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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 3d

Last day of NYCC look 🎃🖤

Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a cold and rainy day in the city but I’m back for day 3 of #NYCC so don’t be afraid to say hi if you spot me around 😘

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Stephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 4d

SHEILA ATIM IS OUR NEW AKASHA #iwtv #tvl

Sheila Atim | Actress, Composer, Sound Department

Known for: The Woman King, Bruised, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

www.imdb.com

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 4d

WE JUST GOT A MOTHERFUCKING AKASHA CAST REVEAL HOLY SHIT #NYCC #IWTV

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Lilliam Rivera @lilliamr.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for such kind words! Can’t wait for @sirensconference.org

Sirens @sirensconference.org · 6d

#Sirens26 Faculty: Lilliam Rivera (@lilliamr.bsky.social): dazzling author across genres and categories 📚, including for the LOVE IN GRAVITY podcast. 🌈 Winner of piles of awards, honors, and fellowships. 🌠 Essayist (NYT, WaPo, Elle, Cosmo), educator, and speaker. Absolutely luminous firestarter🔥

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 5d

#NYCC has outdone themselves with the Press & Pro pavilion and lounge. Absolutely love this area! Plus the gorgeous view of the sun setting on the Hudson is unbeatable.

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning! I’ll be at #NYCC this week. I’ll be masked because I refuse to get con crud before my vacation but I’ll probably be wearing all black ofc

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 6d

asdfgjkl the darkness within me hungered

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 6d

I had a dinner and some errands to do so I am behind on my #DVpit review but I’m back now and I’m searching and lurking 🫡

Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 7d

Hey y'all and Happy #DVpit day! If I 🖤 your pitch, please submit to me your query letter, upload your first 20 pages, and be sure to include your BlueSky handle as well as include DVpit in the pitch event line. So excited to review everyone's pitches today!
querytracker.net/query/shelly...

Query Shelly Romero at Azantian Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 6d

Fingers crossed! 🫡

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 7d

TOMORROW (Oct 8th) is #DVpit! Any unagented Marginalized writer or artist seeking out representation is invited to participate from 8AM - 8PM ET!
Please make sure you review our rules & guidelines before the event: dvpit.carrd.co#faq

#writersky #booksky #artistsky #weneeddiversebooks

#DVPit Rules
-#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors
-Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
between 8AM ET - 8PM ET
-Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project)
-Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio.
-Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag)
-A like from an agent = a query request
-A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
-A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
-Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or
quote-reposting their pitches
-Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

#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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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 7d

For #DVpit, writers if you are also not agents or editors, please do not like or repost pitching writers’ posts. Do not boost. We will look through the hashtag…

Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 7d

Hey y'all and Happy #DVpit day! If I 🖤 your pitch, please submit to me your query letter, upload your first 20 pages, and be sure to include your BlueSky handle as well as include DVpit in the pitch event line. So excited to review everyone's pitches today!
querytracker.net/query/shelly...

Query Shelly Romero at Azantian Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 7d

Please do not tag the agents and/or editors to call attention to your pitch. Allow them to seek out your pitch on their own, as this is what the #DVpit event is about. dvpit.carrd.co#faq

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 7d

Hey y'all and Happy #DVpit day! If I 🖤 your pitch, please submit to me your query letter, upload your first 20 pages, and be sure to include your BlueSky handle as well as include DVpit in the pitch event line. So excited to review everyone's pitches today!
querytracker.net/query/shelly...

Query Shelly Romero at Azantian Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 8d

THIS feels incredibly toxic after the behaviour of Bsky leadership this last week.

How often do I see toxicity?
I see Palestinians get deleted for asking for help.
I see sex workers harassed.
I see Jewish people brigaded.
I see trans people put on irl watchlists.
I see white supremacists lauded.

Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 8d

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 9d

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI: while I’m still closed to unsolicited queries, I am participating in various one-on-one pitch events throughout the next couple of months! Up next is the 2025 (Online) Florida Writing Workshop on October 3-4 ✍🏽📚
floridawritingworkshops.com

The 2025 Online Florida Writing Workshop

Get Your Writing Published: October 3-4, 2025

floridawritingworkshops.com

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 14d

ICYMI: while I’m still closed to unsolicited queries, I am participating in various one-on-one pitch events throughout the next couple of months! Up next is the 2025 (Online) Florida Writing Workshop on October 3-4 ✍🏽📚
floridawritingworkshops.com

The 2025 Online Florida Writing Workshop

Get Your Writing Published: October 3-4, 2025

floridawritingworkshops.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15d

1) This isn't just FOREIGN FILMS. It is foreign made films, like Black Phone 2, which needed to shoot on location in Canada for, you know, real snow.

2) There is no mechanism in place to collect these tariffs as it is not a good held up at customs.

3) He's making foreign made movies ~$32 a ticket?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 16d

‘Candy from a baby’: Trump threatens all foreign and Hollywood movies filmed outside the US with ‘100% tariff’

Trump threatens all foreign movies with ‘100% tariff’

www.independent.co.uk

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Littleevil0ne *COMMS OPEN* @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 25d

🫡I'm doing my part🫡
Feel free to copy and paste my complaint for the alt text to make things easier

Please do not enact the ban on non consensual sex depictions. You are preventing survivors from telling their stories with such restrictions. Additionally your moderation team currently struggles to differentiate between artistic non sexual nudity and pornographic or sexual content. I do not trust your moderation to differentiate with any accuracy between consensual and non consensual, endangering all the nsfw creators that built your platform

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 27d

The Invisible Weight cont.:

• Agents and authors both assume two hats in this industry: the creative & the business
• As always, social media changed the pub game in many ways.

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 27d

Panel: “The Invisible Weight: Agents, Editors, and the Unseen Labor Behind Author Success”

• Agents now have to touch every aspect of the publishing process more so than what was previously commonplace
• Authors need to be attuned to what the current markets are

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 27d

Horror Roundtable cont.:

• I brought up that I felt like the reason why horror wasn’t yet to its golden age as it was in the 80s is because those books were pubbed as paperback originals and the price points made them incredibly accessible.

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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Shelly Romero @shellyromero.bsky.social · 27d

Horror Roundtable:
• “Pink Horror” aka women doing terrible things is on the rise
• horror’s renaissance is a credit to who ia getting to write the stories and the perspectives they’re writing from

#PeopleOfPublishing25

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