• aspiring author • mama • avid traveler •
📖 Querying my debut novel: A Lineage of Light, a YA fantasy/sci-fi adventure 🌟
📸 Check me out @Alex_becomes_an_author
Alex Mish is Querying (+writing)
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The rollercoaster of querying is brutal! Just when I’m feeling optimistic again, another pass comes in. What do you all do to stay positive?
I told my 5-year old son that an agent didn’t want to read my book (i.e. passed), and he said, “I want to read your book, and I think it will be great.” 😭
Kids - they drive you crazy and then they say the sweetest stuff like this. 🥰
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A LINEAGE OF LIGHT 🌟
A YA portal fantasy / coming-of age adventure featuring:
🔑 a secret society
⛩️ portal to a higher dimension
🗺️ global adventure
💃 strong female lead
❤️🩹 healing generational trauma
💰 anti-patriarchy vibes
🌟 Higher Selves
🌍 A new Earth
#queatpit #ya #f #q
As a designer watches her Paris Fashion Week debut, each outfit recalls a trial or tribulation that brought her to this moment.
THE DESIGN OF HER LIFE is a WIP full of love, loss, and luxury fashion.
💅 Fashion
🥖 Paris & Parisian men
💘 Romance and heartbreak
🪡 Haute couture
#questpit #w #a #r
🍺 She makes cider 🍺
💰 He makes money 💰
💦 Things are about to get juicy💦
CIDER SEASON | An upmarket contemporary rom-com.
Currently revising as a 2026 #revpit winner. Re-entering the query trenches with a sub-ready manuscript in 6 weeks.
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A LINEAGE OF LIGHT 🌟
a YA fantasy adventure.
🌟 A secret society sworn to protect Earth’s hidden parallel world
🌟 An evil organization hellbent on destroying it
🌟 A young woman who must decide if she will embrace a new identity or risk losing everything she loves forever
#questpit #ya #fantasy
Currently querying THE SLOW BURN!
LOVELIGHT FARMS X THE LOVE HATERS, perfect for agents who love Emily Henry's banter and Abby Jimenez's exploration of complicated family dynamics.
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#questpit #Q #YA #F 99K
YA Crossover blending the voice of Six of Crows with the dynamic romantic tension of The Mummy
✨grounded fantasy
⏱️time travel as a unique magic system
❤️🔥 slow burn romance
📚dark academia vibes
🗡️high stakes
This all gets very interesting at the point that Blue State residents stop paying federal taxes, and Blue State governments start working out their own trade agreements with other countries.
At this pace, this might be happening by the end of the week.
