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Raven Traylor ✨
@rstraylor.bsky.social
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Writer • High School Therapist • LCSW • ADHD ✨🌈✊🏾🍉
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🔥 WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS 🔥

COMPS: Into the Spider-Verse, Blood at the Root, Legendborn

#PosterPit #PosterPitOs #YA #F #editors
FROM WRITER RAVEN TRAYLOR AND AGENT RAMONA PINA OF BOOKENDS LITERARY AGENCY "A FIERY, POWER-FULL COMING OF AGE " "A TWIST ON: AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLKLORE" IN NEAR FUTURE ATLANTA, NAS AND HIS FRIENDS DISCOVER THEIR GENERATIONAL POWERS AND ACCEPT THEIR CALLING TO TAKE DOWN THE BILLIONAIRE WHO SEEKS TO USE HIS STOLEN POWERS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, WHICH NAS' FATHER IS IMPRISONED BY, TO CAUSE CHAOS AND CIVIL WAR. WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS: ON SUB Now ART BY @JOLEANART
April 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I stare at my cousin. The curly hair growing out around his bright face reminds me how young he truly is. Too young to spend years of his life locked up for stupid decisions he made while caught up in the dog-eat-dog streets they manufactured. Too young to be enslaved for my choice. Man, this tuation is so fucked up.
November 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Posting my editor's guide for my soon to be #onsub YA Contemporary Fantasy, WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS 🔥 over here

#agented #editors #blackbooksky #blacksky
AN EDITOR'S GUIDE TO WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS Pitch: Comps: Wings of Ebony by J. Elle, Blood at the Root by Ladarrion Williams, Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker, Netflix's Supacell In near future Atlanta, Nas and his friends discover their generational powers and accept their calling to take down the billionaire who seeks to use his stolen powers and the criminal justice system, which Nas' father is imprisoned by, to cause chaos and civil war. Contemporary Fantasy Ride or Die Cousins Conscious Rap but It's a YA Fantasy Book Mixed Media Elements Secret Training Academy African-American Folkore Elemental Magic with a Twist Healing Unhealthy Generational Cycles AAVE and Southern Dialect Messy Teen Relationships Rep: BIPOC, Queer, Disabled, Neurodivergent, PTSD, PMDD Deafening cheers echo over the city. Some rioters douse the building in gasoline, making the fire grow. Someone throws a Molotov cocktail that shatters with a celebratory blast. Others hold up their torches at us as the chanting starts back. Journey raises our torch with a smile. "I can't believe you really did it." He shakes my shoulder with his free hand. "You started the fire." I look down at the chaos below us. The passion for our rights so strong, even the cops have given up and given in. No way they're stopping this. Sirens loom in the background as firetrucks on either side of the road try to weave through the human traffic. The building shakes under Journey and my feet. Smoke funnels in the air like a mushroom cloud. Pieces of the roof break off as the wooden beams underneath the blackened beige stone give way to blistering heat. The chants fade to a static hum. My mind drifts until I'm lost in my head, heartbeats echoing at rapid pace. This is real. The capitol is on fire...
November 18, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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CW: cremated body

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"What we gon' do with—" I point towards the first body or at least what I thought would be left of it, but all of the ashes have vanished, hardly leaving a trace. I double over to check out Sasha's victim, but it's nowhere to be seen either. "Where'd they go?"
November 14, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS

Song Comps: Bone Crusher - Never Scared x Kirk Franklin - Revolution x Kendrick Lamar - Pray for Us x 2Pac - Changes

#unhingedpit #YA #F #OWN #agented soon to be #OS
Sweet Brown's "oh Lord Jesus, it's a fire meme"
November 13, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS

#unhingedpit #YA #F #OWN #agented soon to be #OS
ALT Descriptions and hashtags Fake Google Search w/ the search options: how to use hope to lead a revolution in america is it possible to blow up a mountain how long can you get for burning down the capitol where is the school of universal legends how to impress a girl you like why am i craving the sun are superheroes real is it normal to grow fire in your hands
November 13, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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#unhingedpit #YA #F #OWN #agented soon to be #OS
Elmo fire meme with the following overlayed: WHEN YOUR HERO FALLS Burning Sh*t Down in the Name of Revolution Ride or Die Cousins Conscious Rap but It's a YA Fantasy Book Mixed Media Elements Secret Training Academy African-American Folkore Elemental Magic with a Twist Healing Unhealthy Generational Cycles AAVE and Southern Dialect Messy Teen Relationships Rep: BIPOC, Queer, Disabled, Neurodivergent, PTSD, PMDD
November 13, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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Hi #writingcommunity,

I’m Raven, a YA writer. I usually write whatever I feel so the genres vary, but lately it’s been contemporary fantasy, horror, and speculative ✨ I’m originally from Louisiana but currently live in metro Atlanta. I’m also a clinical social worker!
A picture of the poster/profile owner, Raven, standing in front of the Hollywood Hills wearing a black jacket with a graphic of a biblically accurate angel
November 9, 2024 at 3:13 PM