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The Scent of Memory

It’s wrong to say I woke to the smell in the pre-dawn light, because mid-April in Anchorage means 15 hours of daylight and the sun was up well before I was. But it was the wee hours of the morning when I woke to a familiar smell. The memory of…

No Road To Follow

Picture a field of freshly fallen snow. A blanket of powdery white that stretches between the trees. In this field you know there are two things: a road, and a perilously soft shoulder with four feet of packed snow that will eat your car like candy if you get to…

From Late Night Twitter… Writing the Disabled

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The “I Love You” List … things you need to have in an emergency

Tragedies happen. No one wants to think about funerals when they’re 21, but horrible things happen that can leave you incapacitated or killed at any age. This isn’t covered by high school, it’s rarely mentioned in college, but if you’re paying your own bills you need to make sure that…

A Look Back At 2016

January 1, 2017, marked my two-year anniversary in Alaska. I spent 2016 learning to drive on ice (and not die), dodging moose (without dying), and chasing whales (while avoiding death). There was a bit of a theme in 2016. I only had one book published in 2016, DECOHERENCE, but there…

Winter Break Is Here!

Happy holidays, everyone! Winter break is officially here and the blog hibernating until January. I hope all of you have a wonderful, happy holiday season and a joyous New Year! All my love, Liana

A Different America

The flags were flying at half-mast today in the cold wind. Anchorage is a young town by most American standards, but it remembers Pearl Harbor all too well. There’s still remnants of the world war and the cold war laying around. Bunkers, and batteries, and old forts built into cliffs…

What are you working on?

I realized I haven’t done a Catch Up! post in a while and there are people starting to email me about when the next book is out. So, so you can budget out your book buying plans for 2017, here’s what I’m up to. BODIES IN MOTION The first book…

NaNoWriMo Is Here

So, you might have noticed there was a flurry of blogging last weekend and this sudden radio silence once November hit. That’s because I’m actually doing NaNoWriMo this year. Not casually, like I have for several years, but actually trying to finish a 75,000 word novel before December 1st…

Liana Sets Sail

Curious readers may have wondered why the blog has been unusually quiet this week. Those who follow me on Twitter already know the answer: AMY IS HERE. My best friend in the world, the Good Twin to my Evil Twin, my Australian partner-in-crime, and platonic soul mate who keeps me…