[QCrit] The Ordinary Magic of Autumn in Eaves [adult cozy fantasy 80k words 1st attempt]
Hello! I’m hoping to get a feel for how my blurb reads. My manuscript is a cozy adult fantasy with a romantic sub plot. Thanks for the help!!!! 🤗
Dear [agent],
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For three years, Autumn has run the only apothecary in Eaves, mostly treating the hangovers of her overindulgent townsfolk. It’s not glamorous. It’s certainly not lucrative. But after losing Gran, the apothecary is the only home she knows. Nothing ever happens in her sleepy town. No quests. No adventures. It’s the perfect place for a powerless witch such as herself to idle away every passing day. Or so she thought.
When a storm blows a rain-soaked ranger through her door, followed by a cursed shifter her magic can’t cure, Autumn’s quiet life is quiet no more. Suddenly she must travel to the elven kingdom, all while contending with a companion who answers every question in four words or fewer, a patient who might eat her if they dally, a bully horse who bleeds her dry of sugar cubes, and the sneaking suspicion that a long-dead magic might be returning to the continent—impossible as it may be.
The closer she gets to the elven land, and the maddening ranger by her side, the harder it is to ignore all the dark magic popping up around her. As fate would have it, Autumn isn’t the powerless witch she once believed. Accepting the truth might be the only cure to the strange curses sweeping the land. But Autumn knows that sometimes the hardest curses to break are the stories people believe about themselves.
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