Author Name: Gloria Oliver
The hero or heroine in your latest book is asked to decorate for a Halloween party. What does he/she use?
For the majority of the decorations, Tamara would use things you’d expect — orange and black streamers, a fog machine, motion activated heads that cackle or screech, carved pumpkins with candles inside to help stir the right atmosphere. But unlike most other party decorators, she’d add a few extra things to make sure the celebration on All Hallows’ Eve would be safe for everyone — trails of salt at all the entryways and windows, runes marked on the doorways for extra protection, and small vials of holy water placed at every table, as well as an iron poker or two.
She’s seen too much to leave any party during this time to fate alone…
Your hero or heroine occupies a room in a haunted mansion. Which room is it and why?
Assuming the question means what room they’d hole up in rather than which they would haunt…
Tamara would choose the kitchen. Everything she might need is there, if she finds herself cutoff from her own supplies. Salt to purify and put over thresholds, water which could then be blessed and used to hold ghosts back, food to keep herself going. And those are only the first few benefits. Depending on how the kitchen was stocked, or how old (iron skillets, anyone?), she could get even more inventive. ?
What is your favorite Halloween or autumn decoration?
My favorite Halloween decoration are the laughing skulls activate by movement. They make you jump if you’re not expecting it. Heh heh
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Featured Book Title: Inner Demons
Blurb:
It took everything from her, except revenge!
Tamara Williams had just settled down to a quiet evening at home when, one moment she’s in her apartment then the next she’s on a dark street with a set of headlights heading straight for her.
Not only is she not where she’s supposed to be, but she has three months of missing time. Yet in those months, she’s seemingly ruined her best friend’s wedding, blackmailed her boss, turned her back on her family and heritage, and worse. Now she’s determined to find out how this happened, why, and then making those responsible pay!
Excerpt:
“Now, I’m going to show you something.” Jensen reached inside one of the many pockets of his vest.
I felt a drop of sweat roll down the back of my neck.
A moment later, he brought out a thin vial filled with what looked like green-yellow mucus. “What is…” I bit my tongue to stop the question, not sure I truly wanted to know just yet.
White took the stopper from the end of the vial and held it out toward me.
The longer I stared at it, the wider my eyes got. There was something queerly familiar about the off greenish-yellow color. I quivered inside though I had no idea why. My fingers dug into the fabric of my jeans.
Jensen held the vial directly between us, a neutral look on his face. “Take it. Smell what’s inside. Then we’ll see what we shall see.”
The muscles in my right arm jerked from tension as I tried to make it move and it resisted. A shrill scream inside my head insisted I didn’t want to do this. That if I did, there’d be no way to take it back. “I…I’m afraid.”
That I would admit such a thing to total stranger shocked me, but made it no less true.
“Unfortunately, you should be.” He jerked forward, putting the vial directly beneath my nose.
Sample Chapters available at: http://www.gloriaoliver.com/demonssample.html
Author Bio:
Gloria Oliver lives in Texas, making sure to stay away from rolling tumbleweeds while bowing to the never ending wishes of her feline and canine masters.
She is the author of “In the Service of Samurai”, “Vassal of El”, “Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles”, “Willing Sacrifice”, “The Price of Mercy”, and “Inner Demons” – all fantasy, young adult fantasy, and urban fantasy (notice a pattern?) novels, several with romantic elements.
She is a member in good standing of EPIC, BroadUniverse, SASS, and Future Classics (ask us about our antho!), though she has yet to make the list for Cat Slaves R Us.
For free reads, sample chapters, and more info, please drop by and visit her at http://www.gloriaoliver.com
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I would like some of those heads to decorate my house. thanks for the great post!
I had a talking Frankenstein head that was motion activiated, too; it held candy. Each time someone walked by, it would scream “Not you, again!” LOL
Inner Demons has been added to my wish list.