sammytongs.bsky.social

@sammytongs.bsky.social

Aspiring Fantasy Author! Now Querying: The Honory

To save her dying mother, Ning infiltrates a mage guild at the command of the man who promises her a cure. She soon learns her benefactor is a demon, and his true goal is to topple the entire kingdom. 🌊 Elemental magic 🩷 Slow burn 🏠 Found family 🐉 Dragon shifters #SEAsianPit #YA #F #SFF

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V. E. Schwab’s Vicious x Chloe Gong’s Coldwire x Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies A cyberpunk novel with a romantic subplot 📣Voicey 🧬 Grounded sci-fi 😱 Cannibalism 🍲 Unintroduced cuisines 🎯 Professional futuristic darts player FMC 🎲 Two MMCs 🗺️ Set outside the US and the UK #SEAsianPit #NA #SF #Q

Mote Thone Lay@motethonelay.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In honor of #SEAsianPit, here’s my pitch for CITY OF THE SOLD, a cyberpunk novel with a romantic subplot. 📣Voicey 🧬 Grounded sci-fi 😱 Cannibalism 🍲 Unintroduced cuisines 🎯 Professional futuristic darts player FMC 🎲 Two MMCs 🗺️ Set outside the US and the UK #NA #SF #Q

Over a large pinkish-purple illustrated camera lens against a deep purple background are aquamarine, pink-outlined phrases: “An agent’s guide to”, “City of the Sold” (in which “o” is a tiny dartboard), “by Mote Thone Lay”, and “Cyberpunk, grounded sci-fi, & romantic subplot”. An illustrated beautiful hand with pink nails touches “ld” of the word “Sold”.

In honor of #SEAsianPit, here’s my pitch for CITY OF THE SOLD, a cyberpunk novel with a romantic subplot. 📣Voicey 🧬 Grounded sci-fi 😱 Cannibalism 🍲 Unintroduced cuisines 🎯 Professional futuristic darts player FMC 🎲 Two MMCs 🗺️ Set outside the US and the UK #NA #SF #Q

Over a large pinkish-purple illustrated camera lens against a deep purple background are aquamarine, pink-outlined phrases: “An agent’s guide to”, “City of the Sold” (in which “o” is a tiny dartboard), “by Mote Thone Lay”, and “Cyberpunk, grounded sci-fi, & romantic subplot”. An illustrated beautiful hand with pink nails touches “ld” of the word “Sold”. Background: Deep purple
Large texts (aquamarine, pink-outlines): The Pitch, 119k-word
Paragraph (pale purple): Nineteen-year-old November is the celebrated killer, known as the Cyborg Butcher, of a commercial death game show, number one in the ranking, in Year 2402. When Kalayar, a professional darts player from an oppressed social class, is bullied at her school by her rival, the corrupt deputy mayor’s son, the killer sweeps in as a white knight in shining armor, carrying her to the hospital, hiding his identity. After being kidnapped by her relentless bully the same day, she meets Karl, her kind, impoverished ex-boyfriend, who is revealed to be the heir to the corporation that arranges the show and owns a private city and a military, and is November’s one and only friend.

Numbered phrases against a white box at the bottom: 
1. Cyberpunk, grounded sci-fi
2. Professional darts
3. Cannibalism
4. Found family
5. Voicey
6. Triple POVs (Three fleshed-out, interconnected plots)
7. Forbidden romance
8. Developed romantic subplot
9. Southeast Asian representations
10. Myanmar & Asian cuisines
11. LGBTQ+ representationBackground: Deep purple
Large texts (aquamarine, pink outlines): The comps
Slightly big texts (pale purple which applies to other texts): Also for fans of Jennifer J. Chow
Image 1: Book cover of Chloe Gong’s Coldwire (Primary colors: Neon pink against neon aquamarine darker hues)
Bottom texts: Theme
Image 2: Book Cover of V. E. Schwab’s Vicious (Black shadows against red and white)
Bottom texts: Character complexity, inner demons (Primary colors: Red, dark green, & pale green)
Image 3: Book cover of Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies
Bottom texts: Forbidden loveBackground: Deep purple 
Large texts (aquamarine, pink outlines): The snippet
Paragraph (pale purple): She was near the door she had entered, since she didn’t want to walk further inside, but this man just had to make her life more miserable than it already was. As she had said, she was not that brave, but not everything was about bravery. Some things were about losing brain cells and a tooth.
 “Look, I know you’re high. I am very sorry about that. So, go stand somewhere else? Kind of like…I mean…I mean… fuck off?”
 It might be her imagination, but he stepped closer by about two centimeters. Okay, he was a sicko, and she was bawling before she realized what she was doing. Life was hard. So damn hard! Mom dead. Poverty stunk. Got bullied. Won darts matches—that was not exactly…anyway, got bullied! Took ground-bus. She still encountered a madman.

Hypothetically Speaking is a queer coming-of-age story set in rural Philippines in 1999. Two boys try live their life to fullest under the theory the world end in the new yea. Unexpected romance blossoms amid confusing discoveries about identity, love, and growing up. #SEAsianPit #YA #R

Illustration of a boy waiting to receive Communion while a church choir guitarist looks in his direction in the background.

In a 1990s island retelling of Thai folklore, a grieving woman lands at an American-funded aquarium and discovers a golden fish that draws foreign researchers and rivals. When the old tales return, what will she sacrifice to protect it? BLACKCAKExREMARKABLYBRIGHTCREATURESxBIGFISH #SEAsianPit #A #MR

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mymaiy.bsky.social@mymaiy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FABLED FISHBONES, a modern retelling of Thai folklore set in the 1990s. 🍲Reclaiming the magic in old tales and bittermelon curry 🤍Grieving a grandparent 🇹🇭Critiqueing Western saviorism 🌔Complex female friendships BLACKCAKE x REMARKABLYBRIGHTCREATURES x BIGFISH #SEAsianPit #A #MR #Fabulist

If Azula was a hero & got therapy (OCD rep) After becoming a hero, Anlith’s villainess mother still nags her, the very mother she & her party defeated. As her friends move on, she lives anxious of her mother's echo in her mind. Can she put her mother to rest with their help? #SEAsianPit #F #Novella

fantasy art by @artimaking

Eldest daughter Ning joins the foreign mage guild ruling her kingdom to secure a future for her family. But when loyalty to the guild means sacrificing her people’s freedom, she must choose who to betray. 🌊 Elemental magic 🩷 Slow burn 🏠 Found family 🐉 Dragon shifters #SEAsianPit #YA #F #SFF

PSALM FOR THE WILD BUILT X SORRY TO BOTHER YOU When a down-on-his-luck archivist takes a job from a shady tech company to save his robot friend, he uncovers a darker plot involving stolen memories while falling for a handsome anarchist with a grudge against his employer. #SEAsianPit #Q #SF #SFF #R

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Snaggleteeth: A Novel
Adult Science Fiction / 96,000 words 
In an isolated tech company town, a lonely audiovisual archivist seeks the help of an illegal repair shopkeep to save his fox spirit-shaped robot friend and unravel a mystery involving stolen memories while confronting his own grief about the past.Dark background with light text and an image of a hồ ly tinh dreaming: 

It's got:
- A BIPOC cast
- A scrappy queer, neurodivergent, and disabled main character
- A prickly robot familiar
- Body positive romance between older queer characters
- Queerplatonic friendship and community-building
- Southeast Asian folklore
- Anti-capitalism
- Cassette futurism vibesDark background with light text:

Comps:
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Luminous (Silvia Park)
Hammajang Luck (Makana Yakamoto)
Light From Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki)

Vibes:
Severance (Apple TV)
Maniac (Netflix)
Poker Face (Peacock)
Robot Dreams (Sara Varon)Dark background with light text:

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Images on mood board are various colourful/neon cassette futurism aesthetic stills from the shows Maniac, Severance, and Beef Season 1.

Now Querying: The Honory! On the eve of a brutal magic survival competition, Mara's friend becomes too injured to defend himself. This leads the nearly magic-less Mara Tedros to make a forbidden pact with a revenant, trading her humanity for the power to save her friend from The Honory. #WIPPIT

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