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Charlie Harlan
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NYC based sci fi and fantasy author. Repped by Alex Land at MWLA. 🏳️‍🌈🗽 she/they

http://www.charlieharlan.com
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In a shocking twist that happened so quickly I'm dizzy, I am now represented by the amazing Alex Brown at MWLA! After a tough year of querying, Alex offered in less than a day 😱 and I'm STILL blushing. So excited to work together on my riotous space opera! Ad astra ✨🚀
A title image on a soft gradient background with the text "Charlie Harlan is now represented by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency" On the right is a drawn portrait of a man with curly short hair in a revealing top smiling at the viewer.
April 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I couldn't help myself: presenting the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero-G! 🚀

This space opera with an opera singer, found family, and luscious, messy space drama with one hell of a voice is sub ready! Interact or comment & I'd be happy to send it your way! ✨

#agentguide #writingcommunity
A title image called the agents guide to Rhapsody in Zero G by Charlie Harlan. It's 100k words, adult science fiction, duology potential, and it's super duper gay. There's a portrait of a flirt character to the right in a night outfit. The artist's contact info is on the right: howdy_charlie on Twitter, and howdycharlieharlan@gmail.com. A page featuring a Pitch section titled "opera singer meets space opera". The pitch reads: when opera singer Vega Luz is captured mid-aria, he must manipulate three hot bounty hunters to escape his curtain call. Roped into a scheme bigger than an all-you-can-eat starship buffet, only a cute terra forming weapon stands between saving his home and his reputation from ruin. It's showtime On the right is a mock cover featuring someone falling in space over top of a knife silhouette. It points out found family, big leo energy, OT3 with a robot, enemies to lovers to oh god we can't get rid of him can we, disaster gays, flirting as a weapon, and spicy, sexy, loud, and stabby. Four titles of media listed as comps including August Kitko and the Mechas from Space, Space Sweepers, Cowboy Bebop, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet An excerpt from a book that reads: The first thing to do after getting yanked into the vacuum of space was stop fucking breathing. Exhale. The average human lasted less than a minute in the pressurized chill of space with their lungs full of air. The oxygen dispersed, exploding with a burst and flooding the body with all that precious gold. The average opera singer—halfway finished with a glorious aria—bought themselves another full minute, releasing their breath the moment the glass of the opera house shattered. It was an odd thing to remember moments before plunging to certain death in the cold vacuum of space, but Vega’s breath was precious. If he had to go out, let it be without wasting his final words to an empty audience. In his last moments, he was aware of the broken chandeliers glittering around him, their beauty offsetting the cloying pressure boiling in his mouth as he gave the ultimate parting gift to the universe: Himself.
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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A biologist on a remote planet discovers an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.

#Luckypit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #SF #A
A cover image titled "An agent's guide to The Only Man on Bellasau-7." Followed by three bullet points: adult science fiction, high concept, 91,000 words. there is a small stylized image of a mars rover in the bottom corner. A spread with two sections. PITCH: What happens to the rovers we abandon? A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. But when their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to. Comps A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. The Martian by Andy Weird. Scavengers Reign. A moodboard picturing strange planets, rich nature, biology tools, and a small rover. It's titled "What's Inside: A Love letter to hope in a small, rusty package." There is a list of items below: - Found family - Enemies to ??? - Queer m/m subplot - Lush descriptions of nature - Imaginative worlds - A biologist with axiety - Accessible sci-fi for fans new to the genre - "Cozy" in sheep's clothing - The world's saddest robot you just need to hug right now. A long book excerpt that reads: I had hope, once. Hope that they would retrieve me, and Farrah would praise my battery life. That Robert would delight in my geological surveys emboldened by his navigation tech. That Lucy would smile and pore excitedly over my soil samples. I have been stuck on this ridge for five years. I have been on Bellasau-7 for two hundred, twenty-three years, thirty-three minutes, and fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen seconds. Three hundred and twelve logs. Perhaps Earth is sending for me still and will take some time. They told me it was a very far journey. Maybe it is Lucy’s daughter who will find me. Yesterday, I thought it might be Robert’s son. I lower my scanner, and tuck in my solar panels. I turn on my power saver and enact rest mode. The sun dips below the horizon, and I power down my systems as the rooroot bumps gently against my chassis. Send log. End excerpt. A small quote overlaps a rover captioned "I'll be seeing you."
March 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A biologist on a remote planet discovers an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.

#Luckypit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #SF #A
A collage of various nature scenes in bands organized by color. There's a hint of varied landscape types indicating this might be a foreign planet. In the center is imagery of a Rover, astronaut, and field guide.
March 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Presenting the agent's guide to The Only Man on Bellasau-7! Have you ever cried about Oppy? Do you love paradise planets that bite back? MCs with anxiety? Hope?

This high concept adult SF is 91k and #amquerying! Interact & I'd be happy to send it your way! ✨

#agentguide #writingcommunity
A cover image titled "An agent's guide to The Only Man on Bellasau-7." Followed by three bullet points: adult science fiction, high concept, 91,000 words. there is a small stylized image of a mars rover in the bottom corner. A spread with two sections. PITCH: What happens to the rovers we abandon? A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. But when their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to. Comps A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. The Martian by Andy Weird. Scavengers Reign. A moodboard picturing strange planets, rich nature, biology tools, and a small rover. It's titled "What's Inside: A Love letter to hope in a small, rusty package." There is a list of items below: - Found family - Enemies to ??? - Queer m/m subplot - Lush descriptions of nature - Imaginative worlds - A biologist with axiety - Accessible sci-fi for fans new to the genre - "Cozy" in sheep's clothing - The world's saddest robot you just need to hug right now. A long book excerpt that reads: I had hope, once. Hope that they would retrieve me, and Farrah would praise my battery life. That Robert would delight in my geological surveys emboldened by his navigation tech. That Lucy would smile and pore excitedly over my soil samples. I have been stuck on this ridge for five years. I have been on Bellasau-7 for two hundred, twenty-three years, thirty-three minutes, and fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen seconds. Three hundred and twelve logs. Perhaps Earth is sending for me still and will take some time. They told me it was a very far journey. Maybe it is Lucy’s daughter who will find me. Yesterday, I thought it might be Robert’s son. I lower my scanner, and tuck in my solar panels. I turn on my power saver and enact rest mode. The sun dips below the horizon, and I power down my systems as the rooroot bumps gently against my chassis. Send log. End excerpt. A small quote overlaps a rover captioned "I'll be seeing you."
February 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.

#2025pit #A #SF
A collage of various nature scenes in bands organized by color. There's a hint of varied landscape types indicating this might be a foreign planet. In the center is imagery of a Rover, astronaut, and field guide.
January 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.

#youdeservepit #A #SF #Q
A collage of various nature scenes in bands organized by color. There's a hint of varied landscape types indicating this might be a foreign planet. In the center is imagery of a Rover, astronaut, and field guide.
January 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.

#p2ppit #A #SF #UW
A mood board of nature and settings on a strange planet. It has nine images of unique worlds, journaling tools, an astronaut, and rover.
January 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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✨ Now querying! ✨

A biologist on a remote planet finds an abandoned rover and bands together with a stranded pilot to find its creators. As their search unearths a shrine to a dying world, neither has the heart to tell the rover that there isn't an Earth to go home to.
A moodboard depicting a rover, nature snapshots, and journals. Space imagery suggests it takes place on a new planet.
January 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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in every novel I write, I accidentally rely on a crutch word or phrase I keep repeating and this time it's rubbed/rubbing

please

why is there so much RUBBING
a screenshot of Microsoft word with a search result that says 46 instances of the word "rub".
December 20, 2024 at 11:54 PM