Claire Every

Mood board for #DVParty Vibing for my 🎓BABEL X SALTBURN🧂 dark academia speculative novel. 🕸️ There are secret clues if you zoom in... #A #CI #Dis

O wow! Just found out I was a winner for #revpit 😲

@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...

I just entered #RevPit #10Queries Enter now for a chance to win free feedback for your query and 1st 5 pages. 🪩

🔥🎓️ BABEL X SALTBURN🧂🔥 Twins battle 2 unhinged Oxford dons: psychiatrists by day, magicians by night. Magnus is forced into deadly “mind-over-matter” therapy. Ianthe is lured into an alchemical society. Meanwhile, their mother bargains with the gods in the Underworld to save them #DVPit #CI #A

🔥🎓BABEL X SALTBURN🧂🔥 🃏Wildcard Pitch🃏 Need deranged Dark Academia? 🙀 Delulu psychiatrists 🏺 Badass meddling gods 🦹‍♀️ Iconic villains 📜 Maximum Oxford aura 🧙‍♀️ Occultcore 💅 Girlboss MC energy 🥀 Institutional rot 🫸Victorian Gothic hysteria slaps into the modern-day #TheQuicksilverWeb 6️⃣ #DVPit #A

🎓🔥 BABEL X HOUSE 🔥🩻 🕸️ #TheQuicksilverWeb🕸️ Finally, The Yellow Wallpaper collides with modern-day dark academia. 🕳️ Greek Underworld ⚗️ Academics & alchemy 🔪 Female rage 🔌 Power politics 🫦 Feminist lens "I would definitely read this book." Madeline Miller. 5️⃣ #DVPit #CI #DIS #A

🍲 #DVPit Recipe #TheQuicksilverWeb 🥩Add meaty representation laced with lush texture in lang. tone & setting 🫗add complex flawed humans with a slug of emotional devastation 🧂a dash of magic to create a dish with feminist/social justice themes 🍛served in a commercial dark academia sauce. 4️⃣ #A

💬 #TheQuicksilverWeb in quotes: 🪎"Don't ever offer a god a bribe." ☕"Hot chocolate as well, could mean life & death." ⚗️"Alchemy is older than chemistry, older than the church." 👫"They resembled a geode someone had cracked in two." 🦴"Gods bones!" 3️⃣ #DVPit #CI #DIS #A #OWN

👩‍🎓🔥 BABEL X SALTBURN 🔥🧂 🕸️ #TheQuicksilverWeb🕸️ Where the real monsters wear credentials. 🎓 Dark Academia 🕳️ Cults 🔪 Buffy gang 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Family saga 🏛️ Oxford 🖤 The Underworld 🪄 Hermetic magic ⚕️ Medicine gone haywire 👫 Twins thriller 🧤 Bribing the gods 2️⃣ #DVPit #CI #DIS #A #OWN

🔥👩‍🎓 BABEL X SALTBURN🧂🔥 Twins battle 2 unhinged Oxford dons: psychiatrists by day, magicians by night. Magnus is forced into deadly “mind-over-matter” therapy. Ianthe is lured into an alchemical society. Meanwhile, their mother bargains with the gods in the Underworld to save them 1️⃣ #DVPit #DIS #A

TEMPEST X DISCOVERY OF WITCHES A British folklore Odyssey. The secret prophecy of the White Raven means the Armada is coming. And there's only one exile, Meg McVie, who can access the faerie fort of female warriors on Skye to steal the magic to control the winds - from her mother. #DVParty WIP

✒️ 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

👫TWIN MCs: Ianthe & Magnus Campion "Like a geode cracked in two." 🖤 Black pre-Raph hair • Celtic • Rangy • Griefstruck 🏫 Postgrad: Ianthe: Hist of Med Mags: Hist of Archit 📺 Fav TV: Ianthe: Buffy Mags: Sherlock 🥀 Weakness: Ianthe: Cults Mags: Tattoos Both: ☀️♋ & 🌙♎ 👀 Asc: I=♈ M=♉ #DVParty 2️⃣

Is it worth experimenting with a few versions of comps in DVPit?! Or sticking to the same. Are TV shows or movies welcome as one comp during DVPit? #AskDV

What are the common reasons you see a promising query fail to translate into a compelling manuscript and a request? #AskDV

If a manuscript has been revised substantially since the start of querying due to an R&R, is it useful to mention that in future queries? Is it worth contacting agents previously queried? #AskDV

Just to give a huge thank you and shout out to @pitchdis.com for all their hard work and effort. It was my first pitch event & what a good one! #pitchdis

First line poll! #PreDV 1️⃣ 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. Or 2️⃣ Rosamund sank to her knees in the black sands of the Styx - she knew she would forget everything. Which do you prefer?!?

🔥👩‍🎓 BABEL X SALTBURN🧂🔥 Twins battle 2 unhinged Oxford dons: psychiatrists by day, magicians by night. Magnus is forced into deadly “mind-over-matter” therapy. Ianthe is lured into an alchemical society. Meanwhile, their mother bargains with the gods in the Underworld to save them #PreDv #CI #DIS

TONIGHT 🧚‍♀️🧌 at 7pm UK time! On Fairy Tales & Disability with Amanda Leduc. Apt seeing the amount of people trying to convince us we can cure ourselves by the fairy tale trope of magical thinking! 📺 Livestreaming on our twitter, YouTube & Facebook Recording will be available.

Another #PitchDis request yay!

💬 What as agents makes your ears sing in terms of dialogue in a manuscript? 💬 What is your one good tip to elevate dialogue?! #askDV

If you've had a revise & resubmit from an agent but have already sent out the previous manuscript to other agents what is the best thing to do regarding the other agents?! TIA 💐 (Yes, I'm in the middle of this scenario, just before #DVPit 🫠) #askDV

👋 Do queries from pitch events get priority from an agent, do they go to the bottom of the query pile?! (Or does it just depend on the agent?!) TIA 💐 #askDV

👋 During #DVpit if we get interest from an agent, but are already in their query pile, what is the recommended thing to do?! (or worse case scenario, a rejection BUT the manuscript has been revised) #askDV

1st request has come in from #PitchDis - whoot 🤞🤞🤞

And the pitch is in. One book in 300 characters 🫠😅 #pitchdis

ICYMI: UPDATED DATES! Due to a holiday on September 21st, we have expanded PreDV to be 2 days long! You can post your pitch practices on both September 21 & 22, 2026 from 8-5PM ET!

I know many people have been waiting, so here you go - agents and editors participating in #PitchDis 2026! www.pitchdis.com/registrants

My first Substack newsletter is out this Friday. PRESS ACCESS will share the things nobody tells disabled journalists about an industry that wasn’t built for us. Plus, photos of Mabel. Subscribe for free: open.substack.com/pub/frances336

Getting ready for #PitchDis next week? Here's a checklist of what you'll need to fill out your pitch form.

One silver lining from a health 'moment' I've discovered the author Lily King and been curled up devouring her back catalogue in the last few days. 📙 Heart the Lover 📙 Writers and Lovers 📙 Euphoria 👉 Now on The English Teacher ...so good!

We are nearing the end of my editing course — how to plan for an efficient and effective first revision of your novel — and this week is all about plot! portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/editing-co...

#DVpit EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us for our #DVParty September 25-29, 2026! #DVParty is a pre-event to celebrate and highlight your projects before #DVpit! Go to dvpit.carrd.co/#dvpartypredv for rules & more info!

Hi #agents and #editors! #PitchDis registration closes in just two weeks. If you'd like to join us this year, please make sure you complete the form below by September 3. Pitches will be available to view September 15-18. Thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#AskDV - more warm up for #DVpit!

#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky! A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors! #DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026! go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info and stay tuned for more announcements!

Community at it's best - time to warm up those pitches at #preDiv 🥧

Mainly here for this! If anyone is interested here is an op to ask some questions.