drupagliassotti @ August 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
All hail Jason Nolan, who has cleared out the problems that were causing The Harrow to generate a malware warning in Google! He has fixed the problem — our site wasn’t really putting malware on anyone’s computer, but for some reason some of its code was triggering alerts — so you can now go back [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Cue Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” because I’ve just returned from the post office after sending off the 6.82 lb. box containing the manuscript for Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys’ Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World. If I’ve been a little silent here lately, it’s been a combination of last-minute deadline work on [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
“If you’re lying to me, I’m going to cut out your eyes and cut off your balls. Then I’m going to put your balls in your eye sockets and staple your eyes in your ball sac. So, let me ask you one more time, are you absolutely sure you’re telling me the truth?” (—p. 198) [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 16, 2009 # One Comment
Whew! After what has essentially been a week glued in front of my laptop, I have finally finished the first draft of a Clockwork Heart sequel. I still have plenty of work to do on it, of course. Right now the story is lumpy and awkward and dangling some loose ends, but the hardest part [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m elated to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Feder & Schwert GmbH to publish a German-language edition of Clockwork Heart. Feder & Schwert is a particularly awesome publisher to be associated with because it handles novels by such well-known fantasy writers as Simon Green, Charlaine Harris, and Tanya Huff, among others, and it [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last night I found one of my bedroom windows open and couldn’t remember opening it. This is the second time that’s happened, for the same window; there are two in the bedroom, and I only (to my memory) ever open one of them. Only the glass is open, though, not the screen, which is on [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Over the weekend I read China Miéville’s The City & The City, and once again I’m in awe of his apparently limitless imagination. C&C is a much more understated book than, say, Miéville’s Bas-Lag novels, but its premise is startlingly original. Lit grad students take note — The City & The City is as analytically [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
So, a nasty plague of bot spamming led me, in consultation with my university’s ISS wizards, to decide to nuke the Yaoi Research Wiki from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. We will, I hope, reboot it next week with considerably more restrictions designed to prevent spammers from having their evil way [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 7, 2009 # One Comment
You know what I don’t like? I don’t like character incompetence driving a scene. I mean, okay, if it’s a cringe comedy about a complete klutz, that’s one thing, but in general, I think it’s a sign of weak plotting. Which is why I’m struggling really, really hard to figure out how to write this [...]
drupagliassotti @ August 5, 2009 # One Comment
I just read & enjoyed one of the latest installments in original superhero novels, Black & White by Jackie Kessler & Caitlin Kittredge, and I’m looking forward to its sequel, Shades of Gray. I’ve enjoyed reading about original superheroes since the Wild Cards shared-world series back in the ’80s — well, okay, I quit the [...]