Jessica Fisher Riches - is Querying and Drafting

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🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

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Thrilled for you!

How I Got My Agent Demi Michelle Schwartz is over the moon to share her journey to signing with her dream agent, Ciara Smith at Spencerhill Associates.

✨ How I Got My Agent ✨ My HIGMA post is up! I loved writing this, and hope you love reading it. If you’re in the query trenches, or if you’re seeking new representation, please know I fully understand what you’re going through and I’m cheering for you. 🫶🏼 demimschwartz.com/how-i-got-my... 🤍🤍🤍

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Has there ever been a book you've passed on that you can't get out of your mind?

Cozy Korean

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🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

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🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

She's baaaack

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I may have to try this strategy
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🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

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🗝️ Four Keys 🗝️ - A modern fairytale

For Nikola, arriving in Prague was supposed to be a fresh start, but her new life is rapidly becoming a series of locked doors. And then there’s the talking gargoyle.

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The Best Kisser in Prague

🇨🇿 A crossroads in history
🇨🇿 Expats in Prague
🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia
🇨🇿 Gritty slow-burn ♥️

Meet Cute begins

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WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag January 17 - gold Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social The image behind the text is a border that is dark blue with gold stars with a black background with neon blue border. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner. A different version of the same illustrated caticorn is curled up writing in the lower left corner.

The #WIPSnips word for January 17th is "gold"

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🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

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Dark forest. An agent's guide to The Blessing Returned. Adult fantasy. 98,000 words.

Dark forest. Pitch. Idealistic Hana Hahl lives in a world that is slowly dying after a failed quest to bring back magic. The only ones left with power are self-serving royals and dark mages, while desperation has given rise to an anti-magic order. Caught up in a mystical event, Hana is blessed with an immense power that could restore nature to the world. As Hana struggles to control the overwhelming force, Lady Kalyn Nossi, the only known survivor of the disastrous quest, directs her to the one person who can help her. Matthias Azel, the failed chosen one, reluctantly agrees to teach Hana while concealing his past from her. Accompanied by Kalyn and a charismatic prince with a dangerous secret, they journey to seek answers about Hana’s destiny. They fend off demonic threats and the anti-magic forces as Hana struggles with magic that seems to resist her and a growing fear that the world isn’t meant to be saved.

A dark forest. Comps. Nausicaä. One Dark Window. The Starless Crown. Godkiller. Final Fantasy VII Remake. Tropes. Chosen One (s)? Ecofantasy. Dieselpunk. Grumpy/Sunshine. LGBTQIA+. Multi POV.

A dark forest. Snippet. She took a cautious step forward, unaware she was in a spectral form. Little drops of shimmering light followed her path, dissolving into the ground. “But this has to be a sign?” Grass grew where the light fell, delicate bits of nature that should be impossible. “Maybe it’s returning!” The young woman spoke with such bright reverence as if life was a fairy tale and magic was all they needed for a happy ending. It was as if she couldn’t see the shadows approaching her. The inevitable death. “Magic should never return.” After speaking those words, he sprang forward and shoved her away from the shadows. Pain rocked him as soon as he touched her. The scorching mystical agony tore a scream out of him, but it kept her away from the unearthly menace, and the shock did what he intended. Sent him back to his body.

NAUSICAÄ X FF7

Nature is decaying, nobles are hoarding magic, and demons prey on everyone. A possible chosen one, a man who failed his destiny, and a woman rejected by fate must work together for one last chance to save the dying world.

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🏄‍♀️ California vibes
😡 Frenemies to enemies
🎭 Opening night drama
❣️ Romantic debacles

Rowan meets Chris.

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A glimpse into the life of a water wizard. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

No worries! Pitch events are fast and furious.

I live here!

Images: beaches, forests, and three witches

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Mean Girls X Practical Magic
With Surfing

When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a plan to steal it back—betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.

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75k YA Satirical Dystopian Fantasy 99 WAYS TO GET EX-SPELLED (WITHOUT COMMITTING MURDER By Victoria Jayne 星星亚

The Pitch Anarchocommunist, OCD-ridden Posey Peabody has been drafted into the American Army Academy for Powerful Witches. By entry stats she's the Winner--First Rank of her class. All is well as can be until Amelia Appleton takes her Rank with reckless, dangerous, wrong magic. And then Appleton doesn't get expelled. Competitive streak activated, Posey and Appleton engage in reckless, rule-breaking acts of magic and mischief. While trading First Rank between each other, Posey realizes that Appleton might not be such a weirdo after all. In fact, she's annoyingly pretty. That said, Appleton's got her eye on that government position through all this, and Posey would rather die than work for the fascists in charge. Posey's intention is to truly get expelled. She wants to be the first one to do it. Meanwhile, an underground betting ring rises up, classmates betting on whether or not Posey will have to kill someone to get expelled. Posey hopes it's not true, but whether or not she finds out is entirely up to her.

& FIRST LINE SNIPPET Somewhere behind the stage, Headmaster Josephus Crimble is puking his guts out. I remind myself that it's okay if I start to count and stop myself after the limit, so long as I don't make it to ten. If you make it to ten, the limit goes down by one, Posey. Don't forget. I started at five hundred. Drifting through the rest of the day in this half-there state, I sit with my feelings locked tight in a jar of my own design. Ґ1l preserve my emotions like lemons, until they're laden with salt and mellowed in their sourness. That feeling, or lack thereof, feels warm as home to me, and my deep yearning for Nukeville ebbs into a soft ache that gently rubs my heart into a smoother, steadier rhythm. There will be no need for counting when there's no feeling to (dis)regulate.

Drafted into a ridiculous magical military academy, Posey develops a list of ways to get expelled—without committing murder. Lookin’ at you, Amelia.

As she fails, questions rise. Will Posey have to kill? Is getting expelled what she really wants? And why is that girl so damn pretty?
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An orange, black, and white movie poster for my manuscript Cargo, inspired by Saul Bass's famous vintage posters for Vertigo and The Man With the Golden Hand: "Tai's terrified of humans. Everyone is. So why did their captain just hire one, and why can't Tai stop thinking about her?" Now Querying: Cargo The credits section is as follows: CATHERINE WINTERS AND COREWARD BAKER PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT A CATHERINE WINTERS NOVEL ‘CARGO’ STARRING TAI OF MICAPA THYLLIS CHAUMEDEROT TALATAGARI QUIRIN TALATAGARI ANENTO FRANK THE CAT JEREL BESKROS CHOST MOL RAZIK FEATURING COOL MOSS ABOVE STILL WATER AND INTRODUCING CLARKE SHIPS BY SETEBO-URANQ AND CONSTANT VERIDITY INTERSTELLAR COSTUMES BY UPPER CORE ATELIER “HUMAN” CREATURE EFFECTS BY 3.8 BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION CASTING BY THE TRADE AUTHORITY WRITTEN BY CATHERINE WINTERS DIRECTED BY CATHERINE WINTERS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER CATHERINE WINTERS WITH APOLOGIES TO SAUL BASS Catherine Winters dot Com

“Humans. I’d seen them before: one or two here and there over the years, a small pack once. It was always the same: crowds silently parting to make way for a lone hunter, dock workers going out of their way to avoid a human ship’s berth. But this one wanted to talk to me.” #BluePit #Q #SF #LGBT #A

Girl with cracked mirror, wall of photos with red string, bff necklace, gothic woods, shadow of hand holding knife, two teens climbing a fence, headlights, and a girl whispering, also a cs Lewis quote saying you can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending

16-year-old Jess, who sees people’s future corpses in their reflections, must race to change fate when her visions reveal that her only friend is about to be murdered.
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GORGEOUS

A large drawing of colourful birds, surrounded by (top right corners) heart-shaped lockets, (bottom right corners) chains over forest, (top and bottom) a vintage yellow bicycle, (sides) a spinning wheel.

Sapphic HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA
☁️In a floating land founded on kindness
🐦‍⬛that prays to birds
🚲an ex-con bike mechanic
👗collides with an outrageously femme amnesiac
👑running from nobles who want her divine magic
⛓️and learns their kind kingdom is a lie
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The Stranger's War - 94K Crossover Fantasy. Those born with psychic gifts are conscripted in a brutal guild to defend their home from a mysterious enemy only known as strangers. Sylin wants to survive and find her place, Nahara wants to reject his assigned life, and Viktus the guildmaster would burn the city to the ground rather than face defeat.

DUNE X THE UNBROKEN
Those born with psychic gifts are conscripted into a guild to defend their home mysterious strangers prophesied in visions. Even if it means submitting to a Guildmaster who would rather the city burn than admit defeat.
"Monsters make Monsters"
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Girl with red robes and sword in background. In front of it, text reads “This all feels too familiar. The gravity of his stare. The intensity of his attention. I haven’t felt this full of adrenaline, this alive since he killed me.”

DARKER BY FOUR x CRUEL PRINCE

She’s a fallen war general.

He’s the enemy who killed her.

When the king of Hell mistakes them for star-crossed lovers, they must convince him that they’re desperately besotted… or burn for all eternity.

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Collage with two girls and pictures of flowers, picnic table, harp, cottage, and flowers

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An autistic, trans, plant-killing garden witch works with a rival music witch to care for an ancient flower, but when a meltdown turns the flower sentient, she must learn to regulate her emotions to control her magic and turn it back.

Round Table Mentee!

Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds. presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper. Status: first draft being edited Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.

Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light. The Pitch: A RECENTLY DECEASED HUMAN (SAM) AND A FORMERLY CAPTIVE CERUNAN (NYXEL) NEED TO DELIVER A MESSAGE CRITICAL TO HUMANITY’S SURVIVAL, ARE THROWN TOGETHER ON A PIRATE HUNTER SHIP AND ARE BEING PURSUED BY A RELENTLESS PIRATE FLEET - BUT THE LIVING MAZE OF CAVERNS THEY MUST TRAVERSE TO GET THERE MAY BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE PIRATES.

Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground. Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH X THE LAST EXILE Tropes and themes: • TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI) • AIRSHIPS • PIRATES • CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES • A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!

Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman. Excerpt: “CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY. “NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.

G'morning #Bluepit!

For your consideration, I present to you an #Agentsguide to

CAVERN CLIPPER
(TREASURE PLANET x JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH x THE LAST EXILE)

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92K - Dual POV - YA FANTASY

🏰 HERS - FANTASY
🛝 Childhood Friends
👭 Sister Bonds
👩‍🍼 Inherited Magic
🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Leap, Then Look
💋 Kiss, Marry, or Kill?

🧌 HIS - HORROR
💑 Childhood Sweethearts
💕 Self-Sacrificing Loyalty
💀 Soul Selling
🤔 Anxious, Overthinker
🫀 Cannibal Witch

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