#o authors

Note: Doing some major reformating of the YOI fanfic rec pages. The pages that include my reviews are now having the posts separated alphabetically by author (see below). I am also creating separate page(s) that allow filtering the fanfics by category. It's a work in progress, but I'm having fun with it.

This page includes my YOI fanfic recs (with reviews) for authors whose names begin with "O".

Note: For any authors whom I don't know the gender, I refer to them with they/them. If any authors wish to correct me, please do so.

AUTHORS REC PAGES: #0-9 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

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Refer to this masterlist for all of my YOI fanfic recs.

Not "zero" authors, but writers whose family names start with the letter "O."

All My Darling Daughters by Fumi Yoshinaga An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows Ax Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga by Sean Michael Wilson

Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Volume 1 by Harold Sakuishi Blame!, Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei Borderline by Mishell Baker

The Crimson Spell, Volume 1 by Ayano Yamane The Deep-Seated Grudge, Part 1 by Kazuo Koike The Dispossed by Ursula K. Le Guin The Dragons of Heaven by Alyc Helms The Drops of God 1 by Tadashi Agi

The Flash: Born to Run by Mark Waid Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow Goth by Otsuichi Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters by Mike Grell Gringo Nightmare: A Young American Framed for Murder in Nicaragua by Eric Volz

Hetalia: Axis Powers, Vol. 1 by Hidekaz Himaruya Higurashi When They Cry: Demon Exposing Arc by Ryukishi07

Ichi the Killer, Vol. 1 by Hideo Yamamoto The Iron Heel by Jack London The Iron Ship by K.M. McKinley

Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 1 by Masami Tsuda King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

Last Song Before Night by Ilana C. Myer The Limit, 1 by Keiko Suenobu Lychee Light Club by Usamaru Furuya

The Magus by John Fowles Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Volume 1 by Akira Hiramoto Memories by Katsuhiro Otomo Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun 1 by Izumi Tsubaki

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Parasyte, Volume 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 1 by Matsuri Akino

A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell Rosario + Vampire, Vol. 1 by Akihisa Ikeda Rosario + Vampire: Season II, Vol. 1 by Akihisa Ikeda

Silver Spoon 1 by Hiromu Arakawa The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement by Nick Saul Superman: Brainiac by Geoff Johns Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini Superman/Shazam! : First Thunder by Judd Winick Supernatural Noir by Ellen Datlow

Tokyo Babylon Omnibus Book One by CLAMP Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, Vol. 1 by Ryukishi07

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi

And now the Hall of Fame authors!

Otsuka, Eiji-20

Orwell, George-10

O'Keefe, Megan E.-5

Oku, Hiroya-4

Ohba, Tsugumi-3 Ordway, Jerry-3 Otomo, Katsuhiro-3

Ojito, Mirta-2

Obana, Miho Ohkubo, Atsushi Ohtaka, Shinobu ONE O'Neil, Dennis Ono, Natsume

Our winners are the authors of "Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service" and "1984."

what would you do if haunted by her past one man's journey destined to become Dear Agent disguised as a boy to create the perfect supersoldier fate of her unborn child a new take on vampires have you ever wondered exactly like The Hunger Games except doesn't fit neatly into a single genre always knew she was different first in a trilogy Rise of the previously self-published

Me: I only represent YA, middle grade, and adult fiction. Do not query me with non-fiction, as I do not represent it.

Querying Author: you rep screenplays right because here is my screenplay it's great my mom says it's great and my kid says its great too p.s. its fiction lol

Me: I like high-concept contemporary YA, especially issue-books that don't read like issue books.

Querying Author: Perfect! I've been looking for an agent for my spy-thriller that takes place WWII!

Me: I'm not specifically looking for YA secondary-world fantasy, but try me, because you never know.

what he doesn’t know is

a classic tale of good versus evil

just your average teenager

fate of all mankind

but unbeknownst to her

beautiful, intelligent, and independent

defy her destiny

action-packed

you said on your website that

corrupt society ruled by

as their relationship deepens

a lifelong love of literature

propelled into a hidden world of

has a deadly secret

character-driven

will never be the same again

less a memoir than an exploration of

always been drawn to

You know. Meta-queries. The ones where the author, probably trying to sound unique and different, starts their query in a manner akin to the following:

Dear Lindsay Ribar,

Query letters are so hard! I mean, you go around the internet looking for the best advice, but everyone's advice conflicts with everyone else's advice, and you never know who's just making shit up. But, at the end of the day, what even is the point of a query? It's a mere fragment of thought, a smallish glimpse into the far larger, far more complex world of My Novel, and as such it can never accurately represent the truth and complexity and wonderfulness that my novel contains.

That said, your submission guidelines ask for a query, so I shall blindly choose a query letter format from among the infinite possibilities, and do my best to condense my novel into three paragraphs. So let's start here:

Hello, my name is Writer McAuthor, and I've written a 80,000 word [genre] novel entitled [Title.]

See what I did there? Good. Every day, I receive probably 5 to 10 queries that start almost exactly like that. I've been doing this job for seven and a half years. You do the math. No, wait, I'll do the math. What it adds up to = me being really sick of people bitching about query letters.

The thing is, we get it. Writing query letters is THE WORST. I've written them myself! They suck! But we have to write them. So why waste your time (and the agents' time) by writing about how much you hate query letters?

Hey there! No, I don’t always go in order, actually — so if I told you the date of the oldest query in my slushpile, it wouldn’t actually mean much of anything. The not-in-date-order thing is because I get a lot of queries in a lot of different genres (and that’s not even mentioning the queries I read for my boss!), and sometimes, for instance, I just want to go through and read all the SF ones, or the MG ones, or the magical realism ones, or what have you.

However, I will say that while your fears aren’t irrational, I rarely (if ever) do an ‘O authors!’ tweet that’s referring to one single query. More often than not, I’ve seen the same issue over and over again (usually within a very short span of time), and I just really want to tweet about it. So: