Brought to you by Technicolor | URBAN WITH A HINT OF SUBURBS | B.A. Art History | Writer of fantasy and mayhem | Rep:
@gracemilusich
at
@lookingglasslit
Here's everything you need to know about AGOSAS, my angsty Peaky Blinders x SOC vibes YA Fantasy novel 🖤
Contact my agent for more info 🖤
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I just got a rejection from an agent who already rejected my query months ago? I guess they really wanted to make sure I knew this query was a no from them. 😂
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Who knew that "killing my darlings" for me would just be having to delete "he raised a brow" or "his jaw clenched" 8million times. 😭😭😭 RIP brows and jaw. Gone but never forgotten. 😪
Sometimes I write stuff and then I tie it into a later chapter and it's like "wow... foreshadowing I didn't even know I was doing." AND THIS IS WHY PANTSING REMAINS SUPREME. It's discovering your subconscious actually knows what it's doing 💅🏻
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Hi
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I'm Grace, I'm 27 with no money, no prospects, and 100% a burden to my family! (Not really lol.) I'm a YA/ Adult fantasy author living in California with my husband and 2 cats. I'm working on my MA in Art History so I can teach at a collegiate level! 🤍
So, my QueryTracker subscription renews at like the end of the month... so if anyone wants to offer me rep so I don't have to pay... ily forever 🫶🏻
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PSA announcement 🗣️
If you ignore basic human necessities such as eating, sleeping, going to the bathroom, etc. Then you too, can write over 50k words and finish your first draft in four days.
It's time...
I am so ecstatic to announce that I am now repped by
@gracemilusich
at
@LookingGlassLit
! Grace's passion, vision, and enthusiasm for my YA Fantasy A GAME OF SINNERS AND SAINTS instantly sold me on her! I can't wait to introduce you to my little group of criminals. 🖤
Hey all... so I know I literally just signed with that agency yesterday, but given everything that is going on I will NOT be moving forward with them. I do not support the owner's reaction to any of this but I am working on figuring everything out behind the scenes.
It just struck me that one day, our book characters could be someones go to comfort characters. Our stories could be what gets them through a hard time. Our words could spark their own passions. And if that's not inspiring idk what is. So this is a sign to keep WRITING!
I cannot stress ENOUGH how important community is. ESPECIALLY if you're a writer at any stage of your journey. Find your people who can cheer you on, and build you up. Incredibly grateful for the community I've built all across the globe (you know who you all are) 🥹❤️
Today, it finally clicked that I signed with not just an agent but one of my DREAM agents. Like... WHAT?! I never, ever, EVER thought I'd EVER get the chance to work with someone like Grace. It such a surreal feeling and I will be crying for the foreseeable future.
Girl math is getting a rejection from an agent who you forgot you queried so it really doesn't count as a rejection because you don't even remember sending them anything 😌
Participate!!! This event got me a like that landed me my agent!!!
Even if your MS isn't done (like my case when I pitched) it can open doors for you! I'll be pitching some things as well for any
#editors
watching!
Drop a comment if you need support 🖤
#questpit
officially begins tomorrow! we anxiously anticipating all your lovely and unique ideas!!
this is your reminder to schedule your pitches if you’d like, connect with community members, and ask any remaining questions you have!
A little querying update: 🧵
Starting the new year off strong with multiple rejections on fulls from different projects has been... great...
For those who don't know, last summer I had an agent for a day (yes literally a singular day.)
Annnnddd just found out I got accepted into the M.A Program at my university. 🥳 prepare to be SICK of my Art History lore. My thesis is going to blow your socks off. 🤍
As a pantser, I regret to report, that having an outline no matter how loose do be working sometimes.... pls allow 7-10 business days to process this horrible information 😪
You should be proud of the words you've written. You should look at your manuscript and think, "damn, I really did that." Be EXCITED. You did the damn thing, so scream about it. 🥹 (coming from someone currently ugly crying over her book.)
Me: "okay so I can write 2k words in about an hour, and if this WIP is 100k divide all that up it would only take 50 hours to complete. Which is really only like four days so in hindsight it really shouldn't take THAT long to finish this book...."
And that's on girl math 💅🏻
Summa Cum Laude we out! ✌🏻 As someone who never wanted to go to college, then took 6 years to figure out what she wanted to do, this is so huge. Not only did I graduate with Highest Honors (and no student debt thanks to scholarships/grants)—
*sigh* it's the fear mongering for me babe. Idk, maybe we can just be kind and gracious and understand that not every writer gets 5 offers of rep? We're lucky if we get 1? Saying "you should have run when you saw XYZ..." okay but we had nowhere to run to???
Ilya Petrov has spent years carving a spot for himself in his unyielding prison, content to undermine the Regime. But when his gang is blackmailed by the prince, they are forced into a deadly competition to become a rare magic user and the next leading Saint.
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And just like that, 14,411 words later, my Adult Horror Romantasy is done. It's messy and chaotic but it's everything I could have ever wanted. Vampyrs, eldritch creatures, poisonous bites, betrayal, things that go bump, and oh so much ~spice~ 🩸🗡️
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#wip
Someone asked me how I manage to write multiple POV's and how I can keep all those characters straight in my head... as if they don't just possess me as I write their chapter so they can tell the story for themselves...
Last June I was a mermaid at a waterpark for an event. It's where I got the idea for my romcom. Today I was another mermaid at a diff waterpark and a week into querying MERMAID FOR EACH OTHER. Talk about swimming in a full circle. 🧜🏼♀️
James has always been a great art forger. But when she runs into Luke, who claims he's part of some secret society tasked by the Old Masters to protect art, she must put aside her forgery to stop an evil from destroying Luke's world, and her own.
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Figured I'd do an ✨official✨
#meettheauthor
on here!
Hi, I'm Grace, I write YA/Adult Fantasy and after 2 years in the trenches I finally landed my dream of an agent!
I'm an Art History major and you can find me on the pic + TikTok app @ grace.morrow @ realgmorrow 🤍
THE GILDED WOLVES x ALL OF US VILLIANS
The Regime's most ruthless criminals to compete in a highstakes game for their one shot at salvation.
🃏Multiple POVs
💵 Winners get magic
⛓️ Found family
💣 Let's burn this place to the ground
#amagented
#questpit
#ya
#f
#editors
Something I noticed with a few query trends is the amount of CNR's/closing our queries that have only been out for a few months... Fantasy Novel Edition🧵 (1/?)
THE ORIGINALS x THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS
"Death required payment."
🖤 1920s/Speakeasy Vibes
🖤 Bargain with Death
🖤 Sell Your Soul
🖤 Railroad Tycoons
🖤 Marry The Rich Then Kill Them
#amagented
#NA
#HF
#questpit
Mooodboard by:
@MoniqueHazelH
2 years ago I was knee deep in the trenches with what I thought was the "book." Ended up getting an offer which was later rescinded, wrote a diff book that got me an agent for a LITERAL day, then I wrote another book and 9 months later landed my dream agent. It's not the end.
Omg hello 2k!!! As promised it's ✨giveaway time✨ I'd love to do a query package critique (query letter, synopsis, 1st chapter.)
To enter: FOLLOW and COMMENT on this post (no follow to unfollow)
Ends: Tomorrow Sept 4th
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As a new writer do your research! I cannot emphasize enough to cross reference what people are saying with other resources. Whether that be advice on querying, synopsis, first pages, etc. Don't just blindly trust what one person says in this industry. Mwah. I love you all 😘
When Thalia is forced to marry a Vampyr prince to save her human kingdom, she's eager to seek revenge on the immortals who murdered her father. That is, if her ex-lover turned Vampyr doesn't stop her first.
🗡️ Lovers-to-Enemies
🗡️ Eldritch Creatures
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I'm hosting a tea for the girls who were my flatmates in London tomorrow, and this is the first time I'm hosting in years and the first time at my place. Y'all, Lady Whistledown would be so proud 💐🐝
Guys I have a 40% request rate for my Adult-Crossover Fantasy Fae Book!!! 😱
(Leaves out the fact I've sent out a total of 5 queries... best stats I've ever had 😂)
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Hey cuties, since I've got some new faces, I'm Grace, I'm an Art History major pursing my masters and maybe my PhD (she's an overachiever.) 💁🏼♀️
I write fantasy and silly little romcoms and currently
#amquerying
3 projects about magic, mermaids, and mayhem. ✌🏻
#writersoftwitter
can we bring back
#WritersOfTwitter
again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕
Can I just say, I'm so incredibly lucky to have such a patient wonderful agent who knows I'm a pantser and my "outlines" are basically "uhh idk, something happens here..." yet despite the chaos, she always manages to read between the lines and pulls out the best in my writing 🥹
FBAA x SERPENT AND DOVE
“You weren't forced to marry a monster.”
“There are monsters inside us all.”
🗡️ Vampyrs
🗡️ Lovers-to-Enemies
🗡️ Marriage of Convenience
🗡️ Terrible Monsters
🗡️ Who Betrayed Who
#amagenter
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Moodboard by:
@MoniqueHazelH
Everyone meet my deliciously morally gray characters for my YA Fantasy
A GAME OF SINNERS AND SAINTS
Editors stay tuned for more 👀
The Regime's most ruthless criminals must compete in a highstakes game for their one shot at salvation.
Art by:
@chrisfrootart
FOMO grabbed me by the throat. 🖤
Title: We Become Darkness (if any of you steal this I will sue!)
Genre: Horror Romantasy
Setting: Fantasy City/Forest
Theme Song: Skin and Bones - David Kushner
Age Range: Adult
Comps: FBAA x The Bridge Kingdom
ooohhh hey hey
title: love of my afterlife
genre: contemporary fantasy romcom
setting: a fictional city (lol srry idk)
theme song: Guilty as Sin? by Taylor Swift
age range: adult
comps: a witch's guide to fake dating a demon x The Good Place
For anyone who missed it (because I certainly did) and still have pitches they're doing or for agents/editors needing to navigate the chaos,
#questpit
has corresponding hashtags for querying, agented, WIP, etc,
So excited
@QueryTracker
reached out to do a success story on me! Click the link below to see my interview and get a little look into my writing style and the book that got me my agent! 🖤
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Agents who have my full or query I just want to let you know, I'm only just a girl. Just a girl standing in front of my inbox asking you to love my story.
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I lied. Put your clothes back on. We're going to talk about how powerful men use religion as a way to further their political agenda, and how the idea of criminals being "sinners" is just those fighting the status quo. I wrote a book like that, contact my agent for more info 🖤
I lied. Put your clothes back on. We're doing to talk about how sea monsters can be used as an allegory for social alienation and gender dysphoria especially when paired with body horror and wouldn't you know it I wrote a book like that called There's Something in the Water >>>>>
Thanks for everyone who followed over the holiday!!! As promised, I'd love to do a positivity pass read on 2 peoples first chapters!
Just make sure you're following me, like and comment on this post!
Winners will be chosen tomorrow night! ✨
Literally can't recommend this event enough! Both me and the boo thang
@tay_epperson
both got agent likes that landed our dream agents. Couldn't have done it without this event 🫶🏻
Little bit of drama from my YA Fantasy for
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The Regime's most ruthless criminals compete in a highstakes game for their one shot at salvation.
🃏Multiple POVs
🗡️ Saints x Sinners
💵 Winners get magic
⛓️ Found family
💣 Let's burn this place to the ground
What sucks about getting a pass on a full isn't the comments on why they passed. It's agreeing with why they passed but you don't know how to fix it so now it's the question of to shelve or not to shelve 😪
Im like nobody, but maybe, idk... instead of saying someone is a bad agent because they lack experience or good mentorship, we start saying they're "inexperienced." There's a difference between an inexperienced agent who needs training and a legit bad agent.
If any
#agents
are interested in the book that has a 40% request rate... may I present ✨her✨
🗡 Adult-Crossover Fantasy
⚜️A Grifter x the Last Fae
🗡️Morally Grey MC's
⚜️ Deal with an Unyielding Queen
🗡Forced Proximity
⚜️ Show Me Your Scars
🗡️ Only 1 Bath
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"Why do you track your husband's phone, don't you trust him?"
Oh, implicitly, but I like to see how close he is to bringing my takeout so I can time when I need to leave the bed to get to the kitcehn table. 🤷🏼♀️
So, my QueryTracker subscription renews at like the end of the month... so if anyone wants to offer me rep so I don't have to pay... ily forever 🫶🏻
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THE GILDED WOLVES x ALL OF US VILLIANS
Every year the Regime selects its most ruthless criminals to compete in a highstakes game for their one shot at salvation.
🃏Multiple POVs
💵 Winners get magic
⛓️ Found family
💣 Let's burn this place to the ground
#amquerying
#leappitch
Wait... I'm 6 people away from 1k??? What the heck! lol, I'd love to do a positivity read for a few writers 1st chapters once I reach 1k! So ya know... follow pls to keep up with all my writing glory.
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Writing a 90k fantasy with complex magic, deadly competition rounds, and the political commentary of what happens when religion is used by power hungry men to further their agendas is still EASIER than writing this 20 pg research paper I've pushed off all semester... 🫠
When I say it felt like I journeyed into the very depths of Mordor to cast away the One Ring in order to land my agent, I mean it! Click the link below to read about my story, query stats, and the book that destroyed Mt Doom!
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Did I start writing my romcom last night? Yes. Is it already completely not what I expected? Yes. Am I going absolutely feral over it? Hell yes.
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#romcom
Here's everything you need to know about WE BECOME DARKNESS, my adult Horror Romantasy full of Vampyrs, eldritch creatures, poisonous bites, betrayal, things that go bump, and oh so much ~spice~ 🥀
Contact my agent for more info 🥀
#writingcommunity
#editors
Being a writer is becoming a problem because I now have an excuse to get a little treat all the time... Finished edits? Little treat. Wrote in new WIP? Little treat. Random email from agent? Little treat. Made a new infograph? Little treat... 😪
I'll make a more eloquent blog post on HIGMA later. BUT in the meantime, for transparency, I queried my YA Fantasy for 13 days before getting an offer of rep. I sent a total of 30 queries, withdrew 6, for a total of a 45.8% request rate. HOWEVER—
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MY BEAUTIFUL BESTIE IS AGENTED!!!!!! When I say this book made me laugh so hard I scared my cats, I mean it. You all aren't ready for this magical, wonderful, sunshine filled book. No one deserves this more than MY OTP. 💛💐
I'M AGENTED✨
OVER THE MOON EXCITED to announce I'm now represented by
@EmilyKaitlinnn
at
@bookendslit
Emily's enthusiasm and love for my fantasy romcom amazed me! I'm thrilled to be working with her by my side to bring my cozy magical story (+ more) to the world!
I never gave this
#yafantasy
a true chance in the query trenches. But I think it's her time to shine.
#writingcommunity
⚜️A Grifter
🗡 The Last Fae
⚜️ Deal with an Unyielding Queen
🗡Morally Grey MC's
⚜️ Forced Proximity
🗡 Show Me Your Scars
Last week was insane to say the least. But I guess we gotta swim on and it's back into the trenches for now 🫡 if any agents/editors want a fun, flirty, fin-tastic adult romcom about finding yourself in your 20s, love grump x sunshine, and mermaids... hit a girl up 🧜🏼♀️
I had such an encouraging and kind pass on a full today. 🥰 This industry truly is so subjective and even though it was a pass, it was such a gentle reminder that this story, MY stories are worth sharing.
If there's one thing abt me it's that I WILL be re-using the same phrases and character names from one WIP to the next. Anytime I have a bar man his name is always Dale. Anytime tension stretches it's "suspended like dewdrops on a spider's web." And you can take THAT to the bank.