Title: AUTO IN Genre: Adult Romance Word Count: 99,000. Genre: Action movies a la Quentin Tarantino, because Dante’s snarky and A.D.D. mind doesn’t have the patience for anything slower. Plus, making himself watch people get blown up or thrown off high-rise buildings helps numb him from the pain of loss after the tragic death of his brother. Pitch: Twenty-three-year-old […]
Title: Deep, Dark, Truthful Mirror Genre: Adult Urban Fantasy (with erotic elements) Word Count: 114,000 MC’s Fav. Movie Genre: Growing up, Declan read TV Guide cover to cover and stayed up all hours to watch every classic gangster movie he could find. Though he’d forgotten his special talents, his family hadn’t, and treated him like a […]
Title: NOT QUITE MARKETABLE Genre: YA Contemporary Word Count: 80,000 Genre: Alix is flexible and will watch whatever, but he has a weakness for comedies. Life’s got enough stressors to deal with, so if he can escape for a little while and laugh, he’s game. Then again, schlocky horror has been growing on him lately…. Pitch: Chubby […]
With a few pitch contests coming up in the next couple of months, I thought I’d share what it is I’m looking for when I read the slush. I can hear the collective groan now. “We know, we know: You like women’s fiction. Dogs like bones. Fish like water. We get it.” And okay, yes, […]