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Laura (L. A. Wilding) is ✨QUERYING✨

@lawilding.bsky.social

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Aspiring YA/NA fantasy author ✍️ Lover of magic, rivalries & slow-burn romance 💫 Currently querying: DEEPLY ROOTED🌿

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Laura (L. A. Wilding) is ✨QUERYING✨ @lawilding.bsky.social · 1d

An #agentsguide to DEEPLY ROOTED

EMILY WILDE meets THE SECRET GARDEN in a cosy academic fantasy about magical botany, buried legacies, and a secret garden that changes everything. ✨🌿
#amquerying #YAfantasy #storypitch #cozyfantasy #agentsguide

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · Aug 6

GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

Currently Querying!

#Q #A #F #QuestPit

Background: A red forest
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Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: A red forest
Foreground: Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-red arrow fletching, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, a red forest.
Text: As she walked away, freshly divested of every life she'd ever known—Crown Daughter, ranger, loyal servant to the demesne—she realized that, where she expected to find fear and despair, she found only a rapidly strengthening resolve.
She'd already lost everything.
All she could do was win it back.

Background: A red forest
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: A red forest
Title: Pitch
Text: Niozene has never been good enough.

As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.

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Natali Crystal 🌟is QUERYING🌟 @ncrystalauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

My #agentsguide for BLOOD BOUND! an adult Romance Fantasy ft:

🩸 A Blood Bond
🌴 Dark Caribbean Folklore - T&T 🇹🇹
😏 Forced Proximity
🔪 Enemies x Lovers
🌔 Ancient Monsters & Spirits

#questpit #W #A #F #RF

Pitch: Ayanna is a spirit walker - a person who can see and communicate with those who have passed on - just like her ancestors before her. And if she's not careful, she'll be killed like they were, too.

When a creature from the dark tales of her ancestors mortally wounds her sister, Ayanna would do anything to save her.

Even if that means entering in a desperate bargain with the spirits to bring them what they seek.

Snippet: The foul stench always gave a jumbie away.

It towered behind the man that sat in front of me, its bloated, yellowing body reminiscent of a corpse left in the sun for too long.

Thick brown liquid oozed from its teeth, arranged in circular rows. The fat droplets lazily dripped onto the wooden floor.

Tropes: Enemies x Lovers
Ancient Creatures & Monsters
Rich Caribbean Folklore
Blood Bond
Forced Proximity
Slow Burn

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