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Pitch Wars … the mentors’ picks!!!

Tuesday, 10 December 2013  |  Posted by Brenda Drake

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Well, it’s been a week of swimming in applications, Gmail headaches, and making connections with new friends and your mentors have finally chosen their mentees and alternates. Below you will find the golden Pitch Wars list of teams.  But, wait! It’s never a contest until you throw in a surprise, right?

 

SURPRISE

 

If you didn’t make on the below list, we have six awesome Ninja Elf Mentors jumping into the slush and choosing a writer and two alternates each to mentor. AHHHH!

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Their picks will be announced tomorrow morning at 8AM EST. And here are your Ninja Elves in alphabetical order by first names …

 

amy

Amy Reichert

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Eden P

Eden Plantz

Website

Twitter

 

Karma

Karma Brown

Website

Twitter

Rae

Rae Chang

Twitter

 

renee

Renee Ahdieh

Website

Twitter

 

steph

Steph Funk

Website

Twitter

Show them some love and follow them everywhere!

 

And we have prizes for our top teams from our sponsor!

 

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JenHalligan

Jen Halligan offers literary publicity and a wide range of author services. Formerly known as A Book and a Latte PR (as part of Jen’s YA book blog), the company was rebranded as JHPR in December 2013. Jen specializes in YA and NA fiction, as that’s where her heart is, and building author platforms. She loves working one-on-one with authors and helping them achieve their dreams.

Whether you’re looking for full time publicity, or would just like to schedule a blog tour, cover reveal, or other online promotion, Jen can help! Publicity is not a one-size-fits-all business. A package can be customized to meet your needs and budget. For more information check out the website here.

And check out her book blog A Book and a Latte!

 

And here are your mentors picks!!

 

Team Brent (MG)

– Mentee: The Mask-Maker’s Apprentice by Rachel Moser-Hardy

– 1st Alternate: Following Infinity by Tom Mulroy

– 2nd Alternate: Darcy Darkling and the Forgotten City by Stacey Trombley

 

Team Cora (YA/NA)           

– Mentee: Groundfall by Megan Just

– 1st Alternate:Inner Flame by Kelly Johnson

– 2nd Alternate: Healing the Bayou by Mary Bernsen

           

Team Dannie (YA/NA)        

– Mentee: Gaslights in Vaudeville by Sonia Hartl

– 1st Alternate:Through the Walled City by Alexandra Alessandri

– 2nd Alternate: Backlash by Christy Little

 

Team Diana (YA/NA)          

– Mentee: Harp of Bone by Neely Stansell-Simpson

– 1st Alternate:Just Act Normal by Goldy Moldavsky

– 2nd Alternate: Fierce by L.G. Kelso

 

Team Elizabeth Briggs (YA)          

– Mentee: Heart of Sparks by Audrey Coulthurst

– 1st Alternate:Limitless by Heather Kaczynski Morris

– 2nd Alternate: Envision by Erin Funk

 

Team Elizabeth Penney (A)

– Mentee: Wishing Glass by Heidi Timmons

– 1st Alternate:The Wanters by Emma Sloley

– 2nd Alternate: You’ll Be Thinking of Me by Densie Webb

 

Team Erica (YA)

– Mentee: Eternal by Leah and Kate Rooper

– 1st Alternate:Case in Point by Kimberly Ann Miller

– 2nd Alternate: Throne Hack by Jon Athmann

           

Team Evelyn (YA)   

– Mentee: Between Broken Ends by Emily Martin

– 1st Alternate: Fast Girl by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

– 2nd Alternate: The Last Letterboxes by Regina Garvie

 

Team Fiona (YA)     

– Mentee: Merlin’s Flight by Jordan Teos

– 1st Alternate: If Skyscrapers Had Secrets by Rachel Horwitz

– 2nd Alternate: The Drama Queen Who Cried Wolf by Jocelyn Rish

 

Team Gail (MG)       

– Mentee: Sticks and Stones by Abby Cooper

– 1st Alternate: Mimi Lost and Found by Pat Martinez

– 2nd Alternate: The Invisible Girl by Amy Kinzer

 

Team Heather (A)    

– Mentee: Learn Away the Indian by Amanda Skenandore

– 1st Alternate: The Death Clock by Dayspring MacLeod

– 2nd Alternate: Cut from the Earth by Stephanie Renée dos Santos

 

Team Jen Downey (MG)     

– Mentee: Lang Sawyer and the Den of Nostromo by Glenn McCarty

– 1st Alternate: The Mage Wars by Meredith Mansfield

– 2nd Alternate: Secret of the Saint by Megan Basham

 

Team Jennifer Malone (MG)          

– Mentee: Lucky Me! by Erin Elisabeth Conley

– 1st Alternate: Quincy Strange and the Ten by Heidi Boyd

– 2nd Alternate: The Secret at Spindrift by Chris Bailey

 

Team Jaye (YA)

– Mentee: Hurricane Daughter by Nina Moreno

– 1st Alternate: Celerity by Sarah Cannon

– 2nd Alternate: Discordance by Chelsey Blair

                                   

Team Jessie (YA)     

– Mentee: Only In My Dreams by Andy Hertzenberg

– 1st Alternate: Fighting Chance by Amy Trueblood

– 2nd Alternate: Unauthorized by Becky Wilson

 

Team Joy (MG)

– Mentee: The Last Fifth Grade Class of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan

– 1st Alternate: Rise and Fall of a Hallway Superhero by Davy DeGreeff

– 2nd Alternate: Nanny Morto by Lyudmyla Mayorska

 

Team Julie (NA/A)   

– Mentee: Queen of Shards by CB Whitney

– 1st Alternate: McTavish by Ryan Glover

– 2nd Alternate: Gyre by Jessica Harvey

 

Team Lindsay Currie (YA) 

– Mentee: Kit Dawson by Kes Trester

– 1st Alternate: Gemini Crush by Laura Felicetti

– 2nd Alternate: Captive by Lauren Spieller

 

Team Lindsey Sprague (YA)          

– Mentee: Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner

– 1st Alternate: Starry Starry Night by Abigail Johnson

– 2nd Alternate: Afterthought by Lora Beth Johnson

 

Team Laura (YA)    

– Mentee: The Northern Gash by Kerbie Addis

– 1st Alternate: Mad World by Mark O’Brien

– 2nd Alternate: Pox by Linsey Miller

 

Team Lioness (NA/A)          

– Mentee: Through the Storm by Cori Bair (writing as Marie Meyer)

– 1st Alternate: The Shifting Darkness by Sarah L. Blair

– 2nd Alternate: Forever Yours by Anna Rains

 

Team Lori (YA)

– Mentee: Fast Girl by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

– 1st Alternate: Through a Glass Darkly by Kimberly VanderHorst

– 2nd Alternate: What You Find When You Wake Up by Laurie McElderry

 

Team Marieke (MG)

– Mentee: My Seventh Grade Life in Tights by Brooks Benjamin

– 1st Alternate: The Vanishings by Genetta Adair

– 2nd Alternate: Alex de Vega and Pandora’s Box by Patrice Caldwell

 

Team Megan (YA)

– Mentee: Hunter High by Tara Harte

– 1st Alternate: The Blood Train by Megan Grimit

– 2nd Alternate: Stop Motion by Ann Foster

 

Team Meredith (YA)                          

– Mentee: Where Devils Breed by Adrianna Cabello

– 1st Alternate: All That Remains by Sarah Ahiers

– 2nd Alternate: The Desert Wall by Nicole Lisa

           

Team Michelle (YA)

– Mentee: Aurora by Ashley DeYoung

– 1st Alternate: Sincerely Yours, The Villain by Diana Sousa

– 2nd Alternate: Prime by Colleen Hampton

           

Team Mina (NA/A)

– Mentee: The Master’s Haiku by Kristin Reynolds

– 1st Alternate: Choose Your Own Apocalypse by Samantha Bohrman

– 2nd Alternate: Eluding Illusions by Janet Wrenn

 

 

Team Molly (YA)

– Mentee: The Scales On Our Eyes by Felicia Anderson

– 1st Alternate: Crossing Brielle by Jamie Corrigan

– 2nd Alternate: Crossing Fire by Samantha Joyce

                                   

Team Monica (YA)

– Mentee: Scapegoat by Rachel Coleman

– 1st Alternate: Starry, Starry Night by Abigail Johnson

– 2nd Alternate: The Swifts by Eliza West

 

Team Naomi (MG)   

– Mentee: Howard Wallace, PI by Casey Lyall

– 1st Alternate: Tunnels and Traitors by Amy Moellering

– 2nd Alternate: The Trouble with Frogs by Nicole Mogavero

 

Team Natalie (YA)

– Mentee: Blossom Hill by Alison Green Myers

– 1st Alternate: Elegy by Julie Dao

– 2nd Alternate: Wishing by Jerilyn Patterson

 

Team Nazarea (NA/A)

– Mentee: Crossover by Emmy Neal

– 1st Alternate: Sweet Nothing by Porsche Moore

– 2nd Alternate: The Lightning City by Heather Lynn

 

Team Rin (YA)

– Mentee: The Steamsmith by Josh Hlibichuk

– 1st Alternate: If I Promise You the Sun by Heather Davis

– 2nd Alternate: Sign of the Star by Laura Sheana Taylor

 

Team Sarah Henning (A)    

– Mentee: The Fisherman by Dan Malossi

– 1st Alternate: The Piano Fire by Wendy Nikel

– 2nd Alternate: The Gardens of Sunray by Jeremy Hepler

 

Team Sarah Nicolas (YA/NA)        

– Mentee: Amped by Amanda Klase

– 1st Alternate: Coming Alive by Jennifer Norwood

– 2nd Alternate: Fairy Keeper by Amy Bearce

                       

Team S.P. (YA)

– Mentee: Confession by Jaklyn Szabo

– 1st Alternate: Blessing Beneath by Jessica Albon

– 2nd Alternate: Captive by Lauren Spieller

 

 

Team Shannon (MG)           

– Mentee: Professor Plutonium by Jeff Chen

– 1st Alternate: The Transformation Project by Carmen Erickson

– 2nd Alternate: Ghost Farm by Wendy Parris

 

Team Shelley (YA/NA/A)

– Mentee: Something to Prove by April Schwartz (writing as Violet Henry)

– 1st Alternate: Twist of Fate by Martha Mayberry

– 2nd Alternate: The Lady Caller by Wendy Qualls

 

Team Skylar (YA/NA)

– Mentee: Double Minded by Robin Hammer

– 1st Alternate: Emerge by Tobie Easton

– 2nd Alternate: Dreamwalker by Leatrice McKinney

           

Team Stacey (YA/NA)

– Mentee: The Sea Wolves by Bethany Smith

– 1st Alternate: Willow Born by Shanna Miles

– 2nd Alternate: Bryn of Nannedar by Becky Lees

 

Team Stephanie (YA)          

– Mentee: In the Midst of Monsters by Kate Bucklein

– 1st Alternate: Elegy by Julie Dao

– 2nd Alternate: Strange Attractors by Melody Marshall

 

Team Susan (A)

– Mentee: Stealing the Sun by Derek Chivers

– 1st Alternate: Ice Flowers in Winter by Aimie Kathleen Runyan

– 2nd Alternate: Three Card Monty by Ellis Callen

 

Team Tina (NA/A)   

– Mentee: Passion of the Duke by Nancy Goodman

– 1st Alternate: A Breath of Silver by Cheyenne Campbell

– 2nd Alternate: Enthralled by Luisa Perkins

 

Team Trisha (YA/NA)

– Mentee: The Barrens by Erika David

– 1st Alternate: Gilded Fever by Cuyler Creech

– 2nd Alternate: Chance by Carol Blakely and Megan Herman and Captive by Jennifer Walsh

 

Team Veronica Bartles (MG)

– Mentee: Super Jake, Not-So-Super-Freddy, and Me, The King of Chaos by Naomi Milliner

– 1st Alternate: Riding on Shoulders by Khyl Shumway

– 2nd Alternate: Miracle Meggie by Toni De Palma

 

 

Team Veronica Park (NA)

– Mentee: Secrets I Keep by Kelley Harvey

– 1st Alternate: What Carries the Day by Melissa Flandreau

– 2nd Alternate: Running with Needles by Katie Bono

 

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