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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Mar 23

an announcement!! after thinking about it for quite a while, I’ve settled on a pen name and can be found as @authorthealiu on Twitter and Instagram as well!

Tiffany Liu is now Thea Liu
Pen name arrangement

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kate duarte is AGENTED 🏹🗡️ @authorkateduarte.bsky.social · Mar 17

GODKILLER x THE CURSE OF SAINTS
When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his weakness—and defeat his bodyguard, the wielder of death.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #F #A

An agent's guide to ALL GODS MUST DIE by Kate Duarte

Adult Romantic Fantasy with Horror elements
comps: heartless hunter, to cage a god, the starving saints, the knight and the moth, versailles
When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his weakness—and defeat his loyal bodyguard, the wielder of death.

→ Lovers to Enemies
→ Female Rage
→ Slow Burn
→ Magic Corrupts You
→ Fake Courtship
→ Friends to Lovers
→ Banter
→ Religious Corruption

She never noticed the freckles speckling his hooked nose before. The flush is gone from his face, turning him less boyish, more lethal.
“If I glue myself to the executioner’s shadow, who’ll have the guts to approach me?”
“I thought the point was that you didn’t wish to dance.”
“I don’t wish to dance with anyone who’d want to court me.” Merit taps his shoulder. “I believe I’m safe from that with you.”
“Hm.” He turns her under the arch of his arm, hands twining again as she returns to his chest. “Either way, thank you.”
“Likewise.” She smiles brightly, this time in earnest.
Out of the corner of her eye, she notices Kalla close to the refreshments’ table, entangled with Talia and another woman. Good for her.
Kalla’s gaze catches hers, an eyebrow quirked as if to say you witty bastard.
Merit answers with a grin. Watch me, sister. I’ll go to the brim of the world to save you.

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Mar 17

OUR INFINITE FATES x STUDIO GHIBLI

Hanna is convinced nothing will ever change on her island-in-the-sky—including dying at 17 in every one of her lives.

Then a boy from below crash-lands in his plane. He could be her salvation…or her next death.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitE

moodboard with pink and purple tones featuring pink flowers, clouds, Fuji mountain, a street in Japan, a girl surrounded by flowers, and the quotes “souls don’t meet by accident” and “let’s meet again, for the first time”

Art of a dark haired boy and girl kissing beneath a tree, surrounded by poppies and hydrangeas

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Mar 1

February reading wrap-up!

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lydia🐯 @lydia97.bsky.social · Jan 17

THE JASAD HEIR x THE SCARLET THRONE the only way💧 elemental Amancia can stay heir of her clan is to win a sacred tournament. Easier said than done with a god trapped in her mind, an empire set on claiming her home & a 🔥 elemental who keeps trying to kill & kiss her #YA #F #UW #P2Ppit #sapphic #Q

A moodboard of 8 photos. From left to right and down- A black girl, with her hair being blown in the wind. Then a photo of a jungle valley; with fog and lush greenery. A tiger mid road, three black women in pastel dresses playing in sea waves, a black woman covered by clear water, the body of a tiger, a sandy path leading to the sea, with palm trees on either side, a black woman in a ceremony, holding white flowers, whilst other hands braid her hair.

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Jan 12

SO EXCITED FOR THIS

T. A. Chan @authortachan.bsky.social · Jan 11

✨ BOOK DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT✨

excited ONE LAST GAME found a home with @patrickswenson.bsky.social thanks to @karlydizon.bsky.social

If you like stories with:
♟️ high stakes game
🌱 eco friendly dystopia
🩸 over throwing immoral systems
🗡️ b e t r a y a l s

This might be for you!

#writingcommunity

Book deal announcement for a novella by T A Chan to Fairwood Press by Karly Dizon

Character art of a young man posed with a leg crossed in a purple and gold uniform

Character art of a young woman in a green jumpsuit and radio in hand

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Jan 12

Books releasing in 2025 that I’m super excited for!! (I messed up the date for all the water in the world; it’s already out now!)

Anticipated 2025 releases Jan-June

Water Moon - Samantha Sotto Yambao (1/14)

All The Water in the World - Eiren Caffall (1/28)

The Lamb - Lucy Rose (2/4)

They Bloom at Night - Trang Thanh Tran (3/4)

The Sirens - Emilia Hart (4/1)

Bochica - Carolina Flóres-Cherchiaro (5/13)

Salvación - Sandra Proudman (5/20)

Vesuvius - Cass Biehn (6/3)

Kill Creatures - Rory Power (6/3)

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Jan 3

Absolutely obsessed with this cover 😭

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Vesper Doom 🧡🤍🩷 @vesperdoom.com · Jan 3

It’s time! Here is the cover for METROPOLIS DOWN, my sci-fi horror novel with a m/m second-chance romance, personalized cosmic horrors, and a city within a spaceship. Coming later this year!!

Art by Ronnie Jensen

#booksky #writingcommunity #coverreveal

The cover shows an angled view of a neon-lit city within a spaceship and stars beyond. The title is METROPOLIS DOWN and the author is VESPER DOOM.

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Jan 3

I’M EXCITED

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Jan 3

It’s one of the books I really really wanted to get to in 2024 but didn’t have the time for!! I can’t wait!

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Jan 3

She’s actually perfect

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 27

my 25 for 2025! I failed utterly at my 2024 reading list but am determined to do better in 2025

(easy, because i managed only 1/9 books I listed as wanting to catch up on)

$The fifth season, off with their heads, these deathless shores, the Phoenix keeper, the dark becomes her, little thieves, vampires of el Norte, jade city, gallant, a magic steeped in poison, the familiar, the bear and the nightingale, graveyard shift, the river has roots, she who became the sun, the traitor baru cormorant, don’t let the forest in, a far wilder magic, sabriel, the priory of the orange tree, a song to drown rivers, she is a haunting, Mexican gothic, compound fracture, immortal dark$

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 23

Ahhh thank you so much! Fingers crossed my holds pan out 🤞🏼

thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank youuu

thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank you so much!

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank you!!

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 18

moodboard 2 for #ShortPit!

inspired by a Chinese poem about longing for someone after death: a horror fantasy about a woman searching for her daughter after making a faustian deal to keep herself from passing into the afterlife

#HF #SUB

3 by 3 moodboard featuring azaleas, embroidery of landscapes and human bodies, an ivy covered home, and the quotes: “my darling, you will never be unloved by me, you are too tangled in my soul” and “do you regret this?”

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 18

hello #ShortPit!! here’s a moodboard for fruit story, a cozy horror where animals grow from fruit. there’s a demon cat.

#H #F #CZH #SUB

3 by 3 moodboard with scenes of trees, fruit, a mountain cottage, a black and white cat hiding behind dandelions, a rocking chair, and graphic showing slavering wolf mouths, flowers with eyes, a cat with the words “father, I crave violence”, and a quote by cc aurel: now I have to remember you for longer than I have known you

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 18

the ending of dark rise made me sick and ill (pos) how did u all survive 2 years

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · Dec 11

4 more days to apply to the excellent mentors at RTM...as a former mentee of a writing mentorship, i can't emphasize enough the support that a mentorship offers. you have peers, a mentor, querying resources and a community through the thick of it all. this is a great opportunity for all writers!!

Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · Dec 11

Apps for Round Table Mentor close this Sunday Dec 15th at 12pm Eastern time! How did writing your synopsis go/how is it going?
#WritingCommunity

Image: Muppet Pepe in apron looks dismayed. Text: Realizing RTM apps close in 4 days and I still have to write my synopsis

Image: Three dragons with text above each. Left two dragons look sinister and serious. Right dragon is making a silly face and sticking his tongue out. Text above each dragon left to right: My Manuscript - My Query Letter - My Synopsis

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 12

when we visited her at the foster’s home 😭🥹 she’s such a beautiful baby

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thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Dec 11

related, I just learned I’ve been approved to adopt a cat and started crying at work

thea liu @authorthealiu.bsky.social · Nov 30

I’m always thinking I’m normal about my cat but yesterday he got lethargic and refused food after his vaccines (which is a normal side effect) and I let him sleep next to me the whole night and this morning I’m crying bc why do pets have to get older why must we mourn them longer than we know them—

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Dec 10

💫 #MeetMyMCs is BACK, friends! please load up your posts for 𝟭𝟮 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, when we'll be discussing and celebrating all things main characters.

tl;dr: open to all writers and WIPs of any stage. this is meant to be a *supportive* joyful event, not a professional/pitching one, with a focus on MCs.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · Nov 29

Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season.

Go shop local today. ❤️

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