Pitch:
RULES FOR VANISHING x WILDER GIRLS When bad girl Annie is sent to Camp Wesley, a remote mountain rehabilitation center for delinquent teens, surviving the Taser-wielding staff is priority one. But the surrounding woods are keeping dark secrets, and when Annie learns the camp’s past may be more troubled than its campers, she’ll have to decide whether it’s safer to stay at Wesley, or face what’s in the trees.
Excerpt:
It’s my mom’s fault I’m taking her car for a joyride.
She’s been staying at her boyfriend’s since our latest blowout and just broke our two-day silence with a text: You’re on the thinnest ice of your life.
No I’m sorry. No Are you okay?
I chucked the phone against the wall. Then I stalked to the garage to find something to jimmy her liquor cabinet open with. And that’s when I found it, nestled in a box of nails and duct tape: the fob to her prized Mercedes Roadster.
When I press the unlock button, the car chirps, its blinking lights a beckoning wink.
Come and get me.
Mom’s face flashes before me—the one plastered on billboards and busses, her dazzling white teeth eight feet across. Lori Bennet, the People’s Choice for News in the Northwest. Her giant lips part. Don’t even think about it, Annie. But the billboard ad curls, its glue-gummed paper peeling away like rotting flesh.
I slide into the creamy leather seat. When I press the ignition button, the dashboard lights up into cat’s eyes, the engine growling into a sultry purr.
The garage door rattles open and I back out too fast, jerking down the driveway and scraping onto the street. I weave through our darkened neighborhood, the gearshift humming under my palm. For a single, glorious moment, it’s like I’m the only person alive.
I need more horror in my inbox! I’d love to read more! Please send the full with Pitchwars YA in the subject line to marlo.jdlit@gmail.com. Looking forward to reading!
“Face what’s in the trees.” Whoa.
I’d love your permission to get this tattoo.
Also, please send the full manuscript to ASlater@tridentmediagroup.com! I’ll read it immediately.
Many thanks,
Alex Slater
Trident Media Group
Hi LC,
I would absolutely love to read this – will you send me your query and first 20 pages to tara@emliterary.com at your convenience, and mention Pitch Wars in the subject? There’s no timeline on my end, just whenever you feel ready!
Thanks so much!
Tara Gonzalez
Associate Agent
Erin Murphy Literary Agency
http://emliterary.com/
Hi, LC,
Sounds creepy and totally up my alley! Can you send me the full and a synopsis (2-4 pages)? Please use Times New Roman, size 12, black, double-spaced text, 1” margins all around, and ½” paragraph indents. Paste your pitch in the body of the email and attach the manuscript and synopsis as two separate Word documents (docx). Sent to: lynnette (at) theseymouragency (dot) com and add “Pitch Wars Request” along with your title in the subject line. Thanks.
If more than one agent from The Seymour Agency likes your entry, please send requested material to the agent you feel will be the best fit. #OneAgentAtATime
Looking forward to reading more.
Best,
Lynnette
I’m a sucker for creepy trees. Please use the link below to submit the full along with a synopsis and query letter.
Thank you for considering me! If more than one Corvisiero agent shows interest, please choose one of us to submit to and let them know who else liked the pitch, so that we can share it with each other.
QueryMe.online/TaraGilbert/Requested
Hi LC,
This sounds fantastic, and I’d love to read more! Could you please send a query and the full manuscript to ebauman@aevitascreative.com, and put “Pitch Wars” in the subject line?
Looking forward!
All best,
Erica
Hi LC,
Am loving what I’ve read so far! Please submit the full manuscript and a 1-2 page synopsis to arsubmissions@foundrymedia.com, cc’ing in flmasst@foundrymedia.com, with the subject line “Pitch Wars: BAD ANNIE.” Thanks so much, and looking forward to diving in further!
Adriann
Hi LC,
First of all, congratulations on successfully completing PitchWars. You survived the long nights, daunting cursors and all! You deserve to celebrate.
I’m pretty sure dark secrets and delinquent teens are two of my favorite things, but add in the fact that its horror!? The possibilities seem endless! Don’t even get me started on the WILDER GIRLS comp. I’d love to read the full manuscript.
Would you please send me your query in the body of an email, with the full manuscript attached as a Word doc? The subject of the email should be “PITCH WARS REQUEST: BAD ANNIE” and you can reach me at sfabien(at)LDLAinc(dot)com. Thanks and I hope to hear from you! 🙂
If more than one LDLA agent requests your book, you are welcome to send to as many or few of us as you like. Just tell us in the query, and we’ll chat amongst ourselves.
I’d like to see this! Please send 10 pages and a query letter to carlisle @ fuseliterary .com with the subject PItch Wars – TITLE. Thanks!
Hi Lindsay,
I hope you’re well and having a fantastic 2020–congratulations on finishing PitchWars! I really enjoyed this opening (as well as the sample pages from your query last fall) and would love to read more of BAD ANNIE. If you’d like, please send me the full manuscript as a Word doc to sg@cbltd.com.
Thank you–looking forward to hearing from you!
All best,
Sarah Gerton
Associate Agent
Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Ten Astor Place
New York, NY 10003
I would love to take a look at this. Can you email me the first fifty pages as either a PDF or DOCX or RTF? Put the words “Pitchwars 2020 request” in your subject line. Thank you so much!
Hi LC,
I would love to take a closer look at this! Could you send the query and first 50 pages to me at alevick(at)writershouse.com? Please label your email with ‘PITCH WARS’ if you wouldn’t mind!
So excited to dive in!
Alexandra
Alexandra Levick
Literary Agent, Writers House, LLC.
http://www.writershouse.com
HI LC,
I would love to see this! Can you send your query and full manuscript to penelope@gelfmanschneider.com with #PitchWars in the subject line? Thanks so much!
All best,
Penelope
I’d love to see more of this! Please send the full manuscript as a Word doc or PDF attachment to melissa@rpcontent.com with Pitch Wars in the subject line. Thank you!
-Melissa Nasson, Rubin Pfeffer Content
Such a fun start! I can be quite a wuss about horror but I’m really dying to know more about this remote camp for delinquent teens. Sounds super atmospheric (and hopefully won’t scare me too bad)! Please email me the full ms + synopsis and make a note in the subject line that this is a Pitch Wars entry. laura at bradfordlit dot com.
Laura Bradford
Bradford Literary Agency
Hi LC!
I’d love to read the full! Please email me directly at colleen@adventurewrite.com. Paste your query and synopsis directly into the body and attach your full. Thanks and looking forward to reading!
Colleen
Colleen Oefelein
Associate Agent
The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
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I’ve love to read more! Please send the full manuscript and query to chquery [at] mcintoshandotis [dot] com. Please put “Pitch Wars request” and the title in the subject line. Can’t wait to read!
–Christa Heschke, McIntosh & Otis
This kind of horror has been on my wishlist for awhile! I would love to read the full manuscript. You can submit via my online submission form:
http://QueryMe.Online/dorianmaffei
Hi Lindsey! I’m still so eager to read this! Would you send the full manuscript via attachment to me at rosie@rittlit.com?
Annie seems so complex! Sign me up! Please send this pitch in the body of an email, synopsis and first fifty pages attached as a Word doc, with YA PITCHWARS and your title in the subject, to Jennifer@theseymouragency.com.