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2025 SmoochPit mentee | Writer, artist ✍️ Querying an Asian-inspired romantic fantasy https://lliuwrite.carrd.co/

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

THE HUNGER GAMES x DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

🏳️‍🌈Asexual MC
🌦️Devious sunshine x softhearted grump

#DVpit #A #F #OWN #Asian #LGBT #POC #WOC

Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" and author name "L. Liu" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!! ❤️❤️

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Made my very first substack post! If you want to read some literary agent responses and have some querying positivity, feel free to take a look. :)
open.substack.com/pub/lliuwrit...

Some wonderful literary agent responses

to notifying them I was selected for SmoochPit!

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much!!❤️

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday ! I’m more of a writer than an artist at the moment, but I draw and animate my ocs (and other people’s during artfight). Always hoping to improve. :)

A cheerful woman bard with a brown cloaked stern man under pink blossoms.

A blonde person wearing a transparent green veil, holding their face with red gloves and releasing a green butterfly.

A girl crouched over a fallen, injured man as the sunset glows behind them.

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!! ❤️

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!!!

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 2d

I am over the moon to be selected as a 2025 #smoochpit mentee!!! I still can't believe my eyes! SO excited to be working with @authortrmoore.bsky.social on my Asian-inspired romantic fantasy. 😭

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 5d

We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible.

Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!

📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!

Mentors Part 1:
Molly McDonough
Deena Helm
Julie Lew
Megan Bontrager
Seren Kilig
Natalie Kikić
Deandra Davis
Christie Curry
Eunice Kim
Carmeline Melchior
Corvin A. Doupagne
Rachel Kitch
Samantha Chong
Fatiha Rais
Shepard DiStasio
Thea Liu
Damara Allen
Karis Rogerson

Mentors Part 2:
Julie Hafsa Derbal
Tali Shammas
Lilly Lu
Cassy Klisch
Camille Chong
Bayley Mae
Amanda Helander
Libby Kennedy
Taylor Pitts
Shaina Cordas
J.D. Myall
Asia Murphy
Grace Morrow
Meredith Mooring
Ellen Mulholland
Chantel Pearson
Stephanie Kim Johnson
Caitlyn Averett
Sabina Martin

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 4d

So excited to be a lucky winner of #revpit #10queries !!

Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 4d

#RevPit #10Queries Winners have been drawn at random and assigned to editors (also at random), and emails went out to those whose submissions were selected.

Join us Oct 24 to get tons of helpful querying advice. Anyone can benefit from this feedback, even if you weren't selected or didn't enter

Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you everyone who entered! Our editors are eager to get their hands on these submissions. Keep an eye on this space, and don't forget to follow our editors for their #10Queries posts!

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 4d

What I meant to say was, one of the couples in the images is not a romantic couple. Which one it is I'll leave people to guess ;)

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 4d

Some of these are older, but I had fun drawing all of them. Fun fact: all of these couples have appeared in books I’ve written. 😅 1/4 is not a romantic couple.

A cheerful woman bard and a brown cloaked stern man holding a sword underneath pink blossoms.

A woman crouched over a fallen, injured man in front of a dying sunset.

A tall blonde woman in armor princess carrying a young man in a brown coat.

Two young men in ancient Chinese attire embracing each other, one tying a white sash to the other’s shoulder. Similar to the pose of the Huguenot painting.

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve made a Substack account! Not sure if I will be posting anything but I would love to follow more fellow writers, readers, or people working in publishing. Please feel free to drop your Substack in the comments and I’ll follow!

substack.com/@lliuwrite?i...

Lucy L | Substack

Writer, artist ✍️ querying an Asian-inspired romantic fantasy

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 4d

Entered my new WIP!

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE meets DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a nine-tailed fox trickster goddess must infiltrate the traveling palace of an exiled inventor and steal his heart to restore her stolen laughter.

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 5d

I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!

Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · Sep 12

🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉

RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!

#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 6d

Yep!! :D

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much!! ❤️

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

A heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain and falls for a soft-hearted grump demon hunter who would kill her if he knew she was a demon.

With only one wish at the mountain’s peak, love is a weakness she can’t afford.

#DVpit #A #F

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

Yes!!! You get it

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

A heart-devouring fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything in this #OWN voices romantic fantasy inspired by Chinese music and mythology.

🌈Asexual spec MC
❤️Slow burn romance

#DVpit #A #F #LGBT

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Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much!!

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

A fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything. #OWN voices story with the romance amidst brutality of THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT and the lush, Asian-inspired fantasy of IMMORTAL

#DVpit #A #F

Illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

thank you!! ❤️

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

A fox demon bard seeking to become human.

A demon hunter with a wish of his own.

And a race to the top of a wish-granting mountain in this Asian-inspired romantic fantasy where love might just be the deadliest obstacle of all.

#DVpit #A #F #OWN #Asian #LGBT #POC #WOC

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much!! ❤️

Lucy is querying @lliuwrite.bsky.social · 7d

thank you so much!!