The First Five
Pages April Workshop has come to an end. The participants did a
great job with their revisions and it showed! A big thanks to our guest
mentor, Becca Puglisi and our guest agent mentor (and my lovely agent!) Amaryah Orenstein, both of whom provided great comments and suggestions, and of course to
all of our fabulous permanent mentors! And I want to welcome our newest
permanent mentor, Holly Bodger, the
author of the forthcoming YA
novel 5 to 1 (Knopf,
May 2015). I can’t wait to read it!
Pages April Workshop has come to an end. The participants did a
great job with their revisions and it showed! A big thanks to our guest
mentor, Becca Puglisi and our guest agent mentor (and my lovely agent!) Amaryah Orenstein, both of whom provided great comments and suggestions, and of course to
all of our fabulous permanent mentors! And I want to welcome our newest
permanent mentor, Holly Bodger, the
author of the forthcoming YA
novel 5 to 1 (Knopf,
May 2015). I can’t wait to read it!
Our May workshop
will open for entries at noon, EST, on Saturday May 2, 2015. We’ll take the
first five Middle Grade, Young Adult, or New Adult entries that meet all
guidelines and formatting requirements. Click here to get the rules. I will post when it opens and
closes on Adventures in YA Publishing and on twitter (@etcashman), with the hashtag
#1st5pages.
will open for entries at noon, EST, on Saturday May 2, 2015. We’ll take the
first five Middle Grade, Young Adult, or New Adult entries that meet all
guidelines and formatting requirements. Click here to get the rules. I will post when it opens and
closes on Adventures in YA Publishing and on twitter (@etcashman), with the hashtag
#1st5pages.
In addition to our
talented permanent mentors, we have my dear friend and critique partner, author
Diana Renn. Diana
is the author of three fabulous international YA mysteries, TOKYO HEIST, LATITUDE ZERO, and BLUE VOYAGE which will be available
October 13, 2015. And we have Georgia McBride as our guest editor. In addition to being an author, Georgia is the
founder of Georgia McBride Media Group, home of Month9Books, Swoon Romance, and
Tantrum Books. So get
those pages ready!
talented permanent mentors, we have my dear friend and critique partner, author
Diana Renn. Diana
is the author of three fabulous international YA mysteries, TOKYO HEIST, LATITUDE ZERO, and BLUE VOYAGE which will be available
October 13, 2015. And we have Georgia McBride as our guest editor. In addition to being an author, Georgia is the
founder of Georgia McBride Media Group, home of Month9Books, Swoon Romance, and
Tantrum Books. So get
those pages ready!
May Guest Mentor – Diana
Renn
Renn
Diana writes
contemporary novels for young adults featuring globetrotting teens,
international intrigue, and more than a dash of mystery. TOKYO HEIST, LATITUDE ZERO, and BLUE VOYAGE are all published by Viking
Children’s Books / Penguin Young Readers Group. She’s also the Fiction Editor
at YARN (Young Adult Review Network), an
award-winning online magazine featuring short-form writing for teens.
contemporary novels for young adults featuring globetrotting teens,
international intrigue, and more than a dash of mystery. TOKYO HEIST, LATITUDE ZERO, and BLUE VOYAGE are all published by Viking
Children’s Books / Penguin Young Readers Group. She’s also the Fiction Editor
at YARN (Young Adult Review Network), an
award-winning online magazine featuring short-form writing for teens.
BLUE VOYAGE
An intricately
crafted mystery set in the contemporary Middle East.
crafted mystery set in the contemporary Middle East.
Zan is a politician’s
daughter and an adrenaline junkie. Whether she’s rock climbing or shoplifting,
she loves to live on the edge. But she gets more of a rush than she bargained
for on a forced mother–daughter bonding trip to Turkey, where she finds herself
in the crosshairs of an antiquities smuggling ring. These criminals believe
that Zan can lead them to an ancient treasure that’s both priceless and cursed.
Until she does so, she and her family are in grave danger. Zan’s quest to save
the treasure—and the lives of people she cares about—leads her from the
sparkling Mediterranean, to the bustle of Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, to the eerie
and crumbling caves of Cappadocia. But it seems that nowhere is safe, and
there’s only so high she can climb before everything comes tumbling down.
daughter and an adrenaline junkie. Whether she’s rock climbing or shoplifting,
she loves to live on the edge. But she gets more of a rush than she bargained
for on a forced mother–daughter bonding trip to Turkey, where she finds herself
in the crosshairs of an antiquities smuggling ring. These criminals believe
that Zan can lead them to an ancient treasure that’s both priceless and cursed.
Until she does so, she and her family are in grave danger. Zan’s quest to save
the treasure—and the lives of people she cares about—leads her from the
sparkling Mediterranean, to the bustle of Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, to the eerie
and crumbling caves of Cappadocia. But it seems that nowhere is safe, and
there’s only so high she can climb before everything comes tumbling down.
Available for preorder: amazon, indiebound, barnes & noble
May Guest Editor – Georgia
McBride
McBride
Georgia
McBride is founder of Georgia McBride Media Group, home of Month9Books, Swoon
Romance, and Tantrum Books. She develops content for film and TV, and is also a
speculative fiction writer. Georgia founded the #YAlitchat hashtag and weekly
chat on Twitter in 2009. Georgia is one of Publishers Marketplace’s most
prolific publishers and has spent most of 2014 atop the editors lists in Young
Adult, Digital New Adult and Digital deals. She’s completed over 120
publishing deals on behalf of three imprints in the past 24 months.
McBride is founder of Georgia McBride Media Group, home of Month9Books, Swoon
Romance, and Tantrum Books. She develops content for film and TV, and is also a
speculative fiction writer. Georgia founded the #YAlitchat hashtag and weekly
chat on Twitter in 2009. Georgia is one of Publishers Marketplace’s most
prolific publishers and has spent most of 2014 atop the editors lists in Young
Adult, Digital New Adult and Digital deals. She’s completed over 120
publishing deals on behalf of three imprints in the past 24 months.
