MarcyKate Connolly

Middle Grade & Young Adult Author

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Singing Pugs + Presents = My Birthday!

It’s that time of year again — flow­ers are bloom­ing, every­thing is green, and I get another year older. I’m rather fond of being alive, so I think this is a very happy thing to celebrate!

The Pitch-A-Partner Festival Agent Round is LIVE!

Thanks to every­one who par­tic­i­pated! We had some won­der­ful entries and are look­ing for great things to come from the writ­ers who were selected to move on to the agent judg­ing round. Our lovely agents — Adri­ann Ranta, Tina Wexler, Jen­nifer Laugh­ran, Suzie Townsend, Laura Brad­ford, and Pooja Menon — will be cruis­ing the entries and mak­ing their requests in the com­ments until 9 PM EST tonight.

Entry — BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLES

TITLEBIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLES GENRE:  Con­tem­po­rary real­is­tic YA WORD COUNT: 70,000 QUERY:  Lexi Star has fallen out of her fam­ily tree. After six­teen years of decep­tion, she dis­cov­ers that she is not the prod­uct of a one-night-stand between her mother and a hot bar­tender in Aca­pulco. Rather, she is the prod­uct of a seri­ous rela­tion­ship between her mother […]

Entry — SHADOWS OF LIBERTY

TITLE:  SHADOWS OF LIBERTY GENRE:  Young Adult WORD COUNT: 83,000 QUERY: Gavin Fay thought he was going to school to learn the art of inves­ti­ga­tion; lit­tle did he real­ize that he would go on a his­tor­i­cal chase to catch the great­est crim­i­nal known to man. When 14 year old Gavin trans­fers to the Edgar Doyle Insti­tute of […]

Entry — TRESPASSERS

TITLETRESPASSERS GENRE: YA Fan­tasy WORD COUNT: 87,000 QUERY: His­to­ri­ans believe a civ­i­liza­tion called Mid­deah van­ished from North Amer­ica in 1015. They’re wrong. Mid­deah still thrives beneath the mod­ern world, but the realm’s sur­vival comes at a vio­lent price for the tres­passers who slip through the cracks. When sixteen-year-old artist Etta “bor­rows” her dad’s truck for […]

  • About Me

    I’m a writer and arts admin­is­tra­tor liv­ing in New Eng­land with my hus­band and pugs. I’m also a cof­fee addict, vora­cious reader, and recur­ring com­muter. I occa­sion­ally blog at From the Write Angle and vol­un­teer as a mod­er­a­tor at AgentQueryConnect.com. Rep­re­sented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Lit­er­ary & Media. My debut novel MONSTROUS will be out from Harper­Collins Children’s Books in 2014!

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