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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 18h

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October 2025 10Queries

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

#CI former inventor Blinne’s life is drab until she joins a diplomatic mission to the former enemy nation of Elissinar and meets Ruai. Everything w/ him is a game. Confusing? Yes. But she feels alive again. Only problem: scandal ensues w/ them at its centre. #DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

In Kelbrand, tech & innovation are everything. In Elissinar, it’s all nature & etiquette. #DIS former inventor Blinne joins the 1st diplomatic mission to Elissinar in 500 years, hoping to discover new tech. When worlds collide, scandal ensues w/ her at its centre.
#DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

ALWAYS GREENER is #A romantic fantasy w/ cozy elements featuring a #DIS heroine. Mixes humor & heart like TJ Klune’s UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR & C.L. Polk’s THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN, & has a whimsical setting and witty banter like Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse books.
#DVPit #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OwnVoices

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

Kelbrand & Elissinar have been out of contact for 500 years. #DIS former inventor Blinne is recruited for the 1st diplomatic contact. It’s a chance to study new tech & live out her lost dreams. But romance & treachery soon endanger the mission and her life.
#DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

The title? The CI rep? I’m sold.

KatherineMcRea @listentomelovelett.bsky.social · 2d

ONCE MORE, WITH MURDER: in bulletpoints

☠️murder #mystery
💋2nd chance #romance
😷chronic illness #dis #ownvoices
👉 #ptsd rep
🧪forensics #womeninSTEM
🐶golden retriever MMC
🐈sassy FMC
🌈 #LGBTQ rep
📚planned series (new romance/book)
📖debut author #amquerying

Agatha Christie X 1950's #RomCom

#DVpit

a woman in a white dress and hat is making a funny face

ALT: a woman in a white dress and hat is making a funny face

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

#DIS former inventor Blinne has faded into the background until she joins a controversial diplomatic mission to Elissinar to study new tech. She must navigate confusing foreign etiquette, a handsome but infuriating diplo host & a possible traitor to reclaim her agency. #DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

Did someone say disability women into the cost of magic? Immediately obsessed

Ashton J. Thomas @ashtonjthomas.bsky.social · 2d

🩸 unreliable narrator with a parasite in her head 
📚 a university where fairy tales are dead specimens 
🫀 disability woven into the cost of magic 
⚔️ academic rivals bound by secrets & decay 
👻 a best friend’s ghost that won’t let go

NINTH HOUSE x FLEABAG with #DIS rep

#DVPit #A #F #H

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

I love this so much! Sounds like a book I might comp to if it was already out!

Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · 2d

Linatta Mosset: curmudgeon, witch, plant-enthusiast, and a secret harborer of a sense of humor 🌱

Her best friend is Toad, a cat-shaped familiar with a snarky (but loveable) attitude 🐈‍⬛

Chronic illness makes life challenging, but her journey is full of heart 💚

#DVpit #Cozy #A #R #F #CI #DIS #LGBT

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

Immediately on my TBR!

Julie @ladyvoh.bsky.social · 2d

HEMLOCK QUEEN X PRINCE OF THIEVES but make it GAY

🏹A disabled huntress with a stubborn streak
🖤A found family made of rebels
👑Two tyrant queens to overthrow
💀A legion of corrupted, undead henchmen

Thea must topple the queens or join the rotting legion herself

#DVpit #YA #F #OWN #LGBT #DIS #CI

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

Love genre fiction with disabled rep!

val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 2d

DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN x PACIFIC RIM

A disabled mecha dragonrider struggles in an ableist society. When a hivemind of corrupted dragons threatens her people's very existence, she must team up with 3 riders—her lying would-be lover included—to save the solar system.

#DVpit #A #SF #DIS #LGBT #Latine

A moodboard with 9 tiles. The first row has purple spacescape streaks of light like hyperspace, a dragon egg, and a Latina staring at the egg. The second row has purple crystals and middle text that has crossed out "star-scarred, dragonrider, etli's claw, wave rider" then, underlined "me", followed by a person underwater. The third and final row has a closeup of a snake's eye to represent a dragon's eye, a solar system, and scale pattern to represent mecha dragon scales.

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

Love more chronic illness rep!!

Kandace 🧞‍♀️ @kandybradshaw.bsky.social · 2d

Kara is thirty-one, chronically ill, and fresh out of patience. Joining a reality show for a kidney feels like her last resort. But when she’s pulled into a messy love triangle between her donor and dialysis-tech-turned-best-friend, her fight for survival goes viral.

#DVpit #A #CR #BIPOC #DIS #OWN

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

Blinne, a #CI former inventor, is a shadow of herself. A diplo mission gives her 1 last chance to pursue her dreams. Braving scandal, intrigue, & death threats, she reclaims her life & finds love. The hard part: bringing her newfound self back home. #DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 2d

#CI former inventor Blinne’s life is drab until she joins a diplomatic mission to the former enemy nation of Elissinar and meets Ruai. Everything w/ him is a game. Confusing? Yes. But she feels alive again. Only problem: scandal ensues w/ them at its centre. #DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 4d

Some musical insight into Always Greener, my adult romantic fantasy for #DVparty day 5!

#A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

#amquerying #writersky #writingchallenge

Five song quotes above the words “Blinne’s Playlist” & “Songs”. Two arrows point to “Like Lightning, Idina Menzel” & “this is me trying, Taylor Swift”. The words “Always Greener” at the bottom of the page.

Five song quotes above the words “The Romance Playlist” & “Songs”. Two arrows point to “Glitch, Taylor Swift” & “It Looks Like Love, Dean Martin”. The words “Always Greener” at the bottom of the page.

Image of a wooden bench beneath a willow tree in a park above the words “Blinne’s Playlist” & “Songs”. Two arrows point down to boxes containing song titles and attributions. The first points to “Sparks Fly, Taylor Swift” and is labelled “mostly” & the second to “I’m Not That Girl, Wicked” and is labelled “a touch of.” The words “Always Greener” at the bottom of the page. An arrow points to the image and is labelled “location”.

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 5d

I … may have spent longer than I care to admit imagining fantasy pastries 😂

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 5d

#DVparty day 4: meme your book!

Some of the struggles Blinne faces during Always Greener, my adult romantic fantasy.

#A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

#amquerying #writersky #writingchallenge

Car precipitously exiting a highway. The sign above the exit indicating straight ahead on the highway says “My hopes and dreams of being an inventor” and the exit sign pointing to the exit says “A scandalous relationship with my diplomatic host.”

Top image: a mother (captioned “Blinne” holds a child out of the pool (captioned “Protecting my health”). Another child in the pool appears to be struggling (captioned “My career”).
Bottom image: a skeleton on a chair at the bottom of a body of water (captioned “My social life”).

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 6d

The opening lines of Always Greener for #DVparty!

#A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

#amquerying #writersky

A large swath of text with a stylized quotation mark above it, wavy lines around it, and “Always Greener” in cursive below it. The text reads: “ Sweet Discoveries was, somehow, even more horrifying in person than it seemed on the website.
And by that, I meant it was a total eyesore.
I was beginning to think trying the new sweet shop with my friend, Chilperia, might have been a mistake. I was looking forward to seeing her. More or less. But when I spotted the shop from a block and a half away, I seriously considered turning back.
Things didn’t get better as I approached. The lavish decorations far exceeded what anyone would charitably call garish. Just looking through the window made me feel a little claustrophobic. But there were only so many leisure businesses in Bindrix Square, and Sweet Discoveries carried sugar puffs, which were Chilperia’s favorite. Besides, she loved a good over-the-top theme. Or at least, I hoped she did. It had been a while since we last caught up.”

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 7d

Meet Blinne and Ruai for day 2 of #DVparty!

#A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

#amquerying #writersky #writingchallenge

An image of a woman with her head on her desk, a banner with the words “Character Intro Blinne Colman”. A block of text: “Blinne was going to be an inventor. That is, until her body betrayed her. In trying to protect her health from further deterioration, she has become a shadow of her former self. But the events of Always Greener are about to shake things up a bit and bring out her latent wit, ambition, and determination.”

An image of a man in a lush forest. A banner with the words “Character Intro Emergent Ruai Elesai.” A block of text: “Emergent Ruai Elesai of the Linum Root is thoroughly, existentially bored in the society position and cushy government job he was born into. His propensity to create his own amusement with games of all types has branded him a renegade. He wears the title like a badge of honor. Blinne’s arrival in Elissinara might just be the excitement he’s been looking for.”

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 8d

It was one of my fav scenes to write so when I found this pic I knew it had to make it onto the moodboard!

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks! I was so excited when I found that one :)

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 8d

A visual depiction of Always Greener for day 1 of #DVparty

Couldn’t help but add a few hints about Kelbrand even if we spend most of the story in Elissinar 🫣

#A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OWN

#amquerying #writersky #writingchallenge

Tiled rectangular images around the words “Always Greener”. Images depict futuristic organic & tree-like structure, gears, a couple dancing at sunset (silhouetted against the sky), a woman with her head rested on her desk, and a wooden board game with pieces.

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 11d

In Kelbrand, tech & innovation are everything. In Elissinar, it’s all nature & etiquette. When #DIS former inventor Blinne joins the 1st diplomatic mission to Elissinar in 500 years, she seizes the chance to discover new tech. But everything is not as it seems …

#DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 11d

ALWAYS GREENER is #A romantic fantasy w/ cozy elements featuring a #DIS heroine. Mixes humor & heart like TJ Klune’s UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR & C.L. Polk’s THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN, & has a whimsical setting and witty banter like Gail Carriger’s Parasolverse books.

#DVPit #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OwnVoices

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Eloise Chakour | Writer | Querying @echakour-writes.bsky.social · 11d

#CI former inventor Blinne’s life is drab until she joins a diplomatic mission to the former enemy nation of Elissinar and meets Ruai. Everything w/ him is a game. Confusing? Yes. But she feels alive again. Only problem: scandal ensues w/ them at its centre.

#DVPit #A #F #R #DIS #CI #ND #OwnVoices

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