Q’Zion T. Gipson is ✨ON SUB! ✨
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An #editorsguide for THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, my YA climate fantasy about a futuristic flower-less Earth and an alternate enchanted garden universe.
🌺 Black girl MC
✨ plant magic
🌸enchanted forest
✨ botany boarding school
#Editors, contact Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary for more!
#DVpit #YA #F #OS #AG
qziontgipson.bsky.social
An #editorsguide for THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, my YA climate fantasy about a futuristic flower-less Earth and an alternate enchanted garden universe.
🌺 Black girl MC
✨ plant magic
🌸enchanted forest
✨ botany boarding school
#Editors, contact Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary for more!
#DVpit #YA #F #OS #AG
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A moonlit bloom opens the portal to Evergreen: an enchanted garden lurking with blooms equally mysterious and whimsical. Some things you wouldn't expect are hiding within its leafy walls. #Editors, contact Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary to enter--if you dare!

#UnhingedPit #AG #OS #YA #F #SF
A forest green background with flower silhouettes with a heading in black in white that asks 'DO YOU DARE TO ENTER EVERGREEN?' Bordered by fine-lined flowers lie silhouettes of different things you'll find in the enchanted garden:
- A flower: blooms that speak to you...even when they're dead
- Dark, looming trees: 'A forest that never ends. Unless...'
- Swirly shadows: 'Shadows come alive, killing blooms in their wake.'
- A woman: 'A mysterious masked woman whose voice you've heard before.'
- Vines shooting out of a fingertip: 'Vines that shoot through your fingertips.'
- A boy's side profile beside a butterfly: 'An infuriatingly charming boy who makes you feel butterflies in your stomach.' A black, starry night background with forest trees on either side of the caption "THE ROOTS OF DESTINY" fine lined in forest green. The following describes the book of said name:
'A YA climate fantasy novel by Q'ZION T. GIPSON. Featuring LEGENDBORN’s Black girl magic and secret society operated in a botany boarding school and WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL’s enchanted forest--plus speaking flowers. Represented by Najla Mamou' A black, starry night background with forest trees and a portal surrounded by blooms fine lined in forest green. The caption on the left says "ENTER EVERGREEN," while the left adds "THE BLOOMS ARE WAITING."
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A pitch card for THE ROOTS OF DESTINY: my #onsub YA climate fantasy about a Black girl who must embrace forbidden plant magic that blooms in her veins after discovering an enchanted forest with roots to her ancestry. #Editors, for inquiries please 🩷 this post and/or contact my agent
@BookishNajla
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‘Even flowers can bloom in the darkness.’
#Editors, if you love Black girl magic, nature as a character, and botany boarding schools, you'll fall in love with THE ROOTS OF DESTINY! Please contact Najla Mamou for an enchanting climate fantasy adventure!

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There's always a price to pay for love-especially when you're buying your freedom. But is trusting each other while wrongfully accused of murder a risk worth taking? For a sweeping ETL romance a la Powerless x COBAB, look out for THE ESSENCE THEY STOLE!

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THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA near-future climate fantasy about a teen who discovers her own plant magic in an enchanted garden with roots to her ancestry, is officially #onsub!

#Editors, to join in on the fun, please contact my amazing agent
@BookishNajla
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#PosterPit #YA #F #AG
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Her: “For a boy who speaks faster than he thinks, you always have an answer.”
Him: “And if your words weren’t always altered art, perhaps you would, too.”

#Editors, watch out for THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, featuring a human x fae romance with flirty banter!

#QuestPit #YA #F #SF #AG
A moodboard of Vee, the Black girl protagonist of Q'Zion T. Gipson's YA near-future sci-fantasy novel, The Roots of Destiny, surrounded by images of an enchanted garden filled with white and pink blooms, ducks, butterflies, and birds on top of a whimsical, floral background. A moodboard of Jean, the love interest of Q'Zion T. Gipson's YA near-future sci-fantasy novel, The Roots of Destiny, surrounded by images of an enchanted garden filled with blue booms blooms and birds on top of a whimsical, floral background that match the shade of his striking eyes and the brightness of his blonde, tousled locks.
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Yes, that was me! Thanks for watching. I've watched you since your drafting videos. I wish for all the best during your querying journey! ❤️
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#Editors, if you're looking for near-future YA sci-fantasy featuring:
🩵 nature as a character
🌸Black girl magic
🍃plant magic system
🩵 found family
🌸 Botany boarding school
🍃 shadow monsters
🩵 secret society

-- you'll love THE ROOTS OF DESTINY!

#QuestPit #YA #AG #F #SF
A photograph of purple flowers on a blue background. 
An editor's guide to The Roots of Destiny, a near future sci-fantasy novel by Q'Zion T. Gipson. Pitch: After a failed experiment to make plants live forever, humans burned all toxic vegetation for the sake of humanity, leaving Earth as an artificial shell of its former light. In 2091, sixteen-year-old Vee Arrowood is sheltered from the dark world Earth has become, with only the shadows in a forgotten forest keeping her grounded.

But when the shadows come alive, her escape leads her to Evergreen: a land of elves with plants as their lifeline. Vee discovers the plant magic blooming in her veins before she’s enlisted by the Everlife–the group of outlandish individuals who protect the enchanted gardens–to help them solve the mystery of a deadly virus spreading within.
While Vee aids the Everlife, she opens the petals of her own budding magic, her mother’s legacy, and feelings for a fellow member. And as the shadows follow her trail, Vee must learn how to bloom in the darkness before it consumes herself, The Human World and Evergreen forever. COMPS & TROPES
-Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek: enchanted forest, nature as a character
-House of Marionne by J. Elle: magic boarding school
-Legendborn by Tracy Deonn:  Black girl magic, monster hunting
-Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat: found family, human vs. fae
-A Curse So Dark And Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer: secret society, romantic subplot, rival worlds First Lines
' ‘It took me sixteen years to find a bloom.
 Wrapped in darkness, breathing in the manufactured oxygen that rafts through the world. I cradle it close, its white limbs glowing beneath the moon that parts the leaves above me.
 This bloom is the Moonflower: what Gran described as the rarest plant of the century. And, just like every other flower, one that seemingly doesn’t exist. Yet, in my palm, it reaches for the white sun, glowing with a similar light. No friends to bloom beside it. 
 It reminds me of myself.
 Bright. 
 Alone.
  All the words Gran would use to describe something beautiful. And it grew just past the trees I’ve never dared to cross since she was buried between them. Until I found this bloom—the very one we searched for—right beside her grave.’

Represented by Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary
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In an enchanted forest, Vee finds out she has plant magic (which she can’t control), her mother was an extremist, and she’s catching feelings for a charming gentleman and a brooding loner with dark secrets and a father complex. What could go wrong?

#UnhingedPit #F #YA #AG
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When my MC could be doing LITERALLY anything, LITERALLY anywhere in The Human Realm in 2091, but decides to open a portal to an enchanted forest with roots to her ancestry after blooms became extinct.

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #SF #AG
a woman is sitting in front of a pink curtain with the words `` have you learned nothing '' .
ALT: a woman is sitting in front of a pink curtain with the words `` have you learned nothing '' .
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The Roots of Destiny, my YA near-future sci-fantasy about a Black girl with plant magic in an enchanted forest, is so close to making it's #onsub debut! Learn more with my pitch map!

#Editors, if you're intrigued, contact my agent, Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary!
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An #editorsguide for THE ROOTS OF DESTINY, a YA near-future sci-fantasy about a Black girl who must harness her forbidden plant magic after discovering an enchanted forest with roots to her ancestry.

#Editors, if you're interested, please contact me and/or my agent
Najla Mamou at Savvy Literary!