Donor Introductions: Day Six!

Hello all! Hope your weekends were all bright and shiny.

I'm happy to present to you the next batch of superb donors for next week's Writers For Hope Auction to benefit RAINN!

AVA JAE
Ava Jae is a writer, artist and editorial intern represented by Louise Fury of The Bent Agency. She writes NA and YA novels because she loves writing about self-discovery and the complicated worlds of young people. Then she likes to take their emotionally ridden lives, rip them apart, and set them on fire. She also has an addiction to movies, but that’s another matter entirely. You can find her weekly musings on her blog Writability, follow her on Twitter and tumblr or like her Facebook page.

DONATED PRIZE: Query and First Five Pages Critique


BRENDA DRAKE

Brenda Drake, the youngest of three children, grew up an Air Force brat and the continual new kid at school until her family settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Brenda’s fondest memories growing up is of her eccentric, Irish grandmother’s animated tales, which gave her a strong love for storytelling. So it was only fitting that she would choose to write young adult and middle grade novels with a bend toward the fantastical. When Brenda’s not writing or doing the social media thing, she’s haunting libraries, bookstores, and coffee shops or reading someplace quiet and not at all exotic (much to her disappointment).

She is represented by Peter Knapp at Park Literary.

DONATED PRIZE: Query Critique

EMMANUELLE MORGEN

Emmanuelle Morgen is a literary agent at Stonesong Literary Agency, representing adult and children’s fiction, as well as memoir and select narrative nonfiction books.

In children’s books, she represents YA and middle grade. Her authors include Jamie Blair (Leap of Faith, Simon & Schuster Children’s), Kathleen Peacock (The Hemlock Trilogy, Katherine Tegen Books), Louise Rozett (Confessions of an Angry Girl, Harlequin Teen), Amy Tintera (Reboot, HarperTeen), and Kat Zhang (What’s Left of Me, HarperTeen).

In adult books, she represents general fiction, women’s fiction and romance, historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and a certain kind of thriller. Her adult fiction clients include Dear Author contributor Alison Atlee (The Typewriter Girl, Gallery/Simon & Schuster), RITA nominees Alissa Johnson (An Unexpected Gentleman, Berkley) and Marcella Burnard (Enemy Within, Berkley), Cecilia Grant (A Lady Awakened, Bantam), Kelli Maine (Taken,Hachette), Katja Millay (The Sea of Tranquility), Jeanette Murray (The Officer Says “I Do”, Sourcebooks), Kat Murray (Taking the Reins, Kensington), Christina Phillips (Forbidden, Berkley), Sugar Jamison (Dangerous Curves Ahead, St. Martin’s Press), and Danielle Younge-Ullman (Falling Under, Plume).

Her nonfiction sales include family therapist Catherine McCall’s UK bestseller When the Piano Stops (Seal Press), M.E. Thomas’s Confessions of a Sociopath (Crown), and food writer and memoirist Candace Walsh’s Licking the Spoon (Seal Press).

DONATED PRIZE: Thirty Page Critique

Okay, well I am getting quite excited about all this. So much generosity! And still four more days of donor intros to go!

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