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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 5h

ASHMARKED #DVPit #A #F #H 📺Midnight Mass x 🎶Seven Devils Tethered to the immortal Darkness and hunted by her faith to reimprison him, devotee Eloweth must work with heretics & rebels to break their bond. If she fails, she'll become the next monster the Faith needs to justify its violence and lies.

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 8h

ASHMARKED #DVPit #A #F #H Tethered to the immortal Darkness and hunted by her faith to reimprison him, devotee Eloweth must cross an unknown wilderness & work with heretics and rebels to break their bond. If she fails, she'll become the next monster the Faith needs to justify its violence and lies.

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 10h

The Faith calls him Darkness. Evil. But when she's tethered to the being they taught her to fear, Eloweth discovers the real horror isn't what the Faith hunted; it's what they created. Now she must sever the bond before she becomes the monster the Faith both fears and needs. #A #F #H #DVPIT

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 13h

This... is... such... a.... vibe. I can't wait to have this one in my hands IRL!

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 13h

ASHMARKED: ⛪ "Fear the immortal Darkness." Her: 👍 ⛓️➡️🖤 Her: 😰 🖤: "The Faith lied." Her: 🙄 📜🔍 Her: 😳 📜🔍🔍 Her: 😱 📜🔍🔍🔍 Her: "uh oh..." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 The only thing worse than being magically chained to an immortal Darkness... Is finding out your religion made him that way. #A #F #H #dvpit

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 14h

I have been SO lucky to read this manuscript. I can't wait to get my hands on it in its final form!

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 14h

🎵Cirice by Ghost x 🖼️The Nightmare by Fuseli Eloweth: Raised to fear the Darkness 😱 Also Eloweth: Now magically tethered to it🥲 The Faith: Created it, and she's the next ingredient 👨‍🍳 Eloweth (holding a torch): So, anyway, I started burning 🔥 #dvpit #A #F #H

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 15h

🎵The Sound of Silence by Disturbed x 🖼️ Judith Beheading Holofernes by Gentileschi Her faith calls him Darkness. Evil. Now tethered to the monster they taught her to fear, Eloweth finds the real horror wasn't what the Faith hunted. It was what they created. And she’s next. #A #F #H #dvpit

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Project 1! A sci-fi sapphic Cupid & Psyche/East of the Sun, West of the Moon retelling where an advanced alien species imposes themselves as gods on a planet, and Psyche gets Cupid to help her take down the god’s regime. #DVparty

Four images, one of an ornate masked figure in black and gold standing in a garden, a golden church window with painted blue walls, a lithograph of a woman with a candle shining a light on a sleeping man, and a painting of a fist holding a dagger.

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Project 2! A science fantasy where the lines between universes become blurred by those grasping for power. A yearning monk, a tortured wizard, and a determined waitress are thrown together to figure it out. ❤️‍🔥 Reylo Vibes 🌌 Black Hole Magic 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family 🌀 Portals 🍻 Craft Beer #DVparty

A collage of images, which include a foggy city at night lit up with teal lights from below, an illuminated manuscript with two birds, a shot of Rey and Kylo Ren looking at each other shadowed in black and white, a genteel gloved hand holding another, a stone door in a desert opening up to the night sky, an old rusted bridge in the forest, someone pouring beer from a tap, a gold an teal mosaic tower, and an artist depiction of a monk conferring with St. George.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#dvparty last day! #SFF #NA When a disgraced military cadet learns that the authoritarian government she's devoted her life to is conducting experiments on vulnerable members of the city, she flees into the sewers, falling into the very grass-roots extremist organization she was trained to uproot.

A moodboard featuing text snippets and concept art.

Raining Fire - 100k - Adult Sci-Fantasy WIP

When a disgraced military cadet learns that the authoritarian government she's devoted her life to is conducting unethical experiments on vulnerable members of the city, she flees into the sewers, falling into the very grass-roots extremist organization she was trained to uproot.

Images of a dingy city, ports, characters in gaslamp-style dress, with mecha guns and uniforms.

Quotes: Those who slept in the gutters, the workless, the dust-dazed, they we just weak. The Conglomerate would never allow someone to fail when they deserved success.

So this was what happened behind closed doors. Everything she'd worked for, struck from her record. Her entire career, ripped from her.

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bea is a librarian whose secret camgirl persona is about to be exposed to everyone around her—family, friends, coworkers, boss she does not have a crush on. #DVParty

Graph paper background with doodles and cutout hearts and stars. A collection of meme texts are taped and stuck on.

SHAMELESSLY WANTING

Well well well. If it isn’t the feelings I shoved down five months ago.

Yearning on company time.

I may have the big sad but I also have big boobs.

My coping mechanisms may be worse than my actual problems.

If we ignore all the stuff that’s gone wrong, I’ve kind of had nothing but wins.

Sex is great but have you ever had someone be patient and gentle with you when your abandonment issues are acting up.

They hate me for my girlish whimsy and for my pathological degree of avoidant behavior.

Sorry I missed your text, the effort that it takes to inhabit a body and experience existence has bested me once again <3

*Fantasizes about you fantasizing about me*

Hopeless romantic with trust issues and a sex drive out of the roof.

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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Local man goes to the river after a terrible storm and almost drowns in mud. "He's totally fine," says the voice of god in his head. "Don't give into his dramatics." Opening lines for THE EVERWINTER KING! #DVParty

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVParty Three years before... God, Christophe prays. Please let me disappear. Please don’t make me go up to the stage, in front of everyone today. Just this once, I don’t want to heal. Opening lines for WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN

banner reading first lines, reading "God, Christophe prays. Please let me disappear. Please don't make me go up to the stage, in front of everyone today. Just this once, I don't want to heal." with the title Witnessers of the Unknown above the words, in green. there is a collaged image of a man in a suit lifting a hand for a UFO above a rural road. below there is an image of a torn map, fading into a desert landscape.

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Sandy draws comics @skimlines.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Opening line for The Herder Witch, a magical fantasy comic about magical marginalized girls. #dvparty #fantasy #gn #asianamerican #asian #korean

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Lauren is Forever Writing 🌟 @thefoxandrose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For #DVpit opening lines 💕 Why not start a story with the theft of an empire's last dragon egg? #DVparty #A #F #LGBTQ

Opening Line for DVPit promotion: You needed five things to steal a dragon’s egg from the Aurinon Empire: knowledge, timing, skill, luck, and a careless disregard for the sanctity of your own life. Eli met four of those five criteria, and he hoped that luck would also be on his side tonight.

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David Shaft | YA Fantasy @davidshaftofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Opening line of A CHANCE AT LIFE, my #YA #Fantasy book: “Shields Up!” is all he can hear as thousands of bodies collide on the bleeding sand-covered sea of battle. #DVparty

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Eshe N @eshesprologue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IN LOVE & SKYN Only madness could lead a person to the home of a man rumoured to be faceless, or a jinn, or a demon of the night—well, madness, and the desperate need to progress in a world that seemed bent on making me suffer with every ounce of betterment it gave. #DVParty #RF #F #NA #A

A dark image of the top half of a black woman's face covered in blood overlayed with the faint image of an an tomb. On top is a text box with the title 'Opening line'.

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Michael @michaelprocopio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The opening line for my new MM romantic comedy, "It's a Bad Idea, Right?" for #DVParty! "A happy ending in THIS economy? Not for me, that was for sure. But the ornate box I received in the mail, which looked suspiciously like a wedding invitation, suggested my ex, Jabari, was about to get his."

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V. S. Vasan @vsvasan.substack.com · 27/09/2026

HERALD OF ASHES | Adult epic fantasy BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR with the anti-imperialism of BABEL #DVParty #A #F

HERALD OF ASHES | Adult epic fantasy
Some prisons have walls. Others are made of promises.

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR
with the anti-imperialism sentiment of BABEL

Opening lines:

1 – Smokescreen
The treacherous sun was already lightening the horizon as Kal scanned the courtyard one last time. Later that night, she’d return here to take on her tormentors. The fight would see her sentenced to death by cloudfish at the Ceremony the next morning. And she’d be free – at last – to live as she wanted.

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Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙 @cl-kos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVParty Day 3! "Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch." Spoiler, in the next line... he misses.

A visual of sunny green woods, with the words: WEB TRAVELER: Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch.

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Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First line for SHAMELESSLY WANTING! Is it just Bea that starts her week off naked in front of a window? If anyone did look up at her--lucky them. 💋☀️ #DVParty

Scrapbook style image of the first line of SHAMELESSLY WANTING--contemporary w/romantic arc (87k) by Frankie Joy.

First line: Mondays went best with a morning dose of public indecency.

Background is graph paper with doodles of stars, circles, and spirals. Text is in a pink speech bubble stuck with yellow gingham tape. There are cutouts of a coffee cup, a sun, and also a kiss imprint. The quote is attributed to Bea, spelled in cutout magazine letters in shades of pink.

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#DVParty Yes, I know this isn't for WIPs, but I'M A REBEL, BABY, so I'm doing it. The Haunting of Hill House x UP x Salem Witch Trials Meet George and his cat, also named George.

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Anna Wood @annakwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVParty Day 3. Opening Line: It happened on a clear bright day in early March. The sort of day where you feel the potential of spring just around the corner after a long winter, but there is still a chill in the air, still a need to wrap up against the wind. A bird was pecking rhythmically in the

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Anastasia Mosharova @ana-mosharova.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Miles from glittering theatre fronts and coffee bars that spun records until the early morning hours, London’s southernmost borough was retiring for the night." Opening line, THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS, an Upmarket Queer Coming-of-Age Romance set in '69 #LGBT #A #HR #DVparty #preDV

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Sophia ✨ @soph-l.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s the opening line to 💎 THE FALL OF RESURRECTION MANOR 🥀, my adult fantasy about a manor where the wealthy go for a week of consequence-free death, and the two people dead set on escaping its shadow: Hale dreaded the coming week, the one he’d been working towards for a decade. #DVparty

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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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Raymond Currier @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#dvparty opening line (er paragraph) day! "Hunkered alone at his corner table, Taerin tapped a disjointed rhythm on his thigh. He pulled the letter from his pocket for the dozenth time to check the details within: Kissing Donkey Inn. Blackwood. Sifsday evening. Check, check, and check."

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Christine Szczesniak @szczesniakchristin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVparty WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - YA Dystopian Thriller The opening- The road to happiness was paved with bubblegum pink plastic tiles.

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Christine Szczesniak @szczesniakchristin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVparty WE DON'T DIE HERE - YA Speculative Thriller Opening line: If I didn’t move soon, I’d spend the rest of my night smelling like a dumpster.

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Roja Rhys (she/her) @rojarhys.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVParty Opening line for HER LADY SHIP: The Godiva was going to sink, at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour, on a calm day in June.

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Emily Byrd @emilybyrdwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WILDEST DREAMS OPENING LINE: There were forty-seven minutes until I was supposed to arrive at Serendipity Books, and I had already checked my messenger bag four times. #DVparty

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I.P.Kollias | Querying @isagoblin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Glowing in the night, one infamous district of Florfontain beckoned prospective customers with the promise of delight and depravity." ... So guess where the protagonist works🕯️ #DVparty #A #F

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AlexSJames @authoralexsjames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When Mom sees Gluddles with his back turned against the mirror, she says, “Woogaboo, you need to look in the mirror so you can make sure you get all your chompers brushed.” #DVParty!!

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Gia @writingwithgia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVparty #DVpit Opening lines to THE DEAD GENE #NA #RF

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Gia @writingwithgia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVpit #DVparty Opening lines to Vampires on Greek Row #NA #RF

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Leslie Nightingale @leslienightingale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The overhead bin is much higher than I remember. Resting my bag on the seat, I catch my breath and allow a few people to squeeze past me. My heart always chooses the wrong time to beat too quickly. “Want help?” I’m so flustered that I almost don’t recognize that voice. #openinglines #DVParty

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Jo @jodmello.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day 3 : #DVParty Yeah. That's about right and Charmi (a Software Warrior) has had enough of it! 😆🤫

Title: Charmi.
Opening Line : Two men have eclipsed your life
Genre: Adult Upmarket Romance

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katelyn Materiale 🔮🗡️🌊 @katelynmateriale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For When Death Finds Life's first line I wanted something sweet The ice cream was melting. #DVparty #F #R #NA #LGBT #ND

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Courtney Adaire @courtneyadaire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#dvparty THE SPACE SHE LEFT, opening line

A square image of a warmly lit bedroom at sunset with a split between golden light on the left and a darker, shadowy interior on the right. White text reads “THE OPENING:” followed by: “I’ve been sitting here for hours watching this guy try and decide what he’s going to do with my body, and honestly… I can’t help but think I could have done this a lot more efficiently.”

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Rosa Suzanne @rosasuzanne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The opening line of the novel I'll be pitching during DVpit next week! It was easy to believe fairytales were real in a place like this, that was what Jude used to think, at least. #DVparty

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Melissa Rousu Author @melissarauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The opening line from A LOVE LIKE THE MOVIES: BAM BAM BAM. Her fist quaked as it pounded the wood door, nails biting into Alex’s palm. I can’t believe he was f*#% her. The image of them naked replayed in her mind like a bad movie. #DVparty #romcom #A #nd

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 is Querying 🙏🕯️📿 @sashakielman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Darkness reigned in the Realm of Selenara. #AmQuerying #DVParty bsky.app/profile/dvpi...

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Chloe Majeske-Neal @aurawolf-mn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#DVparty Day 3, opening lines. Insert alarm clock noises here lol. The Neverbird is a #DF #R #NA #YA #ND #MH #F twist on the classic story of Peter Pan with a sweet but no-nonsense health care worker FMC and a #DIS ML whose story you think you know. How much do you know about Neverland really?

Beep! Beep! Beep!
I groaned, rolling over and slamming my hand down on my alarm clock, silencing it. That same dream again, I thought as I rubbed my eyes. I’d been having that dream on and off since I was seven. Often, I wondered what it meant, having a recurring dream for that long. I doubted it was anything good, so I tried not to dwell on it.

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Mursal @mursal23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An #agentsguide to The Weeping Willows Came Crawling, a YA Fantasy set in an Afghan inspired land I’m hoping to query soon and pitch for dvpit 👀 🐉 Mythical creatures drawn from afghan folklore 🔥 Female rage 💔 Enemies to lovers ⚡️ And subverting destiny’s expectations #ya #fantasy #writerscommunity

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Hephzibah O. Praise fka LaDonna @authorhephzibah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

secrets, sisterhood, and a crime scene they walked right into 🩸 presenting the moodboard for ALL THE GOOD GIRLS GO TO HELL (YA Mystery-Thriller) ACE OF SPADES x ONE OF US IS LYING x PLL #dvparty #YA #mystery #thriller

A photo mood board grid for the Young Adult mystery-thriller "All The Good Girls Go To Hell". The 3x3 collage features dark academia and crime thriller imagery: silhouettes of hands against a shadowy wall, a blurry snapshot of a laughing girl at a night party, a fingerprint card stamped with a red "SUSPECT" label, a stylish young Black woman in sunglasses and a trench coat, a paper note reading "I know what you did", Black schoolgirls laughing in navy prep school blazers and ties, yellow police tape blocking a crime scene, two friends posing for a mirror selfie in school uniforms, and an iPhone screen displaying wired headphones over study notes.

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✨Fay🪽 @fayntasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#dvparty #DVpit #YA #F #DIS #CI #LGBT Since I’m not much of a visual artist here is a picture of me that relates to a mood board for my pitch this week!

Picture of a person with blonde hair (me) standing with wings that are made from paper lanterns with the colors blue, red, and green on them.

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Christine Szczesniak @szczesniakchristin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Presenting my mood board for WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - A YA Dystopian Thriller with lots of delicious slow burn romance. #DVParty

A four-panel mood board with bold white text in the center that reads "WE WERE ALL DEFECTS" over pink tiles, with a smaller light pink banner below reading "A YA Dystopian Thriller." The top left panel shows an empty retro 1950s diner with a pink and white checkered floor and teal stools. The top right panel features a soft, pink-tinted silhouette of a couple leaning in to kiss. The bottom left panel is a vintage, faded photograph of a group of women in matching blue swimsuits and pageant sashes. The bottom right panel shows an angled view of an elevator shaft.

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malou | is querying! @priamides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

happy #DVParty!! here’s the moodboard for SHEEPDOG, wheee!!

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