Manuscript Status: Finished
Mentor: Rachel Lynn Solomon & Kit Frick
Mentee: Carlyn Greenwald
Title: CON ARTISTS
Category: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary (LGBT)
Word Count: 76,000
Pitch:
Seventeen-year-old Chloe arrives at Comic-Con with two goals: meet an obscure artist and turn her online BFF into her real-life girlfriend.
When she pisses off a dangerous group of merchandise forgers on Preview Night, Comic-Con takes a dark turn. Now Chloe must organize her friends into a criminal entity and find an exclusive figurine by the end of the weekend—or die. The Hangover meets Ocean’s 11 with a dash of nerd culture.
Excerpt:
It was one of those afternoons where I was narrating my day-to-day actions with movie quotes.
“Never tell me the odds” seemed particularly relevant, especially right then. The local Target was just as disorganized as ever, a boss fight level obstacle course of housewives in their all-day workout clothing and their unsupervised children. But, dammit, I’d been to this stupid store four times in the past five days, and I was determined that this would be my last.
I didn’t necessarily run to the aisle, but my speed was questionable. Fast enough that I narrowly avoided a few concussions to get there. Once the life-sized BB-8 came into view, sitting proudly on the edge of an aisle, I skidded to a stop and rounded the corner. I almost didn’t want to look, especially since half the aisle was already empty.
I pivoted, and scanned the shelves.
There it was.
Four-inch talking Kylo Ren plushie, complete with at least five movie-accurate phrases and a clip-on ring.
And there were six of them in stock, all hanging one after another like a conga line. Right below them were the Darth Vaders, Chewbaccas, BB-8s, and Yodas I’d glimpsed during my previous four trips. I immediately grabbed one off the shelf and pressed the “I Talk!” button. It spat out one of its movie-accurate phrases, and I was in love.
This sounds awesome! I’d love to read the first five chapters and a full synopsis! Can you send to requestedmaterials@ktliterary.com?
Would love to see the full! Can you please send the full ms, along with the query + 10 pages pasted in the body of the email to flahertyqueries@thebentagency.com, with subject line: PITCH WARS + Title.
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I’d love to see a full of this! Please send it + the query to strothmanagency (at ) gmail (.) com as an attached word document (.doc) with REQUESTED PITCH WARS in the subject line.
I’d love to read more of this! Please send the full manuscript to me as an attached word doc: querymandy@emeraldcityliterary.com. Thanks so much!
-M
I’m loving this so far! Please send the full manuscript as a Word doc or PDF with your query in the body of the email to melissa@rpcontent.com, and be sure to put “Pitch Wars” in the subject line.
Thanks!
Melissa Nasson
Rubin Pfeffer Content
Hi Carlyn–I LOVE this premise! And I’ve been looking for a heist/con book. Please send the manuscript and a synopsis as Word doc attachments to queryroseanne@gmail.com with Pitch Wars and Query + title in the subject line. Can’t wait to read!
Roseanne Wells
The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
I’d love to read more! Please send the full manuscript to whitley@inklingsliterary.com with “Pitch Wars: [TITLE]” as the subject line. And if you wouldn’t mind, could you please include your query on the first page of the word doc?. I look forward to reading!