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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 25m

🎓🔥 BABEL X HOUSE 🔥🩻 🕸️ #TheQuicksilverWeb🕸️ Finally, The Yellow Wallpaper collides with modern-day dark academia. 🕳️ Greek Underworld ⚗️ Academics & alchemy 🔪 Female rage 🔌 Power politics 🫦 Feminist lens "I would definitely read this book." Madeline Miller. 5️⃣ #DVPit #CI #DIS #A

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 1h

🍲 #DVPit Recipe #TheQuicksilverWeb 🥩Add meaty representation laced with lush texture in lang. tone & setting 🫗add complex flawed humans with a slug of emotional devastation 🧂a dash of magic to create a dish with feminist/social justice themes 🍛served in a commercial dark academia sauce. 4️⃣ #A

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 3h

💬 #TheQuicksilverWeb in quotes: 🪎"Don't ever offer a god a bribe." ☕"Hot chocolate as well, could mean life & death." ⚗️"Alchemy is older than chemistry, older than the church." 👫"They resembled a geode someone had cracked in two." 🦴"Gods bones!" 3️⃣ #DVPit #CI #DIS #A #OWN

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 5h

👩‍🎓🔥 BABEL X SALTBURN 🔥🧂 🕸️ #TheQuicksilverWeb🕸️ Where the real monsters wear credentials. 🎓 Dark Academia 🕳️ Cults 🔪 Buffy gang 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Family saga 🏛️ Oxford 🖤 The Underworld 🪄 Hermetic magic ⚕️ Medicine gone haywire 👫 Twins thriller 🧤 Bribing the gods 2️⃣ #DVPit #CI #DIS #A #OWN

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 7h

🔥👩‍🎓 BABEL X SALTBURN🧂🔥 Twins battle 2 unhinged Oxford dons: psychiatrists by day, magicians by night. Magnus is forced into deadly “mind-over-matter” therapy. Ianthe is lured into an alchemical society. Meanwhile, their mother bargains with the gods in the Underworld to save them 1️⃣ #DVPit #DIS #A

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TEMPEST X DISCOVERY OF WITCHES A British folklore Odyssey. The secret prophecy of the White Raven means the Armada is coming. And there's only one exile, Meg McVie, who can access the faerie fort of female warriors on Skye to steal the magic to control the winds - from her mother. #DVParty WIP

Book teaser cover titled "The White Raven & The Faerie Queen, An Elizabethan Fantasy by Claire Every," featuring an Elizabethan-era portrait of Queen Elizabeth I wearing a dark, heavily jewels-and-pearl-embellished gown with a large white ruff.
#dvparty #booksky #writers #books #WIL #literaryagents #publishing

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

✒️ Opening line #DVParty day 3. Need a book with the incendiary spirit of BABEL & a taste of the unhinged obsession of SALTBURN...? #A #CI #DIS

"The Quicksilver Web" first line teaser: "Rosamund sank to her knees in the black sands of the Styx, as if the sun had shattered into eternity - she knew she would forget everything." Dark Academia aesthetic.
#booksky #dvparty #thequicksilverweb

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

👫TWIN MCs: Ianthe & Magnus Campion "Like a geode cracked in two." 🖤 Black pre-Raph hair • Celtic • Rangy • Griefstruck 🏫 Postgrad: Ianthe: Hist of Med Mags: Hist of Archit 📺 Fav TV: Ianthe: Buffy Mags: Sherlock 🥀 Weakness: Ianthe: Cults Mags: Tattoos Both: ☀️♋ & 🌙♎ 👀 Asc: I=♈ M=♉ #DVParty 2️⃣

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mood board for #DVParty Vibing for my 🎓BABEL X SALTBURN🧂 dark academia speculative novel. 🕸️ There are secret clues if you zoom in... #A #CI #Dis

Digital collage titled "THE QUICKSILVER WEB" featuring classical art, moths, a caduceus, a library, and a person on a couch above a color palette and the text "Oxford 2012 - Where the real monsters wear credentials."

#DVparty #literaryagents #publishing #editors #booksky #amquerying

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it worth experimenting with a few versions of comps in DVPit?! Or sticking to the same. Are TV shows or movies welcome as one comp during DVPit? #AskDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What are the common reasons you see a promising query fail to translate into a compelling manuscript and a request? #AskDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If a manuscript has been revised substantially since the start of querying due to an R&R, is it useful to mention that in future queries? Is it worth contacting agents previously queried? #AskDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just to give a huge thank you and shout out to @pitchdis.com for all their hard work and effort. It was my first pitch event & what a good one! #pitchdis

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First line poll! #PreDV 1️⃣ Rosamund sank to her knees in the black sands of the Styx, as if the sun had shattered into eternity - she knew she would forget everything. Or 2️⃣ Rosamund sank to her knees in the black sands of the Styx - she knew she would forget everything. Which do you prefer?!?

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 18/09/2026

TONIGHT 🧚‍♀️🧌 at 7pm UK time! On Fairy Tales & Disability with Amanda Leduc. Apt seeing the amount of people trying to convince us we can cure ourselves by the fairy tale trope of magical thinking! 📺 Livestreaming on our twitter, YouTube & Facebook Recording will be available.

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

💬 What as agents makes your ears sing in terms of dialogue in a manuscript? 💬 What is your one good tip to elevate dialogue?! #askDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you've had a revise & resubmit from an agent but have already sent out the previous manuscript to other agents what is the best thing to do regarding the other agents?! TIA 💐 (Yes, I'm in the middle of this scenario, just before #DVPit 🫠) #askDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👋 Do queries from pitch events get priority from an agent, do they go to the bottom of the query pile?! (Or does it just depend on the agent?!) TIA 💐 #askDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👋 During #DVpit if we get interest from an agent, but are already in their query pile, what is the recommended thing to do?! (or worse case scenario, a rejection BUT the manuscript has been revised) #askDV

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And the pitch is in. One book in 300 characters 🫠😅 #pitchdis

#pitchdis participant 2026 sticker. White background with mini confetti like background. Text in black.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ICYMI: UPDATED DATES! Due to a holiday on September 21st, we have expanded PreDV to be 2 days long! You can post your pitch practices on both September 21 & 22, 2026 from 8-5PM ET!

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 04/09/2026

I know many people have been waiting, so here you go - agents and editors participating in #PitchDis 2026! www.pitchdis.com/registrants

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My first Substack newsletter is out this Friday. PRESS ACCESS will share the things nobody tells disabled journalists about an industry that wasn’t built for us. Plus, photos of Mabel. Subscribe for free: open.substack.com/pub/frances336

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Press Access | Frances Ryan | Substack

The things nobody tells disabled journalists about an industry that wasn’t built for us. Click to read Press Access, by Frances Ryan, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 01/09/2026

Getting ready for #PitchDis next week? Here's a checklist of what you'll need to fill out your pitch form.

Pitch Form Checklist

□ Pitch – No more than 300 characters. Each space counts as a character. An emoji counts as a character. No line breaks (enter or return button) or they will be deleted. Do not include any links.
□ Book Title
□ Age Group/Genre – You may only choose one.
□ Genre – You may select up to two UNLESS you choose other, in which case you may only enter one. There is a 20 character limit for other. Any characters after 20 will be deleted.
□ Optional hashtags – If you select other, there is a 25 character limit. Any characters after 25 will be deleted.
□ Author Name (or Pen Name)
□ Email – Please make sure your email is entered correctly. Requests go through an automated system and if you’ve entered the wrong email, you will not get any requests.

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One silver lining from a health 'moment' I've discovered the author Lily King and been curled up devouring her back catalogue in the last few days. 📙 Heart the Lover 📙 Writers and Lovers 📙 Euphoria 👉 Now on The English Teacher ...so good!

Orange cover with daisy eyes Heart the Lover by Lily King.

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Portobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are nearing the end of my editing course — how to plan for an efficient and effective first revision of your novel — and this week is all about plot! portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/editing-co...

An abstract painting background with blue and ochre hues. The text overlayed reads
Editing Course: Week 7
This week, we will be looking at the plot and structure of your story!
Portobello Literary and the link to the Substack page.

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#DVpit EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us for our #DVParty September 25-29, 2026! #DVParty is a pre-event to celebrate and highlight your projects before #DVpit! Go to dvpit.carrd.co/#dvpartypredv for rules & more info!

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 20/08/2026

Hi #agents and #editors! #PitchDis registration closes in just two weeks. If you'd like to join us this year, please make sure you complete the form below by September 3. Pitches will be available to view September 15-18. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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#PitchDis Agent and Editor Registration

Thank you for your interest in #PitchDis! Please fill out this form to register for the event and access pitches from September 15 through September 18. We'll send you instructions on how to view and ...

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky! A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors! #DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026! go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info and stay tuned for more announcements!

#DVPit 2026 a bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Wednesday, September 30th 2026 on bluesky
follow us for more: @dvpit.bsky.social
or go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Community at it's best - time to warm up those pitches at #preDiv 🥧

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Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Mainly here for this! If anyone is interested here is an op to ask some questions.

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