by Gloria Oliver | May 2, 2010 | Movie Reviews
LosersStaring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Oscar Jaenada, Jason Patrick, Holt McCallany, etc.Premise:An elite special forces unit is sent to Bolivia in what should have been an easy in out tagging mission. Things get...
by Gloria Oliver | Apr 16, 2010 | Movie Reviews
Kick-AssStaring: Aaron Johnson, Garrett M Brown, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Moretz, Chris D’AmicoPremise: David, a typical nerdy teenager, ponders why people don’t actually try to be superheroes. Not able to see the downside, he decides to try to be one and his...
by Gloria Oliver | Apr 11, 2010 | Movie Reviews
The Bounty HunterStaring: Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Gio Perez, Joe Garland, Jason Sudeikis, Dorian Missik, Christine Baranski, and more…Premise: Bounty Hunter gets his dream assignment when he finds out there’s been a warrant put out on his ex-wife....
by Gloria Oliver | Mar 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to travel here and there at different times in my life, even out of the country. (And if my dream comes true and I win the lotto someday, I have a ton more I will be going to visit!) The biggest thing...
by Gloria Oliver | Mar 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week was EPICon 2010 – a convention that’s held in a different city each year by EPIC – the Electronically Published Internet Connection.Unlike the rest of the conventions I attend, Epic’s is strictly for e-book publishers and authors. No...
by Gloria Oliver | Mar 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hi,all!The time has come around once more for Read and E-book Week. E-book awareness has been rising in the last few years. And you all can cash in big time with some free books!Don’t know what an e-book is? Would like some info? EbookWeek.com has set up a page...
by Gloria Oliver | Feb 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Couldn’t go to sleep last night and was wondering what to blog about this morning. Then it hit me – names! I could talk about names!But what’s in a name, you ask? Loads! Especially for writers.With a name you can give the reader a bunch of...
by Gloria Oliver | Feb 21, 2010 | Conventions
Yo, all!Had back to back conventions so have not been able to do any blog posts. Work’s been busy too! Darn it! So let’s see what kind of damage I can do this morning, shall we? Heh hehFebruary 2-5, 2010 saw me at AggieCon. It was nice to be able to go on...
by Gloria Oliver | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
A couple of years ago, I did a post on fans and how we should never forget that authors, actors, artists, sports stars, etc are all people too and should be respected rather than treated as property. The blog post was called “The Dark Side of Fandom”. This...
by Gloria Oliver | Jan 24, 2010 | Marketing, Novels
Several months ago I got an idea for an online marketing experiment from something Rachel Caine (marvy urban fantasy and YA author) was doing using Twitter. For her bit, she was linking a partial quote from the about to be released Morganville Vampires Book 7 called...
