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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉

@hadiyahsama.bsky.social

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writer! MA & BA in english & creative writing. | she/her | ☆nothing is forever☆ Times/Chicken House LL '23, CNP Top 100 '25-- NO AI! (header art by @ pidgeydraws tumblr) https://hadiyahsama.co.uk/

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · May 25

Hello all, setting down the #agentsguide of my YA Historical Novel (with a Speculative twist!) for consideration by #litagents and #editors!

AFFINITY is my #amquerying project. The 61,000 word novel explores the topics of found family, generational trauma, and racism in 1970s Britain.

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 9h

omg Jo 😭😭😭

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 9h

I love this pitch!! Can't wait for someone to snap it up!!

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 10h

thank you!!

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😭😘🧡

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 10h

tysm!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 10h

Kindred x All My Rage

Thrown back into the 1970s from 2024, a dead body at his feet, Imran must solve the murder he's stumbled onto before the National Front, a British nationalist & fascist movement, find him guilty. That, and find his way home.

#DVPit #YA #Speculative #HF #MV #MH #Asian #WOC

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 10h

YESSS HAPPY FOR YOU

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 11h

tysm!!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 11h

tysm!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 11h

I love the idea of making a bargain with a jinn! How fascinating!

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 11h

yes!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 11h

Kindred x Life on Mars

A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙 muslim mcs
🗡️ murder mystery
🗣️ 1970s british racism deepdive

#DVPit #YA #Speculative #HF #MV #MH #Asian

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 12h

thank you!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 12h

crossed 75k, 2 chapters and an epilogue to go!

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 12h

ty!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 12h

Kindred x Life on Mars

Thrown back into the 1970s from 2024, a dead body at his feet, Imran must solve the murder he's stumbled onto before the National Front, a British nationalist & fascist movement, find him guilty. That, and find his way home.

#DVPit #YA #Speculative #HF #MV #MH #Asian #WOC

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 13h

AMR is a fantastic book! Tysm for your comment! 🧡

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 13h

You're so sweet! Thank you again so much for your beta notes, they've helped elevate this story greatly 🧡

Safiya Bint Saleh @safiyabintsaleh.bsky.social · 13h

i had the opportunity to beta read this book and when i tell you it NEEDS to be on shelves!!!! hadiyah has put together something that gives a blast to the past and is also extremely relevant in the world we live in today

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 14h

Kindred x All My Rage

Thrown back into the 1970s from 2024, a dead body at his feet, Imran must solve the murder he's stumbled onto before the National Front, a British nationalist & fascist movement, find him guilty. That, and find a way home.

#DVPit #YA #Speculative #HF #MV #MH #Asian

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 13h

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 13h

omg I love the sound of this!

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🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 13h

Kindred x All My Rage

A Muslim young man must grapple with generational trauma and the very real danger of racism and discrimination when he is thrown back in time to 1970s Britain from 2024.

🌙 muslim mcs
🗡️ murder mystery
🗣️ 1970s british racism deepdive

#DVPit #YA #Speculative #HF #MV #MH #Asian

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 13h

tysm!!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 14h

ty!

🚀 Hadiyah 🍉 @hadiyahsama.bsky.social · 14h

tysm sis, and to you! I really appreciate it 🧡

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