By request for #AskEditor, I made pie charts of my annual contest submissions. During my first year as a #RevPit editor in 2020, I posted the very first #RevPie charts. My pie charts are from Word and not as fancy as some editors, but here goes:
I will need more #revpie to document these duals.
When I start thinking too much about how much of every #RevPie is adult fantasy
#revpit #revpitwaiting
A pie chart showing half fantasy, a little more than a third mystery/thriller, and smaller slices for horror, contemporary, science fiction, and historical.
And here is my #RevPie for genres in my submissions. Not surprised to see so much fantasy, but I got a nice slice of thriller/mystery with a light serving of horror, contemporary, science fiction, and historical. @reviseresub.bsky.social #RevPit #RevPitWaiting #RevPitTeaser 💜💎
A pie chart showing a little more than half for YA, about a third for adult, and about a fifth for MG.
Hey, Team Amethyst, here is some delish #RevPie for the age category breakdown in my submissions. The YA authors really delivered this year, huh? But I got nice slices of adult and MG, too. @reviseresub.bsky.social #RevPit #RevPitWaiting #RevPitTeaser 💜💎
A pie chart displaying the breakdown of RevPit manuscript submissions to Raquel Brown. The submission percentages are 66% Fantasy and Romantasy, 21% Science Fiction, 12% Horror, and 1% General Literary Fiction.
And of course I brought some #RevPie! (Or do you think this is more of a #RevDonut? 🍩)
Additional sub stats:
📊 Adult — 65%
📊 YA — 35%
#RevPitTeasers
Pie chart showing the horror subgenres of 2025 RevPit submissions received by Allison Alexander. Fantasy: 29%; Mystery 12%; Supernatural 24%; Sci-Fi 6%; Contemporary 6%; Paranormal 24%
My final #RevPie — the horror subgenres/genre mashups of submissions I received! #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
#RevPit 2025 Subs Breakdown by Genre Pie Chart Fantasy – 29% Sci-Fi/Spec – 7% Romance – 28% Horror – 6% Mystery/Thriller (M/T) – 19% Contemporary – 8% Book Club/Women’s Fiction – 2%
#RevPit 2025 Subs Breakdown by Age Group Pie Chart Young Adult – 33% Adult – 67%
I know some of the other #RevPit editors are doing #RevPitWaiting and #RevPitTeaser posts, but just like some of you get anxious about reading them, I get anxious writing them 😅, so it’s unlikely I’ll have any of my own to share. We’ll see how it goes!
Please have a couple of #RevPie instead:
pie chart showing romance, mystery, sci-fi, book club, fantasy, historical, and contemporary in that order, but pretty similar sized slices
I also meant to add #RevPitTeaser my chart for the genres in my submissions.
It was a good mix of the genres I was taking, and the historicals are really showing up with good game, lots of fun time periods.
You could almost play Trivial Pursuit with this #RevPie chart!
A pie chart showing the subgenre breakdown of sci-fi submissions received by Allison Alexander in 2025. General SF: 22%; Space Opera: 14%; Dystopian / Apocalyptic: 14%; Science Fantasy: 12%; Eco-Fiction: 10%; Thriller: 6%; Mystery: 6%; AI/Robots: 6%; Comedic: 4%; Other: 6%
And here is the subgenre breakdown of the sci-fi subs I received! #RevPit #RevPie
A pie chart that breaks down the fantasy subgenres of 2025 RevPit submissions sent to editor Allison Alexander: Adventure 21%; Dark/Horror 14%; Epic 8%; Fairy Tale 5%; Mystery 11%; Mythological 6%; Science Fantasy 8%; Other 6%; Contemporary/Urban 21%.
More #RevPie, anyone? Here is the subgenre breakdown of the fantasy submissions I received! #RevPit #RevPitTeasers
It's been about an hour, so I'm wrapping up this thread! Thank you to everyone who was able to drop by. I hope my responses were helpful. I enjoyed chatting with you all!
Hopefully, I'll get those #RevPie charts up at some point lol.
#RevPit #AskEditor
It's time for my #AskEditor session! I'll be hanging around for an hour to answer your Qs, just drop them below!
@reviseresub.bsky.social #RevPit
(Sorry for the late drop, I tried to share a couple of #RevPie charts but Bsky wasn't helping lol)
And I also wanted to join the fun of making my own #RevPie, the only pie I'm really capable of making, if we're being honest. I received a really nice spread this year, so thank you for that! That little one that doesn't have a label is Science Fiction/Spec.
#revpit #writingcommunity #askeditor
Thanks for sharing your #RevPie, Allison!
6% Horror fam represent!
We're small, but spooky!
#RevPit #RevPitWaiting #RevPie
It's #RevPie time! 😄 I'll also be posting some of my personal submission stats tomorrow, in case anyone's curious. #RevPit #RevPitWaiting
#RevPie 😅 Brilliant.
Thank you @miranda-darrow.bsky.social for creating these helpful #RevPit 2025 submission #RevPie charts for #PiDay! #MiddleGrade fiction isn’t on my MSWL, but if you have a completed MG MS and you’re ready to work with an editor, please consider submitting!
#WritingCommunity #WritersofBluesky
#RevPie wonders where all the #MiddleGradeAuthors are?
Come share your #MGStories with me
I am accepting all #MG #genres except Historical Fiction and Horror for the #RevPit2025 annual contest
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a pie chart showing appx half of the submissions are in the fantasy genre, with romance and sci-fi having decent chunks and smaller slices for contemporary, mystery, horror, book club, and finally, historical
And a #RevPit #RevPie chart with the genres (in big categories) of the submissions so far.
Fantasy is dominating again this year, but send us all the genres!
Submission window is open until Sunday, noon EDT.
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Pie chart showing over half in Adult age category, a decent chunk for Young Adult, and very small slice of Middle Grades age category.
What #RevPit submissions have rolled in so far?
In honor of #PiDay I've got a few pie charts.
So, in the long-standing tradition of #RevPie charts, here are the age category and genre submission by proportion received as of this morning.
Where are our #MiddleGrade #amwriting #amquerying authors?
