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The Strange Emptiness of Success

You wouldn’t think there was a sadness attached to success. There should be elation. Perhaps celebration. There should be parades, and trumpets, joy! But as I clean my desk tonight and tuck away the notes and scraps and post-is associated with DECOHERENCE I realize I’m burying the corpse of Jane…

Making Progress!

I started physical therapy in January after finally realizing that, no, resting wasn’t making my hip better. When the pain was so bad I considered buying a gun to shot my leg, I went to the doctor (see me make good choices!). After several tests it was determined that I…

Top Ten Allowable Reasons To Interrupt Mom While She’s Working (2.0)

Back in 2011 Corina Lawson published the original list of reasons children could reasonably interrupt a writing mother (or father). I love that list. It’s cute, and funny, and spot on. Nothing short a full zombie apocalypse should interrupt an author on a deadline. However, some of the jokes were…

March Goes Out Like A Lamb

This is normally where I’d announce the winner for the March prize, but since it’s International Idiot’s Awareness Day I’ve decided to wait until Monday so that no one deletes the notification as junk mail. March Writing Stats 31,000 Words Written — 50,000 Word (100 Pages) Edited – Blood shed,…

In Which Amy Laurens Steals The Blog.

Quick, everyone! Liana’s away! Let’s…. act like really civilised people and maybe read a book? HA. NOT WHAT YOU THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO SAY, IS IT. HA. *ahem* Aaaanyway. Liana is currently mired in the trenches of book 3 deadlines, so I’m here today to entertain you. Or at…

A Different Kind of Parent

Recently I had a reason to look up childhood depression. It’s exactly as depressing and heart-breaking as you imagine. And one of the themes I found running through the posts and discussions were the stories of people who struggled with depression but didn’t have familial support. People who were told…

On Being Responsible Killers – a guest post by Jane Lebak

Writers are no strangers to death. Neither are our characters. It hurts, but sometimes we have to kill one of them. https://twitter.com/LianaBrooks/status/620705651052773376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Back during my college days, while drifting to sleep, I thought about how the Bible says humans are made in the image of God, and then I thought…

Where Mother Gothel Went Wrong

Mother Gothel and Rapunzel from the Disney movie Tangled. The Disney movie TANGLED came out in 2010 and at this point I feel it’s fair to say Mother Gothel is the dumbest villain ever added to the villain pantheon. Not the bumblingest or the silliest or even the least frightening,…

The Unexpected Book Deal

This is the post I never thought I’d get to write. Back in July I spent five hours skyping my crit partner in Australia and sobbing about how this book was dead. The very last agent had it and I was sure a rejection was imminent. Me weird, strange,…

You vs The Apocalypse

My last house was a pretty little ranch-style home located on the block were Hurricane Central and Tornado Alley share a summer home. We spent more than one night sleeping in the closet because a tornado rolled into town. While I was there dodging strong winds and the occasional flying…