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Australian Researcher Comments on Prohibitive New Law

drupagliassotti @ January 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Mark McLelland, an Australian professor whose name is well-known to boys’ love scholars and fans, has written a guest article about the new Australian internet-filter law at fandom researcher Henry Jenkin’s blog, Confessions of an Aca/Fan. Check out McLelland’s article “Will New Law Block Many Slash, Anima, Manga Sites in Australia?” for a criticism of [...]

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Editing On Paper

drupagliassotti @ January 25, 2010 # One Comment

I can revise a novel over and over and over again on-screen, and it never makes any difference. When I finally print it out, around revision two or three, and go over it on paper, I invariably see dozens of places on each page where I can tighten prose, fix dialog, and clarify points. I’m [...]

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“The Manufactory” On Audio

drupagliassotti @ January 22, 2010 # No Comment Yet

My dark-steampunkish story “The Manufactory” is now available from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on audio! Check it out — just click on the “audio MP3″ link by the story title, or choose to go directly to the audio. Voice actor & fellow author T.D. Edge is utterly perfect as the voice of the story’s graverobbing narrator. [...]

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Male/Male Romance Novels in the News

drupagliassotti @ January 4, 2010 # 4 Comments

My chapter in our upcoming boys’ love anthology compares heterosexual to male/male romances, and as I’ve written here before, I’ve been thinking about turning my research attentions away from yaoi and toward the new genre of original, English-language, female-authored male/male romance novels. Lo, yesterday a friend sent me this link to an article in the [...]

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