Catching up with Alyzande Renard, World of Warcraft’s Gold Queen

I recently interviewed Alyzande Renard, 42, from the United Kingdom, she runs her own gaming blog called The Gold Queen. Her blog is about World of Warcraft and it’s really popular with a lot of the players. Her blog was listed as one of the top video game blogs of 2015 by Teads.tv. We talked about her blog and how she balances her life between family and work. She also talked about how she connects with her readers through social media. Here is a little bit of information about her on The Gold Queen.

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Alyzande Renard. (Photo/Alyzande Renard)

What do you cover?

Hi Marcus, I write www.thegoldqueen.com and I cover the niche topic of making gold in World of Warcraft video game. My blog is a mixture of guides, information, opinion, reports, advice and news with guest posts.

When did you start blogging? When did you start this blog?

I started TGQ back in late 2010. I had been making gold in Warcraft for a few years, and my guild mates and then strangers on my warcraft server kept asking me advice and I realized that I needed to repeat the same answers and give the same advice. Gathering it all together on one site was the best solution. Before this, I had a personal blog since the 90s.

How often do you post? Where are you from and how old are you?

I don’t have a posting schedule. When I have no other responsibilities, I would post twice a week. However, my life doesn’t allow me enough time. Also with many of the guides being brand new ideas, it’s not easy to come up with new gold making techniques on command. I am 42, I’m a single mum, and I am disabled. I have autism and associated depression and anxiety. One of my sons also has autism too, so deciding to be a blogger as a career meant that I could fit my work around his needs, and schedule it around when I have my own difficult days.
Where did you come up with the name Gold Queen?

The name comes from my son. One day when I was tallying up the value of my items for sale through the auction house in warcraft, I discovered that their value was ¼ of the total value of all items on that server. My son was so excited, he said “Wow mummy, you’re like the queen of gold, oh you have to call your new blog that!” So of course, I had to, and I did.

Is it hard to talk about the same subject all the time?

Its never hard to talk about something that you love, and I love making gold in World of Warcraft. It is hard, though, keeping things fresh and inventing new techniques. When I don’t have new tricks or methods, I can usually find a new way to automate them or a way to do extra things at the same time, or give an opinion on the new things, or remind players of old techniques. Sometimes, a player just needs inspiration, and I like to connect with players over my twitter account @thegoldqueen and give a lot of inspiration and quick tips there.

Are you excited for the Warcraft movie?

Of course, I’m excited that it exists, because players have been told that the movie was going to be made for so many years that I think most of us gave up on it ever happening. So to find it actually going ahead, gathering a cast, crew, director, being filmed, that was so great. Warcraft players love their game and their world, and being able to share that world with a greater audience through the movie theater is going to be wonderful.

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