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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/09/2026

Nora Roberts.

Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AskDV How would you suggest querying an #MG project that you envision as having spot illustrations when you are not an illustrator?

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Holly Schindler @hollyschindler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How to create a round photo in InDesign (no Photoshop needed)! More image tips for InDesign: youtu.be/gjFk7lhYk1I?... #writingk #writingcommunity #indieauthors #indiepublishing #SelfPublishing #storytelling #InDesign #bookformatting #bookdesign #writersofbluesky

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Would you say there are some word counts that are too low

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is something singularly poetic that the first time I see These Kindred Hearts in the wild is in one of my favorite cities, which happens to be where Writing Miss Right is set. I love you New Orleans #bvm #blackbooksky #booksky #writingcommunity

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CRINGE IS DEAD WE SUPPORT FREE PALESTINE AND SILLY LITTLE SONGS LETS GOOO

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today we're hosting #AskDV (Q&A with literary agents) at 4-5PM ET to prep for #DVpit! Using #AskDV ask participating lit agents your questions about pitching, querying, & publishing! Join us & @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social Alexandra Levick @mwhatnall.bsky.social @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I remember being a teen and using Scarleteen for all of my questions. I didn't know they are still around and that makes me happy

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm just saying, some agent, somewhere, knows they want my low word count, MG contemporary fantasy with Black rep, queer rep, and autism rep...

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's that time of year. Teachers buy way more school supplies than you'd think. I teach at a Title I high school, mostly Black and brown students who deserve every resource I can get them. I always come out of pocket for hygiene items, snacks, and paper. #ClearTheList www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thank you so much! I'm so excited

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

16,484 words into Vows of Ruin and Sienna is choosing violence (the elegant kind). She died once already so a ball full of nobodies doesnt scare her anymore. Sienna came back different and the court is about to find out just how much. #WIPWednesday #DarkRomantasy #VowsOfRuin #BlackAuthors #amwriting

A WIP Wednesday graphic with a dark plum background featuring faint floral line art. A pink desktop computer monitor displays a cream-colored screen titled "First Draft Updates" with traffic light dots in the corner. Current progress reads 16,484 of 100,000 words. Below "This Week's Fave Line" is a passage that reads "After receiving abuse from them for several minutes, I'd found an opening to make my escape and run away to hide for the rest of the ball. I'd be damned if I did that a again. A nobody like Lady Khax and her cronies would not run me off this time." The desk setup includes a pink lamp, white coffee cup, pink keyboard, pink mouse, and a small succulent in a pink pot. The bottom reads "A Vow of Ruin" in pink script.

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THESE KINDRED HEARTS a BIPOC YA romantasy antho released yesterday. I downloaded my Audible copy and went right to my queer Black girl story WRITING MISS RIGHT and hearing a narrator reading MY WORDS has me grinning! Thank @shariwrites.bsky.social @tjohler.bsky.social and @zandoprojects.bsky.social.

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Right now I am halfway done with chapter 4 of my wip but I have written 15000 words which exceeds my writing plans and if I continue that pattern, I am looking at about 187,000 words for the whole book. This is very not good lol I have never been an overwriter in my life. What is happening?????

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Black Man Pondering a Devious Question

ALT: Black Man Pondering a Devious Question

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Most shows. I have such a bad attention span lol

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

As an Anti-A👁 author I wanted to make a cover for my wip Vow of Ruin. My problem is I made 3 & Idk which I like the most! This is a dark enemies to lovers spicy romantasy for fans of the regression trope in webtoons/manwha. I'm excited to share more of this project as I write. So which is your fav?

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Draco @killerdraco.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I read this book, The Automatic Writing Experience, and they talked about a sort of trance writing to the spirits but while Im interested in the concept of speaking to my ancestors, this felt very white. So any of my Black diasporic fam have any book recs on communing with the ancestors for me?

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY x PARABLE OF THE SOWER 17yo Samira strives to be the 1st Colored astronaut in 60yrs. That’s off the table when her sis is seen protesting. One Samira snuck out to. Now the family must flee to Mexico or die trying #DVPit #YA #CoA #D #H #SPF #T

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

They made America great again ...but only if you fit in a narrow box. And 17yo Black and closeted Samira def doesn’t. So when her family goes on the run in neo-Jim Crow America, she has a lot to fear, including losing her heart to another girl on the run #DVPit #YA #D #H #CoA #T #SPF

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I've been struggling with my sense of self and imposter syndrome for a long time now. Let's talk about it nikkitgrant.substack.com/p/to-be-a-fr...

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To Be A Fraud

A Rebuke of Imposter Syndrome

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

YA social horror/thriller along the lines of PARABLE OF THE SOWER on a roadtrip across racist America. 17yo Samira is on the run with her fam in neo-Jim Crow America, struggling through Sundown Towns, lynch mobs, and illegal love with another girl. #DVPit #YA #CoA #D #H #SPF #T

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If your hashtag searching is not working for #DVpit we created a feed for the hashtag. Please always try to search the hashtag first, but this feed includes all posts under the hashtag as well. We will update during the day as we learn more from bsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Yo you had me at the comps but with each word I grew even more desperate to read

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Agents I need you to grab this and hurry up and sell it so I can read!

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

That means there will definitely some ugly crying lol

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I love that play on words lol. But I love this concept even more!

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

You know I need to be able to read this ASAP!

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This sounds like it will curb stomp my heart lol

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In near future USA, 17yo Samira’s family must flee to Mexico when her older sister gets death threats after a protest against Jim Crow-like laws. On the trip she’s exposed to the horrors of the county and to love she never expected to have. An illegal love with another girl. #DVPit #YA #D #SPF #T

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#DVpit is 1 week away! We're excited to have over 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from dozens of literary agencies and publishing imprints! For the next week we'll be having a #DVparty to get hyped up for the event! more info: dvpit.carrd.co #writersky

#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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Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Hip Hop Vampire Hunters 🥛🍯

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣 Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit! Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025! Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7! Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!

#preDV September 29th, 2025 12PM - 5PM ET

Join us for our practice vent, #preDV on Bluesky!
Come with your best pitches and receive4 feedback from agented authors.

All participants are welcome to also give feedback and make friends during the community event before Oct 8th's #DVpit.
More info at dvpit.carrd.co

#DVparty
October 2nd - October 7th 2025

October 2nd (Day 1): Post a moodboard/art

October 3rd (Day 2): Introduce your main character

October 4th (Day 3): Opening LInes

October 5th (Day 4): Your Story as a meme/gif

October 6th (Day 5): Your Story's theme song/playlist

October 7th (Day 6): Hype your next 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

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY x PARABLE OF THE SOWER 17yo Samira strives to be the 1st Colored astronaut in 60yrs. That's off the table when her sis is seen protesting. One Samira snuck out to. Now the family must flee to Mexico or die trying #QueerPit #YA #CoA #D #H #SPF #T

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The DX of ASD makes it very clear that the full impact of an Autistic Person's Autistic traits may not fully manifest (and therefore qualify the person for a Dx of ASD) until social demands exceed the person's capacity (like ... you know ... puberty, adulthood, etc ...)

Lucy is the one of the main characters of the Fallout series. This is a meme based on that character.

Lucy in the Vault: "Gifted" Kid
Lucy at the end of Fallout: Burned out Autistic Adult.

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Thanks. Hopefully an agent and editor will eventually agree lol

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

They made America great again...but only if you fit in a narrow box. And 17yo Black and closeted Samira def doesn't. So when her family goes on the run in neo-Jim Crow America, she has a lot to fear, including losing her heart to another girl on the run #queerpit #YA #D #H #CoA #T #SPF

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Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

In near future USA, 17yo Samira's family must flee to Mexico when her older sister gets death threats after a protest against Jim Crow-like laws. On the trip she's exposed to the horrors of the county and to love she never expected to have. An illegal love with another girl. #QueerPit #YA #D #SPF #T

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Before we begin, some housekeeping: Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...

communityjusticeexchange.org

National Bail Fund Network — Community Justice Exchange

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