August Update on Everything (I Guess)
a late follow-up from 2023
I’m Agented!
one of the biggest news that came shortly after the first half of the year is that i am agented! i signed with my agent on july 22nd and i’m enjoying my time out of the query trenches.
if you have missed my LIVE on tiktok, i promise i will make an in-depth blog talking about my querying journey in the future. the reason why i’m not doing it now is because i don’t want people to think getting agented means i have made it. i am still learning to navigate this new path and the book deal is still far ahead. however, i will be doing a query critic and moodboard giveaway on my twitter. as a good query blurb and a powerful moodboard really secured my success in querying. if this is something you are interested in, please give me a follow for when i announce the giveaway!
I’m Working On A Dark Academia Project
so now that i am waiting for my edit letter, i am working on a new project. it is a Dark Academia Romantic Fantasy featuring two rival academics as they enter a competition that may risk the lives they thought they knew. here is a blurb for it!
Two university students enter a competition, using incantation spells to create parts for a mechanical beast. It becomes a problem when they learn what the government is hell-bent on hiding and how they’re pawns of the occupying force. As they race to decrypt every spell, their lives are traded for the truth.since end of july until now, i also joined an impromptu challenge with my friends to write 10,000 words a week. as of today, i have written 40k in 4 weeks. i hope to bring it to a readable stage before sending the first half off to my agent.
Codewip Playlist (from chapter 1 to 20)
I’ve Been Slacking in Terms of Reading
reading has been an up-hill battle. after i finished drafting my first book, i hit a reading slump (and a writing slump too but i just force myself to write). the quality of the books i read are REALLY good, though. perhaps sometimes it’s good to slow down to enjoy a story.
The Spear Cuts Through Water // Simon Jimenez
The Black Tides of Heavens // Neon Yang
The Red Threads of Fortune // Neon Yang
Hà Nội 36 Phố Phường // Thạch Lam
Jade City // Fonda Lee
Jade War // Fonda Lee
Jade Legacy // Fonda Lee
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You // Ann Liang
This is How You Lose the Time War // Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (reread)
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces // Linda Cheng
A Memory Called Empire // Arkady Martine
I am Not Jessica Chen // Ann Liang
Dead Poets Society // N.H. Kleinbaum
Some Novellas I Read
The Salt Grows Heavy // Cassandra Khaw
A Psalm for the Wild-Built // Becky Chambers
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy // Becky Chambers
The Lies of the Ajungo // Moses Ose Utomi
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop // Satoshi Yagisawa
And Anthologies
The Sea is Ours
Arithmophobia
In these Hallowed Halls
Manhwas I read/am reading
Really Truly Getting a Divorce
A Good Day to be a Dog
My Reason to Die (I finally caught up on the ending of this manhwa after pausing from last year. One of my favourites EVER)
No Office Romance (slowly becoming one of my favs)
After School Lessons for Unripe Apples (CheolMiae supremacy)
A Business Proposal