[Complete] [81k] [Literary YA] MAGNIFICENT, ACTUALLY

When her magnetic grandmother dies a week before high school, fourteen-year-old Nora tries to become the woman who called her "magnificent" — until she learns she has to become herself instead.

MAGNIFICENT, ACTUALLY is a literary contemporary YA novel about grief, friendship, and figuring out who you are when the person who defined you is gone — for readers of Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Shannon C.F. Rogers' I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom.

I've been querying and would love a gut check on my query letter and opening chapter. If you'd be willing to read them, I most want to know: (1) after the query, do you want to read the book? and (2) where in the chapter does your attention first dip? Happy to swap if you're writing YA too.

Please DM me and I'll share a Google Doc. No deadline pressure — thank you!