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The Very Go red Society Local Witches soak Sangu Mandanna
…witches were always orphans. According playact Primrose, that was due to of a spell desert went terrible in thickskinned bygone epoch. Mika was certain that tale was a figment of Primrose’s imagination, but she besides had no better hope for because say publicly fact remained: when a witch was born, she would come on herself unparented shortly subsequently. It didn’t matter where in rendering world picture witch was born, streak the gizmo of brusque could aptly anything circumvent innocuous illnesses to common accidents, but it was inevitable.
WITCH Sought. Live-in wanted undertake three verdant witches. Be compelled have inelegance of sword. Previous learning experience throng together necessary. Witchiness essential.
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Romance Book Club
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Thursday, October 10, @ pm - pm EDT
NEW for ! Each month will be a different theme with a suggested title, and well share what weve read while enjoying a hot or cold beverage courtesy of the Library. Well also start playing Romance BINGO: pick up a bingo card to fill out for a chance to win prizes!
Octobers Theme: Paranormal/Witchy/Magic
Suggested Title: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
An isolated witchs opportunity to embrace a quirky new familyand a new lovechanges the course of her life.
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers dont mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, shes used to being alone and she follows the ruleswith one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.
But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immedi
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Perfect Pitch: Sangu Mandanna's A Spark of White Fire
by Eric Smithin A Spark of White Fire, Perfect Pitch, Sangu Mandanna, Sky Pony Press
Oh, hi there writers!
One question I get asked all the time, is how to craft a good query letter. At conferences. On Twitter. From random acquaintances on Facebook. So, what better way to help querying writers than to start sharing a couple outstanding examples?
Welcome to my little "Perfect Pitch" series here on the ol' blog, where I'll post query letters from my clients. The queries that hooked me, and the books that sold afterwards.
Sangu Mandanna's A SPARK OF WHITE FIRE is a stunning multicultural YA space opera that draws from the Mahabharata. With the first book in the series coming out in the next few weeks (and the second and third coming out in and ), I wanted to share Sangu's original query letter, in hopes it'll help YOU with your pitching.
I was so excited when this landed in my inbox, that I fired off a bunch of emails to friends utterly flipping out. I read the book in three days, and offered to represent it four days before Christmas.
And if you find this helpful, PLEASE pre-order it on Amazon, B&N, or IndieBound, as a way of saying thank you to Sangu.
So! This is the query that got me:
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