Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Winners are grinners!

Thanks so much to everyone who entered the Elevator Pitch Contest with Bree Ogden. We have the winners!

Full manuscript request winner:

Name: MarcyKate Connolly
Email: marcykate@gmail.com
MS Name: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE CYBORG
MS Word Count: 71K
Genre: YA science fiction
Blog: http://marcykate.com/?p=2518
Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/MarcyKate/status/88829361179996160

In my YA Sci-fi manuscript, CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE CYBORG, getting into a car accident is the second to last thing Maggie Lyons expected on prom night. The last thing she expected? Finding out she's part machine. Even worse, her parents had everything to do with it. She runs away from home, sure the worst that could happen to her is ending up as some doctor's lab rat. But when she meets the others like her, she finds out there's a lot more to be afraid of than winding up under a microscope.

Runners Up (sumbit first 50 pages):

Name: Pam Vickers
Email: pjv2001 at att dot net
MS Name: No Longer My World
MS Word Count: 60,000
Genre: YA speculative thriller
Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link):
http://twitter.com/Pam_Vickers/status/89089075377750017
Elevator pitch:
When an Earth girl raised by alien invaders falls in love with the leader’s son, her loyalties are tested as human girls start dying due to an alien government experiment.

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Name: Heidi Sinnett
Email: heidi.sinnett@gmail.com
MS Name: ECHO CITY
MS Word Count: 98,000 words
Genre: YA speculative fiction
Promotion Link: http://twitter.com/#!/heidi253/status/90775399956615169
Elevator pitch:
In my young adult, speculative fiction manuscript, fourteen-year-old Scarlett Wood has a serious germ phobia. So when she's drafted by the United American government into their pandemic flu research study at Echo City, she's positive it's a mistake. But when she's forced to participate, she and the rest of the recruits soon realize this is no mere research project. After several draftees die under brutal circumstances, Scarlett forms a desperate plan to escape Echo City, before she becomes another statistic.

The winners have already been contacted. Hopefully this leads to representation! Good luck.

6 comments:

  1. Congrats to the winners and thanks again for doing the contest! It's such a great learning experience to see all these pitches in one place, and then find out which ones catch the agent's eye.

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  2. Congrats Marcy Kate, Pam and Heidi! Best of luck!

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  3. Congrats everyone! What a great idea! Sorry I missed it. Maybe you'll have one again soon? : )

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  4. Yes, Emily - we're hoping to have more contestes next month.

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