Welcome to the mentors’ wishlist blog hop! From today until submission day, use the linkies below to hop to all the mentors’ websites/blogs to read their bios, wishlists, and what categories and genres they want to mentor.
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And here are your 2019 mentors…
Please be respectful to our mentors. Only ask brief questions on their sites and on social media and do not ask for feedback or for them to go to links to read stuff. And remember, Pitch Wars has an Anti-bullying Policy.
Your 2019 Middle Grade Mentors’ Wish Lists
- K.C. Held
- Kit Rosewater and Ash Van Otterloo
- Amanda Panitch
- Graci Kim and Karah Sutton
- Sarah Suk and Julie Abe
- Erin Entrada Kelly
- Rebecca Petruck
- Adrianna Cuevas and Sarah Kapit
- Kim Long and Jennifer L. Brown
- TJ Ohler
- Eric Bell
- Lacee Little and Bronwyn Clark
- Jessica Bayliss
- Shakirah Bourne
- Sean Easley
- Nicole Melleby and A.J. Sass
- Julie Artz and Jessica Vitalis
- Maria Frazer and Meera Trehan
- Rajani LaRocca and Remy Lai
- Nicole Panteleakos
Your 2019 Young Adult Mentors’ Wish Lists
- Aiden Thomas (Accepts NA)
- Kelsey Rodkey and Rachel Lynn Solomon
- Nancy Werlin
- Olivia Hinebaugh
- Abigail Johnson
- Rebecca Schaeffer
- Rebecca Coffindaffer (Accepts NA)
- Laurie Dennison
- Sam Taylor
- ST Sterlings (Accepts NA)
- Brenda Drake and Kyle T. Cowan (Accepts NA)
- Carrie Allen and Sabrina Lotfi
- J. Elle
- Andrea Contos (Accepts NA)
- Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Sandra Proudman (Accepts NA)
- Ayana Gray (Accepts NA)
- Susan Lee and Auriane Desombre
- Julia Ember (Accepts NA)
- SA Patel
- Kat Dunn (Accepts NA)
- Sonia Hartl and Annette Christie
- Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Ray Stoeve
- Aty S. Behsam and Kylie Schachte
- Cole Nagamatsu
- Rachel Griffin
- Adalyn Grace
- Adrienne Tooley and Kelly Quindlen (Accepts NA)
- Ciannon Smart and Deborah Falaye
- Kristin Lambert, Sasha Peyton Smith
- Kimberly Gabriel and Dawn Ius
- Lyndsay Ely
- Jamie Howard
- Jenna Lincoln (Accepts NA)
- Jen Marie Hawkins and Anna Birch (Accepts NA)
- Judy I. Lin
- Leila Siddiqui
- Zach Hines (Accepts NA)
- Hoda Agharazi
- Michaela Greer (Accepts NA)
- Liz Lawson and Jeff Bishop (Accepts NA)
- Lindsey Frydman (Accepts NA)
- Chelsea Hensley (Accepts NA)
- Isabel Ibañez
Your 2019 Adult Mentors’ Wish Lists
- Paris Wynters
- Kathleen Barber (Accepts NA)
- Ian Barnes
- Mary Ann Marlowe (Accepts NA)
- Elizabeth Little
- Hayley Stone and Erin A. Tidwell
- Gwynne Jackson (Accepts NA)
- Maxym M. Martineau (Accepts NA)
- Katie Golding (Accepts NA)
- Ava Reid and Rachel Morris (Accepts NA)
- Carolyne Topdjian
- Natalka Burian
- Tim Akers
- Alex Segura
- Michelle Hauck and Carrie Callaghan (Accepts NA)
- Laura Brown (Accepts NA)
- Mia P. Manansala and Kellye Garrett (Accepts NA)
- Kerbie Addis and Ren Hutchings (Accepts NA)
- Susan Bishop Crispell (Accepts NA)
- Kelly Siskind and Heather Van Fleet (Accepts NA)
- Janet Walden-West and Anne Raven (Accepts NA)
- Kate Lansing (Accepts NA)
- Kristen Lepionka and Ernie Chiara
- Alexa Martin and Suzanne Park (Accepts NA)
- Gia de Cadenet (Accepts NA)
- Rob Hart
- Layne Fargo and Halley Sutton
- Michael Chorost (Accepts NA)
- Sarah Remy (Accepts NA)
- Nicole Glover (Accepts NA)
- Farah Heron (Accepts NA)
- Samantha Rajaram
- Keena Roberts (Accepts NA)
- Rebecca Enzor (Accepts NA)
- Matthew Quinn Martin (Accepts NA)
- Denny S. Bryce (Accepts NA)
- Meryl Wilsner and Rosie Danan (Accepts NA)
- P.J. Vernon and Kelly J. Ford (Accepts NA)
- Gladys Quinn (Accepts NA)
- Diana A. Hicks (Accepts NA)
- Damyanti Biswas
- Stephen Morgan (Accepts NA)
What does ‘accepts NA’ mean?
It means the mentor will accept new adult manuscripts.
Thanks for the great blog hop! Is Rosie Dannan no longer a mentor or am I missing her somehow?
Thank you!
Nevermind! I see she’s co-mentoring with Meryl Wilsner. Apologies!
So, I find the four mentors. Do I submit to them directly?
You will submit to them through a submission form on our site that will go live on September 25. September 23 full instructions will post, so make sure to check them on Monday.
Thanks for this list! I’d suggest displaying the desired genre’s next to the author for enhanced usability.
Since these are linky codes they have to be shorter and some mentors have a long list of genres they are accepting in their submissions. Each list is separated in categories for your convenience. 🙂
Hi. I went through the middle grade mentor list the day it was posted. Now I see mentors Juliana Brandt as well as Sarah and JC are no longer listed nor are they available on the mentor pick list in the submission form. Are they still mentoring?
No, they aren’t mentoring. None of them were on the mentor wishlist bloghop. Sarah is the managing director this year, Juliana is on the committee and a mentor liaison, and JC hadn’t signed up this year.
I’ve looked through the mentors’ wish lists, but I didn’t see a single one representing inspirational fiction. Will that genre be represented in the December PitchWars?
Pitch Wars 2020 is coming up this summer – here’s the schedulehere’s the schedule. If you mean #PitMad#PitMad – that is a Twitter pitch party and is open to ALL genres.