Category: YA

I would like to submit my 60,000 word teen novel, THE ACCIDENTAL FEMINIST, for your consideration. I have had requests for the full manuscript from some of you already. THE ACCIDENTAL FEMINIST is the humorous diary of politics...

It is Midsummer, and the harvest is almost here. Nestled among the dying citrus trees of Halla Valley, Nahla’s plants grow tall and strong, their leaves ripe with veins of silver magic: the first grains of magic the Magus...

Fifteen-year-old Prayer Perrault lives in a bubble where YouTube videos are her teachers and secondhand books are her friends. Her only human interaction comes from her agoraphobic mom, whose fears bar Prayer from leaving the...

Fifteen-year old Grace Hamilton is used to the big city lights and noise of London, but Spike Island, a former prison and windswept piece of land off the coast of Ireland, is a world apart. And with a haunting past and dark...

Because of your interest in YA contemporary that deals with complicated family relationships and emotional coming-of-age, THE DISTANCE THAT REMAINS, complete at 70,000 words, might be a good fit for your list. Sixteen-year-old...

Thank you for reading the first 500 words of my crossover YA thriller, EXPENSIVE SECRETS. Shannon French hates her job as a teenage secret agent. The only thing that could make it worse would be if she was posted to the one...

In UNCHARTED STARS, a stand-alone YA science fiction, complete at 91,000 words, the all-girl crew of Natalie Parker’s SEAFIRE meets the far-flung exploration and team dynamics of MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA in an Indiana...

Please consider THE SPIRIT THIEF, an 84,000 word #ownvoices Young Adult fantasy with Lebanese-Arab themes. This novel will appeal to fans of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Beasts Made of Night and Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes....

PAPER GIRL is a stand-alone, 86,000-word YA contemporary novel with series potential that will appeal to fans ofLittle White Liesand Veronica Mars. Sixteen-year-old Leona Swick has a nose for news, but the one story she missed...

THE FIRSTS & FAVES OF EVA & ALEX is an 80,000-word YA contemporary romance in alternating, dual-POV. Interspersed with offbeat humor and family intrigue comparable to Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Little White Lies, this story...

I’m excited that you are here to review the #WriteMentor Showcase. I believe the programme sets the stage for success for new writers and personally I have found the experience of working with a mentor invaluable. The World...