drupagliassotti @ June 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Today was my “could you try to get your final edit back to me by the end of the month?” deadline for our book on boys’ love manga, Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys, and sure enough I have most of the manuscripts back now. I’ve been glancing through them for formatting and then passing them [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’ve just learned that my short story “Peter, Peter” will be appearing in the fourth annual collection of works from The Three-Lobed Burning Eye. The collection is a 180-page limited-run trade paperback, available in black-and-white or color, that contains 3LBE editor Andrew S. Fuller’s choice of stories from 2003-2005. The annual will be available by [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A quick rundown on my reading this last week: The Stranger by Max Frei is an international bestseller, a Russian fantasy translated into English by Polly Gannon. In this hefty but easy-going novel, the first of a series, a rather diurnally challenged man named Max from our world wanders through a fantastical city in his [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m not sure there was much point in doing it, but for what it’s worth, you can now find me quickly on Facebook by going to http://www.facebook.com/drupagliassotti. I wanted to just have “dru,” but FB usernames must be a minimum of 5 characters long. Of course, you still need to have your own Facebook account [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I keep most of my books in my office, being something of a clutterphobe at home. That includes my boys’ love manga collection. After all, it’s research material! Plus, it’s fun to see some, usually female, students’ eyes light up when they first walk into my office and see these books lined up on my [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I picked up Gears of the City by Felix Gilman because the cover art made it look steampunk and because I’m a sucker for a good city. Gears isn’t steampunk, but it is very much an “eternal city” novel. Gears of the City introduces a curious cast of characters all struggling to pierce the secret [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A quick update on our work on Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: We are currently moving into the final style-editing phase. If you’re one of “my” authors, you should have already received a style edit and a request for a biography, except for M.S., whose manuscript I should be finishing on Monday (edited Monday: done!). [...]
drupagliassotti @ June 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m back and finally ready to post something on this blog again! Sorry that it took me a while to get into gear again… My trip to Germany was sponsored by my Lutheran university’s “Reformation Heritage Seminar,” a semester of lectures and presentations and then nearly two weeks in the former East Germany visiting various [...]