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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Check out my self help book available on Kindle unlimited. a.co/d/07lOYsol

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 17/07/2026

For real. #noai #art

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Kelly Thomas @kellythomaslit.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Someone is impersonating me using a fake email Kelly.serendipityliteraryagency@gmail.com to request manuscripts. THIS IS NOT ME! I do NOT use Gmail for submissions. Don't send them your manuscript. Please share to protect other writers. DM me if this person has contacted you. I'm taking legal action

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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚❤️

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hell yes. Love a union. 💪🏽

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Tricia Renee @theecatservant.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

My other issue with the Shy Girl book thing is also this: how did they detect AI use? If it's AI detectors, those things are wrong most of the time. If it's people reporting, they can be wrong. People do write well and like AI. I really don't want an AI witch hunt to attack the wrong people.

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Artists! I am looking for a Jewish illustrator for a middle-grade project focusing on Jewish history, practice, and culture. If your style feels fun, MG-appropriate, and both editorial & narrative, please drop a link or DM! (And editor & agent friends, if you have someone to rec, it's appreciated!)

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We’re delighted to partner with Headline Eternal to launch Modern Stories: It Must Be Love, a romance novel-writing competition seeking to support emerging writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic backgrounds. Opens for entries 12 Feb, learn more:

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It Must Be Love: Welcome to Modern Stories’ Romance Writing Competition

Headline and Curtis Brown Creative have teamed up to find exciting new voices in romantic fiction, in association with Hachette UK’s The Future Bookshelf. What we’re looking for Modern Stories: It …

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Kidlit411 @kidlit411.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Feb 6): kidlit411.com/2026/02/the-... Inside: Annual Valentiny contest, How to Promote on Tiktok, MG craft tips, more. Thanks @debbiefong.com for the illustration, @cindyschrauben.bsky.social & Jennifer Butts for the PB giveaways.

kidlit411.com

The Weekly 411 (2/6/26)

A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

NEW 12x12 Picture Book #Podcast episode: Valerie Bolling talks about why she renews her #12x12pb membership every year, why she challenges herself to write different types of #picturebooks, & SO much more! Listen now: 12x12challenge.com/p... #amwriting #kidlit #booksky #writingcommunity

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Anne Tibbets - Literary Agent @annetibbets.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Pre-published authors: Querying is THE WORST! Writers on Submission: Submission is THE WORST! Writers Waiting to Announce their Deal: Waiting to announce is THE WORST! Writers after their Editorial Letter arrives: Editorial letters are THE WORST! Copy edits are THE WORST! Day after Launch:THE WORST!

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

$BABEL ON CALLISTO Querying February 2025 @saraduranauthor sara.duran@bsky.social COMPS The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, labeled “isolated research station” and “philosophical alien threat.” The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw, labeled “queer, visceral horror” and “love as a consuming force.” The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, labeled “psychological unraveling” and “fracture under mission pressure.” PITCH “On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.” TASTE “Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—the time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction: how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.”$

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R.D.Winter @rdwinterauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins. The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud. Epistolary gothic horror. #QUESTPIT

Dark stone well surrounded by overgrown ivy and moss, title WHERE ECHOES WAIT overlaid in white text.

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Twelve-year-old Hunter is a fan of an international art thief. When one of his classmates is murdered & the art thief is a prime suspect, Hunter and his friends must work fast to expose the real killer - until Hunter discovers that the art thief may be his father. #questpit

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wordpamela.bsky.social @wordpamela.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

12yo sceptic Yanju becomes homeless, grieves, so loses the will to paint. She encounters a ghost, witch and Mamiwata(mermaid). To heal from grief, she must let her spirit guide help fight, and win an art competition to have a home, or else remain homeless and be a ghost #Questpit #MG #F #PR #BVM #Q

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

#BluePit is coming up fast, but even sooner is our pre-event #BluePitHype! Starting on January 8th, we'll be doing a 5-day long Q&A for sharing advice, art, and finding new friends and stories! We can't wait to see your pitches! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic

#BluePitHype

Pre-Event for #BluePit

We can hardly wait until Jan 13th to see everyone’s amazing pitches. So join us for our pre-event Q&A!

#BluePitHype Q&A Schedule

Jan 8th - Introductions
Jan 9th - Art Share
Jan 10th - Character Interviews
Jan 11th - Advice Share
Jan 12th - Build Your List
Jan 13th - #BluePit

JOIN US STARTING Jan 8th!

@bluepit.bsky.social

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Ruqayyah Daud @borahaze91.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I had a lot of questions asking me if this is for IP project and not necessarily! it’s a general call as my submissions inbox has not been as diverse as I’d like it to be!

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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Feels like a good day to mention that @headwaterlit.bsky.social has an AI Policy now

Headwater Literary Management believes that generative AI (LLM) in its current form is built on the theft of artists’ work, and that the technology runs counter to all notions of labor solidarity and the wellbeing of literary culture. As a rule we will not consider any work that has been drafted with AI, or which has relied on AI to produce its content in any other way.

Headwater Literary Management will not use AI in any part of our work on behalf of our clients, including but not limited to: assessing submissions, editing manuscripts, or managing client projects.

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So, you've finished your manuscript and are eager to share your work with literary agents. How do you write the perfect pitch letter to a literary agent? 🤔 Here are CBC founder Anna Davis' top tips on how to make your submission pitch letter stand out from the pack:

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How to write the perfect pitch letter to an agent

How do you write the perfect pitch-letter to a literary agent? Here are my top 15 tips on how to make your letter stand out from the pack.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

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Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions

For younger writers, ages 15-21

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · 13/09/2025

I wanted to show you something kind of fun. Here's how agents and editors will see pitches next week (minus the blurriness). They'll see your title, pitch, name or pen name, and the colors are age groups, genres, and the optional hashtags.

Blurred image of the PitchDis request site to show the layout.

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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

People looking to work in publishing please be aware this salary is NOT acceptable. 4 days in office in NYC with that list of responsibilities for 42K? As someone who has been an assistant to high level executives & has worked in publishing... No. This is is not a serious offer.

mostly text - job description for an "assistant to the publisher" job in NYC for 42K annually.
Job summary includes:
an award-winning mid-sized independent publishing house known for quality works of adult fiction and nonfiction, is looking for an energetic and organized person to assist our editorial and publishing team. Essential duties include
• Writing descriptive copy for hardcovers and paperback reissues, catalogue and galley / ARC copy, and rights copy
• Monitoring, organizing, reading and reporting on submissions
• Preparing tip sheets and sales conference / presentation materials, including writing descriptive copy, suggesting comp titles, marketing bullets, keywords, and BISACs
• Preparing and transmitting manuscripts to production and liaising with author and production on all stages of the book process, from transmittal to copyediting, proofreading, 1st through final passes
• Doing offset/reprint transmittals when needed and liaising with international publishers / agents on all steps of process
• Creating cover worksheets and writing long descriptions for sales and art teams
• Drafting contract proposals, deal memos, and check requests
• Updating quotes and review pulls and marketing materials to Coresource and the website
• Assisting with scheduling of titles, creating spreadsheets, and list planning
• Active participation in weekly marketing, editorial, and production meetings
• Reprint permissions requests or assisting authors in obtaining reprint permissions
• Keeping track of book mailings
• Clerical work including printing materials, mailing, photocopying, messengering, and keeping contacts up to date
• Assisting with travel, scheduling, and other administrative duties for the Publisher
Essential Skills:
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to juggle many different tasks, prioritize workload and stay on top of deadlines
• Widely read and interested in marketplace and business side of industry
• 2 years of experience in publishing

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

When 9yo Rachel sets out to spread Christmas cheer in their apartment building, she has no idea she's a ghost only selected people can see, and that she must solve the mystery of how she died so her grieving mother can move on with her life. #mg #SelfPromoPit

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#PitBLK is happening on Sept 21-24 on their pitch site! Follow @pitblk.bsky.social for more information, or visit pitchpitblk.com! #Writers #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmQuerying #AmAgenting

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PitchPitBlk

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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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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 02/07/2025

"Children don't need protection from books; they need protection from hate and discrimination." #BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy Read full 🧵👇🏽

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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Today is the first day of the second half of 2025. ✨ I hope it's great for you! 🩵

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Revising my #MG #Fantasy #Horror. I can't believe that I figured out what was wrong with the opening pages all on my own. ☺️🌻

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Andie Smith @andiesmithbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction is live!! I am honored to be apart of this wonderful event again. This year, I’m donating (1) 50 page critique and (1) query package critique. Let’s make your submissions stronger and support a great mission at the same time. 👏🏼 #amquerying

I donated to the Literary Auction For Change. Save the Dates: June 16 - Jun 23

What: A bookish auction fundraising for Literary Agents of Change, an all-volunteer 501(c)-3 nonprofit. We offer fellowship and mentorship programs geared toward improving access and retention for literary agents from underrepresented groups working in publishing.

Query + Synopsis + First 3 Chapters Agent Critique

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#BluePit is back for the summer! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place again on July 13th, 2025! And #BluePitHype starts July 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Text overlaid on a sunny scene of wildflowers and a trail of bright orange and yellow butterflies.

#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype/Pitch Event

What It Is:
An event designed to uplift storytellers of any media. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage (e.g., Drafting, Editing, Querying, On Submission, or Published).

When:
July 13th, 2025 and will run the full 24 hours!

#BluePit Rules:
Limit 3 posts per WIP; multiple works allowed.
Include correct emojis to appear in media specific feeds
Use appropriate tags (see Tag list)
All images must include ALT text. No AI.
Everyone is encouraged to like and repost
Use the #BluePit feeds to find and support others.
Agents, editors, and publishers are welcome to participate and can also use #BluePit feeds without a BlueSky account

#Emojis for custom media feeds:
Writing (e.g. “#bluepit 📖”)
Game Dev (e.g. “#bluepit 🎮”)
Comics (e.g. “#bluepit 💥”)
TTRPGS (e.g. “#bluepit 🎲”)

Questions:
BluePit.Carrd.Co
@BluePit.Bsky.Social
@ZProspero.bsky.social

#BluePit Tags

MEDIA:
#BluePit 💥 - Comics
#BluePit 🎮 - Game Dev
#BluePit 🎲 - TTRPGs
#BluePit 📖 - Writers

STAGE:
#W - Work In Progress
#Q - Querying
#OS - On Submission
#P - Published

AUDIENCE:
#PB - Picture Book
#MG - Middle Grade
#YA - Young Adult
#A - Adult
#NA - New Adult

REPRESENTATION:
#OV - Own Voices
#LGBT- LGBTQIA+
#DIS - Disabled Creators
#WF - Women's Fiction
#POC - Person of Color
#ND - Neurodivergent
#TR - Transgender

GENRE
#F - Fantasy
#R - Romance
#H - Horror
#SF - Sci-Fi
#M - Mystery
#PN - Paranormal
#C - Crime
#HS - Historical
#SP - Speculative
#PO - Poetry
#NF - Non-Fiction

GAME SYSTEM:
#D20 - 20-sided die based
#D6 - 6-sided die based
#D100 - 100-sided die based
#NAR - Narrative based
#DUN - Dungeon Crawler
#RO - Rogue-Like

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Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Over at the Writers Helping Writers blog, Liz Alterman shares how to begin your novel with the end goal in mind and avoid mistakes she’s made. She’s giving away a query critique and an EBook to celebrate her newest release, Claire Casey’s Had Enough. writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/begi...

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The Importance of Beginning with the End in Mind

Liz Alterman is here to share how to begin your novel with the end goal in mind and avoid mistakes she’s made. Plus…she’s giving away a query critique and an EBook to celebrate her newest release, Cla...

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A thing I see in submissions a lot: Characters standing in rooms, thinking deeply, walking across the room, running a hand through their hair, walking more... Y’all. Let them DO STUFF. Make choices. Blow something up. Trip over something. Fight someone. #AmWriting

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Eleanor Bick @elbdot.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Last year almost every poster I saw outside for festivals and plays was made using genAI. Today I could only spot a single one between ten. Keep talking down on AI tech bros, keep being loud, keep making it as EMBARRASSING and SHAMEFUL as possible to use this tech, because it is genuinely working! ✊

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Dear Agents and Editors, I am an indie published writer academic writer (Oxford University Press), romance fiction writer (Readict) and ghostwriter (Readict/Cyanbird Media). I am presently ghostwriting my third book for Readict. I am a hard working #MG author and #PB author.

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GinaDobsonBAB @ginadobson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I returned home to Decatur shackled & cuffed & taken straight to jail for murder charges. My family hadn't seen me in yrs. But even news headlines & family grudges couldn't hinder their love of the grandchild they never knew while I struggled within a sisterhood behind bars. #Questpit #Mem #NF #A

Movie covers for The Glass Castle and Orange is the New Black.

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Kanani O’Kelly @kananiokelly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

This image is the first of four to showcase elements for my upcoming book, Whispers of the Sea.

The picture reads: “An Agents Guide to Whispers of the Sea.”

This book will be a young adult fantasy.

This is the second image in my guide, and it includes the pitch for my novel.

Such pitch reads to say:

“Whispers of the Sea follows the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a journey to rescue her uncle after he was mysteriously captured by a group of uniformed men sailing under the royal flags of a faraway kingdom.

Maia must voyage across the seas to this mysterious isle where she’ll team up with a local boy to track her uncle’s whereabouts. But in order to understand the dangers that lurk ahead, she’ll be forced to uncover a lifetime worth of secrets—and she must do so before it’s too late.”

This is the third image in my guide, and it portrays my comp titles.

My book will be perfect for the fans of the Jasad Heir, A River Enchanted, Curious Tides, and the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi.

This is the last image in my guide, and it showcases the aesthetic and a few elements that can be found in the book.

A few of these elements are: found family, secret ploys, outlawed magic, and self discovery.

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#Questpit #f #mg An agent's guide to Rewitched featuring: ✨A dyslexic witch ✨A magical coffee shop ✨A school of dark academia ✨Sea monsters, and ✨Family secrets

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Whodunit? My #mg #murdermystery features: 🗡️A 12yo framed for murder 🗡️An art thief 🗡️A race to find a murderer 🗡️ Hunter's father returning from the dead 😱 🗡️Cryptic clues 🗡️Plots & schemes that shouldn't go wrong... 🗡️Kids spying on adults, & 🗡️Family secrets #Questpit

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

ALT TEXT is very important on BlueSky for a few reasons: 1. It makes your content more accessible. 2. It increases the likelihood of getting reposted. 3. Search looks for keywords in alt text too, so it increases your post's visibility. Here's a helpful graphic: bsky.app/profile/blue...

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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

10 days until the first #PosterPit on April 19th! Follow @posterpit.bsky.social (or use our handy Pitch Events Starter Pack here to follow all the events we know about: go.bsky.app/UzNMwUV) See the rules below! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #Writers

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Shersinghzn.bsky.social @sherisingh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🚨 URGENT: Help Teri & Her Family 🚨 Teri lost her mother unexpectedly & is now the sole provider for her aging father & disabled sister. With no access to family funds, she’s struggling to keep food on the table & bills paid. Every dollar helps! Please donate/share! ❤️ 🔗 bit.ly/ForTeri #Crowdfunding

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Donate to Help Teri Rebuild: A Family’s Fight After Loss, organized by Brandee JKth

Life can change in an instant. On March 5, Teri Schuffert and her sister W… Brandee JKth needs your support for Help Teri Rebuild: A Family’s Fight After Loss

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 02/04/2025

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'm looking for an artist to work on a picture book who can capture both the grandeur of vast arctic landscapes AND the intimacy of a family's story peppered with wildlife. Share samples below. Please no DMs. Agents feel free to email. 💙❤️ #artshare #art #illustration

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