Liana Brooks

Thank you. <3

From your keyboard to the universe's ears.

It has been a morning.

Time to reset and try to have a better afternoon.

New polar bear research gives insight into human-animal encounters - News Polar bear encounters with humans are a regular concern for scientists and communities near polar bear habitats, but new research is showing the bears’ reasons for coming in contact with humans might ...

Check out my PhD research, finally published!

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A figure depicting the relative abundance of different prey items among two species of felid (e.g., monkey, small bird, agouti), derived from scat. The x axis is labeled "PoO (%)."

I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). 💩

The cover for The Day Before - Yellow police tape across the foggy background hinting at a crime scene. The title is in black on the police tape. There are handcuffs in the foreground. The tagline reads "It's not a murder if there's no body."

“Whoever dumped the body knew your house code, or knew how to turn the security off. Someone knows where you live, knows you’re tied to this case, and they’re willing to kill.”

- THE DAY BEFORE

#SciFi #Mystery #Books 📚

books2read.com/b/day...

I now want marshmallows and aurora

#HerpInTheGrass - make it happen people!

Common Garter Snake BOOP

#HERper #becurious 🐍

a man wearing a top hat and a red jacket is standing in front of a crowd . Alt: the ringleader gets ready to start the circus!

Are you ready? #2026MMM

Or watching a drama...

A green stinkbug standing on a leaf, making nervous eyes, but not on purose, that's just the shape of their eyes

Why does he look nervous?

I have a meeting in under an hour and I'm waiting for two phone calls before that happens. Is it worth trying to get some writing done or should I just work on ads or something?

Again, this is all offline work not related to publishing or to anyone I think who follows me on here. You're all safe.

I don't delete a ton of stuff from my inbox. If you emailed it, chances are pretty good that I can find it.

"We don't think you ever gave us that informa-"

*me dumping email receipts going back nearly a year*

Want to try again? I have the dates of every phone call recorded too.

It is. But I'm going to keep it to a metaphorical slap and receipts because I want to stay out of jail.

The bright core of the Milky Way stretches across a star-filled sky above the snow-covered mountains of Aoraki / Mount Cook, with a calm alpine lake below reflecting the surrounding peaks and faint twilight glow on the horizon.

The Milky Way rising above the snowy peaks of Aoraki

More about me and prints
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f/2 • 20s • ISO 3200

#MilkyWay #Astrophotography #Nightscape

The front and back of a bookmark with my book covers on it and Riela and Garrick from the Roses & Stone cover with a quote: “Are you jealous, tempest?”

My new bookmarks were printed today! If you come see me in Tucson this weekend, I’ll have them with me!

Fiery sunset sky with streaked orange, pink, and red clouds over silhouetted Grampians mountains in Victoria, Australia. Dramatic glowing horizon with deep blue fading to warm tones.

Vibrant sunset over the Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia. Luminosity masking was used to bring out the dramatic glow

More about me & prints:
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#Grampians #Sunset #LandscapePhotography

I really do not enjoy giving up part of my day to do someone else's job because they haven't been bothered to do it in the past six months.

For decades I've spoken about how we prioritize men's stories and communicate that girls can read everything but boys should only read about male main characters. People always ask me, it's better now tho, isn't it?
My 15yo has been assigned 9 books in 7-9th grade. Only 1 female MC. (guess the book)

Considering the average household income is under $85k and a lot of Americans earn well under $75k a year, yes, I fully support not taxing the first $75k of anyone's income.

Tax the rich.

The first $75,000 of income for every American family should be tax-free.

Breakfast, writing, and then we'll see where the rest of the day goes.

A Caribbean Reef Squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) swimming. It is sort of facing the camera, but it is on a slight angle (its mantle is pointing back, to the right and slightly up). Its arms are mostly going down and are curving slightly right and then pointing forward, but its four centre are pointing in slightly different directions. Its two centre most arms are raised up a bit, and the next two arms have their tips pointing outwards. This squid's mantle is a mix of brown and dark brown with some white spots. Its head is a golden yellow colour with some dark brown and green and cyan iridescence around its eyes.

I love how reef squids are just so silly. Silly little guys

🦑📷Frank Krasovec (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Young authors writing older characters: 70 is not that old. Pls drop the nostalgia for Elvis & fear of smart phones. A 70-yo just left her corporate job a year ago & has been on the internet longer than you have. She isn’t afraid to drive on the freeway, she’s commuted for decades. 🙄

Note that the average for professional fiction copyediting is $.02 per word, not $.002 per word or some other ridiculously low amount. Proper editing is an investment.

No.

Using electronics does not give anyone the right to steal my work.

It is.

Which is why critique groups, writing partners, and traditional publishing that doesn't require an author to come with a fanbase are essential. Not everyone can afford to publish alone.

is there any hobby where, to do it seriously, you have to do less of it? like 'serious baseball fans watch fewer games in order to fully digest each one' sounds ridiculous because it is. (also stop rebranding your anhedonia 'taste' part 10000)

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?