Hello #PitchWars mentors! I’m Adele Buck, writing adult contemporary romance. The book I’m submitting is Persuading Anna, a contemporary retelling of Austen’s Persuasion (and yes, right out of the gate, if you have a better title, I am ALL EARS.) The book has been critique-grouped and edited, but definitely still needs work! I’m eager to get a fresh set of eyes on it. Want to tear it to pieces and put it back together? Who would want to read this book? Well, do you like contemporary Austen retellings? How about a heroine in a male-dominated job and industry? (She’s the Chief Financial…

EDIT 7/22/16: Aw heck – this old thing? I wrote a much more fun one which you can see over here. Greetings to all who came here from Lana Pattinson’s generous blog hop…I’m going to be holding my breath, crossing my fingers, and entering one of my books into Pitch Wars this year. A New Hampshire native, Adele has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for almost 20 years. Her very first fiction writing experience was a serialized story about a girl who turns into a horse that enthralled her second-grade class. She continued to indulge her creative side with a…