Lane Heymont is here today taking one sentence pitches. All you have to do is leave your one sentence pitch in a comment below.
Winners will be posted April 8.
To learn about Lane’s manuscript wishlist, check here.
Good luck!
Lane’s Bio:
Lane Heymont was born in Pennsylvania. He has been a lifelong reader and writer. As a child, his grandfather would pay him $5 to read the best literature had to offer. Such titles included Ivanhoe, the Iliad, the Odyssey, A Tale of Two Cities, and more.
With a bachelor’s degree in psychology with focuses on business and literature, Lane continued his education in creative writing and literature, attending Harvard.
Serving as a Literary Assistant for the past two years at the Seymour Agency, Lane Heymont led the marketing efforts for their authors and enjoyed connecting clients with readers.
Lane was promoted to junior agent in December of 2014 with the announcement following in January.
He belongs to a number of professional organizations including the Horror Writers Association, International Thriller Writers, Association of Authors’ Representatives, Romance Writers of America.
Horrified over her mother’s treason, desperate to redeem her family’s honor, a Japanese-American girl infiltrates a WWII Japanese POW camp to free victims of medical experiments.
Oh my gosh. I’m a huge WWII / POW story buff. This sounds soooo good! What a great one-sentence pitch!
Thanks, Colleen! Particularly fun was meeting a local Japanese-American born in Tokyo in 1938, full of first-grader memories of the late war. He provided a beta-read and some useful cultural and language references.
I would totally read this book. Great job!
Leah only trusts her sister, Brooke, with her big secret – too bad Brooke might not live to see tomorrow, and Leah has no idea.
When universe-jumper Nile woke up in Haleos, a realm that resembles Ancient Egypt, the last thing she expected was to fall in love… or to start a multi-dimensional war. All she needs to go back to Earth is a black hole. But then again, her universe might no longer exist.
As a Parascience freshman, Hailey goes from studying dreams to living a nightmare when she provokes the half-rotted, omnipotent gentleman that killed her family, and if she can’t find a way to banish him to the Dream World, he’ll murder her too.
“My momma beat a sheriff with a broom and me and my sisters were taken to live in the orphanage durin’ the Big Depression so when do I get to go home?
Agnes plays pretend in an old manor with secret passages and hidden rooms, finding she must solve the murder of a real eight-year-old ghost from 1840 and banish a more sinister specter threatening her.
A woman shot by Cupid’s arrow and saddled with a couldn’t-be-more-wrong-for-her soul mate, must complete Psyche’s four impossible trials in order to find her true love.
Hey Jenn! Love your story from FAB30. Good to see a familiar face. Good luck to you!!!
Hey Robin!! Good to see you too! Are you pitching?
When Jimmy quits his psych meds and starts doing drugs again, Jacoby has to find the confidence that made him say ‘I do’ in the first place
For someone who should have control freak stamped on her forehead, Loxie will throw caution flags to the wind if it means getting into a stock car garage, but it may mean leaving the rest of her life in the dust.
The Native Americans who yanked fourteen year old Troy into the forest are not the enemy. That is the drug cartel and they will kill him, unless he and his friends outfox them.
When their just-for-fun fling becomes something more, will a good girl and a bad boy pilot find love, or will they both crash and burn?
A poisoned sixteen-year-old with a mysterious past searches for an antidote before she dies – but the secrets she uncovers may be even deadlier than the poison.
A reclusive woman’s horrific childhood holds her hostage until the lives of the kids across the street mimic her past, but to save them from a similar fate she must first save herself.
This sounds good!! Is the same one from Fab 30 or something different?
Fiery co-ed Stella must learn to navigate a new world and a scaly new body, but when she learns her own mother is responsible for mass genocide she wishes her ancestry had remained elusive.
Connected tenuously to a father who barely remembers her and a brother who has become an enigma, Colleen faces the moving target that is Alzheimer’s disease, determined not to let it get the best of her OR the true essence of her father.
When Blake vowed to steal the magic heart of a wax girl, he did it to save his dying mother’s life, but when Sarah, the living Waxling, steals his heart instead, Blake must choose which fragile life to stave, and which stolen heart to break.
This sounds so sweet and heartbreaking! Oh, I wish I could read these books now! Great pitch!
Hackers stole Joanna’s identity, now the one who’s stealing her heart claims to be a good guy — maybe.
For the past ten years, seventeen-year-old Mikaelah has worked as a Timekeeper to keep humankind on a preordained course for peace; but when Chaos – a violent organization fighting for free will – emerges, she must decide: infiltrate and defeat Chaos to prevent anarchy, or turn her back on the Timekeepers to embrace the unknown.
While chasing after the hoodoo conjurer who has kidnapped her infant brother, a caulbearer, with the intent to sell him into the New Orleans Voodoo underworld of Queen Marie Laveau, Leah Sullivan falls in love with a mysterious Civil War veteran even though she still mourns her childhood sweetheart, who continues to haunt her.
When Sasha and her partner-in-crime attempt one last heist before college, they find themselves set up and need to steal back a priceless sapphire, or Sasha bewildered identical twin will take the fall.
In a high stakes Breakfast Club, a pregnant teen and her friends must stop a social media site that promises to make dreams come true but delivers disaster instead.
Five-year-old Dani Redfield knows that genes are the building blocks of life, but what she doesn’t know are that hers have mutated.
Good pitch.
Jack Vander Zee aka Flashback Jack dreams of the Vietnam War and girl named Christine while Ivy Drake dreams of a living in 1969 and of a boy named Johnny; they discover their dreams are actually memories of – Johnny and Christine; one who died in war and one who may have been murdered.
Anneliese Keller and Max Miller are haunted by dreams of past lives ending in tragedy during World War II in Nazi Germany, working together they solve the mystery of the past and capture a Nazi war criminal.
(I know this isn’t on your wish list but hey, maybe it could be…ditto with my other pitch :))
Between missing people, restless ghosts, and human experiments, forgiveness isn’t easy when twenty-two-year-old Constance is a medium who wants to forget.
Sixteen year-old Ivy is astonished to discover her human-angel heritage and destiny, protect a family pendant that could usher in a new era of dangerous hybrids, but distractions from her attractive allies, a rehabilitated-juvenile delinquent and a repentant-bad angel, puts her heart and humanity in jeopardy.
When genetically-engineered mutants destroy her enclave, teen prodigy June Doe discovers she is the clone of a goddess meant to rule the new, twisted paradise of mindless drones; but June’s all-too-human feelings for her dreamy guard Kyle might keep her from becoming a monster.
Money trouble and a disturbed orphan’s century-old letters send twelve-year-old Cash searching for treasure, but whispering shadows warn he’s heading for an asylum; to find the gold that’ll save his home, Cash must gamble his sanity.
Oooh, intriguing!
When a freak car accident severely injures Dean’s mom and strands her and her little brother in the mountains, a fearful Dean must learn how to be brave and trek across the wilderness alone in order to save her family.
Love this! Good luck 🙂
Born with the golden mark, Elena – a sixteen-year-old desperate to choose another path – is the only one carrying the ancient bloodline with the power to renew the dying forest her people rely on to survive.
A young girl wrongly assumes a boy with dyslexia is a liar and a cheat and must learn to trust again or risk losing him, her friends and her family.
I have no pitch, but I wanted to say how lucky someone will be to have Lane look at their work! Congrats to the lucky winner!
Seventeen-year-old Micah assumes his dead twin’s identity to infiltrate a telepathic terrorist cell and stop a global brainwashing…too bad he’s no psychic and the guy he’s falling for might be luring him into a trap.
Elsa struggled with her weight for as long as she could remember, yet fate delivered Joe, the perfect man, into her life; will he stick by her side when she’s diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes?
One Sentence:
Believing himself without honor or empathy, a world-weary thief defies magic, the Imperial Guard, and his ex-fiancee’ to protect those he encounters in his travels.
Elevator Pitch
“Lord of the Rings if filmed by Sergio Leone”
Born as a weapon, 16-year-old Haley’s blood-shifting power exceeds any; rescued by her time-shifting brother from an assassin with amazing fashion-sense, and loved by two boys from different worlds, Haley fights to maintain her identity.
Food blogger Caryn Miller never considered having a romance of her own, until she hires Irishman Jack Quinn to fix her roof, can fix her heart as well?
Fourteen-year-old Kathryn’s obsession to find her dad fuels a search for actor Michael J Fox, but when she encounters a boy in search of his mother, she must decide whose family to help.
Scholarship, status and loyalty collide when Hunter suspects Coach is dosing FB teammates, after one nearly dies.