Lana Wood Johnson
@muliebris.bsky.social
Author
TECHNICALLY, YOU STARTED IT
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF
I like databases a lot.
More at https://LanaWoodJohnson.com
TECHNICALLY, YOU STARTED IT
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF
I like databases a lot.
More at https://LanaWoodJohnson.com
Sometimes I wonder if the guy who made a whole Goodreads account just to write a one star review of my debut and upvote every single other one star review still thinks about me.
May 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Sometimes I wonder if the guy who made a whole Goodreads account just to write a one star review of my debut and upvote every single other one star review still thinks about me.
If you write a billionaire romance set in Chicago and at no point does anyone go out of their way to mention their fancy house is in Oak Park, trust that I’m immediately checking where in the UK you’re from.
February 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you write a billionaire romance set in Chicago and at no point does anyone go out of their way to mention their fancy house is in Oak Park, trust that I’m immediately checking where in the UK you’re from.
I’m just a reader, standing in front of indie authors, begging them to capitalize the syllable they want emphasized in their pronunciation guides.
February 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m just a reader, standing in front of indie authors, begging them to capitalize the syllable they want emphasized in their pronunciation guides.
When you’re trying to come up with a pen name and your TooMUSH handle keeps staring you in the face.
February 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
When you’re trying to come up with a pen name and your TooMUSH handle keeps staring you in the face.
Every so often I check Wikipedia to see if one particular senator’s wife is dead because I am that petty and hold a 30 year grudge.
February 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Every so often I check Wikipedia to see if one particular senator’s wife is dead because I am that petty and hold a 30 year grudge.
I swear, you’d think I’d never written anything in tight 3rd before.
January 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I swear, you’d think I’d never written anything in tight 3rd before.
Querying something I’m pretty sure I should self-pub is really making me look at publishing very differently.
January 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Querying something I’m pretty sure I should self-pub is really making me look at publishing very differently.
This week in American government is very much giving:
a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .
Alt: Lucielle Bluth saying “It's One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost, $10?”
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This week in American government is very much giving:
Putting together a soundtrack for the next Romantasy I’m writing set in a fake early 00s CW show and filling it with all the covers I can find.
January 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Putting together a soundtrack for the next Romantasy I’m writing set in a fake early 00s CW show and filling it with all the covers I can find.
Me, when the predictive text actually predicts what I’m typing but I refuse to accept it as I finish manually: You’re not the boss of me!!!
January 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Me, when the predictive text actually predicts what I’m typing but I refuse to accept it as I finish manually: You’re not the boss of me!!!
Feeling a little like Cassandra today, but instead of Trojans in horses it’s venture capitalists in social media investments.
January 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Feeling a little like Cassandra today, but instead of Trojans in horses it’s venture capitalists in social media investments.
I feel like everything that happens in the US over the next four years will make a whole lot more sense if you worked for tech startups.
January 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I feel like everything that happens in the US over the next four years will make a whole lot more sense if you worked for tech startups.
Not me spending the day opening and closing TikTok because I keep forgetting.
January 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Not me spending the day opening and closing TikTok because I keep forgetting.
Please tell me your favorite unhinged plotline from a CW-esque show.
Doesn’t have to be “dog steals heart after transplant courier trips and drops it” levels of unhinged to help.
Doesn’t have to be “dog steals heart after transplant courier trips and drops it” levels of unhinged to help.
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Please tell me your favorite unhinged plotline from a CW-esque show.
Doesn’t have to be “dog steals heart after transplant courier trips and drops it” levels of unhinged to help.
Doesn’t have to be “dog steals heart after transplant courier trips and drops it” levels of unhinged to help.
No, YOU’RE thinking of coming up with a whole new pen name and figuring out how to self-pub a romantasy the week before TikTok shuts down.
January 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
No, YOU’RE thinking of coming up with a whole new pen name and figuring out how to self-pub a romantasy the week before TikTok shuts down.
Read a book where the MMC’s private jet landed at O’Hare, and I realized that if I were ever unconscionably wealthy, never having to set foot in O’Hare ever again would be one of the best ways to flaunt that wealth.
It’s also how I knew the author was not American.
It’s also how I knew the author was not American.
January 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Read a book where the MMC’s private jet landed at O’Hare, and I realized that if I were ever unconscionably wealthy, never having to set foot in O’Hare ever again would be one of the best ways to flaunt that wealth.
It’s also how I knew the author was not American.
It’s also how I knew the author was not American.
Nothing makes you question the quality of your author friendships like skimming deal announcements and finding a familiar name.
January 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Nothing makes you question the quality of your author friendships like skimming deal announcements and finding a familiar name.
Today one of our neighbors plowed our sidewalk before my husband could shovel theirs. As a true Minnesotan, he’s inconsolable.
January 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Today one of our neighbors plowed our sidewalk before my husband could shovel theirs. As a true Minnesotan, he’s inconsolable.
Barbara and Melissa teaching Charlie to read so he could use bird law to help the school was EXACTLY what I wanted from the Abbott/Sunny crossover.
January 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Barbara and Melissa teaching Charlie to read so he could use bird law to help the school was EXACTLY what I wanted from the Abbott/Sunny crossover.
Me: *has problems getting out of bed because of chronic health flare *
Also me: Why haven’t I solved the climate crisis yet?
Also me: Why haven’t I solved the climate crisis yet?
January 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Me: *has problems getting out of bed because of chronic health flare *
Also me: Why haven’t I solved the climate crisis yet?
Also me: Why haven’t I solved the climate crisis yet?
I kept getting jealous of people’s Kindle hand straps, and then I realized I’ve been sourcing phone accessories for 21 years and could probably find the same thing for my phone, and now I have and my life is vastly improved.
December 20, 2024 at 10:33 PM
I kept getting jealous of people’s Kindle hand straps, and then I realized I’ve been sourcing phone accessories for 21 years and could probably find the same thing for my phone, and now I have and my life is vastly improved.
I feel like I need to watch an old school Sat/Sun vengeance kdrama to help plot book 2.
I already have a solid number of tropes in place.
I already have a solid number of tropes in place.
December 19, 2024 at 11:39 AM
I feel like I need to watch an old school Sat/Sun vengeance kdrama to help plot book 2.
I already have a solid number of tropes in place.
I already have a solid number of tropes in place.
If you tell me something is slow burn and then the characters are never in the same room together, I will fight you.
December 13, 2024 at 2:42 AM
If you tell me something is slow burn and then the characters are never in the same room together, I will fight you.
Me: *explains my Truman Show, fae, Beth/Rip inspired romantasy idea*
Husband: As long as you understand it…
Husband: As long as you understand it…
December 10, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Me: *explains my Truman Show, fae, Beth/Rip inspired romantasy idea*
Husband: As long as you understand it…
Husband: As long as you understand it…
I am trash for the miscommunication trope when it’s based in trauma.
December 2, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I am trash for the miscommunication trope when it’s based in trauma.