Friday, March 22, 2013

Cover Reveal & Pitch Madness Finalists













 
 
BEYOND THE HIDDEN GATEWAYS THAT CONNECT THE LIBRARIES OF OUR WORLD, LIES A DARK AND DANGEROUS WORLD JUST WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED.


It's Brenda Drake's birthday and my present to her is revealing the cover for her young adult debut, LIBRARY JUMPERS, which releases from Month9BooksFebruary, 2014!         


You should give her a birthday present too by liking her on Facebook!

Anyway, isn't her cover so gorgeous!

And look for it on Goodreads soon ...



 



I want to thank the wonderful team on Pitch Madness for wading through the slush and picking some wonderful pitches for our top 15 to go into the agent round.


My co-host ....

 












Fiona McLaren.

And our support readers (aka Slush Zombies) ...


 
Brianna Shrum

 
Catherine Scully



Mina Vaughn

It was a tough decision and there were so many awesome pitches that didn't make the cut. It came down to the ones that got the most yeses and to what we felt the agents wanted. If you didn't make it in, please don't get discouraged, keep going, your dream could be right around the corner.
Our top 15 picks (titles only & in no particular order) ...





  1.  Sacred Blood
  2. A Soul's Desire
  3. Over the Sea to Skye
  4. How to Date Dead Guys
  5. Endings in Minor
  6. Johnny Drake, Time Traveler
  7. Little Miss Evil
  8. The Founding of Josiah Turn
  9. The Aztec
  10. Great Uncle Gutenberg
  11. Princess of Swans
  12. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  13. Crow's Rest
  14. The Oak Lovers
  15. Cleverland
 

Check out the blogs for their picks....
 
http://brenleedrake.blogspot.com
http://shelleywatters.blogspot.com

http://www.fizzygrrl.com




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10 comments:

  1. Thank you!! I made it into the final fifteen for Team Awesome. I appreciated Pitch Madness last time (when I didn't push through), but I'm in love this time.

    Question: Do we now receive feedback and craft a final entry for the agent round, or do we proceed with our original entry?

    None of the images appear on the blog when I view it, but perhaps that's a problem on my end...

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    1. Yeah! So excited to have you onboard.

      The pitches stay as is.

      They are appearing for me, but I've tried redoing them as you're not the only one.

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    2. Okay. Good.

      I can see the lovely pictures now!

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  2. I'm not seeing the cover/images either. And thank you, slush zombies, Fiona, and of course S.M. Johnston, for abusing your brains for our sake--we appreciate it!

    Note: the title is Crow's Rest, without a The in front (it's the name of a town)

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    1. Thanks for fixing the title and the pics! The cover looks particularly nice on your background color.

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  3. When I saw your #11 tweet hint, I showed it to my husband and asked, "Am I crazy, or does this sound like my book?" (He responded, "You're definitely crazy. But that does sound like your book.") It made my evening to see that I was right. :)

    Thank you Sharon, Fiona, Brianna, Catherine, and Mina! I can't wait to read all our teammates' entries...

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  4. Woo! Part of a great team! Thanks for grabbing me!

    <3

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  5. Thank you for this exciting opportunity!

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  6. Super excited to be on TeamAwesome! GO Hypno-cat!

    Thank you Sharon, Fiona, Brianna, Catherine, and Mina for picking us.(#7) You made our entire year!

    Oh and btw, it's so great that Fiona is your co-host. Our MC has the same name as her. YAY!

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  7. Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity!

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