tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69778241335778457952024-02-20T19:07:05.427-05:00Liz Staley's Realm of NerdinessArt, Anime, Plushies, and Nerdiness all in one convenient location.Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-21581155514621498542009-12-09T21:31:00.000-05:002009-12-09T21:32:29.105-05:00I'm not above resorting to bribes!Unbeknownst to many, I have started recording my novel as an audio book. This audio book will be released about every other week or so (haven't quite decided the details yet) and will be free. It's being read by me, so it should prove to be... entertaining... I already have a test of the prologue done, but I need to record it again since I got some feedback on how to make it sound better.Well, I Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-59490269661944914662009-11-09T07:45:00.001-05:002009-11-09T07:46:50.870-05:00NaNoWriMo09 Excerpt 2: Legend of the Broken Sword(This has been the hardest month of my life, I swear. Nothing has worked out the way I wanted it to. But, I have something I wrote yesterday that I think is pretty good, so I thought I'd share. This isn't edited yet, so be gentle!)The moon rose over the trees, the fire crackled and popped and sent up yellow sparks in to the night sky while the stars twinkled down at them.In her bedroll, Xia Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-1274579003224986932009-11-01T21:33:00.002-05:002009-11-09T07:45:17.219-05:00NaNoWriMo09 Excerpt 1: Legend of the Broken Sword(This was my word count for this morning. Enjoy!)Chapter OneThe words the king of Ellos had just said hit Tam like a ton of bricks. She took half a step back, her leather armor rustling as she moved. Her violet eyes widened in to an expression of shock from behind her short brown hair. "I," she hesitated. Her throat and mouth had gone dry. She put her left hand down and gripped the sword attachedElizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-3992642636889529002009-11-01T08:40:00.002-05:002009-11-01T08:47:51.914-05:00Happy NaNoWriMo!Today marks the beginning of NaNoWriMo, which I'm doing (of course! Been waiting all year for it!). I'm writing two novels this year, and since I've been neglecting my blog I decided that I'll be posting the excerpts here. This will be handy because I can only really put so much on the NaNo profile, and for excerpts I can just link here. The main novel I will be working on is called Legacy of theElizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-57535388671709569132009-09-28T09:21:00.005-04:002009-09-28T09:38:24.937-04:00The Great Book Giveaway!I've been talking about it for awhile, and now it's time to do it! I'm giving away a copy of my book, The Hinomoto Rebellion: Book One of the Aka Ryuu Chronicles, and it's so easy to enter the drawing! Just BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK for an entry in to the drawing! On the day the winner is chosen, I'll pull up the fan list on Facebook, have a number generator generate a winner at random, and Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-2614997615297275362009-09-14T10:17:00.001-04:002009-09-14T10:17:25.951-04:00Question for you all...So, I need to get some money toward a new computer. Basically, if I ever want to be able to do that pretty comic I keep doodling pages for and talking about I need a MUCH more powerful machine than the laptop I have right now. I can only get up to 2GB of RAM in this thing, and while I love my Andromeda here, I would much rather have her as a internet/word processing computer than a graphics Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-21607481006420590592009-08-22T07:14:00.002-04:002009-08-22T07:18:16.071-04:00Move along, Move along, like I know you do...I know a lot of you have heard this by now, but I thought I'd announce it here too. After months of deliberation, I've decided to close my Etsy shop in a few weeks. I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I'd rather concentrate on my career as a writer. I'll still be doing commissions (the ones that have been ordered already) of plushies from time to time, especially for friends, but I&Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-40519817165712429372009-08-12T13:03:00.002-04:002009-08-12T13:38:59.071-04:00Confession: I live my life in fear of English MajorsSince I was little, I loved to write. I was always coming up with stories and, yes, even illustrating them. I wrote my first "novel" in a Marble composition book in middle school, and it was an awful bit of fan-fiction that had me and two friends in the Ronin Warrior team. I'm sure that this abomination is stored somewhere in the things that I left at my Mom's place when I moved down to college, Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-7622580496585972382009-07-21T06:28:00.002-04:002009-07-21T06:35:04.684-04:00Pre-orders are open!We finally set the date for the release of my novel! The big day is August 21st, and pre-orders are now open! At the moment we only have them on my Etsy shop, but we're hoping to have my web-site set up to take orders later today. Don't want to go through Etsy? Contact me at liz[at]oap-studios.com for a PayPal invoice!This listing is for a pre-order of my book. The release date of the novel is Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-70670023633547932212009-07-19T07:24:00.005-04:002009-07-19T07:52:39.133-04:00New projects, old projects...I swear, I'll have some more plushies and stuff to show soon! I haven't really been wanting to be in the studio lately, with trying to get that novel done and all that. Now that it is done I've been bitten by the writing and drawing bug. I think that even with all the hair-pulling and frustration that the novel brought on I still really enjoyed it. And it's nice to actually see that finished bookElizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-62011316860957858382009-07-15T15:31:00.006-04:002009-07-15T15:41:56.722-04:00OMG it's finally here!This is about to be a major picture spam. Please forgive me! I'm just excited and want to show off, because look what arrived!My book! The first real, professional copy of the story I've worked on for ten years! And it's so pretty!!It's 6 by 9 inches, and nearly an inch thick. 350 crisp white pages with black text and 22 interior illustrations.As you can see, my cover artist did a fantastic job Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-80301924263575873542009-07-07T14:59:00.007-04:002009-07-07T15:05:46.572-04:00More illustration madnessDescriptions for all of these can be found on my Facebook Fan Page.I also have a gallery on MangaBullet now!Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-11711634395261758092009-07-03T11:56:00.011-04:002009-07-03T12:10:06.608-04:00I'm a bad blogger...I haven't checked in for awhile. Crap happened that I can't go in to really, but it's been keeping me busy on top of all the other stuff I've been doing. I'll leave you guys with some art I've done over the past few weeks for the novel I'm working on. I haven't been able to do any plushing. @_@ Descriptions for all of these can be found on my Facebook Fan Page.(that one is probably my favorite Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-50911057133486263112009-06-13T09:54:00.001-04:002009-06-13T09:54:54.725-04:00So peeved at Facebook right now...I have two fan pages over on Facebook, one for my Etsy store, and one for my writing. Neither of them are very active even when I DO put new content up because, hey, even the supposed fans I've had for my writing all these years don't tell me they're out there. So I don't really expect much in the way of commenting and all, and don't usually get it.Well, today marked the launch of being able to Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-88652868491577298822009-06-12T13:25:00.006-04:002009-06-12T14:21:27.274-04:00New Centurions Plushie- Hydris Thriss Secret ProjectMy long time friend (the one that's letting me and hubby live in her house) got deployed to Iraq in February (one of the reasons we're living in her house, actually...). Well, June 6 was her birthday and her husband had me make her a plushie that we sent over to her. It arrived today so I can FINALLY upload pictures of it!This is the first full plushie that I've done of my larger size pattern. Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-71856124839806408062009-06-07T09:27:00.005-04:002009-06-07T09:37:43.645-04:00Novel Illustration PreviewsSome of you may have heard me talk about this novel I'm working on to publish later this year. The text is being edited currently and was driving me crazy, so I decided to start working on the illustrations. Each chapter will have an illustration, some of the illustrations are going to be full page size and some will just be chapter heading size (kind of like the Harry Potter book illustrations, Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-56048397998050386592009-06-02T06:58:00.005-04:002009-06-02T07:18:02.281-04:00Oops...So I haven't updated here in a bit, mainly because I've been up to my eyeballs in work, which is fun but makes me tear my hair out. Also my hubby starts work today and I've been trying to enjoy our "unemployed time" together while we still have it, LOL! Even though, technically, I have several jobs right now it feels like.I got commissioned to make a pattern of a bunny rabbit, trying to match as Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-32198666117938309292009-05-23T14:22:00.002-04:002009-05-23T14:34:52.880-04:00Action Cures Fear, Part 3I spent a day earlier in the week feeling a bit depressed. See, I asked a friend of ours that had never read my story if he would be willing to read over what I was doing and give me his opinion, since he has fresh eyes and all and doesn't know as much about the story as all my other friends that I'd normally ask in this situation. He agreed and I sent him the first 8 chapters and prologue, then Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-81740550636490669572009-05-20T13:45:00.002-04:002009-05-20T14:01:10.896-04:00Action Cures Fear, Part 2Yesterday I talked about weight loss as a means to stop standing in my own way and the effect that just starting to jog a little has had on getting me toward that goal. I didn't jog on my workout this morning, not because I was scared to but because I didn't want to and because I was thinking hard about my novel.So, another thing I've inadvertently done to try to achieve my resolution is reading Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-86740970214850939412009-05-19T10:50:00.003-04:002009-05-19T13:58:20.259-04:00Action Cures FearThis year I made a New Year's Resolution, which is an oddity for me. Normally I don't make them because I don't want to set myself up for failure, and it seems like 99% of resolutions are doomed from January 2nd anyway. But this past year, as hubby and I were walking home from a party we'd gone to, he asked if I was going to make a resolution, and I told him I was."I want to stop standing in my Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-30562167510519986582009-05-16T11:32:00.003-04:002009-05-16T11:52:36.885-04:00This is always a little weird...I always feel like such a bad nerd when I have to admit this but... I've never seen an episode of Doctor Who. Ever. But I always get asked to make Doctor Who stuff by my fellow nerds, and I like to try to accommodate as best I can. I always feel a bit weird though when I make anything from a series I don't know. Is it wrong to make things that I don't personally "geek out" to? Is it against some Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-47740014664648356942009-05-14T06:54:00.003-04:002009-05-14T06:59:42.336-04:00Button Blowout Sale in my Etsy Shop!**BUTTON BLOWOUT SALE!**I'm listing every button I have left in my inventory and taking 50% off of the price in order to clear them out! On May 21st they'll all be gone for good! We've got Star Wars, Princess Bride, Pirates of the Caribbean, Firefly, and more! Get them while you can!Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-26622286306344604542009-05-12T06:52:00.005-04:002009-05-12T07:30:03.049-04:00Bite-Size Plushies and Self-Publishing FrustrationBite Size plushies are finally here! I actually developed these first last Christmas when I made Hubby a plushie of Grandizer/Grendizer/Goldorak. I made myself a full-size Orion Quest to go with it, but also made a mini Orion that was a keychain as a surprise. Yeah, the bad thing about that gift was that living in a one-bedroom apartment provided me no space to work on his gift without being Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-78291286214215937382009-05-09T11:33:00.006-04:002009-05-09T11:42:48.839-04:00What the hell is Liz doing?I know what you're thinking. "Liz, what the hell is that? It looks like little stubby legs... or pig noses... or some type of sea creature. What are you on? Put the fleece and the Fiberfill down and step back!"Well... I'll show you what it is, just scroll down.Keep scrolling...I BLAME HUBBY FOR THIS!!Made from yellow fleece, fiberfill, thread, and time on the internet spent looking up the Elizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977824133577845795.post-10461482873197827722009-05-06T12:23:00.007-04:002009-05-06T12:31:49.998-04:00DarkPaw, Destroyer of Worlds...And here he is! The sun came out a little bit today so I set Darkpaw up against a white fabric backdrop and got the best pictures I could of him. They're not GREAT but they're better than last time. I really like this shot of him for some reason...Darkpaw is about 15 inches tall and has taken... way too damn much time to complete... LOLRead back in the blog to see other progress pictures and readElizabeth Staleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655461448722152657noreply@blogger.com1