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Rachel is querying
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TWELVE AND THE COALITION

They always said that the people who abandoned us must have loved us, because they could have sold us into slavery instead. It's hard to believe it when everyone else in this country is determined to prove we deserve our degradations.

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moodboard collage: colorful cloths on clotheslines, blue buildings on a hill, ruins and rubble, fancy dinner party, skyscrapers, swat team arresting a man, silhouette of a man looking at the ocean, silhouette of a woman reading, two hands holding sparklers, old books on a bookshelf, a group of women sitting closely on stairs, very old computer station, abandoned room full of metal bedframes
January 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES x GREAT EXPECTATIONS

When Twelve, an aged-out foster kid, is forced away from the only home he’s ever known, he has to learn how to appear complicit with the Coalition’s atrocities before the Coalition realizes he exists…

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An Agent's Guide to Twelve and the Coalition: An Adult Science Fiction Novel Pitch: When wealthy scion Laurel's parent's adopt a second child, she feels replaced and so decides to bully, and then romance, the one person in town who can't fight back - Twelve. Meanwhile, when Twelve, raised in a children's home, learns of evidence that someone tried to hide him from the government, he reluctantly investigates his origins after a final fight with Laurel, unknowingly revealing his existence to the government, which won't let him get away again... Tropes/Vibes: Forced proximity, enemies to lovers to enemies to-, cool mentors, multiple POVs, feminist and classist bureaucracy, impossible choices, FMC: asshole with a heart of gold Snippet: "My father saved your life," Laurel said. "He took my life away from me!" Twelve said. "You both did. What makes you so much better than me? That you were sponsored and I wasn't? We are not different, Laurel!" She raised her arm to slap him, but he caught it and didn't let go. "I take it back," he hissed. "You belong here. Happy to ignore injustice so long as your life is undisturbed. You walk on others without thought and congratulate each other for being so noble, so enlightened, and you think we're the lowly ones?" He let go of her arm and turned to walk away. "You've changed," she said softly. "Since when were you so angry?" Twelve stopped. A memory pulled at his mind, from the very first time they had met. He turned. "If I scream, they'll believe anything I say," he said. "Isn't that what you said?"
January 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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An agent's guide to my #amquerying novel, TWELVE AND THE COALITION:
December 5, 2024 at 12:36 AM