“Things Every Southern Woman Should Know How to Make”

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Alice clicked on the headline, mildly curious about what yet another stranger thought should be in her kitchen repertoire. Pictures of China plates mounded with crispy fried chicken, greens, cobbler, and a pile of biscuits a mile high flooded the screen, all set off with a pitcher of sweet tea beaded with condensation. The table was set; an apron draped off to the side next to a box labeled “Gramma’s Recipes” in fine calligraphy. She closed the browser and put away her tablet. She was born a Georgia peach, but she couldn’t make a cobbler to save her life. Did that mean she wasn’t southern? Or maybe just not “Southern.” For Alice, there was no recipe box full of family traditions. Her younger years were filled with rental homes in different states and her father’s voice coaxing her toward a text book rather than a cookbook. Metalworking and fabrication held more interest than learning to flambé or sauté. Did it make her less of a woman that her cooking skills consisted of fresh salads...

PitchSlam! The Pitch Round Goblet of Fire Selections

Hey PitchSlammers! it's the moment you've been waiting for, agonizing over, maybe even losing sleep over!

The entries have been tossed into the Goblet of Fire, and the following have been spat out of the flames! *blows off ashes*

Selections are grouped by age category and listed by title, so please read carefully!

Adult
ERIN JANE
TO FIND THE AIR
MENDED
THE COINS OF MAMMON
SERENGETI
THE LAST LEAF
THE TREASURES OF DODRAZEB
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
START, KILL
INNOCENT LIVES MATTER
KISMET FALLS
THE MAD BARON'S DOOMED DAUGHTER
INVISIBLE INK
WINTER RAINS
THE VALLEY OF THE ROSES
THE DARK MATTERS
THE ORCHID GIRLS CHASE
VENOM
THE STALKING HORSE
COLLARED
A SONG FOR SARAH MCPHEE
FINDING PERSEPHONE
FAE FAVORED
BAD THINGS COME IN THREES
THE STAGE
THE WRITE TYPE OF WRONG
UNTIL THE END
TUMBLE INTO ME
SADISTIC
CODED FOR MURDER
BEAUTY BOUND
FAMILIAR SPIRITS
A STORM'S MIGHTY FURY

Women's Fiction
THE PERFECT WIFE
AMERICAN PANDA
STUPID GIRL
BEATRICE BLAKE, NOVICE

New Adult
NOT FIGHTING FAIRE
CHASING HAPPILY EVER AFTER
AN UNDERGROUND FAIRY TAL
GOOD GONE DARK
ALETHIA
MY SOUL TO GIVE
SCIONS AND SAINTS
DEEPLY ALIVE--A BADASS LOVESTORY
SECOND-SELF


Young Adult
LITTLE BLACK BOX
NORTHERN GHOSTS
SEVEN SEAS
MISSION X
THE FATED UNDESIRABLE
SOUL BLADE
PROTECTOR: AURIA'S SONG
THE UTOPIANS
CUSTODIAN
FOUR WINDS FROM A TEMPEST
DIA DE LOS MILTON
A MARVELOUS FAMILY TRAGEDY
ISLES OF ALYIS
BAD BLOODS
ILLUSION

FIELD OF VIOLETS
THE EVASION THEORY
PROJECT SIREN
THE PALACE OF SAND
THE VAULT
DRAGON'S CURSE
SOCIOPOP
THE BACKSLIDERS
THE STOLEN GIRL
THE DARKNESS DEVOURS
HAVEN
IMMORTAL SECRETS
A COMPLETE LIFE OF ITS KIND

MUCH ADO ABOUT HOMECOMING
THE DREAM WARS
WHITE RAVEN
HACKER GIRL
THE MECHANICS OF HAVING HORNS AND WINGS
STATUS: POSITIVE
CHILDREN OF AVALON
MUSE
ALICE GAMES
THE NEW RECRUITS

THE CHALLENGER
RESPAWN
FAIRY RING
SMARTS
WILD CALLING
THOSE NOT CHOSEN
LILY AND LION
AFTER LIFE
THAT PLACE IN MY HEART
UNDER THE ICY LAKE
WEIRD
THE DROWNING OF MOLLY WHITFORD

MARISOL
A TALE OF JACKETS AND PHONES
GLORY'S REALM
BETWEEN SOUND AND SILENCE
RED RAIN
OUT OF THE COLD
TOP SECRETS
THE CURSE OF JENNY GREENTEETH
THE GARDEN
REMEMBER NINE
THE WOLF AND THE RAVEN
WILLOW MARSH
FINALLY AWAKE
SYD-PLY MISUNDERSTOOD

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SLOANE STEVENS
ALISHA'S TREE
A TRACE OF MADNESS
SAVAGE ARIA
REMINISCE: CALL OF TWO ROADS
THE WORLD IN GRAY
THE UTOPIANS
EMBERED FLAME
RIDE THE LINE ETERNAL
FOREST LAKE
THE DESTINY MATRIX
SKIN DEEP
A CURSE MOST WICKED
WHITE AS SNOW
IN THE SPACE BETWEEN

BORNLESS
BRAIN DAMAGE
186 LIES & COUNTING
DEFINING NORMAL
HASHTAG WITNESS
HOTEL FROM HELL: THE 108 MILE MURDERS
THE FLAMES OF ORIANA
THE BLOOD PIRATE


Middle grade
WHEN YOUR BEST FRIEND WANT TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND (AND OTHER HORROR STORIES)
THE SHADED EYE
THE MARVELOUS ADVENTURES OF GWENDOLYN GRAY
FINDING ME
THE CHALLENGER
PETDEMONIUM
LARIMAR--THE HIDDEN CITY
BFF GUIDE TO EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP
THE LAST PAPER DAHL
SULTANA SINKING
THE HOUSE ON WINGING WAY
TO THE OTHER SIDE
GIRL
THE STORYTHING COMETH
MERMAID OF THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND
CATNAPPED
THE JUSTICE DRAGON'S SECRET
THE OSTRICH AND THE ROSE

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