tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post7610054559326552618..comments2023-12-02T05:59:27.143-05:00Comments on YAtopia: Elevator Pitch competition with agent Bree Ogden from Martin Literary ManagementSM Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03546994863993080465noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-20438421314045810002011-07-20T23:20:07.205-04:002011-07-20T23:20:07.205-04:00When are the announcements for the winners? It is ...When are the announcements for the winners? It is already the 21st. :PBalrogTheMasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11314421300601645568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-64365468316846605122011-07-13T22:59:55.932-04:002011-07-13T22:59:55.932-04:00Name: 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/2011/07/11/nifty-contest-for-writerly-type-people/<br /><br />Elevator pitch:<br /> <br />Seventeen-year-old Brisa’s baby isn’t due to arrive for seven months when her old-school Latino father hooks her up with a stranger. Brisa imagines her jabroni 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 gabacho 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 />BOOYAH! That’s four sentences! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-30545041404686597252011-07-13T18:54:14.696-04:002011-07-13T18:54:14.696-04:00NAME: Mark Boliek
EMail: mboliek@nc.rr.com
Title: ...NAME: Mark Boliek<br />EMail: mboliek@nc.rr.com<br />Title: The Mahogany Door - book 1 The Bruinduer Narrative<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />LINK: http://twitter.com/#!/JMarkBoliek<br />PITCH: I have a cane. It is a key. It opens a door to another world. My friend Michael NEEDS to go back. My friend Kali WANTS to forget what happened there, and I can't remember any of it. Billy won't let us rest until we make it right. I don't know what to do. Original music Soundtrack, "...very much recommended reading" - Midwest Book ReviewJMarkBoliekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818050627797858626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-1129643472411483042011-07-13T13:47:39.897-04:002011-07-13T13:47:39.897-04:00NAME: Valerie Ipson
EMAIL: vipson@cox.net
TITLE: I...NAME: Valerie Ipson<br />EMAIL: vipson@cox.net<br />TITLE: IDEAL HIGH<br />WORD COUNT: 75,000<br />GENRE: YA Contemporary<br />LINK: http://valerieipson.blogspot.com/2011/07/pitch-contest-but-it-ends-today-at.html<br />PITCH: Ideal High is anything but. It's a place where cliques and bullies flourish, but also a place with a student body president determined to make things right. After the tragic deaths of many of her A-lister friends, Taryn Young sets aside her own pain to lift an entire school out of theirs.Valerie Ipsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958210886138097232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-43892830388501354262011-07-13T09:11:19.583-04:002011-07-13T09:11:19.583-04:00NAME: PK Hrezo
EMAIL: pakazo77@gmail.com
MS NAME: ...NAME: PK Hrezo<br />EMAIL: pakazo77@gmail.com<br />MS NAME: X Dare & The Keys to Nin<br />MS WORD COUNT: 65k<br />GENRE: MG sci-fi / f<br />PROMOTION LINK: http://twitter.com/#!/PKHrezo<br /><br />PITCH: Thirteen year old Xavier Dare thinks he's played all the video games, until a mysterious tattooed man offers him a never before completed game called the Keys to Nin. Unable to resist the challenge, X finds himself transported through a wormhole to another planet in turmoil and without leaders--a place with a deep secret that only X has a direct link to.PK HREZOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11650153097981426833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-25032163996891484772011-07-13T08:43:50.924-04:002011-07-13T08:43:50.924-04:00Name: Elizabeth Reinhardt
Email: elireinhardt@gmai...Name: Elizabeth Reinhardt<br />Email: elireinhardt@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Blue Rebellion<br />MS Word Count: 85,000<br />Genre: YA Dystopia/Sci Fi<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): http://twitter.com/#!/lizreinhardt/status/91118960690475008<br /><br />Pitch: In a world where one drop of blood taken at birth determines your fate, two young rebels, Rilka and Regulus, will fight against all they’ve ever been told to discover the truth about who they really are. Regulus, a high caste soldier, and Rilka, a peasant girl with a life-altering injury, cross paths when his comrade makes an attempt on her life and he intervenes to save her. The blue eyes they both share are the first of the mysteries that force them together on a trek across Romulus to find out who they are and what their government is hiding from them.<br /><br />Thank you for the opportunity to enter!Liz Reinhardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15431422051251925133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-53569947939200086492011-07-13T07:39:34.003-04:002011-07-13T07:39:34.003-04:00Name: Jess Lawson
Email: lawson.jessica.s[at]gmail...Name: Jess Lawson<br />Email: lawson.jessica.s[at]gmail[dot]com<br />MS Name: Tripp Parker Vs. The World<br />MS Word Count: 60,000<br />Genre: Upper MG Adventure<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): http://fallingleaflets.blogspot.com/2011/07/extended-entry-list-for-agent-contest.html<br /><br />Elevator Pitch: <br />My upper middle grade adventure dumps adventure-phobic Tripplehorn Parker into the African bush with his hippo-researching parents. Once there, he faces a creepy eight-fingered woman, beasties, suspicious guides, and dried meat galore. When mysterious warnings turn up in Tripp’s backpack, he traces the popularity of hippo territory to one thing—a powerful golden idol of ancient legend that a rising number of shady characters will kill to exploit. With parents too busy to pay attention to anything without 12-inch tusks, it’s up to Tripp and a clever Ugandan girl to outwit a herd of really, really bad guys— the fate of the world may depend on it.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14121018905141253640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-1817237753397111192011-07-13T07:27:51.758-04:002011-07-13T07:27:51.758-04:00Name: Michelle Jones
Email: smjtwilson@chariot.net...Name: Michelle Jones<br />Email: smjtwilson@chariot.net.au<br />MS Name: Duck for cover, my dad's going to explode <br />MS Word Count: 13,400<br />Genre: MG humorous chapter book<br />Promotion link:http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=1481130327<br /><br />Trapped in an elevator with no way out, Jake fights to survive the terror of breathing in the haunting aroma of an elevator fart. A suspicion has formed in his mind that an alien army has taken over his fathers body, and were using everything at their disposal to wage a war of escape. It started as a few simple sneezes, then before Jake knew it, he was ducking for cover from his fathers pulsating puss filled pimples.<br />Doomed to have no control over his bodily functions, his father must experience the humiliation of exploding in the grossest ways possible, from shooting potentially deadly snot of mass destruction to stomach churning projectile vomiting. The aliens even tried climbing to freedom through the dense jungle of his nasal passages, with a soggy piece of spaghetti.chellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01086218886174666877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-5703760047964406452011-07-13T03:46:49.950-04:002011-07-13T03:46:49.950-04:00Name: Tonja Drecker
Email: thedreckerclan@live.de
...Name: Tonja Drecker<br />Email: thedreckerclan@live.de<br />MS Name: Just Justice<br />MS Word Count: 32,000<br />Genre: MG Horror (light)<br />Promotion link: http://tonjadrecker.blogspot.com/2011/07/yatopia-offers-elevator-pitch-contest.html<br /><br />My middle-grade ghost story hooks a 10-year-old troublemaker, Tad, up with the answer to all problems: a 'genie-in-the-bottle' website. His wishes are coming true, but something isn’t quite right. His luck seems to come out of other people's misfortunes, while a mysterious girl claims to be the one behind it all. She’ll give him anything he wants in return for one thing, his friendship. As disasters pile up around him, Tad becomes sure that this is the last thing he wants to give her - but then, she’s not really giving him a choice.Tonja Dreckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07683717853264134466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-85233226856691168822011-07-13T00:46:23.248-04:002011-07-13T00:46:23.248-04:00Thanks so much Yatopia and Bree for this awesome o...Thanks so much Yatopia and Bree for this awesome opportunity! <br /><br />Name: Louisa Clarkson<br />Email: lc7ultraviolet@gmail.com<br />MS Name: The Silver Strand<br />MS Word Count: 55,000<br />Genre: MG Fantasy with Sci-fi elements.<br />Promotion link: http://louisaclarkson.blogspot.com/2011/07/elevator-pitch-contest-with-bree-ogden.html and post on YA Novel Workshop on writing.com<br />Elevator pitch: Twelve year old Isabelle Tresdon doesn’t have a magical bone in her body – but she does have a freaky, silver strand of hair connected to magical powers, enabling her to transform energy into matter. When the strand drains her of magic and life, she trusts two silver-stranded tricksters to help revive it. If she'd of known she’d be surviving as a toad for two days and dodging her toad loathing father’s garden spade, challenging a grumpy dragon threatening to roast her on a spit, or shooting a feather into a dartboard, then she wouldn’t have agreed. The trouble is these tricksters aren’t helping Isabelle out of the kindness of their hearts, and what they need from her exposes family secrets and threatens more than her survival.Louisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01941582936222540090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-44628100603763856152011-07-13T00:16:07.583-04:002011-07-13T00:16:07.583-04:00Name: Kara Wolf (Followed under pen name: K. Kazul...Name: Kara Wolf (Followed under pen name: K. Kazul Wolf)<br />Email: sakuraxsyaoran9@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Rain<br />MS Word Count: 99k<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion link: http://k-kazul-wolf.tumblr.com/post/7537456571/sooooo<br />Elevator pitch:<br /> 300 years ago, the world ended. Cities have crumbled. The creatures that once kept nature in balance are vicious, mutinous beasts, and the human race is an endangered species. This is the world Kawelu was born into.<br /> Kawelu has always been a fighter – it’s how she was able to earn herself a spot in a migrating tribe, a tribe that became her life. After years of struggling alone in the unforgiving wilderness, it’s an easy devotion.<br /> But then comes Frey.<br /> The moment she laid eyes on the tall young man with the blazing blue eyes she knew something was wrong, his humanity lacking. But the same rules that allowed her to join apply to any stranger needing the tribe’s shelter.<br /> Frey was permitted into the tribe and put into Kawelu’s care, making it near impossible for her to eliminate the threat. How can she rescue her tribe without falling prey to him herself?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14357599929148085197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-87546505918142494682011-07-12T17:49:51.943-04:002011-07-12T17:49:51.943-04:00Name: John Blankershmithenhosen
Email: blankersmit...Name: John Blankershmithenhosen<br />Email: blankersmithenhosen@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Why Fairies and Elves are a Stupid Idea for a Book<br />MS Word Count- >9000<br />Genre: Those wrapped books in your local Borders<br />Promotion: http://nobrain.dk<br /><br />Elevator Pitch: Who throws baseballs in an elevator? My book is about why fairies are a terrible idea for a book (See Betsy Love and S Kyle Davis). It involves one-on-one therapy sessions for the mentally unstable and for druggies who just can't help writing books on a high.Read a real man's book, not one with wings and magical gay powers :)BalrogTheMasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11314421300601645568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-63730354094349246472011-07-12T16:02:19.404-04:002011-07-12T16:02:19.404-04:00Name: Kurt Chambers
Email: authortruthteller@googl...Name: Kurt Chambers<br />Email: authortruthteller@googlemail.com<br />MS Name: Unknown Reality<br />MS Word Count: 46,000 words<br />Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy/Sci-Fi<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link) http://geniusborderinginsanity.blogspot.com/2011/07/writing-competitions-kurt-chambers.html<br /><br /><br />Elevator pitch: Eleven-year-old Chloe gasps in awe at the magical splendour of the theatre performance, but her excitement soon vanishes during an autograph hunt and an encounter with the baddie from the show. His unbelievable claim of a flawed universe freaks her out. That is the start of the unexplainable events that threaten to destroy the only reality she has ever known. Then, one night, they come for her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-31329677969050215252011-07-12T15:14:26.926-04:002011-07-12T15:14:26.926-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14121018905141253640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-53565514631402517922011-07-12T14:57:41.369-04:002011-07-12T14:57:41.369-04:00Just wanted to post a link to another great post o...Just wanted to post a link to another great post on Pitch University for those still working on their submission: http://networkedblogs.com/kjB6I<br /><br />Good luck, everyone!Angelica R. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09448717076699744259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-91798045097844218772011-07-12T13:24:29.562-04:002011-07-12T13:24:29.562-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-14519303430299028222011-07-12T11:11:21.685-04:002011-07-12T11:11:21.685-04:00What a fab opportunity - thanks for hosting! BTW, ...What a fab opportunity - thanks for hosting! BTW, I'm a long time follower and I tweeted about this contest!<br /><br />Name: Erin L. Schneider<br />Email: elschneider@hotmail.com<br />MS Name: THE LUCKY FEW<br />MS Word Count: 89,000<br />Genre: YA Contemporary Thriller<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link): Twitter handle @elschneid <br />(http://twitter.com/#!/elschneid)<br />Elevator pitch:<br /><br />In my Young Adult contemporary thriller, luck contributes to only part of the equation. For over six hundred years, 99.9% of the world’s most powerful and influential leaders, scientists, CEOs - and yes, even most of Hollywood’s elite – successfully achieved greatness because of one thing…they were chosen. When a mysterious invitation shows up at sixteen-year-old Blakely Sullivan’s door, she can’t help but wonder what she’s gotten herself into now. Little does she know, she’s the next in line.Erin L. Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724907482299321322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-66047155690806494722011-07-12T10:01:24.177-04:002011-07-12T10:01:24.177-04:00Name: Miriam Caldwell
Email: miriam.caldwell (at)g...Name: Miriam Caldwell<br />Email: miriam.caldwell (at)gmail.com<br />Title: Dreaming Isis<br />Word Count: 57,000<br />Genre: YA Contemporary Fantasy<br />Promotion Link: http://mimsicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/07/2-agent-contests.html<br /><br />Elevator Pitch:<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Isis discoverers she’s the dreamer--someone with the power to control people through their dreams--but as she learns to harness her power she must choose between two warring magical societies, and between saving her cousin or following the boy who understands it all.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08685941102691667990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-6499453886738344172011-07-12T09:40:19.154-04:002011-07-12T09:40:19.154-04:00Name: Heidi Sinnett
Email: heidi.sinnett@gmail.com...Name: Heidi Sinnett<br />Email: heidi.sinnett@gmail.com<br />MS Name: ECHO CITY<br />MS Word Count: 98,000 words<br />Genre: YA speculative fiction<br />Promotion Link: http://twitter.com/#!/heidi253/status/90775399956615169<br /><br />Elevator pitch:<br /><br />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.Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07265594326836770073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-71306445836628137072011-07-12T09:10:55.581-04:002011-07-12T09:10:55.581-04:00Name: Jeanmarie Anaya
Email: janaya75@hotmail.com
...Name: Jeanmarie Anaya<br />Email: janaya75@hotmail.com<br />MS Name: MAGNETIC<br />MS Word Count: 81,000 words<br />Genre: paranormal YA with a dash of sci-fi<br />Promotion link: http://jeanmarieanaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-mood-for-pitch-contest.html<br /><br />Elevator pitch:<br /><br />In my paranormal YA manuscript, seventeen-year-old Carly Reynold's life takes a dangerous turn when random strangers stalk her every move. Deciding the word “victim” is not in her vocabulary, Carly goes on the hunt for answers. Finding physics genius Javier along the way seems like a lucky distraction, until he claims he’s a paranormal medium, thanks to a vulnerable electromagnetic field. And get this--he insists she’s a medium, too. A genetic trait inherited from her dead grandmother. And her stalkers? Soul stealers intent on consuming the spiritual energy of every medium on earth. They’ve sucked the soul from her grandmother and Carly is their next target. With Javier’s support, she vows to keep herself alive and be the hero who frees her grandmother’s soul. Even if she stands to lose everything she never even knew she wanted—her life, her afterlife and Javier.Jeanmarie Anayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15444097096666633756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-24095752321463478012011-07-12T01:37:01.188-04:002011-07-12T01:37:01.188-04:00Name: 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: 79,000<br />Genre: YA Science Fiction<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link):<br />http://theworldislookingstrange.blogspot.com/2011/07/agent-competition.html and https://twitter.com/#!/SareeseFeet<br /><br />Elevator pitch: In my science fiction, young adult manuscript, two half-plant, half-human girls called Opals struggle to stay one step ahead of their creator, the sadistic Dr. Pinecone. Desperate to rescue the doctor’s remaining creations, they recruit Della and Wynne, two suburban teenagers who agree to journey with the Opals and help them unravel the mysteries of Project Zirconia. A hospital that hurts more than it helps, an architect who stumbled upon a murder investigation, and farmers hiding more than a secret are just some of the obstacles that they must overcome along the way. The underground world of Project Zirconia proves more gruesome, bizarre, and complex than they ever could have imagined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-45338284149326059842011-07-12T00:42:41.483-04:002011-07-12T00:42:41.483-04:00What a GREAT contest!
Name: Jenni Merritt
Email: ...What a GREAT contest!<br /><br />Name: Jenni Merritt<br />Email: jennimerritt.writing (at) gmail (dot) com<br />MS Name: Prison Nation<br />MS Word Count: 84,000<br />Genre: YA Dystopian<br />Promotion link: http://jennimerritt.blogspot.com/2011/07/yatopia-pitch-contest.html<br /><br />Elevator pitch:<br />Millie 942B was born behind bars. Raised inside one of the Nation’s city-sized prisons, Millie always believed in its strict laws and harsh punishments. Now Millie has turned 18, and has been released, only to find that the life and freedom she had always believed in aren’t what she thought they would be.Jenni Merritthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10342553894424663966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-11870105471904723152011-07-12T00:14:50.042-04:002011-07-12T00:14:50.042-04:00Name: Nicole Zoltack
Email: Nicole.Zoltack@gmail.c...Name: Nicole Zoltack<br />Email: Nicole.Zoltack@gmail.com<br />MS Name: Elena's Pen<br />MS Word Count: 80,000<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link):<br />http://twitter.com/#!/breeogden/status/89084431867977729<br /><br />Elevator pitch:<br /><br />Fifteen-year-old aspiring novelist Elena loves that whatever she writes with her magical pen comes true. But she questions the pen and its power when it writes of its own accord about a fantasy world and she learns that each time she writes with it, someone becomes a demon. After a demon kidnaps her family, Elena will do anything, even if it means giving up her power, to save her family.Nicole Zoltackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07464800543376449290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-34945781851178919772011-07-11T19:23:59.355-04:002011-07-11T19:23:59.355-04:00Thank you for the contest!
Name: Kellie
Email: 1...Thank you for the contest!<br /><br />Name: Kellie<br />Email: 1KellieM@gmail.com<br />MS Name: THE FRIEND FACTORY<br />MS Word Count: 9,000<br />Genre: Children's Chapter Book<br />Promo Link: www.tightywritie.blogspot.com<br /><br />Pitch: No friends? No problem for Brian. In my children's chapter book, Brian has just moved to a new house, a new town, and doesn't know anyone. He builds a friend making machine and through mistakes and explosions learns the right ingredients needed to make his recipe work.KellieMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12963922939036827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202274659436317634.post-4378931733454793272011-07-11T17:38:25.197-04:002011-07-11T17:38:25.197-04:00Name: Jessica LeSaicherre
Email: j.lesaicherre@hot...Name: Jessica LeSaicherre<br />Email: j.lesaicherre@hotmail.com<br />MS Name: IN IRON'S<br />MS Word Count: 60,000<br />Genre: YA Fantasy<br />Promotion link (blog, FB post or tweet link)https://twitter.com/lesaicherrej/status/90531557818900480<br />RT: https://twitter.com/publishingspy/status/89129563786977281<br />Elevator pitch:<br /><br />Liz is hoping to get a boyfriend, have her first kiss and make a few more friends. What she doesn’t count on is finding out she comes from a family of faery warriors. Liz struggles to balance her life while trying to embrace the new secret world she has been shown. When her two worlds almost collide and the people she care about are put in danger, Liz fears that she may have to walk away from the things she wants most.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15266768293318241499noreply@blogger.com