thank you for all the support and feedback during #preDV 🥰 i’m so excited for #DVpit!!

STARDUST THIEF x THE CITY OF BRASS Death was never the end—until now. Guided by a magical tome, Almas reawakens in new lands upon death—until it goes silent, aimless in a war-torn country w/ an ancient evil rising. If she fails, her death is final—& this land dies w/ her. #preDV #A #F #MENA

A country ravaged by civil war faces an ancient evil weaponizing a long-eradicated plague, turning citizens into servile husks. Their only hope: a wanderer with no home, no magic, and the power to decide its fate. #preDV #A #F #MENA

The woes of living on the West Coast mean having most pitch events happening at ungodly hours lol

I haven’t been on here for a while 😅 But, I’m really looking forward to #preDV & #DVpit!! I can’t wait to see everyone’s pitches 🥰

#preDV, a pitch practice event before #DVpit, is happening this MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29! If you're a Diverse Author/Artist looking to get agented & traditionally published, please join us! We're hoping to create a fun creative community here! #WriterSky #BookSky #writingcommunity

#preDV is tomorrow, MONDAY, September 29, 2025 from 8AM to 8PM Eastern Time! Marginalized Creators join us to practice your pitches for #DVpit, get feedback from agented authors, give each other feedback & encouragement! Make friends, polish your pitches & get excited for #DVpit! #writersky #booksky

I had a lot of fun today during #2025pit. I saw so much talent, and I can’t wait to see these books on shelves! Well done, everyone ❤️ I also want to say I appreciate the support from the community. Thank you, it was so uplifting! Thank you to @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social for organizing the event!

[✈️ Last call for your flight to Berlin!] ’97: ONLY ONE SUMMER IN BERLIN, then she can return to France. But she’s falling for the city—and for her reluctant host. So is he. Together, they sizzle. The devastating catch? His duty is here. She must go. Heartfelt, retro+destination #A #R #2025Pit

Lydia Struan, a History grad student and black-sheep of an old-money family, is investigating the century-old unsolved murder of Stanford University co-founder, Jane Stanford, when she accidentally summons the ghost of her prime suspect. NINTH HOUSE x HAZARDOUS SPIRITS #A #HF #SPF #M #2025Pit

My weird fiction horror-romance this #2025Pit features: 🫀 a lot of emphasis on hearts + the consumption of them ✍️ a transmasc & kinda mean MC who is definitely human! 📚 references to The Wizard of Oz and Frankenstein! 🙏 portraying humans as The Real Monsters All Along™️ and also God! #A #H #R #LGBT

COVET x FAIRYTALE x ACOWAR When headstrong Reign is saved by a warrior from a magical land it sends her & the sister she is entrusted to protect on a quest riddled with ancient magic & ravenous monsters to harness their rare powers or succumb to a battle between fate & revenge. #2025pit #A #RM #F

Luna's rearview mirror reflects a shattered life, but Thornfield Hotel's opulent facade promises a fresh start. As concierge, she's swept into a world of secrets, seduction, & murder, with the enigmatic E. Rochester at its center & her heart & survival in the crosshairs. #2025PIT #A #LF #R #H #T

#2025Pit When the chosen Empress is assassinated, her gutsy disabled ex-GF must triumph over a dysfunctional family of gods or submit to fulfilling the chosen’s grim fate as the gods' eternal slave & weapon against mortals 🌶️Hot Banter 🖤Forbidden Love 🏳️‍🌈 #LGBT & #BIPOC, neurospicy, disability

A group of Mexican American boys and girls—aka Pachucos y Pachucas—were wrongfully arrested and charged with the murder of Jose Diaz at Sleepy Lagoon. Private eye Ricardo "Ricky" Tellez needs to find the Killer before a racist mob kills him in the Zoot Suit Riots. #M #S #T #HF #GN #2025Pit #Latine

LEGENDBORN X A:TLA 16-y-o air user Tabitha Redwood is obsessed with avenging her dad's murder. When fighters start disappearing from an elemental tournament, the familiar danger drives Tab into action. It doesn't matter how hard she falls. She'll never lose anyone again. #2025Pit #YA #F #OV

Most magic Folk live in trailers, RVs, or rundown motels. They party in New Orleans, worship evil gods, get addicted to love potions, and make memes about fire spells gone wrong. However, there are little places that try to do some good, like Heidi’s House of Rescued Familiars. #2025pit #F #A

#2025Pit I have dragons too! What would you risk for a hundred years? Could you endure a bond that ties your soul to another, knowing that a single mistake could mean your death—and theirs? An action-packed high fantasy adventure with alternating povs—I present to you Tithe. #A #F #booksky

FOURTH WING x TALES OF A MONSTROUS HEART THE QUEEN IS RISING #Q #A #RM #2025pit -See pitch below -Agent’s Guide in comments

THE CITY & THE CITY x NIGHT OF THE OWLS A stolen artifact. Disappeared refugees. Dark money experiments. A murdered CEO. Something is rotten in the City of Tomorrow when a mysterious heiress returns from years in exile to root out a secret society bent on total control. #2025Pit #Q #A #SF #M #R

Alright #2025pit last one for today! Best of luck & See you all tomorrow! If you like: 🌊 "Sunny" fantasy 🌊 Greek folklore & magical creatures 💙♥️ Bi4Bi romance 🌊 Reluctant partners to lovers 🌊 Complex female friendship 🌊 Grandmother/daughter bond I’ve got just the book for you ♥️ #YA #NA #F #RM

#RM #A #YA #DIS #ownvoices #2025Pit THE HONEY WITCH x LATE BLOOMER 🐝 sapphic romantasy 🐝 autistic MC 🐝 physically disabled MC 🐝 queernormative world 🐝 sweet and sexy romance 🐝 femme witch x butch grocer 🐝 nonbinary best friend 🐝 ghost story The Witch and The Grocer

UPROOTED x THE FAMILIAR x THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS Sparks fly when carefree Astra and steadfast Grey touch—they don’t know why and don’t have time to find out between a budding romance, a malevolent secret society, and a minor revolution. #A #RM #F #DVPit #2025pit

THE SECRET HISTORY x NINTH HOUSE AN OFER SO GRAVE has… paranormal horror 👻 morally grey and unreliable MC 💁🏼‍♀️ LGBTQ+ and mental health rep 🌈 ancient secret society 🔪🩸 power v obsession 😈👹 dark academia setting 🏫 #Q #A #F #H #2025Pit #DIS

An agent’s guide to my new #amquerying project ACROSS THE SACCHARINE SEA 💘 a middle grade, cozy fantasy baking competition that’s GBBO x The Girl Who Kept The Castle with a rebellious girl at its heart & the joy of found family 🥐✨ #2025pit #MG #Q #cozyfantasy

A MMC who doesn’t hesitate & doesn’t play about the FMC > 💌 slow burn 💌 bipoc rep 💌 he falls first 💌 grumpy/sunshine 💌 London (study abroad trip) #2025PIT #NA #F #ownvoices

ROBIN HOOD X THE SELECTION X THE HUNGER GAMES 👫 Childhood best friends to lovers 🏔️ Appalachian setting 🗡️ Training sequences 🧙‍♀️ Futuristic but reads like a fantasy 💗 Swoon-worthy pining 🫵 Touch her and die #2025pit #A #D #R

THE MAD HATTER’S PROJECT follows Mary, a Manhattan Project physicist, across alternate realties. Themes of creativity, power, and the ultimate ambition: to imitate the Divine, emerge—exploring the complex relationship between choice, consequence, the universes we create within us. #2025Pit #LF #A

🌶️HEARTLESS x ✈️KILT TRIP x 🖋️C Fortune In ‘97 Berlin, an ambitious French student’s plan to learn German leads to a sizzling romance with her reluctant host—an ex-athlete grappling with his future. But she’s only here for the summer, and he can’t leave. Heartfelt, retro+destination #A #R #2025Pit

bound to a jinn, shahina rukhezzi returns from exile as an indentured servant to the maharaj. at the heart of a conspiracy & ancient curse, she must ally with friends from low places to claim the lotus throne that calls to her from the dark 📖 #2025pit #A #F #H #querying #dis #transauthor

Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #Q #A #T #SF #2025Pit #litagents #editors 🦋

The face that launched a thousand ships once belonged to a woman with a childhood, marriage and daughter. She deserves to speak her name, not have it echoed down from the mouths of her detractors. Helen of Sparta—in her own words—and as you haven't heard her since Homer. #2025Pit #A #Q #HF

#2025Pit #F #Q TOG x CARAVAL x ODW A young woman braves the hidden dangers of her kingdom to stop a mysterious rot from spreading. 🐝cloned insect army 🌷dash of botanical horror 💫slow burn romance 🐞unique nature magic 👑insect queen 🖤political intrigue

Darrian is a Grim Reaper haunted by over 3,000 years of ceaseless duty. He yearns for anything to disrupt his monotonous eternity. Enter Rose, a half-elven girl, who inexplicably returns from the dead. Their shaky alliance raises a question: Is friendship even possible after death? #2025pit #F #A

WhiteSmoke xThis Wretched Valley & TheMaryShelleyClub #2025Pit 1 blue eye. 1 brown. The🗝️is in their blood—& the blood of other Founding Family descendants. The 🗝️& the danger. Morgan’s fast, but can she outrun the force plaguing her new mountain home before her family falls prey to it? #YA #H #SF #R

#2025Pit Ocelia’s brother is the only human with a degenerative fever that leaches color—and empathy🧠. But she soon learns his illness isn’t human at all, and neither is she. Ocelia travels to the magic realm for answers🏜️, where the fever is spreading…and someone is targeting her⏳ #RM #F #YA

A trailer for HYACINTHUS, my 110k historical fantasy 🪻🏹 THE SONG OF ACHILLES meets CLYTEMNESTRA and HERA in this lyrical, golden-gilded Greek myth retelling that centres on a Spartan prince’s desire for glory and all consuming love for a god. #2025pit #Q #A #HF #His #R

a grumpy/sunshine MMC & FMC who want nothing to do with each other…are paired for a group project 💌 girlhood 💌 slow burn 💌 black/Muslim rep 💌 a feel-good romance 💌 London (study abroad) 💌 enemies ➡️ friends ➡️ lovers 🩷 #2025Pit #NA #F #ownvoices

After an accident gives her & her twin superpowers, all Ellie wants is to find her dad's true killer - then she meets Shadow, the vigilante killing the corrupt elite, and learns neither justice nor people as simple as they seem. Introducing SIRENSONG, my 128k debut #2025Pit #A #SF #R #DIS #LGBTQ

Cryptid hunting vlogger Aggie is drawn to the PNW in search of a small town cryptid called the Rambler. Deep in the caves the nearby mountain, she finds out that the Rambler is very real, and very hungry. And it's not the only danger on the mountain. #2025Pit #A #H #OS

When fame-obsessed Ellie is killed off her TV show, she is forced to return to the dark and glittering world of pageants. But when her co-host turns out to be her childhood devil, Ellie must fight for her stardom and her fragile sanity, as he tries to claw his way back into her life. #T #A #2025Pit

BABEL x RIPE x ARCANE Desperate to study at the Institute, graduate student Jim pitches rising star Professor Tanner a device that could revolutionize—or weaponize—medicine. Tanner wants to put it in everyone's pocket...and she doesn't care who it might hurt. #2025pit #A #F #SF💙📚

🐦‍⬛📖 MARK OF A MAGPIE 📖🐦‍⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #2025Pit #Q #YA #F #R #RM #amquerying #DIS

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS X10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Zelda doesn't believe in ❤️ - she just pretends to for TV. A viral interview-> #fakedating hopeless romantic actor Henry. Chemistry & #forcedproximity -> 🎆🫦 What’s real? What’s fake? Can Zelda overcome her fears and open her ❤️? #2025Pit #A #CR #R #HA