by Gloria Oliver | Oct 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve been playing MMO’s for about 6 or 7 years now. Got my start on Star Wars Galaxies way back in the day. Have done many beta’s and spent plenty of time online. The newest the family is trying is called Aion. It was developed in Korea and has now...
by Gloria Oliver | Oct 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
(My second contribution to #FridayFlash! Amazing how many times I went and edited something this short. lol. Probably still missed something as usual. Heh. Enjoy!)When my gaze came across the man-sized raven I thought my heart would stop. It walked through the death...
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m working on these slow but sure! Finally got the second of the four/five book trailers I need to work up. Ugh! Hopefully it’s not too lame. You’d be surprised at just how long it takes to find images to fit fantasy novels! Oi!Enjoy!
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Evil! eVil! evIl! eviL!Dum dum DUM!!!(Okay, yeah, I know it’s a little early for so much melodrama, but I figured what the hey!) :PWas an outright ugly weird day yesterday. I’d caught hubby’s virus on Friday and have been running mad fever since...
by Gloria Oliver | Sep 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
(I heard about a cool Twitter experiment/experience called #FridayFlash where authors put out samples of their writing by giving away free flash fiction once a week. Don’t know if I can do it that often, but I have a flash story or two I thought I could share....
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 29, 2009 | Marketing
Marketing being a constant looming concern over my head for years now, I’ve slowly come to notice something weird – fans don’t seem aware of their POWER over authors/musicians/actors/TV/Movies!That’s right…POWER. You all (we all –...
by Gloria Oliver | Aug 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
(Haven’t posted in a while, but here goes – lame blog attempt!)Audio Books are becoming all the rage of late. But there’s one thing about them I do not understand. The pricing!My husband started looking into them because he has a long commute to work plus...
by Gloria Oliver | Jul 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
While writers do a lot of their work alone, we do belong to a community that includes those others out there sitting before their notebooks, typewriters, and keyboards, grinding out the fantastic for the enjoyment of others. We may not know them all and we may not see...
by Gloria Oliver | Jun 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
It is now official!Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles is a 2008 Dream Realm Awards Finalist in the Young Adult Category.Woohoo!!!”Harry Potter meets Dragon Riders of Pern””….this is a story that is sheet magic…” – Eternal Night...
by Gloria Oliver | Jun 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
A few years ago I read a manga (Japanese comics) that involved the spirit of a dead woman. In the story, the spirit hung around/was tied to a Wisteria plant. The plant she was attached to was part of a whole public garden of them. It was the type of Wisteria that’s...