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M.N. Bansal @minawritesstories.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I had such a great time doing #DVPit this year! It was so fun to see everyone’s concepts and meet other writers! Thank you to everyone who boosted my posts and thank you @heybrightonrose.bsky.social for being my DV Pit guide ❤️

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS Eight years after the murder of his parents, Kasper returns to the Shrouded City to take down the seven people responsible—including the girl he thought was the love of his life. #DVpit #YA #NA #F #WOC #LGBT #ASIAN #OWN

Journal open to a two-page spread of marker illustrations of the characters for the book mentioned in the pitch. Each character has their own sixth of the page and is shown from the shoulders up, casting magic.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS In a world of magical warring gangs, 19yo Anya has 3 days to track down the man who killed her father before she hangs for his crimes. But when a boy from her past returns for revenge, Anya must stay a step ahead and choose between her heart and her life. #DVpit #NA #F

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Eight years after his parents were murdered, Kasper returns to the Shrouded City to take down the people responsible—including the girl he once loved. ⛲ Venice-inspired setting 🗡️ Warring magical gangs 💔 Childhood friends to lovers to enemies 🏰 MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS #DVpit #YA #NA #F #WOC

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

HUNGER GAMES x ACOMAF but funny 17yo Aline enters the fae tournament to save her sister, only for her ex-BF to show up and pull a Peeta. Now they’ve got until sunrise to win the tournament before the fae find out they’re not really in love—and Aline loses her sister forever. #DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

17yo Aline enters the fae tournament to save her sister, but must compete against her ex-BF, who tricks her into a fake dating plot to scam the fae and win it all. 🧚‍♂️ Faeries behaving badly 🌚 Appalachia at night 🏳️‍🌈 Bi4Bi chaos 🗡️ CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny #DVpit #YA #CF #F #POC

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH 16yo Beatrice infiltrates rival secret societies at Blairwood Academy to uncover which fellow student killed her ex-girlfriend. 📚 Magical dark academia 🖤 Bi4Bi rivals-to-lovers 🇵🇭 Biracial FMC 👩‍🎨 Gorgeous Atlas Six-style illustrations #DVpit #YA #CF #F #LGBT #WOC

Black and white illustration of characters mentioned in the post. On the left is Beatrice Tamayo, a dark-haired teenage girl wearing a school uniform and levitating an apple. On the right is Vesper Morian, a blond teenage boy also in a school uniform and doing magic.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny I [17F] entered a fae tournament to save my sister [19F] but my theater kid ex-bf [17M] is competing too and wants to pretend we’re in love so the fae vote for us to win. AITA if I do it? I don’t still like him. I swear. Edit: Oh no #DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC

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Sav Wright @savwrightbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Mentally, I am in soup season. Physically, I am in the fifth circle of Hell.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH 16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend. 📚 Magical dark academia 🇵🇭 Biracial FMC 🖤 Rivals-to-lovers 🗡️ Dueling secret societies 📖 Sentient evil library #DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT

A black and white illustration done in the styles of Alphonse Mucha and Bon Orthwick. On the left is Beatrice Tamayo, a dark-haird teenage girl in a school uniform levitating an unbitten apple. On the right is Bianca Sacramore, her hair billowing up above her, levitating an apple with a single bite out of it. Around each girl is an ornate frame with smaller illustrations, including celestial elements and vintage books.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH 16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend. 📚 Magical dark academia 🗡️ Dueling secret societies 🖤 Rivals-to-lovers 🇵🇭 Biracial FMC 📖 Sentient evil library #DVpit #YA #CF #F #WOC #LGBT

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 07/10/2025

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀

Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom.
Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan

illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.

Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.

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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Absolutely wild to say this but... your eyes do not deceive you. That IS me being quoted in USA Today talking about the inherent queerness of vampires! 😱🦇🌈 www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

usatoday.com

Did 'Twilight' ruin the vampire genre? How the series broke the rules – for the better

People still tell "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson that the movies and Stephenie Meyer books ruined the vampire genre. But did it? We asked readers.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#DVparty day 6, part 2 i am drafting a completely self-indulgent vampire why choose where a hapless grad student gets locked in a magical house for a year with 3 very handsome, very thirsty vampires 😈

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#DVparty day 6 my next project is an adult dark academia romantasy starring a very hot terrible man with the power to command people using his voice and his very hot terrible girlfriend who has the power to instantly become fluent in any language once she hears 7 words in that language

Screenshot of text that says: Chapter One. Four years ago

Xander Farrow hadn’t ruined someone’s life in two days, and he was getting restless. He slid his hands into the pockets of his black Isaia Napoli peacoat, whistling Rocherolle’s “Le salon de musique,” nimbly traversing the path’s roots and rocks beneath his cap-toe boots. It was unwise to stroll through the wooded part of the park at night—too many predators about—but this path was a shortcut and Xander wanted to get to the fight right as it ended.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#DVparty day 3, opening lines y'all pray for aline. she's not dead, just entering a fae tournament to save her sister and one of her competitors is her insufferably handsome ex she def does NOT still have feelings for

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Every year, the harvest moon tournament claims fifty lives and ruins just as many families, but all I can think as I step into the Nightwood is that I haven’t packed enough KitKats.

My backpack, which is more duck tape than bag these days, weighs like I’m smuggling a cinderblock (not great when I’ll end up running from something at least once tonight) but I packed smart: snacks, stolen intel, first aid kit, baby teeth, shoplifted candy.

Everything you need when the fae are out for blood and you’ve got a sister to save.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#DVparty day 2 part 2 meet aline who’s gonna rescue her fool sister from the fool fae prince. her shirt is shoplifted and her acne spells BITCH in braille. she’s in over her head 🥰 (drawing her is my chosen form of procrastination)

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#DVparty Day 2: Main Character If anyone at Blairwood Academy discovers Eve Sacramore is really Beatrice Tamayo, like 3 people are going to prison for felony magic fraud and a murderer is going to get away with Beatrice’s ex girlfriend’s death 👀👀

Black and white illustration of Eve Sacramore, a disguise, and Beatrice Tamayo, the real teenage girl

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

hi #DVparty i am an author illustrator who’s putting atlas six-style section art in her YA fantasy dark academia i love writing about terrible people doing magic ✨✨

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

everyone pray for me, i’m not dying just trying to speedrun a 60k revision between now and DVpit okay maybe i am a little dying

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

HUNGER GAMES x ROSE BARGAIN After the fae took her sister during the harvest moon tournament, 17yo Aline enters the Wood to kick fae ass and get her back. But the tournament pits her against her ex-bf, who reels her into a fake dating ploy to scam the fae and win it all. #preDV #YA #CF #POC

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH 16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat, magical Blairwood Academy in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend. 📚 Magical dark academia 🗡️ Dueling secret societies 🖤 Rivals-to-lovers 🎨 Section illustrations—with clues 👀 #preDV #YA #F #WOC #LGBT

Black and white illustration done in the styles of Alphonse Mucha and Bon Orthwick. A dark-haired, seventeen-year-old girl wearing a school uniform gazes at the viewer and magically floats an apple.

Black and white illustration of a seventeen-year-old boy with white blond hair and a school uniform casually doing magic. The boy has a slight smirk.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES but funny 17yo Aline enters the fae tournament to save her sister, but must compete against her ex-BF, who tricks her into a fake dating scheme to scam the fae and win it all. 🧚‍♂️ Faeries behaving badly 🦊 Appalachia at night 🌗 Grumpy x sunshine #preDV #YA #CF #F #POC

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

CRUEL PRINCE x HUNGER GAMES I [17F] entered a fae tournament to save my sister [19F] but my theater kid ex-boyfriend [17M] is competing too and wants to pretend we’re in love so the fae vote for us to win. AITA if I do it? I totally don’t still like him. I swear. Edit: Oh no #preDV #YA #CF #F

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

MONTE CRISTO x SIX OF CROWS In a world of masks and street gangs, 19yo Anya has 3 days to track down the man who killed her father before she hangs for his crimes. But when a boy from her past returns for revenge, Anya must stay a step ahead and choose between her heart and her life. #preDV #NA #F

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS WITH SHARP TEETH When Beatrice’s ex-girlfriend is found dead at the cutthroat Blairwood Academy of Magic, Beatrice has a year to find the killer before the secret society behind it silences her for good. #preDV #YA #F with illustrations by the author

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

ACOMAF x HUNGER GAMES Fae tournament. Fake dating. Terrible choices. 17yo Aline enters the Nightwood to save her sister, only for her ex-BF to show up and pull a Peeta. Now they’ve got until sunrise to win the tournament before the fae find out they’re not actually in love. #preDV #YA #CF #F

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

NINTH HOUSE x BOYS W/ SHARP TEETH After her ex-girlfriend is found dead at Blairwood Academy, 16yo Beatrice disguises as a student to find the killer—and unravels a deadly rivalry between secret societies who will do worse than murder to protect their power. #preDV #YA #OWN #F #WOC

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

16yo Beatrice attends cutthroat, magical Blairwood in disguise to uncover which student there killed her ex-girlfriend. 📚 Magical dark academia 🗡️ Dueling secret societies 🖤 Rivals-to-lovers 🤯 A twist no one sees coming #preDV #YA #F

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

#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

#preDV
September 19th, 2025
8AM - 8PM ET

Join us for our practice event, #preDV on Bluesky!
Come with your best pitches and receive feedback from agented authors.

All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before October 8th's #DVpit.

More info at dvpit.carrd.co

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

the character // the intro meet eve, the main character of my young adult fantasy dark academia. she’s the newest student at a cutthroat magical boarding school where she’s attending in disguise to figure out who killed her ex-girlfriend 🗡️

Black and white illustration of a teenaged girl. The girl is holding her hand out and magically hovering an apple. The art is done in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

Jpg of the opening sentences of a book. “I step out of the black town car wearing a face that isn’t mine.”

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

tonight’s progress on drawing my villain 😈 i am writing and illustrating a #darkacademia #fantasy about to rival secret societies at a cutthroat magical boarding school #illustration #writing

In-progress illustration of a female villain in an art-nouveau-inspired frame. Only a rough sketch and an outline of the girl’s face, as well as an ornate frame, are drawn.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

i have entered my fan art era. here’s samia and zamzam from SIX TRUTHS AND A LIE by ream shukairy #fanart #authorillustrator #drawing

Photo. On the left is a black and white, hand drawn illustration of Samia and Zamzam, two young woman hijabi book characters. On the right is a hardback copy of Six Truths and a Lie, a young adult novel by Ream Shukairy.

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Brighton Rose @heybrightonrose.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

hi! i am brighton and i am a writer and illustrator from nyc. currently i am working on a YA dark academia murder mystery, which i plan to illustrate as well 😊 #writers #amwriting

Photo of a woman in a black beret and glasses in front of a piano being used as a bookshelf.

Digital illustration of a boy with pale hair casting magic

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