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Lived It Press

Practical books for hard weeks, fiction by L. V. Ivy, and picture books under LOLA. A Pixient LLC imprint.

We don’t publish escapism. We publish the thing you lived through, written well enough that someone else survives their own version of it a little easier.

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02 — Catalogue

The List

Print via Amazon · Digital download via Etsy Shop

A small, growing list. Every book here started as a real problem or a real year — we just found the right shape for it.

Lola · silent partner
@ladylolaenglish
Lived It Press presents Lola English Children’s Books
03 — Children’s imprint

LOLA

Lola is an English bulldog with a small, devoted following and an opinion about everything. She is not a mascot so much as a co-author — the softer half of this press, where the stories get gentler, the sentences get shorter, and the lesson still lands. Her books are for the kids in your life who deserve the same honesty the grown-up titles get, just told slower and with more treats. Her published work is below, with the next titles in development.

04 — The House
Two imprints

Lived It carries the adult list — fiction under L. V. Ivy and practical titles beside it. Lola carries the children’s list: the same honesty, told slower.

Print & distribution

Titles are set for KDP and IngramSpark — ebook, paperback and case laminate — so a bookseller can order any of them the ordinary way.

Held to a standard

Every cover, interior and page of this site is set to one written house style. It is public — read it under The House Style.

3rd & Agnes cover
Cover, third pass
05 — Now on Kindle

3rd &
Agnes

A novel by L. V. Ivy. Evynne Monet was a Westside girl until her mother married into a “good family” and moved them to Agnes Road in Lynwood at the height of the 1980s. The house was everything her mother had worked for — a deep lot, a big tree, an attached garage — but what came with it was a stepfather the family adored and Evynne feared, a block where the corner ran its own economy, and Trel, the twenty‑one‑year‑old who noticed the fifteen‑year‑old no one else was watching.

She survives it by falling for Trel, the boy running the block. What she does not know is that her uncle, a rising sheriff’s deputy, has already marked that same corner for destruction. When her stepfather dies after a confrontation with Trel, the family calls it justice served — and the case closes clean for everyone except the one person who was actually there.

FormNovel · An Evynne Monet Novel
StatusKindle edition · available now
PaperbackAvailable now · Amazon & IngramSpark

Kindle and paperback editions available now via Amazon and IngramSpark.

“A coming-of-age story about the stories families tell to survive themselves — and what it costs the one person who refuses to believe them.”

From the jacket
05.1 — First pages

Chapter One — Cullen Street

An excerpt from the manuscript of 3rd & Agnes, trimmed for length. Two breaks in the text mark passages held back.

Read the first pages Chapter One · excerpt

Every summer of my life split the same way: part of it in Houston, part of it in New Orleans, where the whole family had come from before anybody scattered. I’d been making that circuit since before I could remember making it — Houston first, then NOLA, then home to L. A. in time for school — and I’d been getting on planes by myself since I was small enough that the flight attendants used to pin a little plastic wing badge to my shirt like I’d earned it. I didn’t think of it as travel. I thought of it as weather. It just happened to me every June, the way rain happens to other places.

So when I tell you about Cullen Street, I’m not telling you about one trip. I’m telling you about a room I walked into every year of my childhood, and the people who were always in it, and the one night in there that I never got rid of.

Pépère picked me up at Hobby — always Hobby, never Intercontinental, which sat too far out on the wrong side of the city to bother with when Hobby got you home in half the time — and he picked me up the way he picked everybody up: like a parade with an audience of one. Cowboy hat on, boots you could hear coming before you saw the man, and the Cadillac idling right up close to the curb like the rules about that didn’t apply to somebody who looked like he did.

···

Miss Odette met us at the door before the Cadillac was in park.

I want to say I remember what she was wearing, but what I actually remember is the sound she made — this delighted, undignified whoop — and then I’d be up off my feet in a hug hard enough to knock things loose. She smelled like something frying and something sweet at the same time, which I came to understand was just what her kitchen smelled like on any given Tuesday, no occasion required.

···

I tell you all of that — the boudin, the horses, Miss Odette’s laugh, the Cadillac at the curb — because I need you to understand what a soft landing that house was before I tell you the other thing. Otherwise the other thing makes him sound like the whole story, and he wasn’t.

He was one bad night inside a lot of good years.

Continue reading in 3rd & Agnes — Kindle edition out now Buy on Amazon
06 — The author

L. V. Ivy

Writes about the streets people are moved to and the families that agree on a story afterwards. Her novel 3rd & Agnes is available now in Kindle and paperback editions via Amazon and IngramSpark; the rest of the Lived It list — the guides, the journals, the health books — is published under Pixient LLC.

Where the books are ordered
Kindle Direct PublishingEbook & paperback
IngramSparkTrade & library
Your booksellerBy ISBN, worldwide

Eight titles stand on the list, and all eight are on sale. Books are available for print via Amazon, with selected digital downloads through the Etsy shop. 3rd & Agnes is available now in Kindle and paperback editions via Amazon and IngramSpark.

05.5 — Ask the press

The press speaks

Every ridge in the imprint is a sentence. Ask about any title in the catalogue, the author, or the house itself — it answers aloud.

LIVED IT PRESS
05 — Journal

From the desk

Notes from the process — drafts, dead ends, what got cut and why, what it costs and what it’s worth. Less writing advice, more a record kept in real time.

02 Aug 2026 Launch entry

How 3rd & Agnes actually started

Read the entry Six minutes

I didn’t set out to write a novel.

I sat down to write down some things about my own family — the kind of stuff you carry around for years without ever really looking at directly. I wasn’t trying to make anything out of it. I just wanted it out of my head and onto a page, where I could finally see the shape of it instead of just feeling the weight of it.

Somewhere in the middle of that, a girl named Evynne Monet showed up. She wasn’t me. She was a fifteen-year-old on the wrong side of a line I grew up learning the hard way — the one that splits Los Angeles into two entirely different cities that share a name and nothing else. She had a mother carrying more than she ever explained, a grandfather who ran his household like a man building something with his bare hands, and a boy on a corner who was gentler with her than half the people who were supposed to be.

None of that is exactly my life. All of it is built from the parts of my life I know the truest.

I didn’t understand what I had until I was deep into it — until I stopped writing to get something out of my own head and started writing because Evynne had somewhere she needed to go, and I was the only one who could take her there. That’s the moment a journal entry turns into a novel, as far as I can tell. Nobody tells you when it happens. You just look up one day and realize you’re not processing anymore. You’re building.

Agnes Road is a real street. It’s not a metaphor — it’s an ordinary residential block, the kind you’d drive past without a second look. Tan stucco house, a chain-link fence, a tree that’s still standing there today. That’s exactly why the book is named after it. The biggest things that ever happened to Evynne happened somewhere that looks like nothing at all.

I’ll be using this space to write about the parts of building this book that don’t fit in a caption — the research into Lynwood’s real history that ended up woven through these chapters, the decisions I made about what to change and what to leave true, and eventually, once it’s out in the world, what it’s actually like to hand a piece of your own life to strangers and let them read it.

Thank you for being here for it from the start.

— L. V. Ivy

Letters from Lived It

One letter a month: a page from the work in progress, a note on the cover in front of us, and first word on publication dates.

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The House
Style

Lived It Press publishes what actually happened, filtered through whatever form it needs to survive the telling. That means fiction that doesn’t flinch — Evynne Monet’s world under L. V. Ivy is built from real streets, real years, real families, even where the names have changed. It means Lola: a bulldog with a following and an opinion, turning the smaller, sweeter truths into picture books. And it means the practical work underneath all of it — books written by someone who has actually lived the week she’s writing about, not researched it from a distance.