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KidLitGN @kidlitgn.bsky.social · 8h

#Agents, #editors & #publishers we have SO MANY kids-YA graphic novel pitches at kidlitgn.com! Reply to any pitch you want to see with your sub guidelines, or add your guidelines here: kidlitgn.com/submission-d... #KidLitGN's 2025 pitch event ends Oct. 31 #pitchevent #kidlit

KidLitGN – Hosting Pitch Events For Creators of Kids through YA Graphic Novels

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

I'm loving all your concepts 😭💖💫

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

I'm trying to leave as much comments as I can on your pitches and DVPit art while being consistent, but either what you guys do is so amazing that I can't express it in English and I subconsciously switch languages or I just want to say AHHHHHHHHHH 💖💖💖💖💖💖

Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

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Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 6h

DVpit #querying Tip: As you scroll the feed make note of which agents like pitches in similar categories/genres as yours & add them to your general querying list! The feed is so busy, they might've missed yours, but if they're liking similar stories that means it's something they want in their inbox

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

Love seeing a MC older! 💖

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Stacey Foss ✍️✨️ @staceyfoss.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminders for my DVpit peeps 🙋‍♀️

1. Don’t forget to double check your hashtags!
2. Don’t like or repost anyone’s post so you don’t accidentally get someone’s hopes up ❤️

Show everyone love in their comments! #DVparty

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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 13h

today's dvpit! remember YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO LIKE OR RETWEET PITCHES if you are not an interested agent or editor!

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

Cozy and colorful, I love it! 💖

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

Oh gods, I hope you get commissions for a ballet, royalty, dance or fashion story. We need this style in stories like that! It's incredible!

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

Your style is so beautiful and soft 🥹🥹🥹

Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5h

Hi! I'm Jun, a Venezuelan queer and disabled writer and artist. I illustrate and create merchandise in a "painting" style and I also have a cartoon style. I've made book covers, scenes, storyboards, animatics, bookmarks, tarot cards and bestiaries!

#DVPit #DVArt #Illustrator #comms

An image showing four covers: two depict a person in darkness, barely illuminated by a light, another depicts a boy next to a piano, and another depicts someone being illuminated and shadowed by a wolf. The covers can be seen in the center of the printed book.

Above are cartoon-style tarot cards of a skull, a Mexica god, Anubis, and Sun Wukong. In the center are sketches of magical creatures from a pre-printed book. Below is a scene where someone touches another person's lips and arm.

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 6h

Reese isn't sure if this is Hell or not, but he knows he likes that Luc.
(And Lucifer doesn't know what to do with this human following him around)

—Latino, gay and ADHD MC
—Criticism of Catholicism
—ANGELS WHO AREN'T WHITE!

#DVPit #NA #LGBT #POC #latine

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 12h

We believe hashtag searches are back up for most (if not all) users!

Please search the hashtags #DVpit and #DVart for the most updated feeds. But if you still have issues, use the feeds linked in the quoted thread! Have fun and good luck!

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 14h

We're aware the hashtag searching is down right now. We have reports it does work if you redownload the app, but is still buggy on desktop. We've contacted bluesky and will update soon #dvpit

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 15h

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 8h

THE HUNGER GAMES BUT MAKE IT SAPPHIC! 🏳️‍🌈

—Dystopia based on TERF movement.
—POC, queer (lesbian, trans, non-binary) and disabled (prosthesis, deaf) protagonists.
—Woman - nonbinary - woman polyamory.

#DVPit #LGBT #A #DIS #POC #TV

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 9h

ON THE VILLAIN'S SIDE?

Tobe wants to destroy the hunters and Kura wants his sibling to be safe (even if it means siding with the villain)

—Indigenous protagonist without a moral compass
—QPOC MCs
—Disabled villain x trans man with magic
—A little monsterfucker

#DVpit #LGBT #POC #DIS #TV #NA #F

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 1d

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

#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

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5d

I sent it with a note in the query letter about me self-publishing it when I needed money because I couldn't work, but I totally understand that's not what you're looking for and that's fine, thanks for the initial interest 😊

Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5d

Have you seen artist pitches? I want to add my portfolio to the #DVpit, but I can't find any format examples for illustrators, and I don't know how I'd do that pitch other than include illustrations 😭

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FT Zahra @ftzahra.bsky.social · 5d

Let me introduce my main character, Safa Rizwan!

Determined, sensitive, and stuck with a frustrating case of amnesia, Safa has one goal throughout the novel: to reverse her death. And she'll do anything to get there, even face her darkest fear: her past self.

#DVparty #YA #F #writersky

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, thanks for your interest! I'll send it this week 🥹

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 6d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Jun is querying! 📚🏳️‍🌈 @dragonologe.bsky.social · 6d

You'll probably all see it again at the event, but I'm so happy with how this illustration turned out that I'm taking every opportunity to show it off 🤣

(he's looking at his boyfriend, btw)

#DVparty

Illustration of a young man with brown skin and curly hair in a dark room with only a little light falling on his face. Above it says Kissing the Demon and below it says Kura has just been betrayed by the people he trusted but not by the Red Demon.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 7d

With #DVpit only a week away, we ask anyone planning to participate to thoroughly review the rules & guidelines first: dvpit.carrd.co

- This is a pitch event for unagented MARGINALIZED WRITERS & ARTISTS seeking rep
- Must have a completed manuscript or portfolio to pitch
- Pitch only once/hour

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 6d

To clarify, #DVParty is not the same rules as #DVPit. This is a pre-DVpit Community Week where you can hype each other up and support other diverse authors and artists! So feel free to reply, like, repost, quote during DVParty!
*There are only strict rules for those actions during DVpit on Oct 8th*

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 6d

Today is DAY 1 of #DVparty, a community event to talk up projects that Diverse Creators plan to pitch during #DVpit! Since it's our inaugural year on Bluesky, we'd like to invite any diverse creator to participate! Share about your beautiful work & let's build a #writercommunity here! #writersky

#DVparty
Day 1 October 2, 2025):
Post a moodboard or art for your project!
Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag.
Open all day!
Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed.
Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit!
More info at dvpit.carrd.co
Follow us at dvpit.bsky social for more updates!

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