Valerie Valdes’s work has been featured in Uncanny Magazine, Magic: the Gathering, and numerous anthologies. Her debut novel CHILLING EFFECT was shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was also named one of Library Journal’s best SF/fantasy novels of 2019. Her space fantasy novel, WHERE PEACE IS LOST, was named a 2024 Reading List Council honor title. Writing as Lia Amador, her first contemporary fantasy romance novel, WITCH YOU WOULD, was published by Avon Books in September 2025.