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rs 2017 hellooooo waves enthusiastically i m so super excited to be doing pitch wars again click here for details about the writing contest this will be my 6th time whoa time flies o o anyway this year i m co mentoring fantasy ya contemporary ya more about the wish list below with the fabulous kerbie addis owens again i m super excited about that i met her via pitch wars and she s become a cp and awesome friend i think she s so smart and talented and her writing reflects that here s her bio in her own words hello potential mentees waves i m kerbie yes that s really my name i was a mentee twice in pitch wars and was a mentor last year to the amazing amaris glass currently i m an intern for a top ny literary agency but for confidentiality reasons i can t disclose who i have an english ba and i m in a master s program to become a librarian fun stuff about me my husband s a 1lt in the army i have a chubby black cat named eve who has dominated my instagram i wrote my first book when i was 4 and my first real novel when i was 11 i can talk for hours about japanese horror feminism and psychology and have even presented at academic conferences on those topics in my internship and my years cping for friends i ve worked on manuscripts that went on to be published by penguin random house sourcebooks harpercollins and other houses i ve also worked with writers who signed with agencies like writer s house the bent agency curtis brown etc you get the idea i kinda have a magic touch p i also have a unique advantage as both an intern and a librarian in training i ve seen what is considered marketable from both sides of the publishing industry what publishers look to sell and what gets booksellers librarians to purchase i have a pretty good eye for what will sell and what won t this doesn t mean you should sit out because you don t think your book is marketable we can help get it to that point so why should you submit to me and monica 1 we re clearly awesome at what we do 2 two heads are better than one usually monica handles big picture edits which we discuss and i help the writer with line edits 3 we read quickly and reply to emails quickly from experience i know pitch wars can be nerve wracking and you definitely want someone who will be there for you and won t take forever to read your stuff 4 we don t hesitate when it comes to editorial bluntness we show tough love but the more notes we give the more we love your manuscript 5 i ll send you pictures of my cat for every chapter you edit 3 this is mónica again okay now about me i was born in peru and was raised in chile i m a native spanish speaker and it took me years to learn the necessary english to you know be able to write a book now i live in a rural area with my hubby and three boys near a chilean beach and close to many mountains a very earthquake y zone here i have dogs and a cat and hens and wild rabbits i ve been a freelance editor for over six years and i love to edit not copy edit though for some reason i m not so good with typos i got my first agent in 2010 for a ya fantasy that didn t sell then after regrouping i auditioned at paper lantern lit now glasstown entertainment the imprint founded by nyt best selling author lauren oliver and editor lexa hiller and got a na deal for a packaged book the frosh trilogy it was a three book deal so was busy with that for a while i learned so much there working with two editors alexa wejko and roda belleza rhoda is now a ya mg editor at imprint macmillan and alexa still works at glasstown now i just signed with my third agent the amazing stacia decker at dunow carlson lerner with a ya fantasy i m currently revising to go out on sub by the way that s something i adore ya fantasy i ve betaed edited a lot of books and my name is on many acknowledgements like the memory of light by francisco stork caraval by stephanie garber under a painted sky by stacey lee possess by gretchen mcneil all four stars by tara dairman touching the surface by kimberly sabatini the sound of life and everything by krista van dolzer and i ve worked with evelyn skye and kasie west and many other authors if you want to learn more you might want to take a look at the editorial services page of this blog you ll find testimonials there too oh and you might want to check the success stories on this blog too there are many here s a picture of a few of the books i edited you can see my name on the acks more books on the editorial page see this is why i think you should submit to us we re the perfect bridesmaids and we really want to take your book to the altar so to speak like we ve taken so many other books there we ve both worked with dozens of authors helping them get ready to sell their mss and more than once help them get six figure deals and we both love pitch wars wholeheartedly d what we want to see this year 1 just like last year we want ya fantasy pretty please grabby hands let me specify we don t care if it s historical fantasy ya or high fantasy ya or dark fantasy ya or any kind of ya fantasy but we want some romance it doesn t have to be the main plot but there has to be at least a romantic subplot for me also we d love it if the ending is unpredictable though i think that can be edited there s only one kind of ya fantasy we don t want boy ya fantasy like eragon ya fantasy books that i ve loved a court of thorns and roses daughter of smoke and bone the wrath and the dawn shadow and bone the scorpio races legend an ember in the ashes strange the dreamer etc i also loved caraval but i might be biased since like i said i betaed that awesome book i loved words of radiance what a great fantasy but i m mentioning it last because that s an adult book 2 contemporary ya we only want something that is not quiet with a unique premise said this the ms could either be funny and makes us laugh or dark we both like dark not downright hopeless though or both funny and dark it s a plus if it has a romantic thread doesn t have to be the main plot ya contemporaries we ve liked eleanor park the hate u give anna and the french kiss oh and this isn t a ya contemporary but an adult romance archer s voice by mia sheridan if you have a ya version of that book omg i need to see it please and if you have something contemporary that s like veronica mars then i want to see it too you guys already know i m a latina so latinx characters would be awesome too if you have an exchange student story i d like to see it too overall if your writing is literary and evocative then chances are we ll fall in love but like we said we don t want anything that s too quiet we also want plot and twists while we enjoy other genres like paranormal historical etc we won t be taking those this year because we realized that receiving less entries means that kerbie will be able to give overall feedback to everyone who submits to us isn t she amazing anyway that s why we won t be accepting all the genres this year if you are not sure whether to submit to us then i think it would be a good idea if you could check out the pw pages of my previous mentees there are a couple published books from my previous pitch wars teams too like this one and this one here are a few other entries this one this one and this one and if you still want to take a look at more mss that i ve picked to see my tastes you can poke around on my blog and see the writer s voice entries some of them like stitching snow which landed a six figure deal and resurrecting sunshine are published too pay attention to the voice of all those entries if you like them then we probably have a similar taste this step in choosing a mentor is really important imo when i queried i checked out lots of entries in contests to decide which agent might have similar tastes i jotted down which entries i liked and saw the agents who had requested those turns out i had a much bigger success ratio with the agents who had requested entries that i d liked versus the ones i hadn t liked so much my editing style is like this i ll point out the things that aren t working for me and tell you why for example i might comment that i think the pace is slow or the characters seem two dimensional or there s a plot hole etc i ll put my finger on what exactly isn t working for me and tell you why then i ll give you a few suggestions examples of how you might want to fix it then i ll leave it up to you if you want to fix something differently be my guest the key to it all is communication then the second round of edits the line edits will be made by kerbie who has a lot of experience since she works for a very awesome agent at a very awesome agency let me know if you have general questions on the comments section of this post you can tweet to us too good luck 3 m to go back to the ya mentors links on brenda s site click here posted by unknown at 1 00 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pitch wars tuesday july 4 2017 gearing up for pitch wars 2017 chapter critique giveaway hi guys it s going to be pitch wars time again this year and i ll be mentoring a ya ms for the sixth time d details about the contest coming soon for the ones querying this is a wonderful opportunity to polish your ms and get an agent now gearing up for the contest you can win a chapter critique by lorena hughes she s giving this critique away to celebrate that her book thesisters of alameda street releases today she ll have the critique ready in time for pitch wars a bit more about my friend lorena lorena hughes was born and raised in ecuador until moving to the u s at 18 she has a degree in fine arts and mass communication journalism from the university of new mexico her previous work won first place at the 2011 southwest writers international contest in the historical fiction category earned an honorable mention at the 2012 soul making keats literary competition and was a quarter finalist for the 2014 amazon breakout novel award the sisters of alameda street is her first novel i m really excited about her book in case you like generational sagas with some romance and latin historical fiction you might want to check it out here s the summary one family four sisters and a mystery that might unravel them all when malena s tidy carefully planned world collapses with her father s mysterious suicide she finds a letter signed with an a which reveals that her mother is very much alive in san isidro a quaint town tucked in the andes mountains intent on meeting her malena arrives at alameda street and meets four unconventional women who couldn t be more different from one another but who share one thing in common all of their names begin with an a to avoid a scandal malena assumes another woman s identity and enters their home to discover the truth could her mother be amanda the iconoclastic widow who opens the first tango nightclub in a conservative town ana the ideal housewife with a less than ideal past abigail the sickly sister in love with a forbidden man or alejandra the artistic introvert scarred by her cousin s murder but living a lie will bring malena additional problems such as falling for the wrong man and loving a family she may lose when they learn of her deceit worse her arrival threatens to expose long buried secrets and a truth that may wreck her life forever set in 1960s ecuador the sisters of alameda street is a sweeping story of how one woman s search for the truth of her identity forces a family to confront their own past the giveaway a rafflecopter giveaway posted by unknown at 11 35 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me unknown view my complete profile subscribe to love ya posts atom posts all comments atom all comments subscribe to my newsletter never miss important na book news join my newsletter indicates required email address first name last name subscribe to the blog via email 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writing tips 3 search this blog popular posts if you ve been considering my editorial services you re going to want to read this i d been traveling for the past few weeks and when i came back home in chile i realized the u s dollar exchange rate has changed dr we have our third teammonicaftw 2014 success story guess what my team from the writer s voice 2014 has had a third success story i m so excited to announce that claudia arroyo win a special query stamp the contest starts now the contest is now closed thanks for participating d so it s past midnight and it s already monday the special query pitch contest with agent kristin miller d4eo literary the contest is now closed thank y all for participating the contest starts now so guys it s time to post your shiny 140 charac interview with agent kathleen rushall of waterside productions so today i bring you guys another interview with an agent and i m really happy to say that my last interview generated at least three re contest with agent carrie pestritto of the prospect agency the contest is now closed thanks for participating the agent judged contest starts now rules 1 this contest is only open f pitch wars 2015 mentor bios and wish list pitch wars is finally here and i m so excited i ll be a mentor for the fourth time can you believe how time flies so frosh first blush news and a contest hey guys so like you see on the picture my publisher is organizing a pre order contest and you can win up to twelve books t my 2014 pitch wars mentor bio and wish list pitch wars is finally here and i m so excited i ll be a mentor for the third time can you believe how time flies so i ll be it s pitch wars time again d hellooooo waves enthusiastically i m so super excited to be doing pitch wars again this will be my 5th time whoa time flies anywa i m a pitch wars mentor blog archive 2017 3 july 2 pitch wars 2017 gearing up for pitch wars 2017 chapter critique g january 1 2016 6 july 2 may 2 march 1 january 1 2015 29 november 2 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