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Mallika Kamat (she/her)
@mallikakamat.bsky.social
Dream Foundry Emerging Writers Contest 2023 Finalist. Writing and submitting short stories.
GODKILLER x FRIEREN

Tara: a 18yo pretend-goblin in London meets
Urja: a 12yo half-dragon from Mumbai, ripe for exploitation

Goal: Help Urja find her mother in NYC

Obstacles: 🧛‍♂️, 🧙‍♂️, half 🐲s, immortality-seeking billionaire

Complications: Urja and Tara’s secrets, Tara’s family!

#DVPit #F #A #POC
September 30, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Urja, a part-Phoenix from Mumbai, seeks her mother in NYC. Mistaking her identity, a goblin aids her, his protective gestures evocative of her dead Father. With everyone lusting for her powers, can Urja trust her new friend (with secrets of his own) or will history repeat itself?

#DVPit #F #A #POC
September 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Tara, a lowly shapeshifter, masquerades as a porter goblin on the London Underground. Saving a half-dragon child from Mumbai—a walking source of potion ingredients—Tara must now confront her own childhood abuse to protect the kid from upper class vampires, not to mention Tara’s family.
#DVPit #F #A
September 30, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Past tragedy compels Tara to protect a half-dragon child from Mumbai—a walking source of potion ingredients. Now it’s a high-stakes race to find the kid’s dragon mother in NYC before they’re caught by dangerous vampires, but Tara’ll be damned if she can’t save yet another child!

#DVPit #F #A #POC
September 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Tara’s sister died for her clan’s ambitions. At 18, Tara aids a half-dragon child from Mumbai—a walking source of potion ingredients—enraging a vampire. Now they’re on the run from the very beasts Tara was always taught to fear, but she’ll be damned if she can’t save yet another child!

#DVPit #F #A
September 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
After four years of secretly rescuing lost children from her upper class vampire employer, Tara meets a rare half-dragon child from Mumbai—a walking source of potion ingredients—spurring her on an adventure to NYC where she’ll finally defy dangerous, upper class beasts.
#DVPit #F #A #POC
September 30, 2026 at 12:23 PM
New FREE contest for writers of Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest6 — Judged by Agent Lydia Caudill of Andrea Hurst Literary Management, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
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First Page Contest #6: Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Judged by Agent Lydia Caudill of Andrea Hurst Literary
FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! First Page Contest #6 of this year is for writers of  Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy .  If you write in this age category, keep reading and submit your work!  This free...
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January 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
New FREE contest for writers of Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest6 — Judged by Agent Lydia Caudill of Andrea Hurst Literary Management, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
@writingdaywksp.bsky.social
First Page Contest #6: Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy -- Judged by Agent Lydia Caudill of Andrea Hurst Literary
FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! First Page Contest #6 of this year is for writers of  Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy .  If you write in this age category, keep reading and submit your work!  This free...
tinyurl.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Mallika Kamat (she/her)
Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.
September 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Mallika Kamat (she/her)
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Mallika Kamat (she/her)
Marginalized creators! Polish up those manuscripts, #DVPit returns October 2025 on bluesky with over 40 participating agents and editors! #booksky #writersky
April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A little reminder--
New FREE contest for writers of Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy — tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon3%... — Judged by agent Kesia Lupo, via
@writingdaywksp.bsky.social
. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
https://tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon3%..
February 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
New FREE contest for writers of Adult Sci-Fi and Fantasy — tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon3%... — Judged by agent Kesia Lupo, via @writingdaywksp.bsky.social. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
https://tinyurl.com/2025wdwcon3​
January 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reposted by Mallika Kamat (she/her)
baekdal.com/strategy/the... reminds me of the slate long tail article. Although this article focuses on journalism, novelists experience similar problems.

The end of tyrannical scale chasing would be a positive, but what new paradigm would best serve both readers and writers?
The future trend around not having social traffic at scale
Social media traffic has been at the center of most publishers' strategy for more than a decade... so what happens when it goes away?
baekdal.com
September 30, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Mallika Kamat (she/her)
companies programmed us to refer to art, music, video, and writing as "content" to make it seem like it comes from the website and not from a person who had to think of it and make it
September 11, 2023 at 9:02 PM