tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post853216361519015826..comments2023-12-02T05:59:27.143-05:00Comments on YAtopia: Agent Contest with Vickie MotterSM Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03546994863993080465noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-78079687468777431722011-07-20T16:32:39.940-04:002011-07-20T16:32:39.940-04:00Name: Sarah Fiete
Email: sarahfiete@gmail.com
MS N...Name: Sarah Fiete<br />Email: sarahfiete@gmail.com<br />MS Name: BRINK OF LIFE<br />MS Word Count: 80,000<br />Genre: YA Science Fiction<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): http://theworldislookingstrange.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-agent-competition.html and http://twitter.com/#!/SareeseFeet<br />Pitch: Two half-plant, half-human girls called Opals struggle to stay one step ahead of their creator, a cruel man they only know as Dr. Pinecone. Desperate to rescue the doctor’s remaining creations, they recruit Della and Wynne, a couple of suburban teenagers who agree to journey with the Opals and help them unravel the mysteries of Project Zirconia. But if they're going to tackle this underground science organization, they must be prepared to deal with lies, loss, and a few last acts of desperation along the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-72190562451152568202011-07-20T16:16:24.852-04:002011-07-20T16:16:24.852-04:00Name: Amber Hackstadt
Email: amhackstadt dot hotma...Name: Amber Hackstadt<br />Email: amhackstadt dot hotmail.com<br />MS Name: Unnatural<br />MS Word Count:60,000<br />Genre:YA sci/fi fantasy<br />Promotion link: http://twitter.com/#!/Am777<br />Pitch: Imagine a world where being a super hero is the norm, cities are built in the clouds and the cliché the sky is the limit doesn’t apply anymore. Genetic manipulation has made being a super human an everyday thing, except for Samantha. She was the last ‘natural breed’ born, left to fend the teenage years by herself, scavenging the abandoned cities on ground level.am777https://www.blogger.com/profile/15993980618361422198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-66607655943332269202011-07-19T17:39:59.443-04:002011-07-19T17:39:59.443-04:00Mark Fenger
mfenger at shaw dot ca
Aetherstorm
80k...Mark Fenger<br />mfenger at shaw dot ca<br />Aetherstorm<br />80k<br />Steampunk<br />http://brassbolts.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Eighteen-year-old Konrad Adler is forced from a flying city above a dystopian past-Earth. He must find his way back to confront a mad scientist before his experiment destroys the world. To succeed, he'll have to overcome his own arrogance and anger, make friends in unlikely places, fly by zeppelin across the Atlantic and back -- battling sky-pirates and mutinous crew -- and learn to take the hard road, no matter the toll on himself or his friends.Mark Fengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01922616270777907779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-16985277125564992262011-07-19T12:22:14.775-04:002011-07-19T12:22:14.775-04:00Theresa Pocock
theresapocockatgmaildotcome
BLOOD O...Theresa Pocock<br />theresapocockatgmaildotcome<br />BLOOD OF THE GODS<br />80,000<br />Urban Fantasy<br />wearegoddessess.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Eighteen-year-old Julia is clueless about a few vital facts: first, she is directly related to the ancient Persian Goddess of Love; second, a new generation of these Gods have reached adulthood, and are living on earth to complete a sort of godly 'practicum'; third, Julia's inherited bit of immortality enables her to withstand the powers these Gods use to rule mortals. <br /><br />Ignorance is great, until Julia becomes stranded with the Gods of Darkness and Death who conclude there is but one way to solve their problems, they must kidnap Julia and use her as a mortal sacrifice. If they don't, their latest deadly gambit might just fail and with it the opportunity to totally control humankind.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562424300090430257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-45033331616679665242011-07-18T19:03:00.829-04:002011-07-18T19:03:00.829-04:00Name:
Email: janaya75@hotmail.com
MS Name: MAGNETI...Name:<br />Email: janaya75@hotmail.com<br />MS Name: MAGNETIC<br />MS Word Count: 81,000 words<br />Genre: paranormal YA<br />Promotional Link: (Twitter) http://twitter.com/#!/janaya75/status/93089535910612992<br /><br />Pitch: It's bad enough when seventeen year-old wild child and self-described rock star Carly Reynolds discovers she’s a paranormal medium. But things go from bad to to worse with the news that Carly's grandmother's spirit has been taken by a group of soul-stealing rogue mediums. When the soul-stealers mark Carly as their next target, embracing the abnormal-paranormal is the only way to keep herself alive.Jeanmarie Anayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15444097096666633756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-22812601923629672812011-07-18T15:37:19.060-04:002011-07-18T15:37:19.060-04:00Name: Lisa Basso
Email: LisaMarieBasso(at)yahoo(do...Name: Lisa Basso<br />Email: LisaMarieBasso(at)yahoo(dot)com<br />MS Name: ANGEL SIGHT<br />MS Word Count: 67,000<br />Genre: YA Urban Fantasy<br />Promotion link: http://twitter.com/#!/LisaMBasso/status/93041326769184768<br />Pitch:<br /><br />When sixteen-year-old Rayna “Ray” Evans spots two angels—one with midnight black wings—nearly four months after her release from the Sunflower Sanitarium, she thinks she’s going crazy again, until she discovers her classmate dead from a supposed suicide. With all signs pointing to the angels, Ray must uncover the truth to save the rest of her school from the same fate. But protecting her friends—and enemies—means not only working with the angels but also trusting them; jeopardizing her heart and her sanity.Lisa B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11499350159201423248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-60101978387108509372011-07-17T19:09:34.213-04:002011-07-17T19:09:34.213-04:00Name: Linsey Miller
Email: Miller.Linsey@gmail.com...Name: Linsey Miller<br />Email: Miller.Linsey@gmail.com<br />MS Name: The Ashen Prince<br />MS Word Count: 73,000<br />Genre: Young Adult Fantasy<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): http://thenationsofthread.tumblr.com/post/7738278320/a-wonderful-agent-contest-with-vickie-motter<br />Pitch: <br />Adalmund knows that she can’t stop a war with only some magic and her scarf. For the first time she’ll need a partner, but the man calling himself ‘Peace’, a well-intentioned but misguided revolutionary, isn’t who she wanted. To succeed she’ll have to put aside her pride and her life, and Adalmund won’t allow herself to fail whatever the cost.L.M. Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834881688010514126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-38170944533755446542011-07-16T13:51:44.355-04:002011-07-16T13:51:44.355-04:00Name: Lyla Lee (L.N. Lee on the blog followers lis...Name: Lyla Lee (L.N. Lee on the blog followers list)<br />Email: naseoullee@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Nocturne<br />MS Word Count: 97 K<br />Genre: YA Urban Fantasy<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): http://twitter.com/#!/han_liz/status/92286767050391552<br />Pitch: Life isn't easy when you're being stalked by a demon. Eighteen-year-old Gabriel Durante should know; he's been trailed by one for seven years. Now, as stakes only become higher and he starts to lose his humanity, Gabriel must team up with a fashionista and the Angel of Death to kill the demon and win back his life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-11347882176221049632011-07-16T01:52:45.337-04:002011-07-16T01:52:45.337-04:00Promotion Link: http://twitter.com/#!/kellyfillius...Promotion Link: http://twitter.com/#!/kellyfillius<br />Sorry :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991881521111117702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-40890007061939575032011-07-15T23:22:00.035-04:002011-07-15T23:22:00.035-04:00Name: Theresa Milstein
Email: tmilstein at gmail d...Name: Theresa Milstein<br />Email: tmilstein at gmail dot com<br />MS Name: Naked Eye<br />MS Word Count: 68k<br />Genre: YA Urban Fantasy<br />Promotion Link: Facebook<br /><br />Pitch:<br /><br />While running with scissors, seventh-grader, Lucienne trips and loses her eye. By age sixteen, she gets more than she bargained for with her prosthetic eye when she magically sees her workaholic mother lie, and the truth is revealed in fancy script. Lucienne must figure out the truth behind the magical eye, and she’ll need to use the same magic that created her lie-seeing eye to save her friends and herself.Theresa Milsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03477761307315565259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-25703817984129340202011-07-15T19:26:23.633-04:002011-07-15T19:26:23.633-04:00Name: Pam Vickers
Email: pjv2001@att.net
MS Name: ...Name: Pam Vickers<br />Email: pjv2001@att.net<br />MS Name: No Longer My World<br />MS Word Count: 60,000<br />Genre: YA speculative thriller<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): http://twitter.com/Pam_Vickers/status/92009623539818496<br /><br />Pitch:<br /><br />When 17-year-old Kimmy is kidnapped by rebels, she finds her loyalty for the alien invaders that raised her and her love for the leader’s son tested as she realizes the perfect new world order might not be as it seems. Human girls are dying because of an alien government experiment run by her adopted father and it becomes clear Kimmy is the only one who can solve the problem. But which race will she choose to save: the aliens that rescued the Earth from destruction or what remains of the humans that caused it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-30441075395890333112011-07-15T15:26:20.901-04:002011-07-15T15:26:20.901-04:00Name: C. Lind (lindy)
E-mail: lindylegend@gmail.co...Name: C. Lind (lindy)<br />E-mail: lindylegend@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Bound<br />MS Word Count: 99,487<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion Link: www.lindylegend.blogspot.com<br /><br />When 16-year-old Lillian Riece discovers she can read minds, she’s given the clue needed to uncover her fathers true identity-he must be one of a select group of telepathic, law making judges known as Magistrates. Determined to know why her father had broken the law he was supposed to enforce—procreating outside of marriage, leaving her illegitimate, and the only one around to pay for his mistake—she sets off on a mission to find him. But on Celadir, Earth’s sister planet, where Magistrates rule supreme, punk kids digging around in their dirty laundry aren’t kindly looked upon, and Lillian quickly finds herself paying more than she’s willing to give.lindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715499969607564911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-91371321170904632832011-07-15T02:36:18.164-04:002011-07-15T02:36:18.164-04:00Kelly Fillius
kellyfillius@att.net
LIFE IS CLASSIC...Kelly Fillius<br />kellyfillius@att.net<br />LIFE IS CLASSIC<br />89,500<br />Contemporary YA<br /><br />Modern teen meets classic lit when seventeen-year-old relationship self-saboteur, Jess Kaplan, falls in with the beautifully confident RJ Montag. Despite his sexy just-got-out-of-the-pool-and-shook-my-head hair and his wild intuition, Kaplans do not consort with Montags. Caught in a paradox of passion and sabotage, she attempts to destroy the relationship’s potential; experience tells her he will leave anyway—just like her father did, and she had only herself to blame.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991881521111117702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-36114830176584294262011-07-14T16:27:28.251-04:002011-07-14T16:27:28.251-04:00The Nymph's Heart is a Urban Fantasy.The Nymph's Heart is a Urban Fantasy.William Rombolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15148745398217740512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-39336861166437591802011-07-14T14:35:26.368-04:002011-07-14T14:35:26.368-04:00William Rombola
wrombola@yahoo.com
The Nymph's...William Rombola<br />wrombola@yahoo.com<br />The Nymph's Heart<br />97,000 words<br />http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1008117377<br />The Fountain of Youth is buried beneath Miami. Two immortals battle to control the sacred waters. Juan Ponce De Leon desires only power and endless life, while Louisa Ramirez seeks release from her immortality so she might spend a single lifetime with the woman she loves.William Rombolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15148745398217740512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-12628447503882778892011-07-14T12:53:16.926-04:002011-07-14T12:53:16.926-04:00Name: Jenny Kaczorowski
Email: jenny.kaczorowski@g...Name: Jenny Kaczorowski<br />Email: jenny.kaczorowski@gmail.com<br />MS Name: GUARDIAN<br />MS Word Count: 64,000<br />Genre: YA Paranormal<br />Promotion link: http://jennykaczorowski.blogspot.com/2011/07/agent-contest-with-yatopia.html<br />Pitch:<br /><br />Emma sees things other people don’t. Now her best friend is dead and her visions are coming true. Suddenly thrown into the centuries old conflict between the Guardians, a secret order dedicated to protecting mankind from the supernatural, and a creature known as a Soul-Eater, Emma must embrace her gift or loose everything she holds dearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-74240641468409062362011-07-14T12:42:51.650-04:002011-07-14T12:42:51.650-04:00Name: Antoinette Bergin
Email: antoinettebergin@gm...Name: Antoinette Bergin<br />Email: antoinettebergin@gmail.com<br />MS Name: BEDTIME STORIES FOR CHILDREN YOU HATE <br />MS Word Count:11,500<br />Genre:Short Stories/Comedy/Dark Humor<br />Promotion link http://chitchatwithnettiebergin.blogspot.com/<br />Pitch:Hate cute stories? Hate happy endings? Hate children? Not quite right in the head? If so, this deliciously twisted storybook is dedicated just to you.Antoinette Berginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06831008015403362484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-67171995502289694282011-07-14T12:19:41.593-04:002011-07-14T12:19:41.593-04:00Name: Emily McKeon
Email: ERMcKeon@gmail.com
MS Na...Name: Emily McKeon<br />Email: ERMcKeon@gmail.com<br />MS Name: DOWN THE WOODED PATH<br />MS Word Count: 50000<br />Genre: Fantasy based in Reality<br />Promotion link: https://twitter.com/#!/ERMcKeon<br />Pitch: Cindy Smith should be living a fairytale life. Trouble is, she's living in the real world and it's falling down around her. With her best friend Benny's help, can she finally learn that she needs to live her life from moment to moment and find her own fairy tale?Emily McKeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10063427212767372372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-65957407377799791232011-07-14T12:06:00.309-04:002011-07-14T12:06:00.309-04:00Name: Jessica LeSaicherre
Email: j.lesaicherre@hot...Name: Jessica LeSaicherre<br />Email: j.lesaicherre@hotmail.com<br />MS Name: IN IRONS<br />MS Word Count: 60,000<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link)http://momandclosetwriter.blogspot.com/2011/07/agent-contest-with-vickie-motter.html<br />Pitch:<br /><br /><br />Have her first kiss, get a boyfriend and make new friends was what Liz Kavanagh hoped would happen this year. But when she finds out her family’s secret, that she comes from a family of faery warriors, she realizes this year will not go as she hoped. And when her two world’s almost collide she fears that to protect the people she cares about, Liz may have to give up the things she wanted most.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15266768293318241499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-88599364704337463902011-07-14T11:06:17.250-04:002011-07-14T11:06:17.250-04:00Name: Esther Sparhawk
Email: esthersparhawk [at] g...Name: Esther Sparhawk<br />Email: esthersparhawk [at] gmail [dot] com<br />MS Name: SUNKIST SODAS AND SEXY UNDERWEAR<br />MS Word Count: 85,000<br />Genre: Multicultural YA <br />Promotion link: http://englishemporium.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/another-contest-for-writerly-type-people/<br /><br />Elevator pitch:<br /> <br />When pregnant seventeen-year-old Brisa Larios finds herself at her own shotgun wedding, she imagines her anonymous fiancé with a pornstache and a Chilean vaquero hat, but her actual groom, Hank Milanovich, turns out to be—¡Ahí Dios!—a young, super-hot gringo who makes the monarchs in her stomach migrate south of the border when they kiss at the altar. Hank promises to keep his “junk” in his jeans, as long as Brisa doesn’t ask why he, too, had to get married, but what is he hiding? Brisa’s bumbling detective work inadvertently uncovers Hank’s real motives for marrying her, connecting the dots to a trailer court full of weirdos, all of whom are counting on Hank and Brisa’s tenuous teen marriage in order to keep their homes.<br /><br /><br />See ya at the PNWA conference! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-24803121588101767312011-07-14T10:27:46.565-04:002011-07-14T10:27:46.565-04:00Name: Hollyann Dodd
Email: HollyannDodd@gmail.com
...Name: Hollyann Dodd<br />Email: HollyannDodd@gmail.com<br />MS Name: CURSED<br />MS Word Count: 45,000<br />Genre: YA<br />Promotion link: http://hollyanndodd.blogspot.com/2011/07/contests.html<br /><br />Pitch: There was something in the creek the day Lacey's best friend disappeared. As the one-year anniversary of the accident approaches, another girl vanishes the same way. Then another. Soon after, the dreams begin and Lacey knows whatever is in the water is coming for her next. She has to face it head-on, before she vanishes too.Holly Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08772973878053665338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-24393323521396996192011-07-14T08:16:37.320-04:002011-07-14T08:16:37.320-04:00Name: Alison Miller
Email: alisonmiller20@gmail.co...Name: Alison Miller<br />Email: alisonmiller20@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Envious<br />MS Word Count: 73,000<br />Genre: YA Paranormal<br /><br />Promotion Link: http://alisonmiller20.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-take-on-querying-and-contest.html2 <br /><br />Pitch: Seventeen-year old Becky’s best friend kills himself without leaving a note, a call. Not even a farewell text. Yet as memories of that fateful night emerge from her subconscious, she suspects she may have had something to do with his death.<br /><br /><br />Thank you for this opportunity!Alison Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12179538085536841348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-10083671882205278252011-07-14T07:41:48.723-04:002011-07-14T07:41:48.723-04:00(This entry is from someone who emailed me-she was...(This entry is from someone who emailed me-she was having trouble getting a comment to post, so I'm posting it for her.) <br /><br />Name: NS Dorrington<br />Email: nicola_dorrington@hotmail.com<br />MS Name: Edge of Reality<br />MS Word Count: 71,000<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion link: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=544340452<br />Pitch: In Edge of Reality, seventeen-year-old Cara Page discovers not only are the barriers between this world and the supposedly mythical world of Avalon crumbling, but also she is the Last Pendragon, and the only person able to stop it. But whilst Cara is trying to rebuild the barriers there are dark forces in Avalon trying to stop her. With the help of the eighteen-year-old reincarnation of the world greatest knight, Lancelot, Cara crosses the line between fantasy and reality to find a way to save one world, without destroying the other.Wendy Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01060366096097773416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-81683534151766078392011-07-14T04:23:34.941-04:002011-07-14T04:23:34.941-04:00Name: Sophia Chang
Email: sophiathewriter at gmail...Name: Sophia Chang<br />Email: sophiathewriter at gmail dot com<br />MS Name: SWEET AMBROSIA<br />MS Word Count: 51,000<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion link: http://sophiathewriter.blogspot.com/2011/07/yatopia-pitch-contest.html<br />Pitch:<br /><br />Ambrosia Wyne: half-nymph, all-nerd…destroyer of Mount Olympus. To fix things, all she has to do is <br />1) hunt down and obliterate (or firmly talk to) whoever set her up<br />2) rescue the Gods from Hades <br />3) get Almighty Titan, Helios (or, “Dad”) to love her again. <br />Baby steps.Sophia Changhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946233873722107937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-2519467462562547672011-07-14T02:02:54.494-04:002011-07-14T02:02:54.494-04:00I forgot to post my promotion link!
http://documen...I forgot to post my promotion link!<br />http://documentingimagination.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com