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@d-g-parker.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:16 PM

Carys had messaged me just before midnight - the fairies were in trouble, and Titania was calling in favours. There’d been a theft, something big enough for her to want the thief before her before dawn, when the trails would go cold.

#DVParty #DVPit #Writer #Author

@priamides.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:12 PM

SHEEPDOG opening lines for today’s #DVParty!! wahoooo!

TEXT ID: THE THEORY, WHICH ISN'T SO MUCH A THEORY AS IT is a deluded coping mechanism, is that the dogs are hungry.
Animals hunt to eat, and these dogs aren't technically animals
—as humans don't like to be called animals despite being so at their most basic level —but they behave as such. She watched a documentary years ago, sandwiched between her parents, watching as a mountain lion lived his days hunting with no other purpose but to stalk and kill and eat.

@autumnrozario.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:11 PM

I'm really enjoying reading everyone's opening lines for #DVparty

Not sure if I'll post mine, though.

@shannonauthor.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Gatekeeper's Heir Opening Line:
Magic and adventure were in the air. Ophelia tasted it on the edge of her tongue and felt it in the tips of her fingers as they got closer and closer to Hyde Park. #DVParty #MG #F

@ruchi-writes.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:10 PM

💖 NA e-Sports Romance 🎮 #DVParty

@byrdlauren.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:09 PM

#DVParty
Opening lines for my #A enemies-to-lovers #Fantasy #RomCom
Valenzia loved being a dragon. She was not, however, particularly good at it.

@literarykey.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:06 PM

THE DAY THE SNOW WAS OURS, a picture book about the freedom and magic of a snow day with friends.

“School was supposed to start at 8:32 a.m.

When I saw the clock, my stomach jumped.

8:19.

I flew out of bed.”

#DVparty

@vsvasan.substack.com Sep 27, 2026, 6:05 PM

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.

@michaelprocopio.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:59 PM

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."

@eshesprologue.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:55 PM

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'.

@davidshaftofficial.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:38 PM

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

@thefoxandrose.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:29 PM

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.

@skimlines.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:20 PM

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

@galenbunting.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 5:18 PM

#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.

@erinburd.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:55 PM

Market days used to be Alexandra’s favorite, but that was before humans went missing.
Not missing. Taken.
#DVParty #YA #F #R

@kristenmkareem.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:55 PM

first lines and opening #dvparty #thriller

@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:53 PM

Augusta is Going Through It from the first line. Unfortunately for her, it just gets worse. Unless you count the pretty stranger with eyes of fire. But other than that, she’s struggling.

#DVParty #F #R

First Line
If you had asked Augusta Rasheed where she saw herself at twenty-five, it wouldn't have been this: working at a coffee shop for slightly above minimum wage (if you included tips) while the whole world crashed around her in a very spectacular fashion.
BETWEEN FRACTURES OF SIGHT

@ruthrao.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:43 PM

#DVParty #CON #A

@m1sh4.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 4:37 PM

opening lines for my YA elemental academia fantasy ⚔️📚

LEGENDBORN x THE NIGHT ENDS WITH FIRE x WITCH HAT ATELIER

🔥A female fire-wielder disguises herself as a boy for a chance at glory in a kingdom where only men can wield magic.

#DVParty #YA #F