Liana Brooks – Page 47 – A Universe Of Possibility

New Year’s Resolution: How To Start A Novel

So, you want to write a book? Good for you! Maybe you’ve daydreamed about being a Real Author for years. Maybe you set a goal as a child to pen the next Great Novel. Maybe you have hazy, romantic ideas about what authors do (spoiler alert: we sit at our…

New Year’s Resolutions – a blog series

2018 is coming and that means people are starting to think about their goals. Yay! Goals! To help everyone get closer to achieving their dreams in 2018 I’m putting together a series of How To posts for publishing. How To Start A Novel How To Plot A Novel How To…

Gifts For Writers (an incomplete list)

Author Essentials The things every author really needs but probably won’t mention. Waterproof Keyboard by Logitech – I’ve had two of these so far (the keys are not kid-proof) and having a washable, waterproof, regular keyboard has been a lifesaver more than once. Authors eat at their desks. They type…

Writing Romance… is it really that hard?

Here’s the thing… certain emotions are easy to evoke and others are very hard to master and write. Anger. Hate. Rage. Fear. <– negative emotions are the easiest to write because they rely on primal instinct programmed into the human brain by thousands of years of evolution. Within cultures there are…