfully awkward way of showing it and is convinced that Mason is trying to poison him. Meanwhile bible-beating Gran and her daffodil spray bottle are determined to rid the house of these “abominations” by spraying them all with a daily dose of holy water.<br /><br />With all the commotion, Mason has lost her inspiration and it is only when Princess is kidnapped by an evil doll collector that she begins to write again. Along the way, Hero and Villain find out Mason is not good at writing under pressure and soon horses become wild boars and saving Princess is no fairytale.<br /><br /><br />Fixed genre and resubmitted per your email, thank you.Charlie Evehttp://kidsbookjunky.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-76034773061599872662010-08-19T15:45:43.364-04:002010-08-19T15:45:43.364-04:00Okay, so the one from earlier is gone.
Bekah
Para...Okay, so the one from earlier is gone. <br />Bekah<br />Parallel Earth, Middle Grade adventure/ sci-fi<br />Pitch:Haley Parker is a mess when it comes to running, but she gets straight A's. Wyatt Parker prefers to leave his books at the front door and play sports or his beloved videogames; it's what he's great at. The only way anyone can tell they're related, let alone twins, is by their green eyes. Plus, they can barely stand each other. When they see a strange sign at an abandoned tree farm, they agree to investigate. They find a Lens, a view to a parallel dimension, and get transported to a wacky place of shimmering colors. <br /><br />The twins are lost with flying stump scooters, talking bushes, and two-headed animals. When they meet a friendly race of inhabitants, they are told about the advanced Pyonians who snatch up humans through the Lens' for genetic experiments to make their population stronger and live longer. The Pyonians know where every Lens is, and they have Humadar to hunt humans. Haley and Wyatt want to find the nearest Len without becoming their next genetic victims.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-58486885069370672932010-08-19T14:56:00.024-04:002010-08-19T14:56:00.024-04:00Title: Searching
Genre: MG Historical Fantasy
Whe...Title: Searching<br />Genre: MG Historical Fantasy<br /><br />When Dad said they were moving west to get a fresh start, twelve year old Chris had no idea she’d be plopped into the middle of a real live ghost town with a magical stick and buried secrets. All she wants is to go back home. But home is something she'll never have again since Mom died.<br /><br />The day after a ghostly figure appears beneath her window in the middle of the night, she finds a magical stick in an old Indian granary. The Stick pulls her into a destiny centuries old, from a time when Thunderbirds flew the skies. The quest falls to her to set the Thunderbird spirit free. Problem is, she’s not the only one searching for the burial chamber. So is Mr. Blackley, the Boss, and he’s not about to let anyone stand in his way of making the find of the century and becoming rich and powerful. Especially not a few dumb kids. Locked in a smelly root cellar, how can Chris save the Thunderbird spirit and send him home?<br /><br /><br />____<br />My earlier synopsis was not my 175 word version. Oops. Sorry.Traci VWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18158949570719862850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-357351437907613812010-08-19T14:50:04.011-04:002010-08-19T14:50:04.011-04:00Name:Angela
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Title: Wh...Name:Angela<br />Genre: YA Historical Fantasy<br />Title: Where The Stones Speak<br />Email: angelagoughnour@gmail.com<br /><br />Iona, clan ruler on The Isle of Virgins, hears the weathered stele as they whisper ancient truths and foretellings. But fearful she will be bound as a sibyl and forced to proclaim prophecy to the multitudes, she tells no one about the oracles she receives. <br /><br />However, when the Scrolls of Destiny are rebuked by King Tarquin of Rome and he learns of Iona’s existence, he pursues her and those she protects with his armored legions and a newly acquired weapon; Attius, a young augur with prophetic talents of his own. And the demon, Asmode, once bound by the ancient sibyl, Sheba, seeks revenge for his centuries of subdual forcing Iona to find her sacred ring of stones before she can be captured by those who seek to silence the last free sibyl. <br /><br />But Iona is unsure if man is worthy of the divine prophecy and longs to see the noble truths in man before she will sacrifice her own desires and dreams bound behind the sacred standing stones that will both protect and entrap her.angelarenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639436719051155045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-59850923198125321992010-08-19T13:46:59.738-04:002010-08-19T13:46:59.738-04:00Liz Heinecke
MERLIN'S DAUGHTER
middle grade fi...Liz Heinecke<br />MERLIN'S DAUGHTER<br />middle grade fiction<br /><br /><br />From a granite slab where she’s hanging out with her sister, Jess is literally blown away. She wakes up on an ancient stone table next to her sister Piper and a teenage boy named Will, who joined them just before they vanished. Standing stones surround them, but Jess is sure they’re not in England when they’re attacked by strange wolves. They stumble on Moonstone Castle and discover a society where the adults have been spirited away by Merlin’s son. <br /> <br />Teenage girls have taken over the stone fortress and forced the boys into servitude. Jess butts heads with teen-queen Trina and makes friends with the outcast Seila. The residents of Moonstone Castle all have horses, and Aisling, the black stallion Trina covets, chooses Jess as a companion. The jealous teenager exiles Jess and her friends to the wild mountains, where Seila leads them to her father Merlin’s magical oasis. The friends search for a magic stone as they prepare for a journey that will lead them to old England to find Merlin and his son.Liz Lee Heineckehttp://kitchenpantryscientist.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-67310153604241483222010-08-19T13:46:47.407-04:002010-08-19T13:46:47.407-04:00Name: Elan Cross
Title: Grounders
Genre: YA SF
Ema...Name: Elan Cross<br />Title: Grounders<br />Genre: YA SF<br />Email: elanlove at telus dot net<br /><br />In the last years of the nineteenth century, children work hard, abusive fathers get away with too much, and teenage girls like Drift Henry are ignored. Since Mama died, Master Henry has gotten worse, drunk, vulgar--he’s a cussed fool. But what can Drift do? She needs a way out. That’s when Ollie contacts her. A boy from the sky city, Chalcis, Ollie promises her a better life: the life of a Peacemaker, one of the most prestigious paths in the game of Grounders. After being thrust into her first task, Drift becomes Ollie’s Grounder.<br />She trades her huffing corset and plug-ugly dress for a defensefiber one-piece. And she meets the fourth most highly rated Grounder of all time: the deadly and gorgeous, Mateo Knave. At first Drift’s life improves, but when the prince of Chalcis himself presents her with a glorious, unprecedented task, she must choose whether to complete it (and murder millions of people in the process) or face the consequence of failure. Unfortunately for Drift, when tasks go unfinished, Grounders are expendable.Elan Crosshttp://www.elancross.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-65532256987520535982010-08-19T13:38:59.524-04:002010-08-19T13:38:59.524-04:00Author: Britt Leigh
Genre/Word Count: YA/ 30K
Titl...Author: Britt Leigh<br />Genre/Word Count: YA/ 30K<br />Title: Shot on the Wing<br />Email: bschlorff@gmail.com<br /><br />A high school senior journalist probably won’t win the Pulitzer Prize. But feisty Angela Bennett will make headlines when she exposes the seedy underbelly of high school basketball recruitment. Her assignment: the BirchDown BullDogs (and as Angela will tell you, not capitalizing the “d” is a fact error). The Dogs are the town’s saving grace, but not how Angela envisioned launching her reporting career. But the cute JV star at least gets her romantic life on the court. <br /><br />When Angela accidentally leaves her still-hot tape recorder in the office after an interview with the varsity coach, she stumbles onto a college recruitment scandal involving sex, money, and drugs. Angela must then prove her story, face the repercussions at school and from Ian, and then later in the community, state, and even nation. Everyone’s versions of truth are presented through different media – class notes, bathroom wall graffiti, social networking media, and even news scrawl. With all of these sources, it’s ultimately up to you to decide who has the real message.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-3647207644556791152010-08-19T13:38:38.230-04:002010-08-19T13:38:38.230-04:00Name: Michelle
Title: Fried Liver
Genre: MG Conte...Name: Michelle <br />Title: Fried Liver<br />Genre: MG Contemporary<br />Email: mlbrown90@att.net<br /><br />For the first time since his mom went AWOL, life is finally looking up for Mike McTavish. When he and his Air Force father land in Wichita, they meet a mysterious mutt. Mike's always wanted a dog, and in Sergeant he finds the first friend he won't have to leave. <br /><br />Then Mike collides with quirky Carma, who appears and claims the dog, Woofus, belongs to her. She also claims to be the state's top chess player. The McTavish men are all about chess, and Mike's dad gives aid and comfort to the enemy by asking Carma to stay with them and attend chess camp while her mother is abroad. When it seems Mike's life can't get any worse, his mom shows up after three years. His dad sends her away, and Mike follows her on his bike and ends up in the hospital with a head injury. Carma makes a sacrificial move to help Mike reunite his parents, but it may be too late for these "gambit pawns" to save the game.Michelle L. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18144191129362767115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-9422465988232395162010-08-19T13:32:54.487-04:002010-08-19T13:32:54.487-04:00Shelliep
YA/Historical
THE LAST STATIONMASTER
Me...Shelliep<br />YA/Historical<br />THE LAST STATIONMASTER<br /><br /> Meet Nate Daniels, a fifteen-year-old middle-class African-American with a reputation for pranks. His parents worries he's becoming a juvenile delinquent and send him to his grandparents' North Carolina farm for the summer. But soon after he arrives, Nate uncovers a long kept family secret.<br /><br /> Nate learns the farm has been passed through the family since antebellum times. He questions how his African-American forefathers ran the farm during slavery, but no one wants to talk about it.<br /><br /> With laptop and cell phone privileges revoked, Nate's efforts to research the farm's history stalls until he meets Hannah and her brother. The snooping trio uncovers a link between the farm and the Underground Railroad. Good, right? But more research suggests that Nate's very distant and very black grandfather owned slaves.<br /><br /> Things get complicated when Nate finds an accused terrorist hiding on the farm. But when the terrorist saves Nate's life, it convinces Nate he's innocent. To evade disaster Nate must discover the secrets of the farm, deliver the terrorist to safety, and become THE LAST STATIONMASTER.http://www.samposey.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/16689027309415722271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-18503315718507878952010-08-19T13:23:44.745-04:002010-08-19T13:23:44.745-04:00Name: Cheryl
Title: Nikko's Bond
Genre: YA sci...Name: Cheryl<br />Title: Nikko's Bond<br />Genre: YA sci-fi<br /><br />Nikko has never left the nursery. He’s never been to the corner store, or met anyone from the outside – not even his parents. Nikko is a host, a child bred to symbiotically support a Guardian. He’s lived his entire life with a single goal: prepare for the moment when he and his symbiont become one. The emotional connection to a Guardian is deep—and most hosts do not bond with other humans—but Nikko is different. With his merge only days away, Nikko must leave the nursery and say goodbye to the person he loves as much as his symbiont, his best friend Samatia.<br /><br />Unwilling to face the future without Sam, Nikko concocts a risky strategy to bring her along. His plan succeeds, but what began as a means of staying together becomes a death sentence for Sam when her symbiont dies. Torn between friendship and desire, Nikko must decide: merge with his symbiont and become truly whole, or save Sam and spend the rest of his life crippled—and a fugitive from his Guardian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-8791813084987531612010-08-19T13:15:23.569-04:002010-08-19T13:15:23.569-04:00Name: Carrie Dair
Title: CONTROL LINE
Genre: YA co...Name: Carrie Dair<br />Title: CONTROL LINE<br />Genre: YA contemporary<br /><br />Kate McCormac's life is out of control. And her summer doesn't look too promising either. When fire steals the life of Kate's father, it takes more than its fair share, forcing Kate to move from the lush beaches of California to the barren desert of Panaca, Nevada where she'll be living with her Grandma and a herd of cows. Kate must now rise to the challenge of starting life anew while dealing with the horrors of her past. Especially those she has held secret from the last summer she spent with her Grandma.<br /><br />Betrayed by the government and haunted by the memory of her father, Kate's one hope seems to lie in her friend Grant who knows her better than she does herself, but there's only one problem. He's a fire fighter, just like her father. And his attempts to save her life just might result in her final undoing. Can Kate find hope in a world that's quickly falling apart? And can she resist her feelings for Grant before they both lose control?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-76178460855757004012010-08-19T13:09:30.609-04:002010-08-19T13:09:30.609-04:00Name: Jessica Love
Title: Giving In
Genre: YA Cont...Name: Jessica Love<br />Title: Giving In<br />Genre: YA Contemporary<br />E-mail: jessica.love at gmail<br /><br />Chelsea Park has been kicked off of dance team for hazing, even though she swears it wasn’t a big deal. Now, to fill the empty elective in her schedule so she can graduate and keep her strict Korean father happy, pretty and popular Chelsea finds herself in the place she never expected to be her senior year – drama class. <br /><br />She has her own dorky secret (no one knows how much time she spends playing video games), but she still feels out of place with the outspoken, brightly colored drama crew. Plus, the sister of the girl she hazed hates her, her dance friends have abandoned her, and there are three very different, very dorky boys she finds herself drawn to.<br /><br />Soon Chelsea finds unexpected home on stage but is still too embarrassed to tell anyone about her new life. It’s not until her popular girl tricks backfire and she discovers the truth about the hazing that she makes the most important discovery: that it’s high time that she makes peace with her inner dork.Jessica Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382996481558671385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-90427927925100849152010-08-19T13:02:23.855-04:002010-08-19T13:02:23.855-04:00Name: Laurel Amberdine
Title: Tattered Sky
Genre: ...Name: Laurel Amberdine<br />Title: Tattered Sky<br />Genre: YA SF<br />Email: amberdine@gmail.com<br /><br />Civilization has been destroyed by a time travel experiment gone wrong. Now every day the sky rips open to show scenes from lives that have never been, showering the world in radiation. Electronics no longer work, mutations abound, and day-by-day, humanity is dying off. <br /><br />17-year-old Avilon Dex lives in a disused hunting lodge with her mother and little sister. All they want is to be left alone, but when a group of tyrants kidnaps her sister, Avilon learns there is more to her family that she ever realized. Avilon’s mother admits that the little girl is not her daughter — she might not even be human. She appeared the night the sky tore open, seeming to replace an infant born two nights earlier, dead. With her only help a handsome, mysterious rebel, Avilon must rescue a little girl who might not be her sister, but may be the only hope of saving the world.Laurel Amberdinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176533448565008889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-36853259166795337332010-08-19T13:01:52.017-04:002010-08-19T13:01:52.017-04:00• Your name: Larissa
• Title: LURE
• Genre: YA
• P...• Your name: Larissa<br />• Title: LURE<br />• Genre: YA<br />• Pitch:<br />Fifteen-year-old Mitch would rather pound a nail through his thumb than read, so when everyone in his small South Dakota town starts obsessing over a book, he hopes the craze will pass quickly. But Lure is no ordinary book—soon teachers are stopping class to read, and Mitch's mom forgets to make dinner as she turns the pages. <br /><br />Before long, it seems only Mitch and his best friend Jen have avoided getting sucked in—and the situation has become more dire. The streets are empty. People aren't eating or drinking. When Mitch's dad is injured, he continues to read through the pain, and the hospital is full of nurses and doctors absorbed in Lure, their jobs forgotten. Even as Mitch and Jen realize the town is reading itself to death, Jen succumbs to the book's pull, leaving Mitch alone. He must find Lure's secret ... or lose everyone he loves.Larissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08874147599272424056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-75010573095165304232010-08-19T12:57:02.751-04:002010-08-19T12:57:02.751-04:00Your name: DK Burrow
The title of your project: ...Your name: DK Burrow<br />The title of your project: Into the Shadows<br />The genre of your project: YA Fantasy<br />E-mail: sent to Kidlit<br /><br />A world cloaked in darkness... A family buried in secrets.... Cassie Hughes doesn't understand why her recurring dreams cause her mother such panic. They've moved more often than Cassie cares to remember. Just as it seems her family will stay in one place for an entire year, the dream intrudes again. Her mother has always said there's nothing to the dream; but when a stranger arrives at her doorstep, she learns of her hidden past.<br /><br />Forced to leave everything she knows behind as she journeys to a world she doesn't remember, Cassie is the first of the hidden children called home. One of the last of the Powerful, Cassie must learn to harness her powers by herself. If she can't, both her worlds are in danger.D. K. Burrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379287712367806712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-13849369891161945292010-08-19T12:53:52.423-04:002010-08-19T12:53:52.423-04:00When Bee transferred schools to watch over her sel...When Bee transferred schools to watch over her self harming sister Matilda, she gave up her charmed life with perfect friends and popularity. One misplaced love letter and too tight pair of jeans later, Bee becomes the latest victim of school bully and narcissist Chris. Chris takes an instant interest in her and decides to make Bee his girlfriend, whether she wants to or not. After rescuing her from the weird scenarios he places her—harrassment by the school sluts, bullies, and Romeos-Bee and Chris begin an awkward friendship. After a Chris ordered attack leaves Bee bruised and bloody, Chris confesses that he has been behind her horrible experiences at Forrester High. They begin a truce until he targets her best friend and boyfriend, ultimately revealing that he hasn’t been the one calling the shots all along. <br /><br />LIKE, LOVE, & LOATHING is a 55,000 word young adult contemporary novel that follows sixteen year old Bee Hewlett as she falls in and out of like, love, and hate, and starts a bizarre relationship with the person making her life hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-74984641223267773072010-08-19T12:50:48.583-04:002010-08-19T12:50:48.583-04:00Bethany Morrow
The Last Life Of Avrilis
YA Steampu...Bethany Morrow<br />The Last Life Of Avrilis<br />YA Steampunk Dystopian<br />Bethany.Morrow@ymail.com<br /><br />Sixteen-year-old Avrilis is an orphaned Sentient living at the end of the age. Like all her kind, she is aware that time replays itself and that the slightest change will make her one of the hunted – the Sentient guilty of deviating from the repetition. When she saves the life of a street urchin meant to die, the two discover the Sentient Underground – and that the father she believed dead is the prophet with a plan to end the world for good. Now Avrilis must uncover the truth about her family, stay one step ahead of the hunters and the end of the world and choose between the boy whose life she saved and the one she’s loved in lives before.Bethany C Morrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680443616002300791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8005062827798430682.post-20812087391567297802010-08-19T12:46:32.609-04:002010-08-19T12:46:32.609-04:00Name: Laura Diamond
Title: SHARP'S BLOOD
Genre...Name: Laura Diamond<br />Title: SHARP'S BLOOD<br />Genre: YA Dystopian<br />E-mail: laurabdiamond@yahoo.com <br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Justin Sharp's blood is poisonous, even to bloodsucking immortals. As an anemic, he's an outcast in a world ruled by fanged immortals who see him as a death sentence if they drink him dry. But one cruel bloodsucker, Eric, knows that anemic blood, in small doses, gives a drug-like high, and he wants to keep Justin as a source for his addiction. Justin has no intention of being a personal pharmacy for Eric, especially when the leech is responsible for the death of his kid sister. He's got a great plan to kill Eric—overdose him with his own blood—but he’s got to figure out how to get close enough to do it without losing his own life in the process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com