I honestly still can't believe it, but I can now say that I am officially represented by
@KeirAlekseii
of Azantian Literary Agency!!! I am so so grateful for Keir's enthusiasm and support for A BARNACLE WHELKER'S TRUE TALES OF THE SEA. My lifelong dream is coming TRUEEE 🐚🌊
- accepted to study abroad @ oxford!!
- signed with my agent 🥹🤧🥹
- became an intern for aevitas creative!!
- wrote more short stories than i have in prob the entire last year
- started using twitter n met so many wonderful ppl 🥺
GHIBLI x IN DEEPER WATERS
A young diver recalls his misadventures at sea as he awaits his own execution.
🐚 hothead troublemaker mc
🌊 found family + cozy romantasy
🐳 rivals to ???!!
🪼 ancient myths + monsters
⛵️ one ship + a thousand seas
#questpit
#AG
every board edition
NA cozy fantasy BABEL
Returning to the school they were stolen from as a child, amnesiac veteran Mouse must relearn life beyond war.
🧹 magic school, janitor's pov
🌱 queer + nd
🪴 lie to survive, learn to heal
🌾 race, class, justice
🌻 hope-in-the-dark academia
#questpit
#AG
omg i see ppl introing themselves after questpit i'll go too
hi i'm hannah!! (she/her, 20) i write YA/NA fantasy with a focus on worldbuilding and character. i also enjoy writing short fiction and poetry! i study classics and creative writing, and my hobbies include editing 💀
GHIBLI x IN DEEPER WATERS
A young diver recalls his misadventures at sea as he awaits his own execution.
🐚 hothead troublemaker mc
🌊 found family + cozy romantasy
🐳 rivals to ???!!
🪼 ancient myths and monsters
⛵️ one ship and a thousand seas
#questpit
(gearing up for sub!)
#24hrnovel
thread LETS GOOO!!!!!
#amwriting
MOSL, a NA cozyish fantasy i pitched as "harry pooper but woke and good"
🧹 - magic school, janitor's pov
🌻 - healing a broken inner child
🌾 - worldbuilding x1000
🪴 - narrator who lies to survive
🌿 - elves, vampyrs, dwarves, oh my
whoever complains abt personalized rejections needs to apologize now lol. agents are REALLY busy people taking the time to encourage u + help u improve ur book!
i will never forget these incredibly kind rejections i received when i was in the trenches for the first time. (1/3)
happy mother's day to
@KeirAlekseii
!! thank you for wrangling me whenever i fled my hw and also for being the best agent ever. having me at 17 was probably really hard im so grateful for your love, resilience, and courage (injoke)
last line of an old story about a climate activist bc every radio ad using the heat as a point of relatability instead of outrage kinda has me at my limit 🙂
cozy fantasy wip! 🪲
Qiulan pins insects at a natural history museum, where the curator wants to prove that his fossils belong to dragons.
🌻 aroace chronically ill mc
🌾 power trio of unlikely bffs
🪲 worldbuilding via flora + fauna
🌿 a whimsical museum
🐉 a dragon
#questpit
dude im going to oxford in a week im gonna throw up 😭 i already have my first essay and readings but ZERO orientation information, world please be kind to me i need it im so anxious
post a poem that you wrote, i want to read it! if published—link us; if not—post the image so it'll all fit!
also share this post so everyone can see, read, and add their poem (and comments)!
it's time for poetry extravaganza!
im gonna hopefully be working on my cozy ya fantasy wip, abt a girl who pins insects at a natural history museum to afford her pain medicine (and gets caught up in the head curator's plan to prove his fossils belong to dragons)!! 😤
bio change bc my internship is over 😭 this was such an incredible experience n im so grateful to have been given the opportunity! but now. i gotta LOCK IN ON MOSL RRRGHHHH
everyone meet pyrda!!
🐚 cannot keep his mouth shut
🌊 hands THROWN
🐋 emotions REPRESSED
🐬 myths CHASED
🪼 family FOUND
🗡️ everything LOST
💀 27 days till his execution
🖋️ nothing left to do but write a book
#MeetMyMCs
it's happening! I'm so excited to launch
#MeetMyMCs
on Sunday, 19 May. this is a
#writingtwt
prompt event focused on main characters and their development arcs. it's intended to be a *very* informal, fun event to celebrate the characters that make up the hearts of our stories! ♥️
proposing a new book pitching event called armageddon pitch, armpit for short. trying to search the tag will be the world's most dangerous game of russian roulette
Choosing an asexual person to lead the Pride parade is a slap in the face to everyone who has ever been discriminated against for their sexual orientation.
thinking abt how i don't read or write sci-fi but the second book i wrote was a sci-fi bc i thought it was a good idea and i was like "well Somebody's gotta write it" like that was kind of iconic of me
i wanna write a better, short version for like a sf mag...im in my mag era...
my preschool graduation 🥹
im so emotional man i had such horrific health issues as a kid but was still so blindingly positive, apparently i really inspired others
id be lying if i said she wasn't my hero, she's always gonna with me. she isn't gonna believe what we will become
NA cozy fantasy BABEL
Returning to the school they were stolen from as a child, amnesiac veteran Mouse must relearn life beyond war.
🧹 magic school, janitor's pov
🌱 queer + nd
🪴 lie to survive, learn to heal
🌾 race, class, justice
🌻 hope-in-the-dark academia
#questpit
#AG
finding comps w my agent for editor pitches like wow this is actually real and happening. wow im just straight up chasing my lifelong dream and im not alone and i really might truly become something great. like ok
wait writertwt are u awake bc i have a cute lil prompt!! fill in the blank:
"if i wrote a book and it didn't have [the trope/dynamic/storyline u like to put in ur books], then u can assume i've been kidnapped and i need help"
bro being a poet is actually so debilitating I walked a wooded road I've never noticed in the only hometown I've ever known and not even being dramatic but a thousand childhoods happened here. there was a porcelain lighthouse in a bay window, an empty chair. I'm gonna be sick
all you can write august let's GOOO im actually feeling really inspired bc i got past the most annoying part that ill SO have to iron out later. im falling back in love w mosl and ive been thinking about pins n needles again i miss her. august is gonna be my MONTH RAGGHHH
writer goals for the rest of 2024:
🧹 ummm get at least halfway through my janitor academia na fantasy
💀 perchance get to make a vague tweet lol i missed my first chance
🤯 maybe get a short piece accepted in a lit mag?? would be slay
❌ no more canva ive used it ENOUGH !!!
Writer goals for the rest of 2024:
✨Finish a first draft of my cyberpunk fairytale WIP
✨Start looking into mentorships 💪
✨Keep working on my sapphic medieval fantasy WIP on the side
me boosting my own pitches bc other ppl have done it too: god everyone else is completely valid but im so self centered and morally evil for doing this
well that's a wrap on questpit I THINK, no likes but im like literally not even bummed this was just so much fun. thank u everyone for such a blast and im so glad i got to meet so many new ppl and hear their stories!!! can't wait to see us all on the shelves one day 🤯🤯😤😤
authors, convince us to read your book with your fav line!
"If any man calling himself a 'sailor-poet' tries to educate you in maritime myth, don’t listen to him. In fact, eat him. As any seafarer who has cannibalized his shipmates could tell you, liars taste like saltfish."
authors, convince us to read your book with your fav line!
"I don't want it to be predetermined. I don’t want to believe that I love you because I have loved you. And if you feel anything for me at all, even if you hate me, I want it to be because of me."
he's a yearner🖤
mosl brainrot has gotten so bad that i literally sat in bed staring in the mirror across the room n said aloud "im actually a genius. no one has ever cooked this hard in human history" and then said "i should tweet about this"
Introducing All You Can Write August! A two week event from Aug 1st - Aug 15th with one main goal: write as much as you can! Anyone can join with any writing goal. There will be daily writing opportunities to post about your work and keep you motivated. Let's have fun and write!
⚜️ I AM AGENTED ⚜️
i am excited to announce i am now represented by
@francescaali5
at
@WMEBooksUK
realistically though, i am screaming from the rooftop that i have found the best champion for my messy political fantasy and the ambitious Vương sisters ‼️
Fractured Lit and Uncharted are SOOOOO GOOD, and volunteer reading is really fun n not time consuming (especially with flash)!! im a first reader for Voyage YA, Uncharted's YA branch, and it's really a great job. highly recommend u give these mags a shot!!
Both
@FracturedLit
&
@uncharted_mag_
could use some more volunteer readers! If you have some publications and want to read some great flash and genre fiction, let me know! Please share widely!
oh actually here's my QT success story interview if you'd like to read it! id always daydreamed about doing one when I was querying so this felt super surreal 😭
New micro by
@hannahhzhangg
"The town scalper says he lost his eyes at the supermarket. Left them on a shelf in the toothpaste aisle, and when he came back, they were gone. I say maybe he wasn’t looking hard enough, and neither of us laugh."
so grateful for 24hrnovel bc i clawed my way through 3 new chapters leaving desolation in my wake and now i get to fine tune and make edits eee editing i love editing
3 non-writer facts about me:
🏛️ i've studied classics for nine years and am literate in latin
🥬 my fav chip flavor is sour cream and onion (represented by a spinach)
🏸 im the first female officer of my college's badminton club lol
#feminism
3 non-writer facts about me:
🧠 I’m currently studying neuropsychology/am a research assistant and hope to go into a masters program
⚽️ I was a competitive athlete for most of my life, including going to multiple national competitions
🤿 As a kid, I had my scuba diving license
what you guys don't know abt this is that after i wrote this i exed out of the story document and the submission window for the lit mag i was writing it for then closed my laptop and left
So it's a few hours early but I'm now OPEN TO QUERIES!!!!
I'll remain open until I've hit around 500 queries and then I will close.
I'm especially looking for more genre blending work and will be reading the SF and Horror queries (adult and YA) first!
uh anyways i just got the sketch for my comm and im literally about to CRY !!!!!!!! me when my characters become all the more real through other artists !!!!!!!!
i feel like there's a dark academia summer going around right now as me and my friends are all drafting academia-esque wips! what type of academia are you writing? 👀
i'm writing a maths/code-based magic academia with an immigrant boy as the mc 🫡
There are only 22 queries in my inbox right now (+ I hope to reply to them before July 1st) but to give you an idea of how skewed to fantasy it is...
10 are adult F... 10!!! Out of 22!! And 8 are YA F... that's 18/22 folks😂
I love fantasy, but please ALSO send me SF & H lol
WHELKER is like if fortnite was a cozy literary fantasy novel set in a world of myths and monsters, centering around the misadventures of a young diver over the course of his 7 years at sea, written by our hero over his last 27 days before his unjust execution,
#UnhingedPit
#AG
here's my YA fantasy!! a soon-to-be-executed young diver recalls the monsters, fortune, family, and utter ruin he found during his seven years at sea
#questpit
- emotionally constipated mc
- rivals to ???
- seafaring found family
- myths n monsters
- pirates (in a bad way)
Princess Katyayani teams up with an unruly tailor to hunt down her bevy of suitors, provided they maintain the no-romo situation. But feelings aren't the only thing you catch when you work with a rebel and hearts aren't the only things stolen in the game of thrones.
#questpit
#F
😭😭😭😭😭 HELEN !!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH IM GONNA SOBBBB helen's feedback was so valuable and i have much new stuff to consider for this story, i can't wait to keep building on it!!!! AAAA
my expectation: write some words today
my reality: started reading
@hannahhzhangg
‘s horror novelette and LITERALLY COULD NOT STOP BC IT’S SO GOOD THAT I CONSUMED IT IN ONE SITTING LIKE—
Hannah world domination era is coming I feel it
SO INCREDIBLY PLEASED to share the UK cover for my debut novel, HAMMAJANG LUCK!!! illustrated by Jordan Wolfe and designed by Rachael Lancaster! Hawaiian kākau with a slick sci-fi twist—I can’t think of a better representation of my māhū heist crew! December 12 with
@gollancz
!