Maria C. Oliveira's Page

Maria, top of the milky way to you, and welcome to authors.com …from The Chuck-Master of Science Fiction Fantasy, romance, and mind curdling horror…

               I write sci-fi fantasy novels filled with adventure, mystery, romance, drama, horror, and plenty of comedy… It's sci-fi for every adult human to enjoy. I'm also a well-known published poet. When you have a few free moments to spare, please check out my Authors page and a few of my videos and blogs. Many of my blogs consist of free to read enjoyable sci-fi stories that I reedited and united these twenty-two stories within an eBook titled: 'Epic Marvels'. One of my recent sci-fi novels is titled: 'They!' …which is somewhat related to the 1954 sci-fi classic movie, 'Them!'. …It's gaining worldwide popularity. I've just completed my next sci-fi mystery, titled: 'The Mysteries of Fuller Park'. A fun fiction story based on the eerie satanic urban legends of Fuller Park, within Athens, Texas, or it could be any small city in the world. My next novel is titled: 'It's Not A Lovable Pet Story!' LOL... It sure isn't another lovable pet story. Its Sci-fi fantasy horror at its best for delighting my many reading fans. Also, check out my famed 'Apollo Trilogy Novels'™… Thanks…

Please let me know if you'd like to become friends.

The Chuck!

Hi Maria! Your book sounds very unique and interesting! I think it could be a big hit! Hmm... I've been an author since about 2008, but I've liked to write since I was a kid pretty much, lol. I finished my first book in 2009 and ended up self publishing it in 2011 after having no luck finding an agent or publisher. Then I got a publishing deal this past May! Yes, it is VERY hard to get the word out there. I'm just now learning the tricks to that hopefully. The publishing company runs nice ads, but on my end I just started quizzing a friend of mine on how she became successful and she said a lot of it had to do with commenting on high traffic blogs. So I guess my best advice is to (if you haven't already done it) create a Facebook fan page for yourself (best to do it for you and not for one of your books-learned the hard way on that one), start a blog, and search for really popular blogs by authors of a similar genre as what you write. If you comment on their blog, the fans will see your post and click your link. I wouldn't spam the blogs, but if you discretely put the link to your (for example) book for sale on Amazon in your signature, I think that's a good way to go. :-) Good luck!