A.L. Kaplan

#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!
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Oooh yeah, great playlist

City of Cards: Haunted by ghosts and the question of who he is, Ace causes a series of events that will change the lives of his friends in dramatic ways. Their city may be rough, but it’s a home worth saving.

Love, cyborgs, ghosts and wrestlers.

www.cityofcards.com

#comic #scifi #lgbt #paranormal

This page looks so good!

Deathbird up next

Inking process of a shot of Scott and Jean in not quite Quitely fashion

X-Rated season 2 let's goooooo 💅✨

(Featuring all ur favorite D-listers, and whomever these guys are)

closeup of ink process on the cover for Bytchcraft issue 4. I am using a kuretake brush pen to fill in the blacks on Em, a punky wytch bursting out of flames

fire & brimstone

Ink drawing in progress featuring two figures clothed in dark ribbed fabric

❌

Thank you!

close-up of the character to show his hairdo and body jewerly

Li'l closeup. I love the ribcage back piece and wish I had it to wear to the Mercury 🫰

Comic book cover featuring a witch dressed in punky club attire, bursting out of a plume of flames. Abstract snakes coil in the background. His hair is braided intricately to form two horns. A Tarot-inspired design frames the image

It's Halloween 1st and BYTCHCRAFT #4 is out today! Featuring my favorite of the three wytches, Em 🐐😈🌈✨

🌙written by: Aaron Reese
🪄 interior art by: Lema Carril

Thank youu

Al has that spark of artistry magic. <3 LOVE this!

Aw nooo, sorry to hear about the job, Mouna 💔

It totally is. And you do that so well!

I'm trying to remind myself, when tempted to add more rendering or whatever, that I've never looked at a finished piece of mine and thought "wow wish there was more fiddly crap." Usually the opposite haha

Thanks, dude!

Omg thank you 🖤 I'm trying really hard not to over draw. Just let things be moody and evocative...

Dark drawing with screen tones of two people floating with bubbles. One holds up a cellphone camera, beaming light. The other has their hand pressed up as if against glass.

Strange Illumination

Hell yeahhh

💖💖💖

Beautiful Art ASMR

Also FOREVER YELLING ABOUT THIS COVER!

Practicing tone scraping

That little edge of textured shading in the shoulder armor is captivating

So much screentone moireé, too

A boy with wings hovers above vibrant orange cactuses. Magic swirls around his clawed hands. Little joyous balls of light flit among the magic.

WYND: Power of the Blood #5 is out today!

Here's an incentive cover I drew. Can you tell I miss the desert?

written by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social
interior art by @thewoodenking.bsky.social

Here's the full thing! Thanks for playing along with this thread and hope y'all enjoy the cover when it drops next month 🌈

Don't Leave: Reviving the folk songs of Palestinian women The May uprising renewed interest in Palestinian songs conjured from a century of struggle that date back to the Ottoman and British imperial eras

The haunting single Shmaali is a Palestinian women's folk song spoken in Tarweedeh, an encoded form of speech used since at least the Ottomon empire

www.middleeasteye.net/discover/don...

Yasmine Hamdan's new album just dropped and it is the best thing you'll listen to:

yasminehamdan.bandcamp.com/album/yasmin...

close up of a mis-aligned risograph print. the pink layer is slightly offset from the blue and yellow, which gives a fun multiplying effect... even if it makes his face a little wonky

stack o prints on the table

TIME TO PRINT!

💛 first on the only machine with that drum. Next day switching to the double-drum machine for 💗&💙.

The 💛 machine is much more inconsistent with its prints, so almost every print had to be manually aligned going through the 💗💙layers. Not gonna mix machines again haha...(6/7)