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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Me to the first line of my new manuscript. (I can't wait until people can read it and see what I did there.)

meme two guys pointing in the distance with big open shocked mouths.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I did not have presidential slash fiction becoming real on my 2025 bingo card.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Honestly convinced I'm never going to get an agent at this point. :(

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Agent rejected full right before mine in the queue... I'm going to throw up.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

No one warned me that when you get into witchcraft, you're gonna smell like a campfire a lot.

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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This person took this when they called the race

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It's really surreal when your name is a hurricane...guess I'm in my hurricane era.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Finally read The Starving Saints and it was awesome and amazing and its giving me so many religious horror vibes and ideas. (Will I ever write something normal and happy?)

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Starving Saints is so good, why didn't I read this before!

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Can something good happen to me for once, 2025 has been The Worst.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Besides the writing, what else are you looking for in a potential client?

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

When you're next on the fulls for an agent and you can't do anything but sit there and refresh querytracker for an entire night.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Question: why is the querying process one of Dante's circles of Hell? (lol, can't wait!)

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Morgan Wilson @authormorganw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Okay so this seems to be pretty wanted! So I'm going to do an #askagent on Friday 10/24 from 2pm CST to 3pm CST! Bring your burning publishing/querying etc questions and I'll do my best to answer them! ☺️

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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

CAESAR: PRIEST of JUPITER Andor x HBO's Rome His name is the most famous name in history. His legacy has been romanticized for centuries, but few know his true story. Reexploring the Fall of the Roman Republic through the lens of Science Fiction. Caesar is coming... #A #Q #SFPit

Mood Board For Caesar. Marble statues, legionnaire, forum, space scenes

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I'M UP NEXT ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE AGENTS' FULLS TO READ LIST. I'M GOING TO THROW UP.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Also? Why do people even bother to ask if all they want to hear is Fine. I'm fine, you're fine, Greg from accounting who is going through the nastiest divorce known to man? All fine. Cut out the middleman and tell yourself we're all fine vs asking us to lie about it.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Was laid off for so long I forgot how to do small talk. "Screaming into the black, uncomforting abyss." is not a good answer when a new coworker asks how you are doing today.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Yes, absolutely! The process is so opaque that we need them every now and again.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Hello! Would you be interested in a dark fantasy with destroying the patriarchy with necromancy, morally grey characters, and feminist rage themes? (check my pinned post.) I have you pinned as someone to query but checking your MSWL I wasn't sure!

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It has now been 0 days since I triggered the F-bomb timeout in the discord I am supposed to be moderating. >.<

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Oh good, now instead of anxiety about agents rejecting me because of my first 3 chapters sucking, I now have anxiety that the agents I sent a message to about the rewritten chapters will be irritated at me and reject on principle. ##amquerying

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Nevermind, I COMPLETELY redid the entire first three chapters and now I am frantically trying to figure out how to re-submit to agents who already have my query.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I changed ONE LINE in my first chapter to drop the hook faster and with more of an oomph and now I'm fretting that I screwed up all the queries I submitted previously... #askagent should I bother resubmitting?

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My Dream Agent has my full and I don't think my leg has stopped bouncing in anxiety since.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"Quiz! What does your search history say about you?" Just so we're clear, no power on earth will make me give it to you.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Fuckin' AI stole my semi-colons and em-dashes. I used way too many of 'em before it was cool.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

"Did I accidentally pack three pounds of cocaine? Who knows!"

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The fun thing about anxiety is when I hear a new job is gonna run a background check, despite the fact that I am probably the most straight-laced person alive, all of a sudden I get nervous like "Oh shit, did I rob a bank and forget?"

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Kinda annoyed by that "how often men think about Ancient Rome" meme, because I guarantee you I think about Ancient Rome x10 more than any of my male friends.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's a beautiful day to send off full requests... ##amquerying

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Found out there's a manga about my man Pliny the Elder and I'm having a blast. (He did, too.)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

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Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

When you get your ass called out by tarot cards...🙃

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

As it turns out, the "Kennedy Curse" wasn't that the smart ones were killed, but that the stupid one survived.

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Alexandra Levick @allielevick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

*whispers* I’m opening to queries 9/15. 👀👀👀

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Me: Write like 3k words in six months. Also me: Write 60k words in two weeks. Consistent, I am not.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I watched HBO's Rome and thought Octavia got a crap deal, so I decided to write a story where my Octavia got to take her revenge instead.

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The love of my life just (accidentally, I hope) kicks me in their sleep instead. 😅

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking."
~Andrea Junker

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MJ Bowman is querying Dark Fantasy! @mjbowman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Real ones know the Olympic was cooler than the Titanic because the Olympic didn't sink, but sunk other ships (and a submarine) in a 20 year vengeance tour instead.

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