And now from the...er, Alien

Alwynn's Fire, that's a wordy dragon. Hello, I'm Gideon Cyrus...at least that's the name I'm known by on Earth, where I happily spend most of my time these days. Honestly, you have no idea how strange some of the other planets can be, even for an Olam like me. Rude lizards and cannibalistic spelunkers and...well. Just a while ago I almost had to move somewhere else, and it reinforced my appreciation of the finer things one can acquire in a few hundred years of living incognito on this planet, even if lately I've had to expend considerable effort trying to outwit the arbitrary rules set down by my own species.

I'm not fond of being known as "the Alien" - if you ever meet my friend Brost, you'll see I'm the normal one - but that's the role I've been cast in by one of the owners of this blog, who has JUST NOW informed me I'm expected to make regular appearances. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. After employing her to write the latest book of my memoirs, which she insisted should be called Undercover Alien, I consider her a master of procrastination. I know she's trying to make up for it by letting me dictate my contribution so I don't have to sit still long enough to type it myself, but is it really so important to--

Ah. She's pointing out that I left the small matter of saving the Earth until the last minute. But you see, although I'm an Olam and have powers which can boggle the human brain, I wasn't quite myself at the time. And then there was this fascinating, frustrating, female ufologist who I really thought was going to help me... *Sigh*. Perhaps we'd better drop the subject. Let me focus on this job before I get myself into trouble again.

I suppose I need to meet my fellow blogger, Galvistor, since we're going to be sharing this space. Why is it that everywhere I turn, I keep running into people who think I want to be around reptiles? Is a dragon a reptile? No doubt Galvistor will have a word or two (or three or a hundred) to say on the subject.

I'll let you know.

Beginning the conversation

This blog is a concept still under construction and Barbara and I are working on it. Not all is in place yet, as is obvious upon viewing the page, but a beginning is a beginning, so...herein I begin.

Barbara is the author of Undercover Alien published by Crescent Moon Press. This cool 'otherworld' romance can be purchased from the Crescent Moon Press website, Amazon.com, or on her website at http://www.barbararomo.com/. Please feel free to visit there and browse, buy, or comment. I have completed a fantasy duology soon to be published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. The Dragons' Veil and The Dragons' Vision will be available in a month or so (I hope) at Reader's Eden, Amazon.com, and on my website, which I am in the process of developing. Well, alright, it still exists only in my imagination, but it is at the top of my must be done list. I wanted to have at least one book cover to place there before I set it up and that, too, is in the works. I'll let everyone know when it (the website and/or the cover) is completed.

What Barbara and I intend via this blog is to introduce our characters and our interest in aliens (her) and Dragons (me) by having them do the posting here. We thought it would be fun, at least for us, and hopefully for you as well. If we have intermittent information to impart in regard to what we are personally up to, then our 'guest' bloggers will momentarily step aside to let us have our say. This will be carefully done and with all respect as those 'guests' can be a tad touchy. I don't know about aliens, but one does not interrupt Dragon chatter without due cause. At least not MY Dragons, for whom the spoken word is sacrosanct. Sacred. Revered. Untouchable (as the loquacious black Dragon, Galvistor, would add). They love words so much, they find it difficult to select the best one suited to the comment. They are perfectly comfortable raiding the thesaurus for every available choice, which they do not hesitate to share. Forgive their verbosity when they are posting.

Enjoy, and bear with us as we set up our schedules. Depending on who is free to chat, the voices herein will differ from one posting to the next...or not. Sometimes one or the other will have more free time and that is the one you will hear from at that point. Barbara and I both work around our writing, so free time is (like our words) sacrosanct.

Sherri