As an adult, I’ve steeled myself against racist bullshit like this. But here, surrounded by padded structures, foam mats, and happy children—it was a gut punch. And now, it’s my own baby who will experience this familiar childhood pain. I feel sick about it.

📍Kidztopia

#DVpit inspired me to reopen to queries sooner than I'd planned... Starting Nov 2025, I'll be open to unsolicited queries the first week of every month! Still just YA + MG fiction... Really hungry for 🤩 debut voices... You'll be able to submit here: querytracker.net/querybeth #mswl

WOW. In just over 5 days, more than 1,000 publishing community members have joined the #DVpit Discord server! And now, you don’t even need the link to join, as it’s discoverable thru Discord’s search!

Clearly, this pitch event for marginalized book creators is NOT to be missed!

The bad place isn’t working for me right now so hi here’s another pic of my dog. Her name is beefy.

Ok idk how i wanna approach this app yet but I’m here! My name is Beth, I’m mid-thirties, recently married, literary agent for MG+YA, and i have an absurdly sweet dog. We live in Boston now after 16yrs in NYC. Follow me for random thoughts and questions, dog pics, and info on the books i work on!