#DVPit Rules -#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors -Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET -Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project) -Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio. -Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag) -A like from an agent = a query request -A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent -A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions -Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches -Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

#DVpit 2025 has 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from the following literary agencies and publishers: Andrea Brown Lit Ash Literary Azantian Literary Agency Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Folio Literary Management Gallt & Zacker Literary Gelfman Schneider Literary Hachette Grand Central Publishing Little Brown Books for Young Readers Harper Collins Harlequin Hanover Square HG Literary Inked in Gray Press Jill Grinberg Literary Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency Macmillan Feiwel & Friends Farrar, Straus & Giroux Roaring Brook Press Saturday books Wednesday books Mad Woman Literary Neighborhood Literary New Leaf Literary & Media Open Book Literary Page Street Publishing Park, Fine & Brower Penguin Random House Ballantine Berkley Delacorte Labyrinth Road Penguin Workshop Viking Root Literary Simon & Schuster Aladdin Atheneum Atria McElderry Sheldon Fogelman Agency Sourcebooks Stonefruit Studio Triada US Writers House Zando

TOMORROW (Oct 8th) is #DVpit! Any unagented Marginalized writer or artist seeking out representation is invited to participate from 8AM - 8PM ET!
Please make sure you review our rules & guidelines before the event: dvpit.carrd.co#faq

#writersky #booksky #artistsky #weneeddiversebooks

Its Prime Day! The perfect day to support indie publishers directly!

Glad to hear a positive review about it! I haven't heard anyone's opinions yet but I absolutely love the covers of their books and am hoping to get to one of the ones I have soon. And hopefully find my second book b/c apparently it's not on my shelf. 😭

A Hotwife Christmas came, and came, and came, and went... but don't you cry... A Hotwife Valentines is just around the corner and cumming soon.

Order yours today!

geni.us/HotwifeRopes

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A pixture of a bookstore’s store front. Above the windows, the words Main Street Books are on the brick wall. The windows have many posters about local events, and a large poster that says “Eat, Sleep, Read Local.” There are a pride flag and an American flag visible further down in the window display

A white hand holds a postcard that has a pink rendition of Main Street Books and a hand holding books that read “Love Your Local Book Store” with “Minot, ND - Main Street Books” on the bottom. There is also a copy of T. Kingfisher’s What Stalks the Deep

A display of fantasy books, mostly a lot of Tolkien, on a wooden fireplace

Whenever I’m on a trip, I like to visit an indie bookstore when given the opportunity! I got to go to Main Street Books in Minot today where I picked up What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com !
It was an absolutely lovely store 📚

A Special Update: September 26 - October 2 | Charlie Knight Get more from Charlie Knight on Patreon

Joining my patreon for editing advice and support from a professional? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Joining to get access to an incredible community in Discord? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Joining to help me get chemo? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Joining to get access to things like character art before anyone else?? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

www.patreon.com/posts/140313...

Lord of the Last Heartbeat, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a cyan flower blooming through silver chains.

The Immortal City, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a mountain city in violet and blue tones.

The Calyx Charm, by May Peterson. Cover depicts a smiling young trans woman with flowing red hair and violet eyes, surrounding by swirling violet magic.

If you're looking for a spooky read this October, my entire Sacred Dark trilogy is dripping with gothic drama, featuring three queer romances about witches, shifters, and ghosts.

Buy the series: tinyurl.com/j2jjvucx
Book pages: www.maypetersonbooks.com/books/

Post someone who looks good in black? 🖤

I want to read Nettle & Bone soon! I have a couple other books by Kingfisher I plan to read soon as well.

Two candles with green labels.

Restocking “Pick me Up”

It smells like the inside of a coffee shop with a deep espresso scent.

Btw we’ve got new jars and labels!!

#candles #handmade #etsy

Halloween sale. 99cents.

🐦‍⬛ THE HORRORS: a collection of short horror stories 🐦‍⬛

🕸️ small town horror
🕸️ spiders
🕸️ demons
🕸️ a loyal basset hound
🕸️ older protagonists

On Sale!! 99cents or FREE on itch!!

b2r: books2read.com/thehorrors
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/the-horrors

#booksky #horrorsky 💙📚 🩸📚

Training

Layla Drawn is tired of being nothing but a trophy wife on the arm of her tech mogul husband. She wants more. When he refuses to allow her to get a job, she takes matters into her own hands, seeking out the one man he can't control.

geni.us/TrainingTrop...

A screenshot of an X post by @awk .... from 11 hours ago, with the username "Interesting things" and a colorful profile picture. The post humorously states, "Ron Weasley yelling 'Expensive Petroleum' while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy ." The attached image shows a person resembling Ron Weasley from Harry Potter, wearing a cap and dark jacket, raising one arm dramatically while holding a gas pump nozzle in the other hand, fueling a car at a station with "Synergy" pumps and a truck in the background.

It took me a half second, but this was brilliant.

Depths of Promises Sworn Before the blood of a predecessor staining Ayre’s fangs has a chance to dry, a decision is made to bargain the freshly elevated Fourteenth Vylian Prince off to a sister imperial power. Not a week’s ri...

Hey!

Do YOU like the idea of an incredibly dense piece of lesbian fantasy fiction featuring a non-binary transfem vampire prince constantly going through it in order to ease the burden weighing upon an increasing number of beloved women in their lives?

*slides my free serial into your hands*

Snippet from rehearsal this evening with my contemporary dance group. This has been so fun to put together.

We’re performing twice on November 1st! Come see us!

blank for you to copypasta 🥰

name:
current read:
last show:
last film:
fav book this year:
fav watch this year:

+ something spooky:

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young Adult: Icarus by K. Ancrum! @kaylaancrum.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

just finished this and need a few days to cry about it. beautiful. beautiful.

This would be an excellent month to support Vyria.

Buy a book!

Boost a book!

Catch her stream!

Hell, straight-up give the woman cash!

Stickers and a patch from Gay Nerd Goods : nonbinary symbol, blahaj, moth, loving trans people juice

Stickers from lavender cowboy: mothman and i support trans rights and wrongs

Stickers and a charm from nekodoodle: moth charm, thigh pride, moth charm

Eeeee. I sold all 10 books I brought and got some stuff from artist booths. 💖

Patch and stickers from @gaynerdgoods.com

Stickers from Lavender Cowboy linktr.ee/lavendercowb...

And stickers (including thigh pride!!! aaa) and a moth charm from Nekodoodle www.nekodoodle.com

A library display of books by Korean authors around a sign reading: “Love K-Pop Demon Hunters? These Books Are Golden”

I love my local librarians so much, how awesome is this display they made in the teen section of the library, featuring books by Korean authors?

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

#booksky

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name: Misti
current read: Katabasis
last show: Face/Off
last film: The Monkey
fav book this year: Iron Flame (I'm a sucker for the Fourth Wing series)
fav watch this year: KPop Demon Hunters
+ something spooky:

Fly by Night by danifinn A trans sapphic butterfly-moth romance story

What if a moth was trans and she and a butterfly were lesbian for each other

danifinn.itch.io/fly-by-night

books2read.com/b/4N0PNx

Misti has such an open and kind heart as a person and an editor. Before her editing business bloomed, she heard about my book and offered to do a free edit. She was new to the editing world, but it didn’t show. Her edits were so helpful. Even though she was mainly developmentally editing my story, she did a lot of line edits that I fell in love with. She can really rearrange your words to make them hit harder. My book is also highly controversial and the amount of kind words she put in her comments melted my heart many times. She also made me see things from a different angle, which helped me improve my story. If you’re looking for a caring person to help you, Misti is it! -Desirae Gracyn “Torn Between”

Misti did a great job editing my 85,000 word YA novel. She showed me where things could be written better / more clearly, identified things that were unnecessary or weren’t working, and tightened up my prose. She’s also a grammar master. Add in that she’s extremely nice and easy to work with and it’s a winning combination :) -Michelle Falardeau “Between the Trees”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 star service. Hello, I am author Sigmund Todd, My editor Misti is one of the best editors in the literary world. She has a keen insight into the mind of the author and truly sees what the author means, keeping it true to their specific voice. All of which is something anyone who has ever used an editor before knows is the most important key factor in finding their editor. Her prices are great as well. If you're looking for a quality, affordable, awesome editor, look no further than Misti. -Sigmund Todd “Flux Origins”

Hey, everyone!!

I'm opening up my editing services to two manuscripts. $10 per 1500 words. First 5 pages free to ensure fit.

Here are reviews from some of my previous clients. 💖

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!

announcement of Nov. 5 ACESchat

Here's a look at the next #ACESchat.

If you were on today’s #ACESChat and looking for more tips on marketing yourself, this month’s webinar is on point! It’s free to attend (or watch the recording later) for ACES members.

Thank you, @alyshalove.bsky.social ! That was a lot of great information.