Cortney Radocaj
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Belcastro Agency
literary agent @belcastr • she/they • queer • neurodivergent • query me at QueryManager.com/CortneyRadocaj
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Cortney Radocaj 🏳️🌈💖💜💙 @CortneyRadocaj
#amquerying reminder with all these pitch contests recently (and coming up) that if i don't ❤️ your pitch but you feel like we'd be a good match, query me!!!!it's impossible to see every pitch, and i also keep my parameters very specific during these so i don't get overwhelmed!
you can always search my name here with #mswl, check out my submission page on my website (cortneyradocaj.com/submissions), or watch belcastro's recent mswl video (youtube.com/watch?v=V_0Oym…) to see what i'm currently searching for!
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when i tell you i am dying for an atmospheric gritty horror set in the appalachian hills I AM LITERALLY DYING I WANT IT #MSWL
youtu.be/_QzcrflqDCg
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Unexplained Occurrences @TalesOfBeyond
Update on this one twitter.com/TalesOfBeyond/… pic.twitter.com/zXFxk2lRIx#MSWL mc gets increasingly pissed off and figures out how to communicate with ghost not to get rid of it but to tell it to shut the fuck up
only to have said ghost scream "JESUS CHRIST FINALLY I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TALK TO YOU FOR WEEKS"
and then they have angry friend adventures
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OH MY GOD I totally forgot—
CATRA. GIMME ALL YOUR CATRA-ESQUE CHARACTERS.
Angry, broken, distrustful characters who are Soft for that One Person. Who make TERRIBLE decisions bc ANGRY AND HURT but are good people deep down!!
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Neurodivergent rep (particularly PTSD but seriously I want it all ALL THE MENTAL HEALTH REP
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Dark bois with hearts of gold always (i.e. Rhys, Damon, Spike, etc)
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Queer contemporary—delve into hard topics but also make me smile!! Like contempts lighter in tone than other genres
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YA thrillers (NOT ADULT DO NOT SEND ME ADULT THRILLERS)
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Loss of faith—more so in role models and institutions/communities than religion
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Villainous spirals!! Gimme all the MCs enthralled by darkness
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Poison magic. Just... creeping, quiet, sneaking poison magic
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Always hope, no matter how dark the story or journey is. I don’t do well with bitter, cynical endings—there HAS to be a light for the MC to reach for, in some capacity
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Snark, banter, puns and stupid jokes. I am a sucker for dumb jokes I can’t help it they make me giggle
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Gideon-Harrow dynamic (HAS to be queer in some way) y’all these two *chefs kiss*
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Queer ensemble casts!!!
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Horror that delves deep into human psyche and is particularly horrifying for the MC (slashers are not my fav; book horror has GOT to get under my skin to work for me)
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Native/indigenous mythology retellings! I would LOVE to see mythologies from tribes in my own area in particular (PNW born and raised!)
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BIPOC authors/stories! Especially for SFF!!
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Trans/non-binary MCs and LIs!!