Liana Brooks is a full time mom, part time author, who would rather slay dragons than budget the checkbook any day. Alas, Adventuring Hero is not a recognized course of study in American universities so Liana was forced to do the next best thing. She graduated college with a bachelor’s degree in marine biology, a husband, and no job prospects in her field. To fill the free time she started writing. Now her books are read all over the world (she says she’s big in Canada) and she’s free to explore the universe one page at a time.
Q&A
If you could be best friends with another author (past or
present), who would it be?
Oh, this is a tough one. I have so
many author friends right now so let’s go with some dead ones. I would have
loved to meet Tolkien. I grew up reading Tolkien and as much as I love his work
I really wish I’d been his beta-reader for THE HOBBIT so I could tweak the
ending a little. He kind of went through a Hamlet phase there. It was awkward.
If Tolkien isn’t available I’d love to spend time with Shakespeare.
Do you have a favorite genre to write? How about to read?
I love writing sci-fi and futuristic
stories. The perfectionist in me has a heart-attack if I can’t find all the
details needed to write the time period accurately (and sometimes those facts
are very hard to find), and plain contemporary always seems a little too bland.
I read sci-fi (naturally), and I love Urban Fantasy to the point of obsession.
I also sneak in fun romances of any genre and thrillers. If you write about
spies, I want to read your book.
What is the most difficult part of writing?
Honestly? Making myself write. Once
I start writing everything flows fairly easily (although I grumble on Twitter
out of habit). But getting myself to set apart the time, losing the
distractions, that’s hard for me. It’s why I bought Write or Die. The program
makes obnoxious noises and screams at you if you stop writing. It’s perfect for
rough drafts. J
How long does it take you to draft a novel? Tell us a bit about
your writing process.
Longer than it should, and longer
than it used to. I’ve done National Novel Writing Month (where you write 50,000
words in 30 days) several times and usually set a word count goal of 3000
words/day. That was very good for me, but as the kids got older and life got
busier I found I don’t have 3-4 hours of writing time a day, I have 1 or So
it takes me about three months to draft a novel and a year to edit it because
I’ll send it to my critique partners for a month while I work on something
different.
I call my writing style the Lazy
Susan approach to writing. At any given moment I have three or four projects of
different lengths in the works. A novel being polished, final edits for a
novella, a rough draft for a short story, and if the one I’m working on leaves
me stuck I spin the Lazy Susan and work on something else. It’s not the most
efficient way of writing. It’s not nearly as focused as some other authors who
will go from rough draft to final draft without ever looking at another plot,
but it works for me. It means I don’t have weeks or months of not writing. I
don’t spend my down time on a book puttering on the golf course. I spend it
writing in another universe.
EVEN VILLAINS GO TO THE MOVIES
Liana Brooks
114 pages
Publisher: Breathless Press
Publish date: Nov. 15th, 2013
Synopsis
When your mother is America’s Superhero Sweetheart and your
daddy’s the Number One Super Villain, you grow up feeling a little conflicted.
Angela Smith has superpowers—nothing that will ever make her
comic-book famous—but her ability to psychically sense and manipulate the
emotions of people around her has drawn unwanted government attention. Forced
to choose between her quiet life as a teacher under constant surveillance or
the life of a rogue, she chooses the latter. She plans to hide out in sunny Los
Angeles where being a blue-eyed blonde won’t make anyone bat a false eyelash.
Silver screen star by day, superhero by night, Arktos is a
triple-threat. He can fly, freeze anything, and see glimpses of the future, all
of which he needs to keep the city of Los Angeles safe, but which does nothing
for his social life. When a frightening vision of an explosion leads him to
rescue a damsel in distress, he finds himself trading Shakespearean insults
with a rogue.
Angela knows just how dangerous well-intentioned superheroes
can be: one tried to kill her family when she was young. Arktos knows he should
hand the rogue over to Company justice; it’s not safe for someone like her to
be in the middle of a fight.
But they can’t seem to stay apart. And together, they just
might be able to melt all the obstacles standing between true love for a hero
and a villain.
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