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✍🏼 wip: CONDUCT OF MAGES (adult fantasy) 💖 Smoochpit Mentee (2025) 🦇 Gotham Writers of Color Scholarship (2025) 🌐 @trangnguyenwrites on tiktok & instagram

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 20h

Sharing my #agentsguide for CONDUCT OF MAGES, an #A #F for fans of JADE CITY x SIX OF CROWS

When her mentor goes missing Gemma teams up with fellow mage, Ren, to uncover a plot to eradicate mages…one that involves the emergence of a mysterious stone that mimics their powers.

#questpit #Q #querying

cover page that says CONDUCT OF MAGES, an adult fantasy complete at 102K words on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads THE VIBES and lists: energy magic, heists & scheming, found family, research subplot, slooow burn, female role models, SE Asian setting. placed on a moody dark background showing a brown building and orange and yellow paper lanterns

text reads FOR FANS OF and then six book covers are displayed, from top left to bottom right: JADE CITY, JASAD HEIR, MISTBORN, HEARTLESS HUNTER, BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, and SIX OF CROWS

text reads EXCERPTS. the first is labeled FIRST LINE, and reads “Gemna was sorting through a basket of sparrowberries when she found out that her existence had been outlawed.” the second text bid is labeled CHAPTER 4 and reads: “In all fairness, Yala had never specified just how flammable elderfire was.

The heat was instantaneous and overwhelming. Gemna felt it scorch the edges of her sleeves before she pulled in the energy from the flames and, when she was nearly bursting with it, diverted it towards the two Hands at the front of the shop. The fire died harmlessly at her feet before it could eat its way into the hidden cellar below.”

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 14h

JADE CITY x HEARTLESS HUNTER

When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage Ren, to unravel the connection b/w the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

#A #F #Questpit #Q #querying

red movie poster style image that has the tagline “mages are disappearing…Gemna will risk everything to find out why” and the title CONDUCT OF MAGES. text below included the details “NOW QUERYING” and “An Adult Fantasy, complete at 102K words”

title reads THE PITCH and detailed language says: When her mentor goes missing, Gemna joins forces with fellow mage, Ren, to unravel the connection between the string of disappearances and a terrible discovery that could mean a future where mages are not just outlawed…but wiped from existence.

it then says FOR FANS OF and displays 3 book covers: Six of Crows, Blood Over Bright Haven, and Jade City

page title says FROM EARLY READERS and lists the following quotes:

You have such a talent for using small details to reveal large truths.

their chemistry is still in its EARLY stages, but i love how clear their compatibility is. Even if i’d never seen them on the page together I would see how they could complement each OTHER.

I read the first few chapters and it’s my favorite read of the year…(agents) pick this up so i can find out if they kiss pleasE!!

The tension (of the plot) is insane. your scenes are very layered. it feels like poor gemna can’t catch a break.

I am obsessed with this magic system & the subtle themes of tech vs. humanity.

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 16h

IM GRIPPED GIVE ME TEN OF THESE

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 16h

LEGENDBORN x LITTLE THIEVES

Witch Haley Thorne teams up with new friends—including broody August—on a quest through a monster-infested realm before:
💀A nefarious witch comes back to life
🐉The dead and monstrous flood into their realm
💥The portal between the realms wrecks reality
#QuestPit #Q #F #YA

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HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · 16h

In Vega’s world, survival means surrendering memories to an arcane intelligence.

Doomed to die as sacrifice, she cheats fate with forbidden magic—but her family's curse hunts her brother instead.

To save him, Vega must uncover the truth her world was made to forget.

#QuestPit #YA #F #SFF #Q #RF

First Revelation: "To survive, you must forget."

First paragraphs from the first chapter of The Celestial Ring:
As I move through the canyon of glass and steel toward Her, the likelihood of imminent death feels briefly distant.
For the millionth time, my fingers brush where the disruptor hides in my robe pocket. If this little device saves me, it will be more than worth the risk.
My brother strides ahead, shaking his head at the Interpreter towers. Each spirals upward, disappearing out of reach, like the people inside them. Families with desirable names and the privileges that come with it. Kids who probably are not worried if they’ll hear Her voice today.

The Celestial Ring
YA Science Fantasy by H.K. Smith

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Jessica DeLand - Author (is getting published! 😱) @delandjessica.bsky.social · 17h

WAKE was inspired by HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE w/:

~A self-sacrificing girl cursed w/ unwanted magic
~Who ends up living w/ a defective group
~Where she's teased w/ a feathery secret
~They develop a found family
~& she falls for 1 of them

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#QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R

a cartoon of a man and a woman looking into each others eyes

Alt: Sophie and Howl from the Howl's Moving Castle movie embracing while Howl is in his feathered form and fiery ash falls from the sky.

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 16h

the moment I see anything studio ghibli I know it’s for meeee

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 17h

tysm!

trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 17h

omg this sounds soo good rivals to lovers gets me every time

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 17h

your agent guide is soo cute & snappy! totally shows what to expect from the voice of the book

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 17h

SIX OF CROWS I’m here !!!

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Tamara 🍁👻🎃🧟‍♀️🌽 @tamaratoday.bsky.social · 21h

SIX OF CROWS X WHAT WAKES THE BELLS

After his sister is cursed by a vengeful goddess, a former pickpocket must steal a relic from the most powerful man in the city to save her. But he can’t pull it off alone, and not everyone in his ragtag crew can be trusted.

#QuestPit #NA #F #BVM #POC #Q #Heist

Left to right.

Top row: A foggy city with a spire in the background. The hands of a clock approaching 12. Smoke from an explosive in a building.

Middle row: A man in a waistcoat pointing at something. “Tick… Tock…” A man in a waistcoat sitting down.

Bottom row: Silver coins covered in blood. A group of people standing inside a clock tower. Rain on a cobblestone street.

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Linda Maleh @lindamaleh.bsky.social · 21h

PERCY JACKSON x LEGENDBORN

When 16-y/o witch, Haley Thorne, receives dream messages from dead witches about a coming threat, she must go on a quest through a monster-infested realm to stop a plot to open the door between the realms that will wreck the fabric of reality. #QuestPit #Q #F #YA #witches

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Emily @eriverowrites.bsky.social · 21h

Things ruining Rhen’s Day:
🩸 Her prophesied power never manifests
👑 Being stripped of her titles as heir
⚔️ A (hot) man prevents her from unlocking her power
👁️ An arcane force tries to kill her when she's near the sea (she lives seaside)
🌊 The truth about her brother’s death

#QuestPit #W #A #F

A collage of eight images, showing scenes of seaside cliffs, a sword, fortresses, bodies of water, and colorful strips of light throughout.

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HK Smith | Writer @thehksmith.bsky.social · 23h

LEGENDBORN x DUNE in a #YA fantasy where humanity survives by surrendering memories to a divine intelligence.

To break her family's curse of being sacrificed, Vega must:
⚔️Find her lost brother
💔Ally w/ her first heartbreak
🌑Uncover the truth her world was forced to forget

#QuestPit #SFF #F #Q #RF

A dark space fantasy aesthetic mood board with a collage of photos. Vertically down, from the first column:
1. A violet, light-tinged hole framing a violet sky
2. A faint silhouette of a woman beneath colors like the northern lights
3. Two hands reaching towards one another
4. A sci-fi inspired, dark uniform with a high collar
5. A grand stairwell, perhaps a futuristic religious site, with a single silhouette looking up
6. Two romantic silhouettes against a starry night sky
7. A lone figure with a backpack, standing amongst a shroud of sand-colored fog
8. A hand covered in glitter
9. A silhouette standing in front of a blue-lit circular tunnel entrance
10. A black woman with glitter coating her shoulder, just the bottom half of her face is visible, lips tilted slightly up in a smile
11. A black woman screaming
12. A stream of light breaking through dark clouds
13. An eye turned to show only the whites
14. Figures in robes seemingly suspended in mid-air
15. A figure on a black, sleek futuristic looking motorcycle

None of the images are my own. They are all sourced from Pinterest

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trang ☆ is querying! @trangnguyenwrites.bsky.social · 18h

THINGS RUINING GEMNA’S DAY:

💥 mages are outlawed (she’s a mage)
👵🏻 her mentor is missing (also a mage)
❤️‍🔥 Ren (a broody, grey eyed mage)
‼️ the disappearance of MORE mages
👑 a king that wants them all dead

An Asian inspired #A #Fantasy for fans of JADE CITY x HEARTLESS HUNTER x MISTBORN #questpit #Q