by Gloria Oliver | Oct 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
Hubby was out sick all last week and I was out three days. Normally, I am the stubborn type and drag myself to work no matter how crappy I feel unless I am in either too much pain or too dizzy to drive. Last week I was neither and yet the virus won.It was a weird...
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
2007 – The Year of the Fire Pig has been incredibly chaotic just as predicted. There’s been good and bad all over. One of the good things, though, has been my exposure to the works of an incredible amount of awesome actors and screen writers. I’ve...
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 13, 2007 | Movie Reviews
I had originally planned to post something else this week, but fate had other plans.This week, my daughter brought home a movie which I had seen the previews for at the theater. At the time I thought it had looked totally fascinating, despite the fact the second half...
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
Dark Lullabyby Mayra Calvani Premise: Gabriel Diaz is an idealist. He loves debating about good and evil, justice versus murder. His relationship with his ex-girlfriend Liz is friendly, though he knows she would let it be more again if he wanted. But he doesn’t...
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 6, 2007 | Marketing, Novels
Being a writer tends to involve a lot of time spent waiting. Waiting to get distant enough from a project to edit the manuscript, waiting to hear back on submissions, waiting to get a manuscript back from a beta reader or editor, waiting to actually move up the cue to...
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 30, 2007 | Marketing, Writing
Psst! You there. Yeah you! The one reading this blog. Answer me this…how do you do it? How do you find the time to go trolling around and read this stuff? Tell me, please! I really need to know! I can barely scrape the time to do an entry, and yet you somehow...
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
Dead Girl’s Dance – Book 2 of the Morganville Vampire Seriesby Rachel CainePremise: Shane’s father is in town and he is out for blood. He won’t let anyone or anything stand in his way, not even his son. Then Shane gets caught in the area of a...
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Creativity is a weird animal. Not only is it a muscle that must be used in order to hone it and get it to give you more, but it can also be very capricious. It can drive you to distraction, prove stubborn, or send you down avenues you don’t want to go on because...
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Stargate Atlantis – Reliquaryby Martha WellsPremise: Set late into Season 1, a room is found within the city of Atlantis that reveals a corrupted message with a new Stargate address. Sending a probe through, the site looks very similar to the set up of a...
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 16, 2007 | Conventions, Movie Reviews
August has been HOT and just darn weird. And since part of that mess made me miss posting last week, this will be this week’s topic! BwahahahaThe temperatures have been trying to catch up from the below average temps we had in June due to all the unusual rain....
