every single one of these comps is singing to me!!! 🤖

LOVE the sound of a mage guild & dragon shifters you say? 👀

Indonesian metrology AND time bending? yessss i need it

TODAY’S THE DAY!!!!!

I have about 10 days left in this challenge and I’ve written 64K words 🙂‍↕️ stay tuned for the final results and reflections on my fast drafting challenge! open.substack.com/pub/trangngu... #writingabook #writer #firstdraft #writingchallenge #substack #substackwriter

and for the lady, perhaps a list of questions to ask on The Call with a literary agent? open.substack.com/pub/trangngu... #querying #querytrenches #thecall #substackwriter #queryingadvice #queryingauthors

the vibes of Saddle Up, my contemporary romance with: 🤠cowgirls and cowboys galore 🛏️ only one bed (a lot) 🚗 roadtrip across the American West 🐴 rodeo 💔 grief and losing a grandparent #questpit #A #W #R

UPROOTED x RAPUNZEL 🗼Belltower 🌲 Wood that becomes dangerous at night 🌱Plant/earth magic 🦌 Carnivorous deer ❔Quest to find missing people ❤️ Romantic fantasy #questpit #RF #F #W

If you like: 🔮Elemental magic 🔥Slow burn romance ❤️‍🔥Strangers➡️lovers➡️enemies ⚔️Fierce female protagonists 💖LGBTQIA rep on the page 🤪All the banter Then this one’s for you! COVENANT OF THE DAMNED is a 119k rom. fantasy querying now #Q #RF #A #F #QuestPit

Agent’s guide for SADDLE UP, a cowgirl/cowboy romance novel complete at 76k words. Roadtrips, rodeos, and SO much yearning. #questpit #W #A #R

An introduction to the main characters from Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, my adult romantasy murder mystery with: 🌱 plant-based magic 🔮 witch prophecy 🖤 morally grey FMC ❤️‍🩹 angsty MMC who yearns 🕵️ flirting by finding murder clues ☕️ magical excellence as a love language #QuestPit #W #A #RF

The gods rejected her. That was their mistake. SONG OF THE SICKLE, adult romantasy, 118k words ✨Rejected chosen one ✨Hidden identity ✨Forbidden power ✨Forced proximity #Questpit #Q #A #RF

THE WISHING WELL is an adult cozy fantasy about a witch who summons her familiar, only to find he doesn't like her. In it, you'll find: 🐈‍⬛ a grumpy familiar 🫖 temperamental antiques 🏝️ a wandering island 🧐 & a forgotten history linking together witches, familiars, and humans #QuestPit #A #F #W

What my witchy NYC-based book would look like as a movie poster! 16-yr-old Haley has the stigmatized death magic, but when she receives warnings from dead witches about a coming threat, she’ll have to use that very magic to save all the witches in NYC. NINTH HOUSE x LEGENDBORN #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

agents, if you’ve been looking for witchy YA books 👀

ANASTASIA X THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT A lost celestial princess enters mythical trials for the crown, only to fall for the shadow rival who threatens her claim. VIBES🖤 ✨Light X Dark ✨Elemental magic ✨Slow burn ✨Trials ✨Found family ✨Murder conspiracy ✨YEARNING #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

AGENTS PREPARE YOUR INBOXES

🗡️KNIGHT & THE MOTHxPRINCESS BRIDE💕 
 A sky maiden lost her wings
 A religious tyrant stole them A disgraced knight knows how to get them back…but it won’t be easy ☠️mythical monsters
🍃enchanted woods
🏴‍☠️pirate city 
🎭corrupt courtiers 
🔪deadly trials
 #QuestPit #Q #F #R #A 🇵🇭 Philippine fairy tale

SKULLSCAPE / Academic Fantasy Ninth House X Atlas Six 🏛️Elite Academy 🌱Botany ❓Missing Brother 🔎 Rookie Slueth 📖Dark Academia 🦴Forbidden Magic This work is currently at 12k words and has a projected completion by early summer. #questpit #w #a #my #f

David Copperfield x C-dramas Max is over living when he's suddenly reborn as an alternate-history noble, but his newfound will to live is increasingly challenged by his family's restrictive expectations and a mysterious curse that claims the lives of those he loves most. #QuestPit #Q #Lit #Spec

Ok soo, what would you do if your arrogant glasses-wearing coworker started showing up in your romantasy manuscript?? ASKING FOR A FRIEND. (HE’S NOT THE LOVE INTEREST I PROMISE) (I mean, he’s BLONDE) (So he could never be the love interest) (Right? RIGHT?!) *INSPIRED BY YOU* #questpit #w #r

Lucky only needs these things to survive her parents neglect and her growing hunger for love👀 -bread for the ducks -chapstick (lip biter) -tissues for therapy -empty lunchbox (her parents forgot to pack…again) -favorite photos -cookies from her crush! #questpit #A #DR #OS #AG #LF #U SWALLOWED SINS

agents ACT FAST this one is insanely good 👀

If the main characters from Prophecy Fraud & Other Crimes, my adult romantasy murder mystery novel, had access to the Notes app. #QuestPit #W #A #RF

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x ALCHEMISED x METAL SLINGER Arden is a powerless mortal in a city of elemental warriors who must fight for scraps, but the Gods of Aethela are the last obstacle she expects to face, nor is she prepared to become the very thing she’s grown to despise. #QuestPit #Q #F

When extinction is imminent, Astrid wins the gods' favor by performing an immoral ritual to save their empire. But when magic fights back, she must decide whether to become their weapon, or defy the gods who soon reveal they will stop at nothing to survive. #Q #A #RF #QuestPit

Mexican Gothic x TheKnight &The Moth When a woman relocates to a secluded, mist-cloaked town where creation magic is forbidden & women vanish from history, she, her sentient house & a cursed carpenter must uncover Ravensford’s dark secrets before she becomes its next forgotten name #QuestPit #RF #Q

An agent's guide to BLACK SPIRE WHITE BONE repost for #QuestPit #Q #DR #F My 104k dark adult romantasy Querying now :) 🏰 Labyrinth x Alchemised 🐍 a twisty plot 🧚 dark fairy tale retelling 🥀 enemies who yearn 🍎 a magic poisoned gothic world 👑 a king of monsters

agents, this one is a delight!

agents and editors please I need this

SIX OF 🐦‍⬛x OUR 🏳️ MEANS ☠️ 🏴‍☠️ A murder mystery—everyone is suspicious 🪶 Neurodivergent MC/disabled LI 🌊 Sirens, dragons, deadly seas 🕯️Cold ex-pirate & charismatic pirate captain work together to survive 🌈 Sapphic “you’re a means to an end” to lovers #QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF #MY #OWN #LGBT

What my NYC teen witches are googling as they prepare to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop a nefarious long-dead witch from coming back to life. Percy Jackson-but-with-witches! #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

THE LUNARIA WITCH 110k NA/Adult Fantasy romance with ND rep A RIVER ENCHANTED ❌ K POP DEMON HUNTERS Power blooms in outcast Tallitha, in a land where magic is forbidden & she must flee to a mysterious place of safety, to evade the clutches of the King’s Chief Witchkind hunter. #questpit #q #f #r

#QuestPit #W #A #F #RF Howl's Moving Castle x The Wizard of Oz An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across the magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss??

Covenant of the Damned (119k rom. fantasy) in microtropes! When the Lord she’s sworn to protect is poisoned, a headstrong guard reluctantly allies with a loathsome king to find the Holy Grail before the Lord dies or the relic falls into the hands of evil sorcerers. #Q #RF #F #A #QuestPit

An #agentsguide for my LEGENDBORN x DUNE #YA #SFF On a planet where humanity survives by sacrificing memories to a machine god, a girl who can burn her own memories into magic must expose the truth behind the rite—before it claims her the way it took her brother. #questpit #Q #F #D #amquerying

My new editors guide for SWALLOWED SINS #questpit For people who are hungry for: -an insatiable appetite for love 🖤 -dark romance 🥀 -obsessive protagonist 👀 - traumatic therapy sessions 📝 #OS #DR #A #LF #U #AG

SIX OF CROWS x JADE CITY When her mentor goes missing Gemna joins forces w/ fellow mage Ren to unravel the connection b/w the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages aren’t just outlawed…but wiped from existence. #QuestPit #AG #F art by nathcreare

To save NYC’s witches from being hunted down and possessed by malicious spirits, 16-year-old Haley Thorne must wield her death magic to travel to a monster-infested realm to stop the dead witch behind it all. LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES #QuestPit #Q #F #YA

Real Scandinavian items used by Ró as she joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back.   🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH   WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #Q #W #QuestPit

Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #Q #W #QuestPit

I’m halfway through writing my first draft in 50 days. here’s how it’s going, along with some of my lessons learned ➡️ #writer #writingchallenge #writingabook #tradpub #writerslife #firstdraft #writingcommunity #aspiringauthor #substack #substackwriter open.substack.com/pub/trangngu...

IF MY YA FANTASY NOVEL (with horror and romance) HAD AO3 TAGS! Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult (😅) to hunt down the one (very hot) creature whose heart can buy her life back 🫀🗡️ FEED ME YOUR HEART - 95k 🧌🌲 Agent's guide pinned to profile #YA #F #H #R #ChaosPit

Ok, hear me out. My novel is "Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus" BUT: - Barbie has a trash reputation - She joins a cult - She eats hearts to wield magic - She lowkey falls in love with a water spirit (KEN?) YA fantasy w. horror and romance 🫀Agent's guide pinned to profile #YA #F #H #R #ChaosPit

She's just a girl, standing in a cursed town, asking her sentient house to please stop locking her in rooms with the hot carpenter and hoping to not die before she escapes #chaospit

my last first draft took me years. this time, I’m trying to do it in 50 days 👀 open.substack.com/pub/trangngu... #writing #substack #author #aspiringauthor #writingabook #novelist #fantasyauthor #writingchallenge #writingadvice

can I interest anyone in a writing challenge? 🤭 #writingchallenge #writingabook #firstdraft #writingcommunity #substackwriter open.substack.com/pub/trangngu...

author newsletter is live & my first post is up (how I got my agent)! if you subscribe I promise I don’t have the stamina to write many newsletters so you won’t get spammed with notifs 😌 #queryletter #queryingauthors #tradpub #agentedauthor #substack #aspiringauthor substack.com/@trangnguyen...

how I got my agent (the long version), featuring an Etsy witch, Margaritaville in Times Square, and a birthday offer of representation 🀄️ #querying #querytrenches #author #amwriting #tradpub #queryletter #traditionalpublishing #substackwriter open.substack.com/pub/trangngu...

These best friends have a 60-year age difference 🤝 Nita fled from Florida to NYC in 1970, while Violet made the same journey over 50 years later. Both left conservative families to live freely as queer women. Can Violet break the cycle and help find Nita's long-lost love? #QuestPit #HR #U #WF #A