Charli Rae
@charlirae-writes.bsky.social
I’m Charli Rae, a Baltimore-born author writing legacy-level stories for Black children to feel seen, safe, and celebrated. On the page and in real life. Repped by: Sara Megibow at Megibow Literary
https://charliraewrites.carrd.co/
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Charli Rae
@charlirae-writes.bsky.social
· Aug 27
3 months in and I finally realized I never said hi 👀 I’m Charli Rae, I write children’s books where Black kids get to be the superheroes, inventors, & magic-makers. Better late than never, right? 👋🏾
📝Signed. Sealed. Delivered.
Thrilled to share that I am now represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary! Beyond grateful and so excited for what's ahead.✨ #WritingCommunity #KidLit #AmQueryingNoMore #AmAgented #AmQuerying
Thrilled to share that I am now represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary! Beyond grateful and so excited for what's ahead.✨ #WritingCommunity #KidLit #AmQueryingNoMore #AmAgented #AmQuerying
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September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
📝Signed. Sealed. Delivered.
Thrilled to share that I am now represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary! Beyond grateful and so excited for what's ahead.✨ #WritingCommunity #KidLit #AmQueryingNoMore #AmAgented #AmQuerying
Thrilled to share that I am now represented by Sara Megibow of Megibow Literary! Beyond grateful and so excited for what's ahead.✨ #WritingCommunity #KidLit #AmQueryingNoMore #AmAgented #AmQuerying
I was bracing for another rejection. Closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and then, BOOM. “The call” email.
Still shaking. Query trenches are
brutal, but if you're in them, don't give up. One email can change everything. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
Still shaking. Query trenches are
brutal, but if you're in them, don't give up. One email can change everything. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
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September 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I was bracing for another rejection. Closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and then, BOOM. “The call” email.
Still shaking. Query trenches are
brutal, but if you're in them, don't give up. One email can change everything. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
Still shaking. Query trenches are
brutal, but if you're in them, don't give up. One email can change everything. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying
3 months in and I finally realized I never said hi 👀 I’m Charli Rae, I write children’s books where Black kids get to be the superheroes, inventors, & magic-makers. Better late than never, right? 👋🏾
August 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
3 months in and I finally realized I never said hi 👀 I’m Charli Rae, I write children’s books where Black kids get to be the superheroes, inventors, & magic-makers. Better late than never, right? 👋🏾
Feeling grateful today, my manuscript is out on full (4) requests.
No matter what happens, proud
this story is getting a chance to be read. ✨Sprinkling ✨agent dust over the entire writing community today. May the right eyes find your work at the right time. #WritingCommunity #amquerying
No matter what happens, proud
this story is getting a chance to be read. ✨Sprinkling ✨agent dust over the entire writing community today. May the right eyes find your work at the right time. #WritingCommunity #amquerying
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August 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Feeling grateful today, my manuscript is out on full (4) requests.
No matter what happens, proud
this story is getting a chance to be read. ✨Sprinkling ✨agent dust over the entire writing community today. May the right eyes find your work at the right time. #WritingCommunity #amquerying
No matter what happens, proud
this story is getting a chance to be read. ✨Sprinkling ✨agent dust over the entire writing community today. May the right eyes find your work at the right time. #WritingCommunity #amquerying
✨ Queried my MG novel The Under on Aug 3 (2:43 AM).
📩 Full request hit my inbox less than 24 hours later.
Excited. Grateful. Nervous as hell. 🫠
#amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity
📩 Full request hit my inbox less than 24 hours later.
Excited. Grateful. Nervous as hell. 🫠
#amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity
August 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
✨ Queried my MG novel The Under on Aug 3 (2:43 AM).
📩 Full request hit my inbox less than 24 hours later.
Excited. Grateful. Nervous as hell. 🫠
#amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity
📩 Full request hit my inbox less than 24 hours later.
Excited. Grateful. Nervous as hell. 🫠
#amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity
Reposted by Charli Rae
Now #Agented
THE GIRL WITH BLOOD ON HER DRESS
A woman wakes up with amnesia and can only speak French, a language she has never spoken before. Afraid someone wants her dead, she has no choice but to trust the complete stranger everyone says is her husband.
#PosterPit #AG #A #T #M
THE GIRL WITH BLOOD ON HER DRESS
A woman wakes up with amnesia and can only speak French, a language she has never spoken before. Afraid someone wants her dead, she has no choice but to trust the complete stranger everyone says is her husband.
#PosterPit #AG #A #T #M
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Imagine opening a book and finding your grandma’s 10th birthday. Or your classmate’s worst day. In The Last Blank Page, every book holds the last borrower’s memory… until the story starts to vanish. #PosterPitq #posterpit #MG
August 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Imagine opening a book and finding your grandma’s 10th birthday. Or your classmate’s worst day. In The Last Blank Page, every book holds the last borrower’s memory… until the story starts to vanish. #PosterPitq #posterpit #MG
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Jupiter Ascending (2015) X BRIGHT (2017)
Coming October 25th:
A captivating endling and the man obsessed with her find themselves at the center of an intergalactic plot to bring a bloodthirsty tyrant back to life.
ARC signups:
linktr.ee/author.salem
#posterpit #sf #f #r #a #lgbt
Coming October 25th:
A captivating endling and the man obsessed with her find themselves at the center of an intergalactic plot to bring a bloodthirsty tyrant back to life.
ARC signups:
linktr.ee/author.salem
#posterpit #sf #f #r #a #lgbt
August 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Jupiter Ascending (2015) X BRIGHT (2017)
Coming October 25th:
A captivating endling and the man obsessed with her find themselves at the center of an intergalactic plot to bring a bloodthirsty tyrant back to life.
ARC signups:
linktr.ee/author.salem
#posterpit #sf #f #r #a #lgbt
Coming October 25th:
A captivating endling and the man obsessed with her find themselves at the center of an intergalactic plot to bring a bloodthirsty tyrant back to life.
ARC signups:
linktr.ee/author.salem
#posterpit #sf #f #r #a #lgbt
Reposted by Charli Rae
After the shock of killing a green classmate on the first day of school, Candy’s body begins changing. Now she must control her new ability before the scientists find out about the pure red girl who can shift between biological sexes and survive in the toxic sun.
#QueerPit #YA #CLI #D #H
#QueerPit #YA #CLI #D #H
August 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by Charli Rae
After the shock of killing a classmate on the first day of school, Candy’s body begins to change. Now she must hide her new abilities from the scientists who are searching for genetic anomalies.
#posterpit #Q #YA #SF #H
#posterpit #Q #YA #SF #H
August 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
After the shock of killing a classmate on the first day of school, Candy’s body begins to change. Now she must hide her new abilities from the scientists who are searching for genetic anomalies.
#posterpit #Q #YA #SF #H
#posterpit #Q #YA #SF #H
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X Files x Ipcress File
🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter➡️hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ 🦋
🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter➡️hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ 🦋
August 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
X Files x Ipcress File
🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter➡️hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ 🦋
🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter➡️hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ 🦋
Reposted by Charli Rae
While sitting shiva for her mom, Ava discovers her mother isn’t entirely gone yet…
#PosterPit #YA #H #W
#PosterPit #YA #H #W
August 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
While sitting shiva for her mom, Ava discovers her mother isn’t entirely gone yet…
#PosterPit #YA #H #W
#PosterPit #YA #H #W
A photo album doesn't just hold memories, it traps them. Kiyah flips a page and falls into her mom's 1994 block party, living her life in real time. But the deeper she goes, the harder it is to find her way back. An ode to the 90's. #posterpitq #MG #PosterPit
August 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
A photo album doesn't just hold memories, it traps them. Kiyah flips a page and falls into her mom's 1994 block party, living her life in real time. But the deeper she goes, the harder it is to find her way back. An ode to the 90's. #posterpitq #MG #PosterPit
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CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END
When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.
#PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit
When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.
#PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit
August 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END
When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.
#PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit
When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.
#PosterPitQ #A #H #M #Posterpit
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A CURSE SO DARK & LONELY X
THE INHERITANCE GAMES
When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic trapped inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate freedom, but bonds w/ them & falls for 1 instead
#PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FT
THE INHERITANCE GAMES
When a ballerina is kidnapped by fantasy fugitives desperate to recover their leader’s magic trapped inside her, she unearths their secrets to facilitate freedom, but bonds w/ them & falls for 1 instead
#PosterPit #Q #YA #F #M #R #FT
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Slow Horses x Life on Mars
When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ
When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Slow Horses x Life on Mars
When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ
When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.
#A #T #SPF #PosterPit #PosterPitQ
Three inner city kids stumble into a world beneath their neighborhood bodega, a place where reflections talk, bricks say your name, and goggles unlock hidden missions. But the brighter they shine there, the more they fade from home.
#POSTERPITQ #MG #F #CL
#POSTERPITQ #MG #F #CL
August 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Three inner city kids stumble into a world beneath their neighborhood bodega, a place where reflections talk, bricks say your name, and goggles unlock hidden missions. But the brighter they shine there, the more they fade from home.
#POSTERPITQ #MG #F #CL
#POSTERPITQ #MG #F #CL
Favorite line from my WIP:
I didn’t cry at the funeral. Not because I wasn’t sad, but because in this family, silence is inherited. Like cheekbones.
Or hypertension.
What’s yours?
#WritingCommunity
I didn’t cry at the funeral. Not because I wasn’t sad, but because in this family, silence is inherited. Like cheekbones.
Or hypertension.
What’s yours?
#WritingCommunity
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August 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Favorite line from my WIP:
I didn’t cry at the funeral. Not because I wasn’t sad, but because in this family, silence is inherited. Like cheekbones.
Or hypertension.
What’s yours?
#WritingCommunity
I didn’t cry at the funeral. Not because I wasn’t sad, but because in this family, silence is inherited. Like cheekbones.
Or hypertension.
What’s yours?
#WritingCommunity
🔥 Who’s in for a #PosterPit support swap? Like this and let’s boost each other up!
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August 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
🔥 Who’s in for a #PosterPit support swap? Like this and let’s boost each other up!
If nobody told you today: I hope agents like your pitch, request your full, and fight over your manuscript. #QuestPit #WritingCommunity
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August 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If nobody told you today: I hope agents like your pitch, request your full, and fight over your manuscript. #QuestPit #WritingCommunity
August 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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They shine in The Under.
But every mission down there... makes them fade up here.
📍Baltimore block
🎯Middle grade speculative fiction
📖27K
🔥Identity, memory, and the quiet magic of being
seen.
#questpit #MG #KidLit #ownvoices
But every mission down there... makes them fade up here.
📍Baltimore block
🎯Middle grade speculative fiction
📖27K
🔥Identity, memory, and the quiet magic of being
seen.
#questpit #MG #KidLit #ownvoices
August 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
They shine in The Under.
But every mission down there... makes them fade up here.
📍Baltimore block
🎯Middle grade speculative fiction
📖27K
🔥Identity, memory, and the quiet magic of being
seen.
#questpit #MG #KidLit #ownvoices
But every mission down there... makes them fade up here.
📍Baltimore block
🎯Middle grade speculative fiction
📖27K
🔥Identity, memory, and the quiet magic of being
seen.
#questpit #MG #KidLit #ownvoices
Reposted by Charli Rae
ROMEO AND JULIET X WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS #QuestPit #Q #YA #F
A HARMONY OF WITCHES
Featuring:
- #ownvoices autism and trans lesbian rep
- magic has a scent
- everyone's gay
- hilarious midpoint twist
- childhood friends to lovers
- second chance
- grumpy x sunshine
- emotional regulation
A HARMONY OF WITCHES
Featuring:
- #ownvoices autism and trans lesbian rep
- magic has a scent
- everyone's gay
- hilarious midpoint twist
- childhood friends to lovers
- second chance
- grumpy x sunshine
- emotional regulation
August 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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