u/Winter-Election6516

Hi all,

My friend and I want to go to Brazil in autumn and work from there for a month.

We’re thinking of going to Sao Paolo, Rio, Floriantopolis, and Salvador.

We’ve travelled quite a lot before in Europe and Southeast Asia and never been robbed or anything like that (knock on wood), probably because we’re also quite careful in general.

I’ve heard a lot about safety issues in Brazil – what would your advice be and what is your experience?

Where not to go and how to stay safest? Is the whole safety thing exaggerated or do you really need to stay on alert more than in, say, Barcelona or Paris?

Thank you!

What are some history books about women’s lives and generally gender roles throughout time?

Not necessarily looking for super academic – something accessible would be best!

I’d love to read a found family fantasy book about a group of friends running and hiding from “the law” or going on a quest! Something similar to Six of Crows. (YA, NA, and Adult all welcome)

Thanks!

Hi all, I've now queried almost 120 agents, with 7 full requests and 0 offers. I would appreciate any insight that you guys have to offer! Thank you in advance.

Dear [agent name],

I am writing to seek representation for my 100,000-word contemporary fantasy romance in the crossover space between YA and Adult, THE SOULMATE EXPERIMENT.

One bridge. Two soulmates. Multiple destinies.

Paige Green is about to die. But when a stranger who feels inexplicably familiar stops her from jumping off a bridge during their first week at the University of Glasgow, none of them realise that this is exactly where they were destined to meet, their steps predetermined by eternally bored Fate who watches from up above.

Tadeash, an oddball who has spent his life feeling like an alien in human skin, and Paige, who is weighed down by her dark past, are as different as can be, and yet they can't seem to stay away from one another. But when Fate chooses them as test subjects for her experiment, Paige and Tadeash are torn apart and flung into different dimensions, never to cross paths again.

In this novel where the gravity of The Midnight Library meets the whimsicality of Good Omens, two soulmates call out to one another from beyond the dimensional wall, set out to find their way back to each other and beat Fate at her own game. As Paige soon finds out, though, defeating a supernatural entity is about much more than finding her soulmate. It's about choosing life – no matter what it takes.

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On a bookshelf, The Soulmate Experiment sits between YA contemporary novels with a speculative edge (They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, Every Day by David Levithan, or You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao) and adult novels where fantasy intersects with the real world (The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab, or Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett).

I am attaching my sample chapters and a synopsis to this email. 

Thank you for your consideration.

Yours sincerely,
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