MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy!

meme two guys pointing in the distance with big open shocked mouths.

Me to the first line of my new manuscript. (I can't wait until people can read it and see what I did there.)

I did not have presidential slash fiction becoming real on my 2025 bingo card.

Honestly convinced I'm never going to get an agent at this point. :(

Agent rejected full right before mine in the queue...

I'm going to throw up.

No one warned me that when you get into witchcraft, you're gonna smell like a campfire a lot.

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

This person took this when they called the race

It's really surreal when your name is a hurricane...guess I'm in my hurricane era.

...sorry ;;

Finally read The Starving Saints and it was awesome and amazing and its giving me so many religious horror vibes and ideas.

(Will I ever write something normal and happy?)

The Starving Saints is so good, why didn't I read this before!

Can something good happen to me for once, 2025 has been The Worst.

Besides the writing, what else are you looking for in a potential client?

When you're next on the fulls for an agent and you can't do anything but sit there and refresh querytracker for an entire night.

Question: why is the querying process one of Dante's circles of Hell? (lol, can't wait!)

Okay so this seems to be pretty wanted! So I'm going to do an #askagent on Friday 10/24 from 2pm CST to 3pm CST! Bring your burning publishing/querying etc questions and I'll do my best to answer them! ☺️

Ancient Rome x Sci Fi, I dig it.

Mood Board For Caesar. Marble statues, legionnaire, forum, space scenes

CAESAR: PRIEST of JUPITER

Andor x HBO's Rome

His name is the most famous name in history.

His legacy has been romanticized for centuries, but few know his true story.

Reexploring the Fall of the Roman Republic through the lens of Science Fiction.

Caesar is coming...

#A #Q #SFPit

I'M UP NEXT ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE AGENTS' FULLS TO READ LIST.

I'M GOING TO THROW UP.

Also? Why do people even bother to ask if all they want to hear is Fine. I'm fine, you're fine, Greg from accounting who is going through the nastiest divorce known to man? All fine. Cut out the middleman and tell yourself we're all fine vs asking us to lie about it.

Was laid off for so long I forgot how to do small talk. "Screaming into the black, uncomforting abyss." is not a good answer when a new coworker asks how you are doing today.

Yes, absolutely! The process is so opaque that we need them every now and again.

Writing is great. You invent a little guy, you can even make him a nice little guy. And then you shake him as hard as physically possible and give him the worst day of his life. Love it.

Hello! Would you be interested in a dark fantasy with destroying the patriarchy with necromancy, morally grey characters, and feminist rage themes? (check my pinned post.)

I have you pinned as someone to query but checking your MSWL I wasn't sure!

Got to six days this time, had a good run.

It has now been 0 days since I triggered the F-bomb timeout in the discord I am supposed to be moderating. >.<

Oh good, now instead of anxiety about agents rejecting me because of my first 3 chapters sucking, I now have anxiety that the agents I sent a message to about the rewritten chapters will be irritated at me and reject on principle.

##amquerying

Nevermind, I COMPLETELY redid the entire first three chapters and now I am frantically trying to figure out how to re-submit to agents who already have my query.

I changed ONE LINE in my first chapter to drop the hook faster and with more of an oomph and now I'm fretting that I screwed up all the queries I submitted previously... #askagent should I bother resubmitting?

Man I really really hope so this time.