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samantha IS QUERYING A YA FANTASY!!
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writer, swiftie, d&d enthusiast, and probably at least one other thing

#amquerying a fantasy YA novel: “the one-eyed angel” 🪽🐍
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samantha IS QUERYING A YA FANTASY!! @samanthaudrey.bsky.social · 8d
FOR SHE IS WRATH x WILD REVERENCE

✨ D&D-inspired adventure
🗡️ A quest for revenge that becomes a quest to save the world
🪽 A morally grey angel with a sword
🐍 A tragic human who makes all the wrong decisions
❤️‍🔥 Angsty, conflicted yearning
⏳ Dual-timeline, dual-POV

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
A moodboard for "The One-Eyed Angel," which includes photos of lovers in a forest, angel wings, a boy surrounded by fire, a girl with a sword and a suit of armor, bloodied faces and hands, and two sets of eyes with the caption "all this anger used to be love / all this love used to be anger."
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sometimes i think that my book is generally tame for a fantasy, but when i'm asked to list out all the trigger warnings, i realize that there's actually quite a bit of intense stuff in here 💀
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Wrote a little artist statement/reflection on this piece as my first post on Substack!

Have a read here, and please subscribe if you like what you see :) open.substack.com/pub/samantha...
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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FOR SHE IS WRATH x WILD REVERENCE

✨ D&D-inspired adventure
🗡️ A quest for revenge that becomes a quest to save the world
🪽 A morally grey angel with a sword
🐍 A tragic human who makes all the wrong decisions
❤️‍🔥 Angsty, conflicted yearning
⏳ Dual-timeline, dual-POV

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
A moodboard for "The One-Eyed Angel," which includes photos of lovers in a forest, angel wings, a boy surrounded by fire, a girl with a sword and a suit of armor, bloodied faces and hands, and two sets of eyes with the caption "all this anger used to be love / all this love used to be anger."
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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She loved him. He betrayed her. Now, the angel Illeana searches human lands for the boy who took her eye. But she quickly learns that his betrayal was only the beginning of a plot to free a demon queen… one she must stop, unless she wants to watch the world burn.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F #RF
A moodboard for "The One-Eyed Angel," which includes photos of lovers in a forest, angel wings, a boy surrounded by fire, and a girl in a suit of armor
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Wrote a short story for my writing fellowship! It’s a bit different from the kind of thing I talk about writing here, but I’m pretty proud of it. Give it a read!

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Eulogy for a Ghost - INKspire
This was how Sage suggested they start the eulogy: Nathan Noriega had it coming.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This is a fun one!

“Are you sure? You don’t even know who I am yet. Or what knowledge I have to offer.” #FiFRevPit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 10d
First up: Without giving context, share the last line of dialogue you wrote 🗣️ #FiFRevPit
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit Prompt Out of context, share the last line of dialogue you wrote. #FiFRevPit
November 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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FOR SHE IS WRATH x WILD REVERENCE

After her human lover gouges out her eye for its magic, an angel sets off on a quest to get her vengeance… only to learn he is part of a greater plot to bring about the reign of a demon queen.

#GhostPit #Q #YA #F
A moodboard for "The One-Eyed Angel," which includes photos of lovers in a forest, angel wings, a boy surrounded by fire, a girl with a sword and a suit of armor, bloodied faces and hands, and two sets of eyes with the caption "all this anger used to be love / all this love used to be anger."
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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my current WIP is also a YA fantasy but sooo different from TOEA that really shows how diverse the genre can be!! i love fantasy so muchhhh
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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She loved him. He betrayed her. But what the angel Illeana doesn’t know is that the boy who took her eye has become a key player in a plot to free a demon queen. It’s up to her to stop his plans… even if she can’t help but still yearn for him.

#GhostPit #YA #F #Q #RF
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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reading all the #10Queries feedback trying to parse which one is for my project
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October 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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now’s a perfect time to show off my moodboard for “The One-Eyed Angel”!!
A moodboard for "The One-Eyed Angel," which includes photos of lovers in a forest, angel wings, a boy surrounded by fire, a girl with a sword and a suit of armor, bloodied faces and hands, and two sets of eyes with the caption "all this anger used to be love / all this love used to be anger."
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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i’m catching up on dan and phil videos because of recent news and tell me why they made an angel with an eyepatch and sword on dress to impress 😭😭 one-eyed angel fans fr
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!
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#amwriting #writersky #amquerying
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October 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Now that I’ve got more eyes on my profile, I want to share the absolutely INCREDIBLE character art my friend Vivian (@/vivianisdrawing on instagram) made for Illeana, my beautiful, fiery one-eyed angel.

Want to meet her? Well, I #amquerying !!

#writingcommunity #F #YA #SFF
October 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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It began with a promise, as so many betrayals often do. But now, with one less eye and an oath of vengeance empowering her magic, the angel Illeana hunts for the boy who once promised he’d keep her safe in the human lands… even though her heart still quietly yearns for him.

#DVPit #F #YA #ASIAN
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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REVENGE OF THE SITH x the opening of MALEFICENT, but YA fantasy!

An angel sets off on a quest for vengeance against her human ex-lover who took her eye for its magic, only to learn that he is part of greater plot to bring about the reign of a demon queen.

#DVPit #F #YA #ASIAN
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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i’m gonna be the first author ever to be on dancing with the stars #manifesting
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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watching the paper… domnhall gleeson with an american accent is messing me UP
October 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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father figure by taylor swift.
October 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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woah, is this an #agentsguide to THE ONE-EYED ANGEL, my YA epic fantasy about an angel on a quest for vengeance against the human who took her eye? you bet!

if you like:
🗡️ girls with swords
🖤 morally grey protagonists
❤️‍🔥 angsty, yearning romances

then this is for you!

#writercommunity #amquerying
An agent’s guide to THE ONE-EYED ANGEL, an 89k YA epic fantasy by Samantha Ti THE PITCH It began with a promise, as so many betrayals often do. Twelve years ago, the young angel Illeana fell from the Lands Above and was discovered by a human boy, Piotrek Halvorson. They promised never to hurt one another, forming an unlikely friendship that soon blossomed into something more. One year ago, Piotrek gouged out Illeana's eye to use its magic for himself, then disappeared. Now, Illeana traverses human lands on a quest for revenge against the boy she once loved. But when she teams up with Emir, a kid vagrant with a mysterious artifact, Illeana realizes that her search for Piotrek has unearthed a plot much more sinister than a lover's betrayal-- especially because his treachery seems to be connected to the shadowy, magic-wielding order hunting Emir and his artifact down. And when she and Emir uncover the truth behind Piotrek's involvement with the order's plans to reduce the world to flames, Illeana must decide between the vengeance she thinks she wants or the love her heart still quietly yearns for... and whether she is willing to risk the world to get it back. Told with a dual-perspective, dual-timeline structure, the novel alternates between Illeana's quest and Piotrek's desperate attempts to escape his childhood of tragedy and abuse, including his deal with a dangerous, tempting voice from below who promises him the power he covets at the cost of the only love he's ever known. TROPES & ELEMENTS Dual timeline • Dual POV • Morally grey protagonists • Girl with sword Revenge • Love vs Power • Childhood friends to lovers to enemies to...? Betrayal • Yearning • Found family (siblings) • Angst • Angel x Human • Sacred oath • Deal with the devil • Quest to save the world COMPS For She is Wrath by Emily Varga The Forest King’s Daughter by Elly Blake Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross EXCERPT Blood dripped from between her fingers as she pressed her hand down on the spot where her right eye should have been, trying her best to push healing magic into it, to stop the bleeding, to stop the pain for just a moment. She needed to get a clearer understanding of her surroundings, of who could have possibly done this to her. But when her vision finally focused and she saw her lover's hands covered in her blood, her pain multiplied a thousandfold, the physical and emotional agony swirling into one blinding sensation. Incorporeal wings emerged from her back, shielding her in feeble protection, their iridescent golden-white glow casting light on his stormy face. "I had to do this, Illeana." His voice was as sharp as the skyforged blade in his hand-- the same angel-crafted dagger she'd gifted him all those years ago as a symbol of her trust in him. How ironic. A red-orange thread weaved across his irises, pulsing with a fiery glow. It pulled taut, and he almost winced. Almost. Illeana. That was her name, and he was the only one who knew it. For a moment, she'd entertained the idea that perhaps he was possessed, or that someone was disguised as her love, but the moment he uttered her name, she knew the truth. This was really Piotrek, her Piotrek, and he had betrayed her.
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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my friend just made the most INCREDIBLE art of illeana from my novel, the one-eyed angel. i genuinely started choking up when i saw it holy CRAP!!! i will share it soon!!!
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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me writing any pair of love interests ever: ok but how do they CHALLENGE each other?
September 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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r/AmIOverreacting: My ex (18M, human) gouged out one of my (18F, angel) eyes a year ago, so I swore a sacred oath to get revenge and am now hunting him down. Am I overreacting? #UnhingedPit #YA #F #Q
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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my beta readers sending me live updates on their reactions to my book literally feels like this
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September 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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is anyone else having trouble signing up on maisie peters’s website
September 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM