drupagliassotti @ June 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata reiterates quite a bit of what avid readers about the history and science of dieting already know, but it pulls it all together in a coherent narrative and includes some of the latest work in the [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I rented The Shadow of the Sword, originally titled The Headsman (2005), with some trepidation, since it’s a movie that makes an executioner the protagonist, like my The King’s Monster. It’s quite different from my novel in many ways, but there were a few similarities for me to muse over. The movie received poor to [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The editor just told me that the cover artist for The Clockwork Heart will be Timothy Lantz. Here’s his online gallery. Her note said “I’ve sent the ms. to Tim Lantz, our artist and his reply was that he loved the book already. I think we can count on a spectacular cover ”
drupagliassotti @ June 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’ve started The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo. This is the first detailed publication of the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment, by the psychology professor who ran it in 1971. As you may recall, that’s the experiment where people were split into prisoners, prison guards, and wardens to [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
After reading Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent, I’ve decided he’s been demonized more than he deserves. Sure, he’s a little over the top and his analyses aren’t quite as nuanced as they’d be today, but then again, he was writing it 54 years ago for a popular audience, not for an academic journal…. His data [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“Bookmarked” turned down by Chimaera Serials, off to Reflection’s Edge.
drupagliassotti @ June 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“Of Lycaon” off to the Lycanthropes anthology. It’s a long shot: a werespider in Elizabethan London. Heh.
drupagliassotti @ June 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
decided to restore our files, after all, so The Harrow is back; let me know if you find any problems! I’m still looking for help naming magic for The King’s Monster! suggested some interesting possibilities, but I’m still taking suggestions.
drupagliassotti @ June 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Harrow’s temporarily down, although our web wizard, , is working on restoring it for us. Apparently Dreamhost, the server, lost 3,500 FTP passwords, of which they say about 20% were hacked; seems indices were replaced and invisible porn links added. Guess we got unlucky. (Later) says it’s best to let Dreamhost back up, instead [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I hereby call upon the Creative Collective Mind to help me coin a few terms for The King’s Monster. Problem: I need a satisfactory term for the system of magic, and its practioners, used in the story. Something with Latin or Greek roots would be preferred, such as carne- (flesh), pneuma- (breath), sanguis- (blood), cruor- [...]