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Liz | Author • Illustrator

@lizified.bsky.social

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Author-Illustrator of YA & MG Cuban American Repped by @kristavandolzer.bsky.social‬ at ‪The Unter Agency Miami ✈️ NYC ✈️ NOLA https://linktr.ee/Artlizified

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

When 12-year-old Gregory Hernandez wishes his sister would disappear, she's kidnapped by aliens. His living room is turned into an intergalactic gladiator ring, and he's got to fight warrior aliens to get his sister back before he’s grounded for life. #PosterPit #AG #SF #F #MG

This is a faux movie poster for a debut middle grade novel called GREGORY HERNANDEZ & THE GLADIATOR STARS. It's nighttime. A boy stares at the viewer, his mouth wide, hands stretched forward as if jumping toward you—an explosion kabooms behind him as aliens crash-land in his backyard.

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks, Danny! Glad everyone enjoyed it!

Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · Sep 11

Last night's Literary Agent 101 presentation (led by @lizified.bsky.social ) was dope as hell!

This is just one example of the programming that TLL offers at NO COST to attendees!

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you!

Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 17

Yayyy!!!

Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 17

Love sibling stories!

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you 😄

Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

Oh this sounds adorable!

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

Abigaíl!! Why do I think I’ve read your query as a success on Query Tracker? Love the concept

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

This feels so epic! Love

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

A humorous, illustrated middle grade like LAST KIDS ON EARTH with aliens. For reluctant readers. Author-illustrated and repped by @KristaVanDolzer #PosterPit #AG #SF #F #MG

An illustration of a 12-year-old boy in an epic stance looking off into the distance. He wears a T-shirt/tank and shoulder pads. It’s a closeup shot of a coliseum behind him with red flags waving. Sunlight glints off his shield as he prepares for a fight.

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

Haha the title! Super cute.

Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

Yayyy!! Thank you ;)

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Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com · Aug 16

Forthcoming 10.21.2025 at Brick & Bloom, a spellbinding debut brimming with intrigue and dangerous magic ✨

🌹 Historical fantasy
🇫🇷 Belle Époque
🔥 Slow-burn sapphic romance
🩸 Body-based magic system
🗡️ Family feuds
🗝️ Gothic vibes

#PosterPit #P #A #F #HF

Request an ARC here: forms.gle/N6awtckRwFGy...

A poster, featuring an illustrated portrait of Aubeline de Sterraux from A LEGACY OF BLOOD AND BONE. She is a white woman with brown hair tied in an intricate hairstyle. She wears a black dress with puffed sleeves and white earings. Aubeline is shown kneeling and praying, her head looking up.

The top of the poster is colored, and the bottom part is black and white, the two part being separated by a red stain reminiscent of blood.

The title of the book is in the center. Underneath is more text reading "A novel by Millie Abecassis," then a quote by April Yates reading "A gothic gem, rich with dread, desire, and a magic system as haunting as it is original."

Under the quote are the names of several characters, listed as if they were actors: Aubeline de Sterraux, Vinnie Anneton, Damarisse de Sterraux, and "unhinged dudes."

At the top are Cannes festival-style quotes reading "dangerous body-based magic" and "slow-burn sapphic romance."

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avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social · Aug 16

DUNGEONS & DRAMA x BETTER THAN THE MOVIES

when the new kid takes first chair, 17-y/o trumpeter Julissa fake dates him to impress her drifting friends and teams up with her rival Logan to sabotage him—only to realize Logan might actually be the one she’s falling for

#PosterPit #AG #YA #R

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN is now in query inboxes near you ✨

#PosterPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q #amquerying

A faux movie poster for The Pirate, the Princess, and John featuring a silhouetted ship sailing on a layered blue ocean toward a distant castle under a pale moon, with three character names at the top: “Amir (the pirate),” “Mira (the princess),” and “John (for now).”

Below the ship is the quote: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that isn’t what ships are built for.” The title appears in large white serif letters, and at the bottom is the tagline: “YA fantasy, 82k, multi-POV; anti-colonial, non-Western, political intrigue; besties to lovers, found family, platonic ‘touch her and die’; strong girls, big feelings, sharp prose; diverse, queer, magical.” The author’s X handle @SARADURANAUTHOR and Bluesky handle SARADURAN.BSKY.SOCIAL appear in the lower right corner.

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 13

My creative writing teacher played the the whole 10th Kingdom series. It was great.

a man says good evening in front of a bookshelf full of books

ALT: a man says good evening in front of a bookshelf full of books

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 13

Landed back home and working on beta and agent edits for my illustrated MG. It already feels tighter. 💜 #writingcommunity #MG

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congrats to you!! That’s great. What kind to stories do you write?

Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 11

Five novel-length manuscripts! Working on edits for number 4. 😄 You?

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 11

At a resort with the family this morning. Put in some time on edits, then logging into work shortly. Can’t wait to brainstorm new scenes for this edit while I lounge on a lazy river. #writing #mg

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 7

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How I Got A Literary Agent

150+ Rejections, 10+ years, 5 Manuscripts, and a 50% Request Rate

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jul 7

Curious about How I Got A Literary Agent? 150+ Rejections, 10+ Years, 5 Manuscripts, and a 50% Request Rate (See link in comment) #writerscommunity #querying #kidlit

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jun 30

It’s official! I signed with literary agent @kristavandolzer.bsky.social of @unteragency.bsky.social as an author-illustrator. I started writing my first book at 15 and have written five books over the last 15-20 years! I’m just SO grateful and beyond excited for the next step! #kidlit #writer

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Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jun 24

Good luck!

Liz | Author • Illustrator @lizified.bsky.social · Jun 24

I don’t know about the chemicals but dip seems to work really well for me and the same reason. I stopped biting my nails.