drupagliassotti @ September 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Just a very quick update — the book is with McFarland’s publishing team, and we’re currently working on making sure figure quality is high and all permissions are watertight. I’ve been corresponding with various authors as necessary to confirm information or request re-scanned images; if you haven’t heard anything from any of us, that’s good [...]
drupagliassotti @ September 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Fantasy author Jim Hines just wrote a great post on his blog about Publish America and its new Twitter-based marketing. He compellingly argues, as do many others, that Publish America is really a vanity (aka subsidy) press; that is, that being published by Publish America is more or less equivalent to being self-published, rather than [...]
drupagliassotti @ September 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I know, I know. I should be revising my Clockwork Heart sequel. But on Friday, while I was driving, I was struck by a vivid image of how I could rewrite King’s Monster to bring in some of my favorite elements of several other unpublished novels and short stories I’ve written to make the story’s [...]
drupagliassotti @ September 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last month we had to nuke the Yaoi Research Wiki in order to reboot it in spam-free form, so I’m happy to report that the wiki is now online again. I didn’t bother reproducing all the book project pages, since we’ve now sent Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys off to the publisher, thus ending the [...]
drupagliassotti @ September 1, 2009 # 2 Comments
A guest post by Heather Massey over at Dear Author is titled “The Case for Steampunk Romance“: Steampunk romance is a subgenre that’s ripe for exploring. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened before now to any great degree. While steampunk-as-argument generally explores many dark themes in the science fiction arena, it’s the Edisonade components of the [...]