drupagliassotti @ July 31, 2009 # 2 Comments
I managed to convey my characters to their destination yesterday, thanks to the wonders of the web, although they’ve yet to slip out to look around. Honestly, how did writers manage before all the information in the world was at their fingertips? A little research on variable-gauge axles and rail gauge changing facilities gave me [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 30, 2009 # 2 Comments
Last weekend I managed to put in another 10K on my Clockwork Heart sequel, although some of it was hard-won. I was having trouble with the fact that locomotives need to stop periodically to replenish their coal and water — and a stop was going to give my characters a very good chance of escaping, [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
We’ve had to push back our deadline to get Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys to the publisher from July 31 to August 31; a couple of essays still need some editorial work.
drupagliassotti @ July 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about simplicity, although I haven’t stopped reading or practicing it. Thus, I was delighted to discover three books in the library earlier this week about simplifying one’s life. Enough Already: Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You by Peter Walsh is the latest in the organizational expert’s [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
My favorite find in the library this week is The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers, by Bryan Christy. My mother used to catch snakes in the back yard of our house in Missouri and bring them to my sister and me to pet and maybe keep for [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 17, 2009 # 2 Comments
Liviu at Fantasy Book Critic has just posted a notice about my sale of An Agreement with Hell. Thank you for your kind words about Clockwork Heart, too! I hope reviewers will enjoy Agreement. It’s very different from CH, so I’m a little concerned that some will go to it expecting a romantic fantasy and [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In my essay about steampunk and politics, I noted, “Steampunk’s Victorian aesthetic links it, rather unfortunately, to the colonialist British Empire, with all the racism and oppression it embodied,” a linkage that I thought had been underexplored by the steampunk subculture. I’m delighted to learn that at least two thoughtful steampunk essayists are addressing these [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 12, 2009 # One Comment
“We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.” (—Isaiah 28:15) It’s official: Apex Book Company will be publishing my second novel, An Agreement with Hell. An Agreement with Hell is contemporary horror, and it includes a few of my favorite things: Christian folklore and apocrypha, chaos theory, labyrinths, and [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 10, 2009 # 3 Comments
I haven’t seen Humpday, but reading the New York Times commentary on the movie gave me pause for thought. “To guys everywhere: “Humpday” has your number. With X-ray vision, this serious indie comedy, written and directed by Lynn Shelton, sees through its male characters’ macho pretensions to contemplate the underlying forces hard-wired into men’s psyches [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to Jaime for sending this one to me! Yes, I believe I am the only professor in this university to have a signed photo of Spike pinned to my office corkboard, so my eyes can wander to it from my laptop whenever I pause…. From io9: “Convinced that the idea of Buffy’s vamp beaus, [...]