Veronica Scott's Blog, page 128

You may recall that one of my favorite old time-y science fiction movies was 1959′s “The Killer Shrews”, staring James Best as Thorne Sherman, fearless boat captain who fought off the shrews, rescued the girl and lived to sail another day.

Well, Mr. Best has revisited Thorne after fifty years, along with a new cast of characters who find themselves on that ominous island, filming a reality show (what else in this day and age?). Steve Latshaw and Coal Train Productions were kind enough to send...

“Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth – it really does establish who they are.” Colleen Atwood, nominated for anAcademy AwardforBest Costume Designten times and won for the moviesChicago,Memoirs of a GeishaandAlice in Wonderland .

One of the perks of living in this part of southern California is that each year my daughter and I can visit the Fashion Institute of Design Museum (FIDM) and see the costumes nominated for the Emmy Awards and...

Changing gearscompletely from my science fiction novel, here’s an excerpt from my first (and only, so far) paranormal novel with shifters. Unpublished, unedited, don’t know if I’ll get back to it anytime soon although I liked it, it needs a lot of work!

Caitlyn has applied for a place in theWitch Queen’s court, which requires a demonstration of magic power. She’s nearly failed the test when a mysterious boost of power comes to her surreptitiously from a watching shapeshifter guard. The Queen a...

The randomly selected Grand Prize winner of myTitanic Giveaway wasCarrie-Anneso I’ll be sending her the autographed copy of WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM, gift card, mug and nugget of coal. Second and third place wereAmy S and Laurie , who will each receive a $10 Amazon gift card. Thanks to everyone for visiting the blog and commenting!

I thought today I’d wrap up myTitanic themed blogging for this year with a look into what happened to five survivors after they were rescued from the cold Atlantic...

Since today April 14th is the 101st anniversary of theTitanic striking the ice berg (the ship actually sank early on the 15th), I’m finishing off the excerpts from WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM, my SFR loosely based on theTitanictragedy. My thanks to all of you for hanging in there with me as I’ve been excerpting the book for awhile and my special thanks to everyone who’s read the novel!

I’m giving you the first five sentences from the novel, as Nick is taking the shuttle up to the Nebula Dream,an...

In order to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Titanic, I’ve put together what I think is an unusual Giveaway.

Grand Prize is a reproduction of aTitanic Third Class Coffee Mug plus a pea-sized piece of coal salvaged from the actual wreck more than two miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean (Certificate of Authenticity included for the coal), an autographed copy of my award winning novel science fiction novel WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM (which is loosely based o...

Only this week and next week to continue with excerpts from my SFR novel WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM, loosely based on theTitanicsinking in 1912. In deference to the WeWrWa peeps who’ve read my book and are still kindly commenting, I’m doing my #8Sunday sentences today from a deleted scene so you’ll have something NEW to read. (Since I always do a Happily Ever After ending, it’s not too much of a spoiler to say they do get rescued….eventually….is it?) This scene takes place on the Sectors battl...

I’m very excited to share the news that I’ve been invited to join the Word Whores group blog!

An excellent group of bloggers I’ve been following for quite some time, who write about all aspects of this craft and profession that we authors love so dearly…and now I’ve been invited to join in the fun, which made me VERY happy. I was honored! My first official post for them is today, combining an introduction (who am I? existential question LOL) and my take on the group’s topic of the week, which...

Wish I’d been there to see this in person – so much fun!

Yup, Maidenform Bra LOL. Is this a terrific vintage 1960s ad or WHAT? I’m framing it and putting it in the area of the condo where I write my Ancient Egyptian paranormal romances.

Egyptian themes have been used in advertising for a very long time of course. I’m getting to have quite a collection of Egyptiana, as I call my bits and pieces of interestingstuff and I’ve been picking up genuine old print ads recently. I thought I’d share a few items from my growing ephemera hoard today…

Although thi...