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 [...]

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 [...]

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 As you all know, The Romance Writers of America calls all of its unpublished manuscript finalists in its annual Golden Heart® contest every year on a designated day.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 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 struggle with trying to make your writing perfect? Gosh, I do, and it is the bane of my existence.It's what makes me a good writer and what makes me a terrible writer.The older I get, the more I realize that what makes you good also makes you crazy and bad. The same exact thing! [...]

I just found out my early Victorian romance The Spy Who Loved Me is a finalist in the Historical category of the Chicago North Fire and Ice Contest.  Yippee!!Fortitude.  Resilience.  Rebirth.                  Oh, and this picture is from my garden.  There is something alive under there after all!!