Oh, to swim in Mountain Dew® Baja Blast colored waters...

Congratulations, Marley! Fall is the perfect release date for this story.

Congratulations and welcome to the party!

So rife with mood and atmosphere. Love this!

Love these characters and comps!

Wipe my brain so I can buy this over and over again.

Love the political intrigue and stakes!

Ahhh! The premise and comps have me in a mood to rebel!

Love this premise and the alliterative comps!

I am ready for the takedown... This sounds amazing!

Immaculate vibes and pitch. I love this!

Congratulations and welcome, agent sib!

The collab and cover reveal of the year!

Thank you, Christine! 💕

Thank you, Chelsea! Hoping for good news on your end, too!

Thank you so much, Manuia! 💕

Thank you, friend! Couldn't have made it without you!

The actual final boss of publishing gatekeepers.

Picture of two jicama--brown, roughly onion-shaped, edible, tuberous roots.

So thankful for my friends at UNHINGED, the APIary, and Submission Slog Comrades. It’s only with their love and support that I survived another round in the querying trenches.

Suspend disbelief for my HIGMA post.

What’s a HIGMA? It’s an edible, tuberous root with thick brown skin…

3/3

STREET FIGHTER TOO is KARATE KID x K-DRAMAS

1991. Kevin Choi is in hell, y’all. Stuck in the friggin' South, Kevin finds 💘 in Dollywood. But when Depression & Douchebags attack, he fights for life and love in an arcade tournament.

Lose and it’s game over…forever. 💀

2/3

Picture of a black CRT TV against a backdrop of a retro basement rec room. On the TV is a pixel art image, reminiscent of a 1990s fighting game. The image reads: Agent Announcement. Paul x Keir. Azantian Literary. Portraits of author Paul Jeong and literary agent Keir Alekseii are superimposed over a video game stage in suburban Japan.

🪙HERE COMES A NEW CLIENT!🥊

I’m back in the fight with superstar literary agent @keiralekseii.bsky.social in my corner!

A team-up years in the works, Keir’s love for STREET FIGHTER TOO rivals my own. They're the greatest champion for my story.

Now the real battle begins…

1/3

This place just became 500% funnier. Unrelated, but welcome here! 😇

Always meet your heroes if they're Daniel Nayeri and Gene Luen Yang. Such gracious authors in their stories and in person.

It's not every day you meet two authors of your comp titles.

#amquerying ? #WritingCommmunity