📝Signed. Sealed. Delivered. Thrilled to share that I am now represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary! Beyond grateful and so excited for what's ahead.✨ #WritingCommunity #KidLit #AmQueryingNoMore #AmAgented #AmQuerying

I was bracing for another rejection. Closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and then, BOOM. “The call” email. Still shaking. Query trenches are brutal, but if you're in them, don't give up. One email can change everything. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

3 months in and I finally realized I never said hi 👀 I’m Charli Rae, I write children’s books where Black kids get to be the superheroes, inventors, & magic-makers. Better late than never, right? 👋🏾

Feeling grateful today, my manuscript is out on full (4) requests. No matter what happens, proud this story is getting a chance to be read. ✨Sprinkling ✨agent dust over the entire writing community today. May the right eyes find your work at the right time. #WritingCommunity #amquerying

✨ Queried my MG novel The Under on Aug 3 (2:43 AM). 📩 Full request hit my inbox less than 24 hours later. Excited. Grateful. Nervous as hell. 🫠 #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity

Now #Agented THE GIRL WITH BLOOD ON HER DRESS A woman wakes up with amnesia and can only speak French, a language she has never spoken before. Afraid someone wants her dead, she has no choice but to trust the complete stranger everyone says is her husband. #PosterPit #AG #A #T #M

Imagine opening a book and finding your grandma’s 10th birthday. Or your classmate’s worst day. In The Last Blank Page, every book holds the last borrower’s memory… until the story starts to vanish. #PosterPitq #posterpit #MG

Jupiter Ascending (2015) X BRIGHT (2017) Coming October 25th: A captivating endling and the man obsessed with her find themselves at the center of an intergalactic plot to bring a bloodthirsty tyrant back to life. ARC signups: linktr.ee/author.salem #posterpit #sf #f #r #a #lgbt

After the shock of killing a green classmate on the first day of school, Candy’s body begins changing. Now she must control her new ability before the scientists find out about the pure red girl who can shift between biological sexes and survive in the toxic sun. #QueerPit #YA #CLI #D #H

After the shock of killing a classmate on the first day of school, Candy’s body begins to change. Now she must hide her new abilities from the scientists who are searching for genetic anomalies. #posterpit #Q #YA #SF #H

X Files x Ipcress File 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter➡️hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ 🦋

While sitting shiva for her mom, Ava discovers her mother isn’t entirely gone yet… #PosterPit #YA #H #W

A photo album doesn't just hold memories, it traps them. Kiyah flips a page and falls into her mom's 1994 block party, living her life in real time. But the deeper she goes, the harder it is to find her way back. An ode to the 90's. #posterpitq #MG #PosterPit

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign. #PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit

A CURSE SO DARK & LONELY X THE INHERITANCE GAMES When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic trapped inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate freedom, but bonds w/ them & falls for 1 instead #PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FT

Slow Horses x Life on Mars When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ

Three inner city kids stumble into a world beneath their neighborhood bodega, a place where reflections talk, bricks say your name, and goggles unlock hidden missions. But the brighter they shine there, the more they fade from home. #POSTERPITQ #MG #F #CL

Favorite line from my WIP: I didn’t cry at the funeral. Not because I wasn’t sad, but because in this family, silence is inherited. Like cheekbones. Or hypertension. What’s yours? #WritingCommunity

🔥 Who’s in for a #PosterPit support swap? Like this and let’s boost each other up!

If nobody told you today: I hope agents like your pitch, request your full, and fight over your manuscript. #QuestPit #WritingCommunity

Thread of my #Questpit pitches. #kidlit #ownvoices #PB #MG #q

They shine in The Under. But every mission down there... makes them fade up here. 📍Baltimore block 🎯Middle grade speculative fiction 📖27K 🔥Identity, memory, and the quiet magic of being seen. #questpit #MG #KidLit #ownvoices

Thread of my #QuestPit pitches! #LGBT #F #R

QUEER NANCY DREW 17-yr-old Emmie has the coolest job at a bookstore with her sapphic crush, but when a patron dies during her mom’s book event, all eyes are turned towards her. She needs to get her life back and not get killed in the process. #questpit #Q #YA #MY #LGBT

Told through journal entries, cassette tapes & found files, The Things We Don’t Say follows 13-year-old Niya as she breaks her family’s silence, uncovers queer erasure, and reclaims a love they tried to cut out. #QuestPit #UpperMG #YA #OwnVoices

BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag. #QuestPit #A #S #SF #W

What if your name finally lit up in a secret world... but your mama stopped calling it in the real one? THE UNDER is Black Mirror for middle grade. Power has a cost. And these kids are paying it. #QuestPit #MSWL #MG #KidLit #ownvoices #Q #amquerying

What happens when bedtime turns into a full-blown investigation? MY MAMA IS A MONSTER — a hilarious and heartfelt picture book about the myths we make up about the people we love. #QuestPit #BlackKidLit #HumorInKidLit #PBpitch

A Song to Drown Rivers meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in LADY HAN'S MANUAL FOR MATRIMONIAL MAYHEM, in which the mischievous bride fights for divorce with chaos: 😈 unlikeable heroine ⚔️ enemies-to-lovers 💑 marriage of convenience 👑 political intrigue #questpit #A #RF #W (line editing for #Q soon!)

I’m excited to share this #pitchcard for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, and JOHN, the YA fantasy novel I #amquerying, feat: 🏴‍☠️ LGBTQIA+ rep 👑 non-western setting 🌸 anti-colonial lens 🏴‍☠️ girls w/ swords 👑 besties-to-lovers 🌸 friendship > everything #QuestPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q

THE BOOKMAKER OF PELLMELL A cynical woman who can see the future grudgingly takes over a cage fighting ring to save her sick friend—and is horrified to find that she’s excellent at it. 🌘dystopian grounded fantasy ⚖️morally gray FMC 🔥romantic subplot 🫶found family 🌈diverse cast #QuestPit #W #A #SFF

They shine in The Under. But every mission down there... makes them fade up here. 📍Baltimore block 🎯Middle grade speculative fiction 📖27K 🔥Identity, memory, and the quiet magic of being seen. #questpit #MG #KidLit #ownvoices

⚔️ Gearing up for #QuestPit tomorrow! If you’re pitching MG or YA (or anything honestly), drop your pitch or @ below. Let’s swap Reposts, comments, support, hype…all of it. Because this scroll moves fast and we’re not tryna disappear in it. 👀💬 #AmQuerying

Not me waking up at 2:30 AM to send my full manuscript because the dream agent emailed at 1:30 AM. And I only sent the query less than 24 hours ago. The way I flew out that bed... #amquerying #KidLit #MG

Grateful for this kind of response in my inbox today! Feels good to know my work is resonating. More to come. ✨📚 #KidLit #AmQuerying

Her crown wasn’t heavy. The world just wasn’t ready to see her wear. #KidLit #OwnVoices #iAmQuerying

been feeling stuck in the querying process. it’s a lonely hustle. but The Crowned Ones still makes me proud. Black kids with magical hair, rising against silence. the right agent will get it. until then, I’ll keep rising too. #amquerying #kidlit

Thought I was going in for notes. Left with a full request. Sometimes the story you’re scared to tell… is exactly the one someone’s been waiting for. #PB #kidlit #CrownedOnes

Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT

THE THINGS WE DON’T SAY x BROWN GIRL DREAMING x EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE When Niya finds her grandfather’s cassette tapes, she uncovers a hidden queer legacy—and the silence that shaped her family. Grief. Love. Truth. #MG #QuestPit #Q #Queer #Contemporary #OwnVoices #BlackGirlHealing