Hi! Just popping on w/ a few #querying updates/reminders:
-I'll be closing Sept 1st to catch up
- I do NOT accept email queries (they'll be deleted)
-I DO respond to all queries--just may take longer than you (or I!) would like so pls allow more than 6 weeks before nudging
Editor friends, if you're looking for a YA contemporary fantasy with Black Boy Magic and Black Boy Love, let me know as I'll be happy to share when we go on sub soon!
We now have our first official list of industry professionals who have shown interest! ๐
Thank you everyone who took the time to fill out our form! If there are any other industry professionals who want to participate, please let us know!
While I was writing my MA thesis about this, there were times I was second-guessing myself in making these claims but low and behold, 4 years post the "racial awakening" we had in 2020, we're right back to where we were.
Hence the title...which has never felt more apt.
Trad pub will call racist practices "restructuring" because they can cling to "it's only business" as an excuse for pushing out BIPOC. It's 2024 and trad pub treats diversity like a trend they feel isn't lucrative anymore.
It's so surreal to see Love in 280 Characters or Less come to life in this beautiful way๐
It's been such a journey and I'm so grateful to @RavynnKaMia for letting me be here for it!๐
I'm very excited to announce that I'm working with the Museum of UnCut Funk to represent their portfolio of vintage Black comic strip IP which includes some of the first Black heroes to appear in comic strips!
Super late due to not being on Twitter/X but since I'm sorta back, I just wanna say I'm equally excited to be working with @ailunshi on her amazing YA heist fantasy with Breaking Bad vibes! I was sold from they very beginning ๐
I've been very much a lurker on #WritingCommunity, but I'm super excited to announce that I'm officially represented by @leahbene at @ladderbirdlit!
She truly gets the core of my YA fantasy about a desperate college dropout who joins a drug heist to pay off her debtsโจ
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