Miranda Liasson, Author at Miranda Liasson Romance Author

Crawling Inside Your Characters’ Heads: from Robert McKee’s Story

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Sep 6, 2013 | 4 comments

Hi Everyone!The kids are back in school and my house is SILENT...except for the soft snores of my pooch who is passed out on her back with her legs up in the air.I'm reading the classic screenwriting book Story by Robert McKee and I wanted to share one little tidbit that may help you [...]

Want to Make a Scene? Join me as I blog at Romance U Today!

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Aug 16, 2013 | 2 comments

Join me at Romance U. today as I virtual-lecture about jam-packing your scenes with good stuff to make them work as hard as they possibly can. Here's the link:http://romanceuniversity.org/2013/08/16/scene-structure-with-miranda-liasson/comment-page-1/#comment-38463See you all over there! And hey--it's Friday! Stop by and say hey! Woo hoo!!!The Lowcountry in late afternoon. That little speck between the trees is one [...]

RWA Conference Highlights: A Tale Told in Pictures by Miranda Liasson

By Miranda Liasson on Tuesday, Jul 23, 2013 | 6 comments

This is a story told best in pictures.Our table at the RITA/GH ceremony included my friends and chapter mates GH Paranormal winner AE Jones and Barb Heintz.My manuscript that won the Golden Heart in the Contemporary Series category.AE Jones won the Golden Heart for Paranormal! We are amazed!We got to pose for a pic with [...]

Advice from Eloisa James: Throw Your Heart into It

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Jun 7, 2013 | 2 comments

I had the great (and a little bit scary) honor of introducing Eloisa James yesterday at a library in Cleveland. How did that come about?! You might say it was accidental networking. One of the many perks of being active in your own RWA chapter!Anyway, Eloisa was on tour promoting her new book Once Upon [...]

Reinventing Yourself as a Writer

By Miranda Liasson on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 2 comments

This is a prequel blog. (Sort of like how a novella comes out before a novel.)I've been invited to be on the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog (www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com) on Thursday, May 23rd, as one of their series of Golden Heart finalists. I'll be talking about...me. Specifically, what I did when I hit a brick wall in my [...]

Creativity and Productivity

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Apr 19, 2013 | 2 comments

I read something this week that has been churning in my mind ever since. It's a fabulous blog post on creativity done by Margarita Tartakovsky and you can view the entire post here: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/04/14/9-illuminating-lessons-on-creativity/The entire thing is fascinating, but the part that really stuck with me all week was the story about the pottery class. [...]

My Crazy GH Call Story

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Apr 5, 2013 | 8 comments

Well, I thought I'd share my Golden Heart® call story from last week. As you all know, The Romance Writers of America calls all of its unpublished manuscript finalists in its annual Golden Heart® contest every year on a designated day. I was picking up my 16-year old son’s friend to take them both to volleyball practice when the [...]

I am a Golden Heart Double Finalist

By Miranda Liasson on Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 | 2 comments

I was just going to post some pictures from my trip to the lovely city of Savannah this past weekend but today I got a call from RWA that BOTH of the manuscripts I entered finaled in the Golden Heart contest. My friend and chaptermate Amy E Jones ( http://aejonesauthor.com/), also from Northeast Ohio RWA (NEORWA) also finaled in the paranormal [...]

Do you read to escape…or for something else?

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Mar 15, 2013 | 10 comments

Author David Shields got his new book How Literature Saved My Life written up last month in the New York Times Book Review. It's a memoir that discusses the reading and writing life of a distinguished man considered to be a genre-breaking author (see http://davidshields.com/).If interested, you can read the review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/books/review/how-literature-saved-my-life-by-david-shields.html?_r=0. The reviewer, Mark O'Connell, [...]

Starting a New Story: Thoughts from Michaelangelo

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Mar 8, 2013 | 2 comments

Note to my dear characters: Yes, alas, it's time to say goodbye. I created you, amid much sweat and blood, and I know you now like I know my own children (except that you're both far more predictable than they are!).My hero, you were such a good guy, a real gentleman. And my heroine, so brave to [...]