drupagliassotti @ January 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I was reading an article in Fortune magazine in which author and management scholar Jim Collins describes what makes a company great. One of the points he made was that great companies seek to hire great employees, and he proceeded to list three attributes of a great employee. It struck me that his description was [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 28, 2009 # 3 Comments
Due to some delays in receiving and reading through the manuscripts, my coauthors and I have requested and received a deadline extension for Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys’ Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World. Our original deadline to return the completed and edited manuscript back to the publisher was March — [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Acestius wiped droplets of mist off his face as he glanced through the small window in the firebox door. The coal fire was still burning brightly; no reason to shovel in more fuel or temper the salamandra coiled inside, its radiant hide glowing golden-red…. Magic & Mechanica, a 232-page collection of fantasy-meets-technology stories from Ricasso [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
My sister called me up last night with an emergency. It seems that her 14-year-old son had declared us “uncool” if we didn’t have any family recipes. “So … do we have any family recipes?” she asked. “I was thinking, maybe, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic….” That sounded reasonable enough — we’re of Italian [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 23, 2009 # 3 Comments
Juno Books, which publishes Clockwork Heart, has now become an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books (see announcement on Paula Guran’s blog). That’s great news for the publisher! Juno Books has done a great job in pushing forward with female-centered fantasy and experimenting with a variety of genres. Its publications have been high-quality, and [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I don’t discuss my political views in public very often, but today seems like the right day to say something about the new president, and since I’m teaching a web design class this semester, I’d also like to comment on the redesigned White House website. So, first, the standpoint info. I’m a registered Democrat, although [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’ve been trying to find this citation for a while now, so now that I have, I’m going to post it here — the link downloads a pdf file. The Stress That Doesn’t Pay: The Commuting Paradox, a 2004 paper written by economists Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer of the University of Zurich’s Institute [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
“Your writing should be clear, concise, and consistent,” I tell the students in my journalism course. “By ‘consistent,’” I joke, “I mean that if you make a mistake, make sure you make it the same way throughout your article.” Today’s example from CNN.com is a well-written lead that fails the consistency test. If this were [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I read a couple of frugality and simplicity blogs daily, mostly to reaffirm my own commitment to those principles and remind myself that I’m not alone. Most of the advice isn’t very useful to me anymore, because I’ve already done it or it’s not something I’m interested in doing. But I don’t consider myself “extreme,” [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I stayed home and spend the day working on King’s Monster, which is more or less written, except that I’m not 100% satisfied with the ending and I’m still polishing up characterizations and adding details to the rest of the chapters. I’ve been working on this novel for, I hate to admit it, the [...]