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NaNoWriMo Boot Camp Day 1: Establish a Base Line

The best way to fail is to not prepare. You think you’re going to start NaNoWriMo November 1st with no preparation, no practice, and no prior thought? Well, honey, that’s just setting yourself up for failure. No worries, though. I am a certified* NaNoWriMo Boot Camp instructor. Every Tuesday and…

What Do You Do With Rejection Letters (a reprint)

Originally Posted On 6/10/14 Liana, I sent my first story out in February and now I have my first rejection. What am I supposed to do with it? – Rejected and Confused Dear Confused, First, congratulations on sending your story out! That’s a big, scary, terrifying, and exhilarating thing to…

Get Your Packet Together

Originally Posted 6/30/14 Listen, sometimes lightning strikes and you have a window of opportunity that’s never going to open again. Once time it was a phone call for a job. Whomever called back first got the position. Once it was a promotional opportunity, a reviewer’s guest blogger fell through and…

Rough Drafts Are Meant To Be Rough (a reprint)

Originally Published 9/4/14 It amazes me that there are any number of authors who think they’ve failed because their rough draft doesn’t look like a published book. My theory is that this is the product of a broken education system that insists on forcing children to write essays at the…

You Will Be Rejected (a reprint)

Originally Posted 7/15/13 Not: You might be rejected. Not: You’ll have a few rejections. Not Even: Well, if you’re only mid-list worthy you’ll have at least twenty rejections. You want to get published? Fine. You need to accept that every single day of your career will have rejection. Everything you…

Scientist Working To Develop a Phone That Can Send Messages Back In Time

“….one scientist believes that time travel is possible – and he has the design for a working ‘time telephone’, which he believes will receive messages from the future.” No, that’s not a quote from THE DAY BEFORE. However, that is exactly Dr. Emir’s plan in the Time & Shadows opening…

The Oldest Blog Post

I thought I would spice up this summer’s blogging with older posts from my previous blog (which you can still find at lianabrooks.blogspot.com). And then I read through. It was like the archaeology of my career digging through those old posts. Updates on the first draft of EVEN VILLAINS FALL…

DECOHERENCE is Due in 14 Days

The third (and last) Time & Shadows book is due to my editor in 14 days. Which means I am in my writing dungeon trying to make Draft 3 of DECOHERENCE actually coherent. I’ll be back to the regular blogging schedule in May after the book is turned in and my…

Missed Calls -or- How I Got My Agent

Monday morning I arrived home from the grocery store at 9:06. My phone was upstairs charging, and I felt calm and in control. Then I looked at the clock again, remembered that Marlene lives in Florida which is an hour ahead of me in the Midwest, and ran upstairs. Yeah…….

Regrowing Limbs

All my cyborg daydreams have just been crushed, ladies and gentlemen. I’m heartbroken, absolutely heartbroken that there is a possible future without men and guns combined into one beautiful being. *sigh* Mechanical limbs, or replacement body parts, were in use as far back as the early Egyptian cultures. The common…