• author life,  book trailer,  Cooking,  fire,  Friday 55,  Hard Alley,  Hard Rust,  Nara Malone,  second life,  Snatch Me

    Authors Beware: Recipe for Disaster

    This is why it happened.I was on autopilot–my head writing a story,the rest of me in the kitchen. Always a recipe for disaster.Virtual world FLAMES crawledinto the Real world.The smoke detector SCREAMED Two pots got welded together. Forget dinner.Stick to the story:Writers cook best outside a kitchen. ~~Can you tell I’ve been working on a book trailer for Snatch Me all week? The story has nothing to do with cooking, but some of the pictures are from my work on the story trailer. A story that’s apparently hot enough to scorch my kitchen. Hope you enjoyed my Friday 55. Drop by G-Mans site to see what others wrote or to…

  • Kitely.,  Nara Malone,  Nara Malone's Books,  Nara's Nook Contest,  Nara's Worlds,  Snatch Me

    Catch-Up Week

    Jolie and Waster in the Swamp Hey it’s Jolie again. This is catch-up week in the contest. Thanks to all of those already here and working hard to find Nara. This week’s feature world is the Quarterz Swamp. It may sound and look intimidating, but it’s really quite beautiful. To encourage you all to give it a try, we’re going to give anyone who logs into the world a thousand points. Yup, just log in and you’ll be in the drawing for the Nook Color. Spend five or more minutes inworld and you’ll be in this week’s gift card drawing. If you’ve already made the points you need to get…

  • contest,  Kitely.,  Nara Malone,  Nara's Nook Contest,  shopping,  Virtual Worlds

    Extreme Makover Tutorial

    Here’s the shopping video I promised. It’s a little hard to read these menus so, I’ll talk you through what happens. We start with Lilly in the hall outside the gift shop. Most of the items you all would be interested in are on the wall directly opposite the entrance. There are plenty of things you aren’t ready to learn about yet. We’ll stick to avatars and clothes. Avatars, for our purposes consist of a shape, hair, eyes, and skin. Lilly wants you to see a noticeable makeover, so she left-clicks the picture of a male avatar. The card comes up asking if she wants to keep that object and…