There were so many great pitches flying through Twitter on Friday's #PitMad. Thank you to Brenda and Shelley, the other PitchWars mentors and everyone else who helped coordinate this fun event!
I thought it might be fun to keep track of the pitches that got requests from agents and/or editors. With #PitMad coming up again on March 29, we could all do with a little inspiration!
Scroll down to read all the winning pitches!
Also check out:
- March 2013 #PitMad winning pitches
- Analysis: What did Agents Like?
- Upcoming Pitch Contest Calendar
- Pitch Generator // Logline Key Ingredients: Part I + Part II
While you're up and about, also check out David Oarr's PitMad Analysis, and S.M. Johnston's Pitch Madness Observations-- note that this latter discusses the full contest pitches not the tweet party
January 2013 #PitMad
Requested Pitches:
- Young Adult (65 novels requested)
- Middle Grade (8 novels)
- Picture Books (2 books)
- New Adult (5 novels)
- Adult (26 novels)
- Memoir (2 novels)
- Total = 108 manuscripts got requests!!
Note: I know I'm probably missing a few here. If you know of any entries that should be added, let me know!
Congrats everyone on the Requests!!
Pitch Contest Tips and Inspiration
Before diving into the list of pitches, I wanted to mention a couple resources that you might find useful when constructing a logline for a Twitter Pitch contest.
- Pitch Ingredients
- Pitch Recipes
- Pitch Factory: A mad-lib style Twitter Pitch Generator
- Analysis: PitMad Requested Genres/Themes
- Analysis: Pitch Wars Analysis
- And last but not least, check out the winning pitches below!
These folks knew what they were doin!
Pitches that Received Agent Requests
Without further ado ... and in alphabetic order by category ... the successful pitches:
Jump to: Young Adult // Middle Grade // Picture Books
New Adult // Adult // Memoir
YOUNG ADULT (65 requests)
A. K. Fotinos-Hoyer
For fledgling necromancer, Selina, there are 2 ways to save her bf: condemn him to service as a Ferryman or ally with the undead. YA#PitMad
Alex Brown
YA 17y/o Sora has to control her ability to predict violent crimes if she wants to prevent herself from becoming a murderer. Again.
and...
YA SF 17y/o Bastian works with his future killer to solve his own murder. Weird enough without tattooed sword fighters chasing them
Flynn, a bold young thief, is the prime suspect in a string of ritual murders, and the best chance to find the real killer. #PitMad YA Fntsy
YA: With reputations & college acceptances on the line, will she expose the elicit contest, or act LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED?#PitMad
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YA: Senior boys, sophomore girls & a secret contest. In a school full of hazing, cheating & cover-ups, what could possibly go wrong?#PitMad
#YA A 17yo Latina circus musician takes on diseased lab rats and a twisted scientist in this modern retelling of The Pied Piper.
Chelsea / VBC @ChelseaVBC
YA: After accidentally killing Hailey with a kiss, Cade must learn to fight new instincts to kill again before the body count rises.
When Brock and the kids in his town are taken to a city in which they rule, they find the dark reason for their new home's existence#PitMad
When 2 boys shes babysitting vanish, 16yo Minna Gray must uncover the magical secrets of her past B4 everyone she loves is erased YA
Chelsea / VBC
YA: Kate thinks she's going crazy. Her classmates actually ARE. One ancient grudge, too many questions, and no user guide.
Gwen Cole
When Morgan meets Jude, a boy with a metal arm, she finds out the alien race that attacked Earth were the ones who gave it to him.#pitmad
and ...
When Reese’s country was attacked, she saved the life of a stranger. Not only is West a stranger, but he is also the enemy.#Pitmad YA sci-fi
YA: Contemp romance retelling of Snow White picks up where the fairy tale ends when she discovers Prince Charming isn't so charming. #PitMad
EM Castellan
When war breaks out in the Darklands, 16yr old Elian can gain his freedom but also lose the girl he loves in the process. #YAFantasy
YA:16yo Liza is taking her fangirl status to a new level of crazy when she decides to take dating advice from her hero--Jane Austen. and ...
Jane Austen-Relationship Counselor? She is for 16yo Liza who turns to Austen's novels for advice to finally get her first boyfriend.#PitMad
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Jane Austen, Relationship Counselor? Austen’s novels are going to help 16yo Liza get her dream guy…or not. #pitmad #YAContemp
J. E. Shannon @JEShannonauthor
Kate Brauning @KateBrauning
YA: One is for the minute her life collapsed. Two is for the lives she leads. Three is the number of people on her hit-list..so far #PitMad
Jamie Corrigan @saphirablue84
#PitMad YA Taisie's ran from a ghost for 16yrs, but when a new ghost holds her mom hostage, she'll have to embrace her witchy powers & fight
YA: Guy has ice powers-doesn't want to be superhero. Girl w/ fiery personality wants him to discover hero w/in him. Inevitable love?#PitMad
Jamie Corrigan
YA: Guy has ice powers-doesn't want to be superhero. Girl w/ fiery personality wants him to discover hero w/in him. Inevitable love?
16yo Brier can speak her dreams into existence.But she’s being hunted & must decide if Keller is an ally or reason she’s a target.#PitMad
and ...
When agents from a dream lab pursue her, Brier must push the limits of her dreamspeaking abilities and fight her living nightmares #pitmad
J. E. Shannon
YA Fresh from the grave Evie has two choices, get revenge on her killer, or sacrifice herself to save her sister... #Pitmad
@AlisonReads2 Sera doesn't know she’s a princess or that dark,sexy Caden is an incubus sent to get her,&he plans to keep it that way#pitmad
Jaime Loren @JaimeLoren
Jaime Loren
YA: Harvard? Check. Fall in love? Check! Discover you’re living your 21st life & all of your previous deaths were murders? Ch--WHAT?#PitMad
Kate Brauning
A stalker, a stranger, a family secret. Making out with your cousin has its pitfalls. YA contemp. romantic suspense.
It's 1996 and 17yo Lainey Bloom must confront a corrupt politician to uncover a murder and save her ghostly lover's soul.
Kimberly Ann Miller
When 17 y/o Evette meets Aidan, she discovers they’re Adam and Eve reborn, battling with Lilith, Adam’s 1st wife, for their souls..#pitmad
and ...
YAKara thinks being a genie-in-training sucks, but when the school bitch steals her lamp, her life becomes a total genie-living-Hell
#YA: First they created her; then they deceived her. Now 17yo Evy is all that stands between the Corporation and a New World Order.
Laura Frazier @sidekick555
Laura Frazier
A boy trading places with a parallel world version of himself is caught in a bizarre love triangle when they fall for the same girl. #PitMad
Laura Renegar @LauraRenegar
Laura Renegar
YA: Out of juvie & drawing for a tattoo shop, Mazie searches for the snatched dd of the fireman who died in the fire she started. #PitMad
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YA: Mazie draws flash for a tattoo shop & searches for the kidnapped dd of the fireman who died in the flames she started.
Laurie Muench
Gothic retelling of Hamlet thru Ophelia's view. With secret passages, intrigue & murder. Is that a dagger in Ophelia's corset? YA #PitMad
Leslie Rose @LeslieSulliRose
YA: When a she-weasel swipes Sid’s boyfriend, her Kentucky kin slap her with Scarlett O’Hara style lessons on boy-nabbing gumption
Lisa Arnseth @LisaArnseth
He's engineered as a living cure for disease. She's engineered as a weapon. Two teens w/ dolphin DNA succumb to animal instincts.
Michaele Stoughton @MLStoughton
Leslie Rose @LeslieSulliRose
YA: When a she-weasel swipes Sid’s boyfriend, her Kentucky kin slap her with Scarlett O’Hara style lessons on boy-nabbing gumption
Lisa Arnseth
He's engineered as a living cure for disease. She's engineered as a weapon. Two teens w/ dolphin DNA succumb to animal instincts.
In a future where a walled city keeps humans locked in biomes, one girl escapes the invisible wall--only to be captured by the city.#pitmad
In a society where looks = power & the govt controls diet & exercise, an overweight girl discovers a hidden black market world. YA
YA: A girl & a gargoyle must fight for survival & take a dip in the murky depths of the Underworld to stop an immortal war #pitmad
Stuck in an insane asylum, 17yo Celesta finds love at the risk of losing all she's ever known or losing what's left of her mind. #YA
Mandy P. @Brown_Ajah
@morsini
A 16yo Jinn must choose between the safety of her family & the boy she loves. See, when genies are involved, there’s always a trick.#PitMad
YA UF: When 17yo Chris becomes a wizard, he'll do whatever it takes to make his wizard dad proud. Even if it means being evil. #pitmad
Megan Orsini YA - Hamlet retelling, set in a FREAK SHOW. Madness, murder, and ghosts. #pitmad
and ....
Megan Orsini @morsini
and ....
Megan Orsini
YA - Hamlet retelling set in a traveling freak show, complete with ghosts, madness, and murder. #pitmad
As a hereditary mental illness envelops her family, Emma fiercely fights back only to be stopped by the boy with the grey eyes. YA
and ....
Emma's desperate to keep a family history of mental illness at bay,but discovers love will drive her a different kind of crazy.YA
and ....
Emma's desperate to keep a family history of mental illness at bay,but discovers love will drive her a different kind of crazy.YA
Michaele Stoughton
Melinda lives in a world where the Salem witch trials are a dark spot in history. Luke lives in a world created from that dark spot #PitMad
17yo Valora can end the nightmarish hallucinations plaguing the world, but to do so, she will have to join the enemy. YA sf
YA SF RESISTANCE: With the entire universe in danger, Hayden must set aside the needs of her family to stop a tyrant #PitMad
Rachel Desilets @Broken_Fallacy
Sara Thompson @ThWritingSpider
Rachel Desilets
Anxiety with college applications is one thing - anxiety with two parallel universes colliding is another thing entirely YA #PitMad
and....
Unlike Jess's boyfriend, Luke's perfect. There's just one problem: He might not exist. YA #PitMad
and...
Just another girl meets boy in an alternate universe, boy might not exist story... YA #PitMad
and...
and...
Jess couldn't dream up someone more perfect for her than Luke... that's why she suspects he may only exist in her head. YA #PitMad
and ...
Losing track of reality in her AP course isn't as bad as having to break up with her boyfriend for the imaginary guy in her head YA#PitMad
and ...
Luke's perfect, unlike Jess's boyfriend. There's just one problem: He might only exist in her head. YA #PitMad
The Atlantic forest hides folkloric history 16yo Emma isn't afraid to face. She's ready to fight to bring her friend back.
and ...
*stands on a stool* if you'd like to read a YA set in the Atlantic forest in Brazil, come this way. Thank you very much.
Sara Thompson
17yo Duna can stop WWII and save the world from demon-riddled zombies...if she can master her own magic first. #PitMad
and ...
UF Goddess rewrites the lives of some humans in a bid for Musehood. Her mission to meddle derails when characters take control #PitMad
YADark Angel meets Paranormalcy - Sleeper soldier is accidentally triggered for duty sets out to save sis scheduled for termination#pitmad
YA Josh must use his MVP gaming skills to avoid a real-life wraith killing gamers at a Vegas expo to find help from a reporter. #PitMad
YA. Mary’s boyfriend may be a monster, but he’s not responsible for the string of murders in town. She would know. She built him.
YA 15yo Viola goes from anonymous honors student to the school's biggest joke, after her ex leaks their sex tape. #PitMad
Talynn Lynn
YA thrill: Prism has the best job-grant wishes. The fun’s over when someone wishes for her death, after he falls in love with her
and ...
Vicki L. Weavil @VickiLWeavil
YA Fantasy. As the Snow Queen she's immortal. As a 17yo human Thyra Winther has less than a year to live. #PitMad
MIDDLE GRADE (8 requests)
Imaginary Friend Scott must pass The Trials to become human & be w Janie. Failure dooms him to be the Knight Terror in her dreams#pitmad MG
Donald Capone
Polished skates? Check. Double Lutz? Check. Cussing out the judges? Um, check. 12 y/o Chloe fights for a comeback w/ unlikely allies #PitMad
MG 13yo Gary is about to learn everything has a price, including superpowers from alien abductions. Sky High meets Ender's Game
12 y/o Lilly Washington is an Abe Lincoln fangirl who risks expulsion to uncover lost Civil War secrets from a mysterious diary. #PitMad
When 10yo Thyme relocates to NYC 4 her brother's cancer trtmt, she lets the 5th grade believe she's in Witness Protection instead.#pitmad
Nicole Zoltack @NicoleZoltack
Nicole Zoltack
Trapped in a land ruled by the 4 seasons, a 10yo girl & her 8yo brother must save Christmas after spring comes too early
Sara's execution might make finding her kidnapped mother a bit more difficult, but not impossible. MG 13 yo protag
Mg. 12yo Finn only wants to escape NYC, but when his ferry is commandeered by time-traveling pirates, he'll do anything to get home.
PICTURE BOOKS (2 requests)
PB Amy wants a pet unicorn - no other pet will do. Her mom says she can have one, IF she finds one. An finding one is not easy. #pitmad
NEW ADULT (5 requests)
Ellen Rozek @EllenRozek
#PitMad HIV+ Tanya has a double life: spilling her guts in support group, while keeping her diagnosis a secret from the rest of her town. NA
Emmy Neal @EpicEmmy
NA rom/thriller Rapunzel meets zombie plague: Scientists finds out ppl sabotaged research, go into hiding to uncover the truth& cure
NA/A Her professor was hell-bent on rewriting history... until Megyn got in his way. Where’s a secret society when you need one?
Turns out, Reese Parks is a natural at Tarot, having visions of lost girls, & leaking her magic at the wrong times. NA#pitmad
#PitMad She was in a abusive relationship. He buried his girlfriend years ago. They collide and try to patch each other up. New Adult
ADULT (23 Requests)
Alison Bliss @alisonbliss2
Annie Neugebauer @AnnieNeugebauer
Brianna Shrum @BriannaShrum
Adult Humor - RULES OF PROTECTION : His - aloof agent hiding sarcastic city girl witness on backwoods bird farm. Hers - a condom.#pitmad
Annie Neugebauer
Adult post-apocalyptic horror. Once the Darkness Comes… don’t sleep.
Adult: Trapped in Neverland,in love with Tiger Lily who loves the heartless Pan, obsessed with going home.The story of Captain Hook.
What’s it like dating the rocker you idolized in your teens? Ask 27yo Ali, after her escape from him to the UK to find her own muse.
HRom When her fiancé impregnates a town trollop a society woman flees via Oregon Trail. Rugged guide protects her honor, for money#PitMad
and ...
Hist Rom After her family dies on Oregon Trail, a resolute woman struggles to survive, and succeed in a land dominated by rough men#PitMad
Ariana's feisty behavior in a hostage sit. gets the unwanted attention of a criminal, making her his next objective.
Holly Stephens @HollyGeauxLitly
Losing everyone damaged him almost beyond hope, but Jude knows how to set it right: kill the man who started it all.#pitmad A
and ...
Jude plans to sneak a zipgun into a prison to kill his parents' murderer, but a terrible secret changes everything. #pitmadA
Heather M. Gardner @hmgardner
#PitMad Jack’s got his hands full w/ murder cases, federal roadblocks & a vicious killer but he’d much rather fill his hands w/ Maggie’s.
When Michael cheats, Liz goes shopping -- buys a house online. Hired hand Rafe helps rebuild house & marriage -- using adultery.#PitMad
Heather M. Gardner
Holly Stephens
Keeping her families beach resort from closing isn't the problem; resisting the man that wants to buy it is. #pitmad
Adult F- Rome's fall had little to do with humans. The Greek gods aren't gods. And they certainly never should have been worshiped#PitMad
#pitmad RS A det.'s wicked stepmom is murdered & clues implicate her bro. She must choose b/t job & family, while falling for the lead det.
#PitMad 7-1-2069 - Today's Headlines: Clone Rights, Unification of North America, and the death of Samantha Rose - she has a problem w/ that
England, 1347. The Black Death, medieval surgery, a physician monk & the mortecarni. Good v evil isn't always black & white. Adult #pitmad
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HF: Mother beheaded, unstable sister queen & near rape by a family friend. Elizabeth I's early life was one of survival & triumph. #pitmad
A green light and a drunk driver; that's all it took to end Jimmy Rickliefs’ rock star career. Adult #PitMad
When a 29yo is carjacked at gunpoint, his journey w/ the peculiar stranger leads them on a mission to win back the women they love.#PitMad
UF/Adult Get the flu shot, they said. It's safe. Next thing Kas knows, she's on top of food chain. And the FBI wants a word with her
Mistreated. Misunderstood. The shrew has her reasons. He loves her anyway. FINDING KATE. Adult Historical/Shakespeare.
#SpecFic #A He had no intention of being King, nor of falling in love again. Her foreign and infuriating manners changed his mind.
Richard Pearson @PEART10
Richard Pearson
LGBT Fic - An actor lands the role of a lifetime, but soon finds himself forced to choose between Broadway and true love#PitMad
@sztownsend81 Hist Rom-An Earl must overcome a black memory & a debilitating fear of guns to help the woman he never wanted to love.
Hist Rom - A secret society filled with decadence and intrigue is no place for an ordinary chambermaid.
and...
UF: Woman and man see world’s only superhero murdered. Each receives part of his powers. Learn fast—the killer is coming. #pitmad
#AdultPitMad Tyra doesn't know which is worse. Being framed for her father's murder or learning her father was the one who set her up. Hist.
and ...
Alura has 3 lives: a prince's wife and a head mistress on brothel ship. But it's the 3rd one that scares her. Adult historical
Mem: Interviewing Iraqi refugees, I accidentally fall in love with one-despite war revolution & an arranged marriage. &Oh, its funny#pitmad
Mary Ann Siegel @MaryAnnSiegel
Mary Ann Siegel
Memoir/essays: Young wife learns that coping with husband’s mental illness is about putting her needs and the kids' first, not his.
Know of other successful pitches I missed? What about these pitches do you think captured agents' attention? Which are your faves?
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