tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14718639742013201052024-03-12T16:31:46.887-07:00Short Productions and future home of Interactive FictionNoeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-70658221410116151152014-06-27T08:48:00.000-07:002014-06-27T08:48:09.836-07:00Happy AnniversaryToday is the seventh anniversary of myself becoming a writer. It's pretty amazing to have come this far to have seen my improvements from early poetry to my first story and then onto over a million words of fanwritten works plus the quota of word counts from publishing @Smashwords. A heartfelt <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">ありがとうございます! Onto the next book :) </span> <br />
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Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-50810795957682831582014-05-19T23:37:00.000-07:002014-05-19T23:37:16.349-07:00Arctic Dreams *demo* up now! <div style="text-align: left;">
'Demo' not demo...(private joke there) On the year anniversary of my first novel (which is amazing in itself <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Segoe UI', Frutiger, 'Frutiger Linotype', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ I'm here to present the playable first chapter of my newest project Arcticus Somnia: </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Source Sans Pro, Segoe UI, Frutiger, Frutiger Linotype, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/varkz93wwx4ij6h/Test-1.0-win.zip">https://www.dropbox.com/s/varkz93wwx4ij6h/Test-1.0-win.zip</a></span></span></div>
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Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-16038922853069510642014-04-01T23:23:00.002-07:002014-04-02T00:15:34.947-07:00Sample page of upcoming 'Redux' Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>"...<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">With a fluid writing style that easily incorporates both action and introspection, Kassandra Alvarado invites us to follow Catherine on her exciting and dangerous voyage, where reluctant friends and suspicious enemies are made, while Catherine struggles to save the voyage that has gone down in history as a mysterious disaster."</span></i><br />
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<br />Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-20794341596522348832014-03-26T23:17:00.000-07:002014-03-26T23:17:55.412-07:00Tale of Three Covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The original cover to me was perfect. It was everything I'd pictured and came out in time for last year's May release. Fast forward, months later and someone who shall remain unnamed suggested the original was too old-fashioned so I came out with cover two, the alternate I had brainstormed previously. Fast forward yesterday and some stupid idiot at the publisher, said the cover didn't have a title nor author name <span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Segoe UI', Frutiger, 'Frutiger Linotype', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 23px; line-height: 29.899999618530273px;">(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ</span></span><br />
And so cover three was painted, photographs taken and the result is above ~...~Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-88515767388812591622014-03-24T22:27:00.001-07:002014-03-24T22:28:24.761-07:00Futuristic Visions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>“For you.” Dr. P said, an object wrapped in shiny aluminum
computer packaging was handed to me. Barcode ID, the works. Obviously, the
wrapping came from the receptionist’s wastebasket. </i></div>
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<i>“Fill the paper with the breathings of your heart.” Voice chip
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<i>“Quoting Wordsworth doesn’t suit you.” </i></div>
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<i>Dr. P wasn’t ‘advanced’ enough to understand sarcasm. “Since
you adore sharp things and their uses as crude weapons. Do try not to stab
anyone’s ocular cavity.” From a drooping pocket, a set of Calligraphy pens with
faux brass tips lay in a soldierly row. These were passed down the length of
the Plexiglas workstation. </i></div>
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<i>“What am I...?” I don’t like repeating myself. </i></div>
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<i>“Take a trip. A journey to the remotest place physical boundary
allows. That book is to record your experiences in the most primitive form
known to man.” Dr. P was almost sympathetic. Firm. But, celluloid. “I’m afraid
by attempting a semblance of normal life, you aren’t dealing with the problem.” </i></div>
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<i>(</i>From <i><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/317715" target="_blank">The White Passage</a></i>, available from Smashwords, now<i>) </i></div>
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Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-27766160988832529962014-03-18T11:09:00.002-07:002014-03-18T11:09:57.725-07:00Wrestling with Angels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The Damned</i> took a lot out of me. Originally slated on my calendar for an early March eighth release date with a preorder date of March twenty-eighth, the story expanded from three chapters to six, doubling in length. The style marked a return to two genres I've written the most for online, Romance/Angst.<br />
There is one dedication, very rare since I never do dedications unless it's my fellow fanfiction writers or a person who directly <i>inspired</i> the story. Acknowledgements are nil as well as not a single so-called<b> friend </b>of mine lifted a finger to help bring this story or any of the other published works to life.<br />
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Throughout the book, there are references to the Biblical incident of Jacob wrestling the Angel beside the river. Laurence's son's name is Jacob; is Laurence the one who compiled file 302 after his friend's death? Why did he leave the BPS over twenty years ago? How did Evelyn's father die? Why was Zac after the file 302 was switched with? All these questions and more continue into the next book <i>The Accursed</i> coming Summer 2014. A special video preview of <i>The Accursed</i> will be posted in a few days as well as the unveiling of Book 4's cover.<br />
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Don't ask why 'Evelyn' is on a pyre of wood somewhere in there. Just don't. I had difficulties in selecting the right clips...does the trailer tell a story? Hmm, maybe with explanation: A haunted figure from Evelyn's childhood comes back into her life. As he struggles with waking nightmares of war; she must decide whether or not what he sees has basis in reality or if he is truly one of the damned.Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1471863974201320105.post-17650542018823677472014-03-01T16:46:00.002-08:002014-03-01T16:46:39.960-08:00NaNoRenOI've hovered over the idea for sometime now and as the month-long production of virtual novels kicks off, I decided to join the chaos and create my first vn! Rather, I'd prefer to have <b>Dancing in Darkness</b> book 3 out of the way, but the way it's looking right now, it just isn't going to happen.<br />
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My virtual novel will be entitled: <b>The Ghost</b> and be based off an old short story of mine....I had several to choose from ^^; more details coming soon.Noeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09306686597401954982noreply@blogger.com