Liana Brooks – Page 83 – A Universe Of Possibility

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,…

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…….