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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 3h

asdfgjkl the darkness within me hungered

Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 3h

I had a dinner and some errands to do so I am behind on my #DVpit review but I’m back now and I’m searching and lurking 🫡

Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 15h

Hey y'all and Happy #DVpit day! If I 🖤 your pitch, please submit to me your query letter, upload your first 20 pages, and be sure to include your BlueSky handle as well as include DVpit in the pitch event line. So excited to review everyone's pitches today!
querytracker.net/query/shelly...

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 9h

Fingers crossed! 🫡

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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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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 14h

For #DVpit, writers if you are also not agents or editors, please do not like or repost pitching writers’ posts. Do not boost. We will look through the hashtag…

Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 15h

Hey y'all and Happy #DVpit day! If I 🖤 your pitch, please submit to me your query letter, upload your first 20 pages, and be sure to include your BlueSky handle as well as include DVpit in the pitch event line. So excited to review everyone's pitches today!
querytracker.net/query/shelly...

Query Shelly Romero at Azantian Literary Agency

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

Please do not tag the agents and/or editors to call attention to your pitch. Allow them to seek out your pitch on their own, as this is what the #DVpit event is about. dvpit.carrd.co#faq

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 15h

Hey y'all and Happy #DVpit day! If I 🖤 your pitch, please submit to me your query letter, upload your first 20 pages, and be sure to include your BlueSky handle as well as include DVpit in the pitch event line. So excited to review everyone's pitches today!
querytracker.net/query/shelly...

Query Shelly Romero at Azantian Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 2d

THIS feels incredibly toxic after the behaviour of Bsky leadership this last week.

How often do I see toxicity?
I see Palestinians get deleted for asking for help.
I see sex workers harassed.
I see Jewish people brigaded.
I see trans people put on irl watchlists.
I see white supremacists lauded.

Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 2d

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 3d

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI: while I’m still closed to unsolicited queries, I am participating in various one-on-one pitch events throughout the next couple of months! Up next is the 2025 (Online) Florida Writing Workshop on October 3-4 ✍🏽📚
floridawritingworkshops.com

The 2025 Online Florida Writing Workshop

Get Your Writing Published: October 3-4, 2025

floridawritingworkshops.com

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI: while I’m still closed to unsolicited queries, I am participating in various one-on-one pitch events throughout the next couple of months! Up next is the 2025 (Online) Florida Writing Workshop on October 3-4 ✍🏽📚
floridawritingworkshops.com

The 2025 Online Florida Writing Workshop

Get Your Writing Published: October 3-4, 2025

floridawritingworkshops.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 9d

1) This isn't just FOREIGN FILMS. It is foreign made films, like Black Phone 2, which needed to shoot on location in Canada for, you know, real snow.

2) There is no mechanism in place to collect these tariffs as it is not a good held up at customs.

3) He's making foreign made movies ~$32 a ticket?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9d

‘Candy from a baby’: Trump threatens all foreign and Hollywood movies filmed outside the US with ‘100% tariff’

Trump threatens all foreign movies with ‘100% tariff’

www.independent.co.uk

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Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 18d

🫡I'm doing my part🫡
Feel free to copy and paste my complaint for the alt text to make things easier

Please do not enact the ban on non consensual sex depictions. You are preventing survivors from telling their stories with such restrictions. Additionally your moderation team currently struggles to differentiate between artistic non sexual nudity and pornographic or sexual content. I do not trust your moderation to differentiate with any accuracy between consensual and non consensual, endangering all the nsfw creators that built your platform

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

The Invisible Weight cont.:

• Agents and authors both assume two hats in this industry: the creative & the business
• As always, social media changed the pub game in many ways.

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

Panel: “The Invisible Weight: Agents, Editors, and the Unseen Labor Behind Author Success”

• Agents now have to touch every aspect of the publishing process more so than what was previously commonplace
• Authors need to be attuned to what the current markets are

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

Horror Roundtable cont.:

• I brought up that I felt like the reason why horror wasn’t yet to its golden age as it was in the 80s is because those books were pubbed as paperback originals and the price points made them incredibly accessible.

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

Horror Roundtable:
• “Pink Horror” aka women doing terrible things is on the rise
• horror’s renaissance is a credit to who ia getting to write the stories and the perspectives they’re writing from

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

Global Marketplace cont.:

& women’s health NF having a surge in popularity
• Debuts & literary fiction are hard.
• For authors pubbing in Spanish (especially kid lit)…it’s important to have a direct connection to the community.

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

Catching up to updating this thread post post-event.

Panel on the Global Marketplace:
• Fewer publishers are buying on proposal.
• Panelists were seeing foreign/international publishers looking for commercial; platform-driven; alt spirituality

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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The Sassiest Semite @littlemisslizz.bsky.social · 21d

In light of today’s news I’d like to remind you that this is a real newspaper clipping. History repeats itself when we don’t stop it.

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

There’s just something about him in Gladiator

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · 21d

At #PeopleofPublishing25: CEOs Jon Karp, David Shelley, & Jon Yaged discussed getting books into kids’ hands as a priority…but this discussion can’t happen without acknowledging the slide back in publishing books by & and about BIPOC & queer creators who are most vulnerable under this current admin.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22d

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 22d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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