• Coco Latzo,  machinama,  Nara Malone,  Snatch Me,  Virtual Reality,  Virtual Romance,  Virtual Worlds,  Wish

    I working madly to get the final edits back for Blind Heat and blog touring on Snatch Me. Still, I don’t want to totally neglect my own blog. A question I get a lot on Snatch Me is how romance and sex works in virtual reality. Readers want to know how I can write about virtual love scenes like they are real, as if the characters really feel them. I thought I’d give you a glimpse of what happens. And even here you have to keep in mind, you’re looking from the outside, through a window rather than from inside the world. If you were inside one of these avatar’s…

  • Dystipian Sims,  Dystopia,  Insilico,  Midian City,  Nara Malone,  Post-Apocalyptic Fiction,  Prey. Role Play,  second life,  Snatch Me,  Survival,  Virtual Reality,  Wastelands

    Distopian Prey

    The Oh Get A Grip bloggers invited me to blog about Dystopias today. I talk about why I love Dystopian Role Play and taking the role of prey: I arrive in the city via computer, spit out by a server rack. It looks deserted. Dystopias always do. But I’m not alone here. I don’t need my scanner to tell me there are others. You know that feeling you get, fine hairs lifting on the back of your neck, a hyper-awareness–as if your skin has thousands of invisible antennae? I have that feeling and know I’m watched. Read More…

  • book trailer,  capture role-play,  Hard Alley,  Hard Rust,  Nara Malone,  second life,  Snatch Me,  Virtual Worlds

    Snatch Me: Capture Role-Play Romance

     When I talk about capture role-play or virtual world romance, most people give me a blank look. When I explain further, sharing some of the adventures I had in virtual worlds like Second Life while researching capture-roleplay to write Snatch Me, and in making this video, then they’re intrigued–leaning in to hear more, asking how they can visit such a world. Well, one way is to read Snatch Me. Another is to click that Nara’s Worlds tab in the navigation bar above and visit the links for the Quarterz City, Quarterz Swamp, and Quarterz Wasteland. But the quickest way to get a taste of what capture role-play and the novel…