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Pretty spines. ♥️

Pretty spines. ♥️

Thank you everyone for your wonderful response to

Thank you everyone for your wonderful response to the UK cover!! I’m very lucky to be working with such amazing designers and illustrators. ♥️🔥♥️

Speaking of which, this is the US cover for YEAR OF THE REAPER, and it has been called “stunning,” “beautiful,” “bada$$” and “dope.” 😂♥️ For that I must thank @kerryrubenstein and @onceaddai. If you’d like a 5x7 print of the cover art, simply pre-order from my local indie, @quailridgebooks (link in bio for details) here in Raleigh. Thank you to everyone who has already sent in receipts (please check your e-mail). ♥️ YEAR OF THE REAPER will be in bookstores November 9th!

#yearofthereaperbook #yearofthereaper #yafantasy #bookcoverart #bookswag #authorsofinstagram

This is the first time I have a book coming out in

This is the first time I have a book coming out in the United Kingdom, and I am very, VERY pleased with this cover. 🥰♥️ Thank you, @hodderscape! Cover design and illustration by the wonderful @lydiablagden and @sukutangan. ♥️

Hello! I haven’t introduced myself since I first

Hello! I haven’t introduced myself since I first started Instagram, so I thought now would be a good time. 😊

*I’m Makiia Lucier (muh-key-uh loo-seer) and I write historical fiction and fantasy for young adults.

*I grew up on the Pacific island of Guam. 🌴♥️

*Favorite movies and tv? Goblin: The Lonely and Great God, Anne of Green Gables (the Megan Follows/Jonathan Crombie version), Ever After, Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth edition), Master and Commander, The Painted Veil, and Rocky 4.

*I’m a Libra. ⚖️

*Summer is my favorite season.

*I currently live in North Carolina, but I lived in Oregon for ten years. I studied journalism at the University of Oregon and married my husband in Eugene. Our daughter was born there. 🦆

*I have no self-control around Strawberry Pocky Sticks and Jumbo Red Vines.

*I’m a former librarian. I have an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a focus on children’s literature. I have always been a reader, but never thought about becoming a writer until I was in my thirties.

*I like old things: towns, train stations, cemeteries, my 1910 Royal typewriter.

*All time favorite books: The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, All The Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry, His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, and The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay.

*I can’t dance. I’ve tried, I’ve even taken lessons, but it’s no good. I think my husband was trying to be nice once when he said, “You look like you should be graceful.” 🧐😂💃🏻

And I think that’s all! Happy to meet you! ♥️

Hello! Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in School Li

Hello! Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in School Library Journal’s “Day of Dialog,” along with fellow YA authors @ayanagray_ @lizzhuertawrites @unicornwarlord & Vincent Tirado (swipe to see their fabulous books)! Information on our @sljournal virtual panel is below, and I’ve included the registration link in my bio. Hope to see you there! ♥️

4:30 PM - 5:20 PM ET | Powerplays

YA fans of fantasy and epic battles of will and guile will exult in these electrifying reads.

*Ayana Gray, Beasts of Prey (Penguin Young Readers)

*Lizz Huerta, The Lost Dreamer (Macmillan)

*Makiia Lucier, Year of the Reaper (Clarion Books)

*Jodi Meadows, Nightrender (Holiday House)

*Vincent Tirado, Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks)

*Moderator: Jesse Sanders, Branch Manager, Fairview Park Branch, Cuyahoga County Public Library (OH)

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