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Liz | Author • Illustrator
@lizified.bsky.social
190 followers 560 following 130 posts
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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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.
August 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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.
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Landed back home and working on beta and agent edits for my illustrated MG. It already feels tighter. 💜 #writingcommunity #MG
July 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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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
July 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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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
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Fable x The Girl from Everywhere

When Cuban American witch, Kat del Sol, discovers her mom is the infamous pirate Anne Bonny, she steals her Abuela’s grimoire and travels back in time–only to find her growing feelings for a pirate may cost her the mother she’s fought so hard to find. #YA #F #JoyPit
A digital illustration in pastel pinks, yellow and blues. Of a man to the left, woman to the right a teen girl in the middle. Along horizon line is a pirate ship. Illustration by Elizabeth Prats.
June 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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. Last Kids on Earth x Labyrinth #MG #GN #JoyPit
A modern-day 12-year-old looking epic, standing in a coliseum with a sword and sunlight glinting off his shield. A digital illustration by Elizabeth Prats. A six-year-old girl jumping on a yellow couch throwing glitter and pink glue everywhere. A digital illustration by Elizabeth Prats. A 12-year-old boy is eating an intergalactic delicacy: Milky Way galaxy mackerel. A digital illustration by Elizabeth Prats.
June 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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My entire first act has been outlined. Happy birthday to me! Making progress on my new #WIP a YA climate fantasy. 💫 #amwriting
The writer smiling and throwing a peace sign.
June 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I was reading my 60-word MG pitch to a friend of mine on a call. And her 10-year-old nephew interrupted and asked if I could read it again. He loved it and asked all about the story 😭 we proceeded to have a 15-minute focus group with my target audience. And he loved my illustrations. Like I can’t 🥺
May 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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If you’re based in #NewOrleans and are a writer, I’m hosting a How to Write a Query session on Wednesday with @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social This is a free event #writing #querying
Over old letter it says, How to Write a Query Letter, Wednesday May 21 6:30-8:30 pm Courtyard Brewery
May 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Just finished her last night 💜 Freaking love the color scheme #kidlitart #yaart #ya #illustrator
A girl with pink, wavy hair sits on a cloud with a peach and pink sunset behind her. The words “Emptiness curled up inside me like an old friend…” hover amidst the clouds. Her chest a gaping hole, worry on her face and a juxtaposition to the pastel world she lives in.
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A Cuban American teen witch travels through time in search of her mom, the infamous pirate Anne Bonny. Think Adrienne Young’s Fable meets Outlander for teens. Infused with Spanglish, a pirate love interest, and a magic system loosely inspired by Santería. 
#YA
#F
#PosterPitQ #PosterPit #ownvoices
A faux movie poster for a book called Sea of Time & Blood, a young adult fantasy. The illustration depicts a beautiful sunset in shades of pinks, purples, orange, and yellow along the horizon line at sea. The faces of three characters appear ethereal as if painting or sketched into the very sunset themselves. A smirking young man on the left, to the right a determined woman and on top an awed teen witch whose hair flows outward with glowing green eyes. An all black pirate ship is seen in the distance along the horizon line. The poster includes: a pitch for the manuscript, Sea of Time & Blood, for #PosterPit, a contest for writers. This is an original art piece by author/illustrator Elizabeth Prats.
April 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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When Cuban American witch, Kat del Sol, discovers her mom is the infamous pirate Anne Bonny, she steals her Abuela’s grimoire and travels back in time–only to find her growing feelings for a pirate may cost her the mother she’s fought so hard to find. 
#YA
#F
#PosterPitQ
#ownvoices
A faux movie poster for a book called Sea of Time & Blood, a young adult fantasy. The illustration depicts a goddess with tan skin, hands raised, and a glowing halo behind her. The whole image is shades of dark brown, burnt orange, and yellow hues. The magic swishes around her. The poster includes: a pitch for the manuscript, Sea of Time & Blood, for #PosterPit, a contest for writers. This is an original art piece by the writer/illustrator Elizabeth Prats
April 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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That’s what confused me.
April 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Prepping for #posterpit over here. Thumbnail sketches ftw
April 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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So where are you in your publishing journey? I’ll start:

💜 Manuscript 5 (#YA fantasy) - #querying

💜Manuscript 4 (MG illustrated fantasy in the vein of Last Kids on Earth) - revising

💜 Manuscript 6 (YA Climate Fantasy) - outlining

It doesn’t always happen on your first book and that’s okay.
The beginnings of an iPad illustration of a little girl on a yellow couch with pink glitter glue and throwing sparkles. It’s half done, base color no shadows.
April 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Productive Saturday at @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social 5-hour #writing marathon. I revised 1800 words, finished a critique and finalized an illustration for my middle grade art portfolio #kidlit
The writer stands in a bar bathroom with stickers and writing all over the mirror. She holds up the phone with a peace sign. Head tilted to the side with dark brown, reddish curls.
April 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Looking for MG / YA #critiquepartners. Anyone actively looking? #kidlit
March 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Evening #kidlit sketches for my #mg love this character
March 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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START HERE: Hiiiii! I’m Liz. Writer, artist and cafe dweller (seriously the baristas know my order by heart). Currently #querying my #YAfantasy and revising a chaotic, illustrated middle grade. #kidlit. Always about those fierce Latina heroines.
A photo of the writer/ artists with playful scribbles pointing at the artist. I.e., 30-something, loves fantasy, romance, adventure, WIP witchy pirate fantasy Bio: Elizabeth Prats is a Cuban-American writer, illustrator, and marketing pro. A former literary agency reader and book publicist turned Senior Account Director at an award-winning communications agency. She writes middle grade and young adult fiction featuring epic adventures and fierce Latina heroines. Showcases a faux cover of the YA fantasy SEA OF TIME & BLOOD she is querying. It has a ship in the darkness and hues of light green. Headline: Time travel. Witches. Pirates. Oh My. Then it bullets out - Seeking a literary agent, found family feels, Morally gray love interest who would bleed the world for her, Spanglish and YA fantasy adventure WIP: MG Wish Gone Awry. Intergalactic Gladiator Ring. Illustration of a cartoon 12-year-old with a surprised expression on his face holding a bowl and and alien eyeball on a fork. In bullets: Currently revising, illustrated middle grade, reluctant boy readers, bacon aliens that want to sizzle the MC to death, adoption & sibling bonding.
March 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Took a stroll through the neighborhood today and snapped a few reference photos. Such a beautiful day. 💜
February 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Just a little evening #kidlit sketches for my #middlegrade novel.
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Actual snow in #NewOrleans!
January 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Worked on some really playful thumbnails sketches earlier this week. I don’t thumbnail that frequently, but trying to do better this year. Honestly, such a game changer. This is an MC from my middle grade light sci-fi. #middlegrade #illustration #kidlitart
January 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM