drupagliassotti @ November 25, 2009 # 2 Comments
Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. Their Sex and the City is a television show called Otomen, or Girly Guys. The lead character is a martial arts expert, the manliest guy in the whole school. But his [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
My dark-steampunk story “The Manufactory” is now available at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, in an issue with an absolutely gorgeous airship cover that I’m lusting after. I have shamelessly purloined a snippet of the cover as the illo to this post, for which I apologize to artist Myke Amend. Go visit his site to see some [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2009 # 2 Comments
Wicked Gentlemen Ginn Hale 2007, Blind Eye Books Wicked Gentlemen is a dark and lush gaslamp fantasy set in the Victorianesque city of Crowncross, where the Covenant of Redemption brought Ashmedai, Sariel, and Satanel up from hell to experience baptism and the Great Conversion. Now the demonic offspring of hell’s great princes, the Prodigals, dwell [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 11, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I just ran across this interesting Victorian house on wheels over at the Neverwas Times and thought it had a number of interesting steampunk implications … with an emphasis on the political punk. The image called to my mind China Mieveille’s novel Iron Council, in which a perpetual train becomes the base for a nomadic [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 8, 2009 # No Comment Yet
For the first time in many years, I’ve decided to sit out National Novel Writing Month. My apologies to anyone who was hoping to keep up on my progress this year! I love NaNoWriMo — in fact, both of my novels, Clockwork Heart and An Agreement with Hell, were originally NaNovels, and the CH [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet
So, I haven’t posted anything about last weekend’s Yaoi-Con, mostly because I’ve been incredibly busy since my return. But here are a few highlights that I thought I should mention here: (1) I took this photo of steampunk cosplayer Emily’s great costume. OK, it’s not yaoi, but hey, you know I had to photograph her [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I apologize for all broken links! This site has moved, and everything shattered; my attempt to duplicate the blog in two different places in order to retain the original links for archival purposes hasn’t worked. To update your links, replace the ashenwings.com/marks/ in any links with drupagliassotti.com/ and leave the rest of the URL intact. [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 2, 2009 # 5 Comments
Our yaoi book has a new title and a tentative cover that I can’t reveal in its entirety because the art is still under negotiation. If we get permission to use it, however, I promise it’ll be one of the most eye-catching covers for an academic book that you’ve ever seen! Our table of contents [...]