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Thursday, December 19, 2013

#PitchMAS Entry 47

Title:  The Half-Life of Heartache

Category/Genre:  Contemporary YA Fiction

Word Count:  77,000

Pitch:  Hawaii isn’t all coconuts and rainbows.  Seventeen-year-old Indigo Woods officially hates summer break because she’s trapped with her alcoholic mother.  When the newspaper internship starts, she meets Dean Michaelson.  And faces her deepest fear: Trust.

9 comments:

  1. There is so much I like about this pitch I don't know where to begin! Please send query and first 3 chapters to karaleigh.miller@anaiahpress.com (Chapters can be pasted or as a .doc attachment)

    Thank you and good luck :-)

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  2. Sounds intriguing. Please send the query + full to submissions@myswoonromance.com. Subject line: Title, PitchMAS, Attn: Mandy

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  3. I would love to see a query following the instructions at www.blueridgeagency.com of this. Sounds very interesting. Please mention I requested here. Dawn

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  4. Sounds fantastic!

    Please send query and first 3 chapters to BloomsburySparkUS@bloomsbury.com with #PitchMas in the subject line.

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  5. Your title is beautiful! I would love to see more. YA contemporary is high on a few of our editors' wish lists. ;)

    Please submit your query (including synopsis and first 10 pages) via our submissions form: http://www.reuts.com/submissions/submit/. Include #Pitchmas in your subject line, and address it to me (Kisa Whipkey). Thanks!

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  6. This sounds great! Please send the first 25 pages, query and synopsis to: chquery@mcintoshandotis.com

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  7. Love this pitch! I'd love to take a look. Please submit the full to https://entangledpublishing.submittable.com/submit/19015, and list Alycia Tornetta under the ATTN and PitchMAS in the query. Thanks!

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  8. Nice pitch. I'd love to see the query letter and first 50 pages. Please send to querymonica@lizadawsonassociates.com with #Pitchmas in the subject line. Thanks!

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  9. Hawaii! I'd love to see this. Can you send the first 50 pages and synopsis to emily@entrancedpublishing.com?

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