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thea liu
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(she/her) taiwanese 🇹🇼 | fantasy writer | cat mom | obsessive outliner | always short on sleep | #PitchWars alum | rep: Laura Bradford
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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
March 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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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
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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February reading wrap-up!
March 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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)
January 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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She’s actually perfect
January 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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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
December 27, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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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?”
December 18, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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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
December 18, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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when we visited her at the foster’s home 😭🥹 she’s such a beautiful baby
December 12, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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for short story writers and those feeling discouraged by trad pub or just kinda tired with novels — here’s a newsletter that’s basically me rambling about how much I enjoy writing short stories! (with a side of a small publishing win)

open.substack.com/pub/tiffanyl...
Me in a red woolen hat, black jacket, and blue jeans standing in front of a yellow brick and stone wall. In the background is a harbor full of ships and over the picture is the caption “short stories have saved my writing year”
November 30, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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the #BooksForMaui auction is live!! please check it out if you can ✨

I'm donating a query + 10pg critique: https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/111641/auctions/148492/auction_items/4733581
blue info graphic titled "it's time to bid" A query + 1st 10 page critique #BooksForMaui A bookish auction to Maui relief efforts @BooksForMaui
August 22, 2023 at 2:11 AM
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I couldn't resist the magazine cover trend so here's an intro post!

✨ I'm a fantasy writer, a resident doctor, and a photography hobbyist.

✨ I'm a plotter, scrivener enthusiast, and spreadsheet lover.

✨ I'm working on a studio ghibli-esque YA fantasy and my upcoming wips will venture into horror.
a faux magazine cover with white bordering the top and bottom and a picture of me against a yellow background in the center. the magazine title is "fantastical" and at the top right of the picture of me are the words "tiffany liu, author. doctor. photographer." below that is"tips and tricks: writing with a full time job." at the top left is "plotter or pantser?" and below is "blood red poppies: a YA fantasy about cursed kisses, an island in the sky, and the connection between souls." at the bottom row, in brown, from left to right: "ghibli-esque fantasy: the crafting of secondary worlds and the freedom of the fantastical" "nine years of dreaming: from a terrible first novel to Pitch Wars 18 to the lows of submission to new hope" "embracing Taiwan: upcoming horror set in modern day Taiwan and dark academy inspired by a history of colonization"
August 15, 2023 at 1:18 PM
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character card titled "Huri (he/him)" with: role: pain in the ass species: archivist level: 24 (? accumulated level 1873) strength: keeping secrets, stronger than you'd expect weaknesses: always at the scene of the crime, pride character card titled "Konnei (they/them)" with: role: sympathizer & total enabler species: archivist level: 26 (? accumulated level 1875) strengths: open minded, makes friends with everyone weaknesses: sooo bad at keeping secrets, heart >> head
August 13, 2023 at 1:44 PM
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some character cards for poppies along with a canva template if anyone's interested! (cont in thread bc of picture limit)

canva.com/desig…
character card titled "hanna (she/her)" with: role: protagonist species: mirazene level: 17 (ceiling of multiple respawns) strengths: determined, cliff-climber, excellent liar weaknesses: cursed to die at 17, impulsive character card titled "mark (he/him) with: role: love interest species: Bottomlander level: 18 (first attempt) strengths: pilot, tall, charmingly (?) awkward, loyal weaknesses: incredibly oblivious, kind of pathetic character card titled "Aki (he/him) with: role: protagonist's brother species: mirazene level: 19 (accumulated level??) strengths: so many brain cells, charming flirt weaknesses: trusts authority too much, needs to be radicalized
August 13, 2023 at 1:43 PM
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I guess this is my bluesky introduction to poppies — nearing the end of agent revisions and hopefully (oh god do I hope) on sub soon
Google search bar-esque image overlaid on picture of a purple-blue sky over blue mountains google search is for "blood red poppies" and suggested searches are: reincarnation trope cursed kisses height difference stories within stories platonic *and* romantic soulmates peeta "if it weren't for the baby" moment ghibli-esque setting: an island in the sky 3 by 3 moodboard with blue and red tones. from to left to bottom right: "you are my fate this once and always" quote trees against a purple-pink sky line art sketch of two people embracing red roses against a dark blue sky illustrated girl with white hair and red ginko leaves (art by @/kelogsloops on ig) illustration of a house on a riverside line art of linked hands sea surface with purple-pink tones "souls don't meet by accident" quote
August 6, 2023 at 4:18 PM