#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
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Its Prime Day! The perfect day to support indie publishers directly!
08.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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. 😭
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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 📚
04.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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...
04.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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/
04.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 93 🔁 52 💬 4 📌 5
Post someone who looks good in black? 🖤
05.10.2025 02:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I want to read Nettle & Bone soon! I have a couple other books by Kingfisher I plan to read soon as well.
05.10.2025 02:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
04.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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 💙📚 🩸📚
04.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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...
04.10.2025 23:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
04.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 2349 🔁 214 💬 43 📌 8
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*
05.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 38 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 8
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!
05.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0
blank for you to copypasta 🥰
name:
current read:
last show:
last film:
fav book this year:
fav watch this year:
+ something spooky:
05.10.2025 02:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young Adult: Icarus by K. Ancrum! @kaylaancrum.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
04.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 61 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 3
just finished this and need a few days to cry about it. beautiful. beautiful.
05.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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!
05.10.2025 00:24 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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?
05.10.2025 00:32 — 👍 375 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 3
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
05.10.2025 00:55 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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05.10.2025 01:02 — 👍 34 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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:
05.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
03.10.2025 22:35 — 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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!
03.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
announcement of Nov. 5 ACESchat
Here's a look at the next #ACESchat.
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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.
01.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, @alyshalove.bsky.social ! That was a lot of great information.
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My keen eye for your best words. Editor/proofreader/bibliophile/mom who loves black tea, brookies, and sarcasm. EFA & ACES. She/her.
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