drupagliassotti @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Jim Hines has written a must-read post for struggling writers about how many novels he’s written and how many times they’ve been rejected. Hating those rejection slips? This will give you hope!
drupagliassotti @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Well, November’s issue of The Harrow is almost all queued up and ready to go. I’m quite happy because I get to publish some fantasy stories — we get plenty of good horror, but good fantasy is much harder to find! Two new book reviewers are giving The Harrow a try, too, and I’m hoping [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’ve checked the Midnight Lullabies hardcopy proof and given Kfir the OK to push the button and make it real. I noticed three tiny formatting issues that we decided weren’t worth $100 to fix at this point; since they don’t affect stories, poems, illustration credits or bios, we’ll call them our sacrifices to the Gods [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Last night I put some more thought into my NaNo story. Here’s my tentative cast of characters: ARIHANT: Our Hero, a bitter-hearted daeva of the Avenger. MADAN: The enthusiastic boy who decides to become Arihant’s beloved. RAJANI: The amused female warrior who is acting as Arihant’s & Madan’s guide/guardian in exchange for having a crime [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Today I received the official registration certificate for The Harrow Press’s trademark and the proof copy of Midnight Lullabies, The Harrow Press’s first publication. Midnight Lullabies looks good; paperback, 241 pages, color cover, beautiful illustrations, and of course excellent stories and poems. I need to inspect it to make certain there are no misplaced pages [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I just received the contract from Rob Santa for “Terminus,” which Jo Gerrard and I wrote for Magic & Mechanica. He said they’re hoping to have the anthology ready for publication by the end of November. That’d be awesome if true, but my experiences with putting together Midnight Lullabies leads me to suspect that he [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’ve been sitting on a hard wooden chair all day, pencil in hand. I’m on page 374, which is where the the story shifts from the initial investigation to a secondary investigation, leading to a pause between major action sequences. This is the slow point that Paula asked me to address, and I’m not sure [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The winds weren’t as wild last night, although they kicked up again come sunup and are tossing the trees back and forth this morning. The smoke isn’t as bad, either, although there’s a distant brown haze over the hills. Of course, I’m fairly north of most of the fires, here in Camarillo, so it’s quite [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“The Harrow Press” is now officially a registered trademark. The lawyer wrote: We received the certificate of US trademark registration number 3,311,359 for THE HARROW PRESS used in association with “on-line publication of electronic books and journals; publication of texts, books, magazines and other printed matter; publishing of electronic publications.” We recommend THE HARROW PRESS [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
You can preorder my novel, Clockwork Heart, from Amazon.Com now.