by Gloria Oliver | Jun 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Earlier this year, once I realized I had an “obsession” with the CW’s Supernatural, I joined a Yahoo group. On the very first day, they posted news that had my fangirl heart racing. The main actors in Superntarual are Jared Padalecki and Jensen...
by Gloria Oliver | Jun 7, 2007 | Uncategorized
There are many critical pieces to writing. Some are immediately obvious – dialog, using the senses, good grammar and sentence structure. Other are more subtle, but as badly needed – pacing, the flow (or music) of the words themselves, and character...
by Gloria Oliver | May 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
Over the years we’ve all gotten links forwarded to us by friends to funny videos or homemade music videos and such. I always enjoyed these things when sent to me, but to be totally honest, I never much paid attention to the hosting site of Youtube…that is...
by Gloria Oliver | May 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
One of my writer buds, Mayra Calvari, will be teaching a course on book reviewing at the Long Story Short School of Writing.The course begins in September. Below is a description of the course taken from the site:THE ART OF BOOK REVIEWINGCourse IntroductionAre you...
by Gloria Oliver | May 24, 2007 | Novels, Writing
This is a question that seems to come up all the time at panels and in general writing discussions. There are people on both sides of the camp and never a lot of agreement as to what to do. To me though, Writing, like art, is one of those things were you can take...
by Gloria Oliver | May 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
In many many many things I am a self acknowledged n00b (newbie – greenhorn – clueless! Online speak). And there are also many things in life I’ve yet to experience. Well, I can strike one of those off the list – going First Class on an...
by Gloria Oliver | May 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
His Majesty’s Dragonby Naomi NovikPremise: Will Laurence is a Captain in His Majesty’s Navy. When he and his crew take over a French frigate, they find an unexpected prize – an unhatched dragon egg. Unfortunately, it looks like it is about to hatch,...
by Gloria Oliver | May 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
Cat in a Red Hot Rageby Carole Nelson DouglasPremise: This the 19th book in the Midnight Louie Mystery series. This volume brings into play the Red Hat Sisterhood – an organization for women over 50 that encourages freedom, fun, and that life is not lost once...
by Gloria Oliver | May 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
Hannibal Risingby Thomas HarrisPremise: Taking you back to World War 2, we meet Hannibal Lecter as an eight year old and walk with him through the paths of memory to a childhood destroyed by war, as so many were in that time. Losing partial memory due to the trauma of...
by Gloria Oliver | May 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
I am giving you all an extra chance since info posted around had bad dates. Here’s my excerpt for the week. Just answer the questions at the bottom of my entry at MADTEN. Feel free to look at the excerpts from the others for a chance to win their books as...
