#PitchWars Peeps to Check Out

As promised in my last post about how I feel about not getting picked in Pitch Wars, here are six Pitch Wars people I want to highlight because THEY ARE AWESOME. And they willingly told me their secret super powers, so that tells you a lot about their character.

 
1. Brenda Drake
Secret super power: Able to multitask in a single bound.
Blog/website: http://www.brenda-drake.com/
Book: Library Jumpers
Release Date: 2015
Twitter: @brendadrake
Library Jumpers blurb:

"The gateways between the great libraries of the world don’t require a library card, but they do harbor dangers.

Sixteen-year-old Gia Kearns would rather spar with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather-clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, busts her staring at him while she’s with her friends researching for their summer essays.When he suddenly disappears, Gia swipes the book he abandoned and unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a gateway book linking the world’s libraries, where hidden behind bookcases lies a magical world and a rising evil that will alter both the Mystik and human realms, returning them to a time when frightening creatures openly roamed the earth and fed on humans.

Jumping into some of the world’s most beautiful libraries would be a dream come true for Gia, if she weren’t struggling to fit into her new life as a Sentinel—magical knights charged with protecting humans from the creatures traveling across the gateway books—or busy resisting forbidden love. But as the threat from an exiled wizard seeking revenge rises, Gia must choose between her heart and her head, between Arik’s world and her own, before they’re both destroyed."

2. Sharon Johnston
Secret super power: Internal energy source allows her to operate off very little sleep.
Blog/website: http://downunderwonderings.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @S_M_Johnston
Book: Sleeper
Release Date: TBA
Sleeper blurb:  

"A new heart should mean new life, not a living nightmare.

Mishca Richardson’s life is at an all-time high after her heart transplant.  With new boyfriend, Ryder, the two of them have the perfect summer romance. Even the nightmares that have been plaguing her sleep since her operation can’t dull the high she’s on.

Things start to unravel as Mishca develops superhuman abilities. She does her best to hide them so as not to end up a science experiment in a lab. But she can’t ignore the instant attraction she experiences when she meets her university professor, Colin Reed.

Torn between the blossoming love and the obsession, Mishca must decide if she wants Ryder or Colin. But the organization responsible for her changes and her connection to Colin, is moving to secure Mishca so that she can be the weapon she was always intended her to be. If Mishca can’t resist her programming she’ll have a lot more to worry about than romance."

Sharon also has short stories in: Basics of Life
Buy it here!


3. Stephanie Scott
Secret super power: Stephanie did not give me a super power, so I will take an educated guess and say her powers is that she goes above and beyond the call of duty.
EDIT: I have heard back about the power, and the verdict is: Planning prowess!
Blog/website: http://www.stephaniescott.net/
Twitter: @StephScottYA
Book: 2014 RWA Maggie award finalist for manuscript ALTERATIONS



4. Rachel Lynn Solomon
Secret super power: Obsessively detail oriented.
Blog/website: http://rlynnsolomon.blogspot.com/
Book:Twitch
Follow the above link to read a little about Twitch!
Twitter: @rlynn_solomon


5. Trisha Leaver
Secret super power: Predicts the future.
Blog/website: http://www.trishaleaver.com/
Book: The Secrets We Keep
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Pre-order here!
Twitter: @tleaver
The Secrets We Keep blurb:

"A girl takes over her twin sister's identity in this emotionally charged page-turner about the complicated bond between sisters."

Ella and Maddy Lawton are identical twins. Ella has spent her high school years living in popular Maddy's shadows, but she has never been envious of Maddy. In fact, she's chosen the quiet, safe confines of her sketchbook over the constant battle for attention that has defined Maddy's world.

When—after a heated argument—Maddy and Ella get into a tragic accident that leaves her sister dead, Ella wakes up in the hospital surrounded by loved ones who believe she is Maddy. Feeling responsible for Maddy's death and everyone's grief, Ella makes a split-second decision to pretend to be Maddy. Soon, Ella realizes that Maddy's life was full of secrets. Caught in a web of lies, Ella is faced with two options—confess her deception or live her sister's life."

Books co-authored with Lindsay N. Currie (below):
Hardwired
Release date: 2015
Creed
Release date: November 8, 2014
Pre-order here!

6. Lindsay N. Currie
Secret super power: Invisibility cloak.
Blog/website: http://lindsaycurrie.com/
Twitter: @lindsayncurrie
Books co-written with Trisha Leaver (above):
Hardwired
Release date: 2015
Creed
Release date: November 8, 2014
Pre-order here!
Find more on her website!

Creed blurb:

"Three went in. Three came out. None even a shadow of who they once were.

When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby town called Purity Springs. When they arrive, the emergency sirens are blaring and the small farming town seems abandoned. With no other shelter, they spend the night in an empty house.

But they soon discover that not everything in Purity Springs is as it seems. When the town's inhabitants suddenly appear the next morning, Dee, Luke, and Mike find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins, who plans to make Dee his new wife. Elijah's son, Joseph, offers to help them escape . . . but the price of his help may be more than Dee and her friends can bear."

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So basically, this is how I feel about all these books:

And...

Thanks for checking out the fabulous talent!