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Call for Stories: Day Terrors

drupagliassotti @ October 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet

I’ve just posted The Harrow Press’s call for stories! Take a look! Day Terrors will be The Harrow Press’s second print-on-demand anthology (the first was Midnight Lullabies) and The Harrow staff’s third (Fear of the Unknown was compiled and edited by The Harrow but published through Echelon Press). …And in the meantime, I am spending [...]

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The Harrow Press

drupagliassotti @ October 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The Harrow Press now has its own website … and we’ll be posting a call for submissions in it on Halloween! Kfir Luzzatto and I will be the new project’s editors — Kfir spearheaded both our Fear of the Unknown and Midnight Lullabies collections, and he’s ready to do it again! So keep  your eyes [...]

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Trying New Things

drupagliassotti @ October 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet

This seems to be my month to do new things. I didn’t plan it that way, but that’s how it’s turned out. (1) I got rid of a bunch of old furniture, tableware, and artwork that no longer felt like a good fit. Some of it has been replaced with new stuff; some, not. (2) [...]

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The Perils of Search & Replace

drupagliassotti @ October 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Last night’s writing lesson: When one decides to change “king” to “rai” whilst un-Europeanizing one’s novel, one should specify “whole word only” in one’s Search & Replace box. Or else one gets a novel full of words like marai, worrai, attacrai, thinrai…..

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Writing Update: Immersed in Dinosauria

drupagliassotti @ October 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet

When I’ve not been immersed in teaching, grading, or committee meetings, I’ve been, primarily, huddled in a fetal ball on the sofa, snatching a few hours of escapism in cheesy supermarket paperbacks or DVDs of the last season of Heroes and House, MD. But, every once in a while, I’ve managed to muster enough energy [...]

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Steampunk Aesthetic in AICP Sponsor Reel

drupagliassotti @ October 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The short sponsor reel for the Minneapolis screening of the AICP Show: The Art and Technique of the American Commercial demonstrates a charming steampunk aesthetic.  Developed by broadcast design, effects, and animation studio motion504, the spinning typographic wheels and mechanisms in this piece will make you itch to take apart an old-fashioned typewriter and reassemble [...]

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