Contest is now closed! Thanks and good luck to everyone who entered! :)
Here are the details:
2. 50 entries will be accepted. Don't worry about the comments number. Not all comments are entries. We'll post when the contest is closed.
4. Please only enter once. Everyone is eligible as long as your novel is COMPLETE and you stick to the 25 word pitch limit.
5. Three finalists will be chosen from the 50 entries to submit 30 pages. Of these three finalists, one grand prize winner will be chosen to submit their FULL MANUSCRIPT!
6. UPDATE: Please also list your title and genre (these do not count as part of the 25 words). If you've already listed your entry without this info, don't worry, YOUR ENTRY IS ENTERED AND COUNTED, no need to repost the entire entry, just post another comment with this info. Thanks!!
We will close the contest once we've received 50 qualifying pitches. BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!
Justus Aubre, bar owner and occasional conjuror, dodges the other wizards until they capture the mage he loves and force her into combat. With him.
ReplyDeleteWhen Gracie Heart finds threatening notes in her circus costume, she doesn’t realize she’s the one trying to warn herself: she’s next.
ReplyDeleteA teenage girl becomes the prize in a war for galactic control when secrets to the universe’s deadliest weapon are discovered inside her genetic code.
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The Virtues want him to vanquish evil, the Sins want him to dethrone grace, and the humans caught in the messy middle...just want him dead.
To stop the suicides plaguing her school, former mental patient, sixteen-year-old Rayna confronts the two angels she’s falling for and learns the truth about herself.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this chance!
ReplyDeleteWhen spunky Minnesota twin, Nikki Dreyer, meets a genie, she must free him from his master or lose the chance of resurrecting her dead sister.
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Blake uncovers a secret high school drug scene when his pill pushing best friend turns up dead.
ReplyDeleteTitle: IN THE MIND OF A CELEBRITY STALKER
ReplyDeleteGenre: Humorous Women's Fiction - Adult
25 Word Pitch: Blocked calls and restraining orders are just a few issues Jules Ausborn runs into while journaling celebrities in hopes to straighten out her life.
Email Address: jenniferdaiker(at)gmail(dot)com
Title: Blood Thief
ReplyDeleteGenre: Paranormal Romance
Her bloodline’s reliquary stolen, vampire Celeste St. Ange must accept help from the human thief trying to steal her heart or meet her second death.
Contact info:
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Title: Riding on the Tail of the Devil
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Urban Fantasy
Homeless-teen-turned-vampre, Mathias Drvar, must fight for his life when the reigning queen demands a duel because she decides he is a threat to her rule.
e-mail: sammyig(at)rocketmail.com
Title: ROBYN HOOD
ReplyDeleteGenre: Historical YA
Disguised as a man, Robyn seeks revenge on the Sheriff of Nottingham for her father's death with help from her fiery partner in crime, John.
Email: caitie(dot)darrell(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks for another awesome contest, guys :)
Title: THE CANDLE DARK WICKED
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Paranormal Romance
To rescue friends from her comatose twin’s dark world, sixteen-year-old Teagan must sacrifice herself, or smother sleeping beauty with love--then a pillow.
SPLASHBACK
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Burnt-out but still top-ranked, Lottie wants to quit swimming. Too bad the only way to save her missing sister is to make the Olympic team.
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Title: THE HUNGRY GROUND
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Fantasy/Horror
When the entire population of a nearby city disappears overnight, aspiring detective Kalinda joins the search party. But she soon learns the city isn’t empty.
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Title: BACK TO ME
ReplyDeleteGenre: Women's Fiction
When Kate Dalton loses Jake Bailey forever she isn’t sure which is worse: facing that he wasn’t The One or that he was.
Title: A Demon's Redemption
ReplyDeleteGenre: Paranormal Romance
Lorelei redeems demons, or sends them back to hell. Azazel is a demon sent to vanquish her. Good versus evil: Who will win?
Title: Soul Without a Boy
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA urban fantasy
When London inadvertently "creates" a girl, will answers to newly raised questions about himself and his family be worth the price of the girl's soul?
TITLE: DRACAURUM
ReplyDeleteGENRE: YA Fantasy
In Medieval Spain, 16-yr-old Alejandro must steal a dragon’s treasure to save his sister from a depraved nobleman’s secret harem
Title: Waiting for April
ReplyDeleteGenre: Paranormal Romance
Rendered immortal by fate, Scott Parker must figure out how to save April Fletcher before her life is taken for the fifteenth – and final – time.
Title: Bite My Ash
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Paranormal
Vampires are bad. It’s Harry’s job to keep humans safe from them. Until he meets Elspeth and finds himself emotionally committed to protecting her.
The Stone Man
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To save his ill son, Graham abducts him from the hospital by using a supernatural stone that grants healing powers, but at a murderous price.
Title: MAGNETIC
ReplyDeleteGenre: paranormal YA
Despite discovering she’s a paranormal medium, saving stolen souls is the last thing on Carly’s to-do list. Until her own soul becomes the next target.
Title: Smoke and Wait
ReplyDeleteGenre: Adult Urban Fantasy
ATF agent Alexandra MacPherson can't decide which is worse -- a witness who dies or a suspect who won't stay dead.
TITLE: Faerie Fate
ReplyDeleteGENRE: Paranormal romance.
Fate has love-and-death plans for Holly, but she’s never been one to accept fate without question, and she’s not about to start now.
TTLE: Note to Self
ReplyDeleteGENRE: YA Fantasy
Here we go again! Thanks so much, OA, for these opportunities every month!
ReplyDeleteTitle: Spirits from the Vasty Deep
Genre: Ghostly YA historical (1850s)
Ghostly crew wants revenge for a disastrous fire Olivia caused, forcing a reckoning with her haunted past. Blossom Culp meets Pirates of the Caribbean.
P.S. Today's the last day (until 9 PM) to enter my Blogiversary Contest, for a chance to win some books!
Thanks Clutzattack! :)
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Monster killer, Feng Huang, must face the parents she never knew she had before she can save her world from the demons that threaten it.
Title: Secrets of the Makai
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Urban Fantasy
A psychic teen battles to save a self-proclaimed plant queen and a mythical creature, encased in emerald, while secret societies plot his untimely demise.
Title: Siege of the Heart
ReplyDeleteHistorical Romance complete at 95k
English-born but Norman-blooded, Isobel struggles to keep her home and heart intact when William the Conqueror sends his knights to her father's holding after Hastings.
Thanks to Operation Awesome for another Mystery Agent contest!
Title: SONATA FOR THE YOUNG PIANIST
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Contemporary
When an eighteen-year-old piano wunderkind meets his biological brother, he’s totally psyched—until secrets from his past threaten both his family and his playing career.
Title: The Blues
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Contemporary Mystery
Pitch: Blake uncovers a secret high school drug scene when his pill pushing best friend turns up dead.
Thanks for the e-mail!
Intrigue occurs after an Internet friendship group allows Iraq War "widow" Ashe into the fold. What secrets are hidden behind the click of a mouse?
ReplyDeleteTitle: VIRTUALLY YOURS
Genre: Contemporary (mom-lit)
TITLE: Blackbird
ReplyDeleteGENRE: YA Fantasy Thriller
PITCH:
Spy chick bypasses a top-of-the-line security system to steal an object before the sorcerers do in this "Mission:Impossible with magic" tale.
TITLE: VEX
ReplyDeleteGENRE: YA Fantasy with a techie twist
PITCH: Virtual Environment Ten—VEX—turns deadly when 16-year-old Tana discovers something wants to download itself into her body and take over her life.
Beyond Death's Grasp
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Paranormal cop and witch Lorelei Spellcraft has three days to catch a mad scientist before he murders her hopelessly human fiance.
Adult science fantasy.
ReplyDeleteTalia’s is a mage hiding behind science until a demon from the past returns. Will love help her trust the magic her world needs?
Charity, do you have a title we can include?
ReplyDeleteAs of Charity's entry, we have 16 spots left! :)
ReplyDeleteTitle: The Magic Withheld
ReplyDeleteGenre: Urban Fantasy
#1
TITLE: FOSSEGRIM
ReplyDeleteGENRE: YA URBAN FANTASY
To reclaim his humanity, Sage Reynolds must track down and save the mermaid who transformed him or else face life as a flippered, sushi-eating fossefreak.
Thanks Huntress! :)
ReplyDeleteTITLE: WIND WALKER
ReplyDeleteGENRE: YA CONTEMPORARY FANTASY
After millennia of peace, the forbidden love between Watchers and their human charges will destroy the world unless a self-hating half-mortal releases her inner monster.
TITLE: BLOOD BOND
ReplyDeleteGENRE: URBAN FANTASY (strong romantic element)
Submitting to madness, demonic enslavement, or bonding with a vile angel are the grim choices for half-breed Cassie if she can't master her abilities.
Thanks for another great contest!
Title: The Curse
ReplyDeleteGenre: Paranormal Thriller
Cursed, Eli must unravel a dark Puritan secret, embrace an ancient society, and face a love that defies time to save herself from evil.
Title: The Resurrected
ReplyDeleteGenre: Urban Fantasy
A reformed con artist is the only person who can stop an immortal from enslaving humanity, but to do so, she must sacrifice her family.
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Title: Graveyard Phoenix
ReplyDeleteGenre: Urban Fantasy
Necromancer Blaise Evarin suddenly starts bringing people back to life, and her resurrected going berserk and embarking on murderous rampages are only problem number one.
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ReplyDeleteTitle: THE MATTER OF SOULS
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Contemporary Fantasy
When Riley dies and refuses to leave her dead ex-boyfriend, her decision strands her on Earth. If she can’t let go, Hayden’s soul is condemned.
Title: On the Run
ReplyDeleteGenre: Sci/Fi Suspense
Ginny Carrera discovers she’s genetically engineered AND being sold for parts by someone into trafficking “genies”. Can she take down this crew of human engineers?
as of Steph's entry, there are 8 spots left!
ReplyDeleteupdate, 7 :) as of Dawnall's
ReplyDeleteTitle: My Stepsister is a Succubus
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA paranormal
When the guy she loves chooses her stepsister instead, Olivia makes a deal to become a succubus in order to steal him back.
Title: TRIANGLES
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Urban Fantasy
A seventeen-year-old girl experiences bizarre alternate realities when her cruise ship enters the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
Title: Cracking Courtney
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Contemporary
Courtney's secret romance with unavailable, drug-addicted James may come with a few prices. Like her friendships, her reputation, and maybe something even more irreplaceable.
Title: SOMNILOQUY
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA
Nightly, Abby dictates a story in her sleep. To save her sanity, she must find out what the story is and why she’s telling it.
Title: RIDING THE BLIND
ReplyDeleteGenre: Literary/Commercial
Rachel Linden, a depressed young mother, must unravel the mystery of her grandmother's abandonment and missing years from home to prevent history from repeating itself.
Title: Transmigration
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Mystery w/ Paranormal twist
With her dreams mirroring an unknown reality, Anna struggles with her inner demons to tie up her past in order to survive for her future.
2 spots left!
ReplyDeleteTitle: SYBIL
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Urban Fantasy
All Meredith wants is to fix her strained friendship with Van, but the voices have other plans, plans that involve him, plans that worry her.
Title: THE DEMONS YOU KNOW
ReplyDeleteGenre: YA Urban Fantasy
When supposedly-extinct demons kidnap every adult Mage, Fire Mage Miranda must partner with a young Holy Warrior for a cross-country rescue mission.