Miranda Liasson, Author at Miranda Liasson Romance Author

Living With a Difficult Muse

By Miranda Liasson on Monday, May 9, 2011 | 1 comment

Still consumed with meeting my 1500 words-per-day quota for my Novel in Six Months Class with Lori Wilde at SavvyAuthors, I thought I would share more of my overwhelming frustrations as I continue to learn how to do this!I wrote over 8,000 words last week, all in a state of pure terror. Every morning, I wonder where [...]

Learning to Write Fast

By Miranda Liasson on Monday, May 2, 2011 | 0 comments

I am lucky to be in a course on SavvyAuthors run by Lori Wilde. It is a Fast Track Novel Writing Class that goes for six months. It's wonderful, and Lori is a great teacher. That being said, the agony is that every day, five days a week, each of us has to turn in 1500 [...]

My First Blog Interview Today at Wendy La Capra’s Blog

By Miranda Liasson on Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 | 0 comments

Up-and-coming historical romance writer and friend Wendy La Capra interviewed me on her blog today--please stop by! Wendy La Capra's Romance Writing Blog http://www.wendylacapra.com/

The Life of Painters…and Other Hazards

By Miranda Liasson on Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 | 0 comments

Don't you love learning things you never intended to find? I'm doing some research into medicine as it was practiced in the Regency period, and I had to chuckle when I came across this, which was written way earlier, around 1700:"We read that Raphael of Urbino, the famous painter, was snatched from life in the very flower [...]

News

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Apr 15, 2011 | 2 comments

I recently learned that my manuscript My Wicked Duke is a finalist in the historical category of the Cleveland Rocks Romance Contest, and a query letter I submitted is a finalist in the New Hampshire RWA Query Quandary Contest. Yay for celebrating small successes!

Elizabeth Inchbald: A Real-Life Regency Heroine

By Miranda Liasson on Friday, Apr 15, 2011 | 0 comments

I am reading a book, Passion and Principle: the Loves and Lives of Regency Women by Jane Aiken Hodge. Here is an amazing story I rustled up from this book:Have you ever heard of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)? She is a woman with an incredibly independent spirit for her age (well, for any age!) who was a [...]

The Surprise Factor in Fiction

By Miranda Liasson on Monday, Apr 11, 2011 | 0 comments

Had a big family event this weekend at my house that required a lot of preparation, so yesterday I gave myself permission to vege out, enjoy the 80+ degee weather (yes, even in Cleveland, it appears spring has arrived (and I say that with a great deal of caution)!), and dig into Brava, Valentine, Adriana Trigiani's continuation of [...]

The Lush Language of Adriana Trigiani

By Miranda Liasson on Thursday, Apr 7, 2011 | 0 comments

I have been discovering new authors (well, actually, famous authors who are new to me)--ones who are going to be a part of the Jane Austen anthology coming out this fall by Ballantine books. I had the great pleasure of reading Very Valentine, Adriana Trigiani's 2009 book about a woman's quest for self discovery in [...]

Help for Writing in the First Person…from Wendy LaCapra

By Miranda Liasson on Saturday, Apr 2, 2011 | 3 comments

I've recently been called upon to read a friend's partial manuscript--all written in the first person.I recently wrote a short story in the first person, which I had never seriously done before. And I realized there are pitfalls.The hardest one for me was the "telling" pitfall. How on earth do you avoid telling if you [...]

Do You Slump When You Work, or Proper Posture at Your Computer

By Miranda Liasson on Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 | 0 comments

Do you spend hours every day sitting down at the screen typing away? Ask yourself these questions to see if you're stressing your body by not doing it properly!Do your ears line up with your shoulders and hips (like they should if you are sitting up straight)?Is the top of your screen at forehead level? (hard to [...]