drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
November 15: Passed the 25K mark. Whew! I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. 25K to go, but Thanksgiving break is coming up, so I have hope. I’ve got a clearer idea of what this strange world looks like now — a bit like a Ptolomeaic model of the universe, except each ring [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It was called to my attention by a writer with a religiously oriented book manuscript that there’s been a book called Sons of Light by John Merrill published under a Harrow Press. That’s not us! In fact, I’m not sure who that is, as my subsequent hunt for “Harrow Press” and “The Harrow Press” didn’t [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
You can now buy Midnight Lullabies from Amazon.Com! The Harrow will donate all income from this book to Doctors Without Borders. Read a good book and benefit a good cause.
drupagliassotti @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Last night I skimmed over Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R. Barber. Barber argues that consumerism works to keep adults childlike — always wanting something new, bigger, better, faster, now — while encouraging children to grow up — stop playing and start shopping, seek to consume expensive [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 3, 2007 # One Comment
My Manzanar internment camp story, “Divided Loyalties,” has been accepted into the Hardboiled Horrors anthology! The anthology, which is a horror/mystery crossover collection, is edited by James Van Pelt and will be published by Notorious Press. The editor asked me for a revision of the story in August, shortly after I learned that my mother [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
My accountant has joined the voices encouraging me to get a business license for The Harrow. Doing so would push me very, very far out of my comfort zone, but I think there’s a chance it will happen….
drupagliassotti @ November 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’ve been thinking about ethics for book reviewers because I’m currently working with three new reviewers at The Harrow, and I want my expectations about their behavior with authors and publishers to be clear. In addition, I was recently asked about reviewing a book from an author I’ve reviewed in the past — but his [...]