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You Can’t Just Cut And Paste!

Urgh. Doing the last little bit of research for #FGU (more properly known as From The Ground Up: Building A World That Works) and I’ve been doing a bit of comparative work with some of the other worldbuilding books that are out there – and trust me, there are surprisingly few, which is why I decided to write this book in the first place. And not only are worldbuilding books actually far less common than you’d believe, every single one I’ve found so far suffers from one of two flaws.

Either it’...

Inkprint Press Website

Just a quick note to say that finally, after only about two and a half years, the Inkprint Press website is fully functional. For those of you who weren’t aware, Inkprint Press is the publishing label Liana Brooks and I use for our self-published works

www.inkprintpress.com – bookmark it today

What To Do When You Accidentally Wrote An MG Book

1) Panic, because the book was supposed to be YA.

2) Research the heck out of the difference between MG and YA. Some good starting points are here, here, here and here(this one may contain ‘language’).

3) Ask for a bunch of volunteers to read the book for you. Look for volunteers who read MG and YA regularly, who can spot the difference between the two.

4) Convince yourself in the meantime that everyone’s feedback will come back agreeing with your original intentions and all will be well.

5) Rece...

Girl + Snow + Fox over at Darkness&Good

Just a reminder that Liana and I have weekly (mostly unedited) short stories going on over at the Darkness&Good blog. Today my little piece (which is really more a vignette, and may or may not have a series of novels attached O:)) is about a girl, and a fox, and the snow. Go check it out

Jane Doe Cover Reveal!

Yay, the twinny one Liana Brooks has a cover for her upcoming sci fi thriller series with HarperCollins! This is the cover for the ebook, which is coming out on April 28. There will be a print edition too, but not for a couple of months after that

SO! What’s the book about, I hear you ask? Well! I have a blurb for you! HOW CONVENIENT.

A body is found in the Alabama wilderness. The question is:

Is it a human corpse … or is it just a piece of discarded property?

Agent Samantha Rose has been exiled...

Writerly Obsessions

“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.”

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Natalie Goldberg (viamiddecember)

I keep writing about drugs, killers, and bad choices… what does this say about me? ~ Liana Brooks

Me, I write about people who find strength they didn’t know they had, who discover the magic and wonder in everyday life, and who have to suffer deeply in order to get what they want. Also they all pretty much...

Exciting Booky Things!

You guys! I got my copy of Liana Brooks’s Even Villains Go To The Movies today! In print and everything! There’s one thing about having an ebook released by a publisher other than yourself – but a print book? That’s another level of cool again. And I am so stoked to be able to hold a copy of this book in my hands. It’s not mine, but Liana and I are crit partners, and I think I must have read through the draft of Movies at least four times before it went to the publisher, and I am disproportio...

Darkness & Good is BACK for 2015!

Hi everyone!

I hope you had a fantastic holiday season and managed to get some downtime in there somewhere. This is a just a quick reminder that the short story blog I run with Liana Brooks is back online for the year! Head over there now to check out Liana’s Red Planet Refugees.

You can expect new short stories over at Darkness & Good at least once a fortnight (hurrah!), and I often forget to post here when one goes live (doh!) so don’t forget to bookmark the site or subscribe so you don’t mis...

Things I Really Need To Bake

Blame it on pregnancy cravings, or the fact that I’ve been too sick to do much cooking in the last 5 months, or a stress-induced desire for comfort food, or the search for procrastination, or anything else you like, but the fact of the matter is the last few weeks have been one giant, continuing saga of OHMYGOSH THIS THING I MUST BAKE.

Obviously, the whole being-sick-and-exhausted-because-growing-new-minion thing has put a damper on my abilities to actually DO any of this cooking, and the list...

So You Want To Get Published?

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