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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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Our Boys’ Love Manga Book is Available for Pre-Order!

drupagliassotti @ January 26, 2010 # No Comment Yet

I just received McFarland’s spring catalog in the mail, and our book is listed! Here’s the catalog copy and a rare chance to see the cover, because the cover art hasn’t yet been uploaded to other places on the web yet.  Hmmm, does the art look familiar to any of you BL fans?  If you [...]

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Editing On Paper

drupagliassotti @ January 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet

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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Talk About Steampunk With Us at Romance Divas!

drupagliassotti @ January 20, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Come join the discussion!  

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Australian Anime, Manga & Slash Fans May Run Afoul of Law

drupagliassotti @ January 18, 2010 # One Comment

As a boys’ love scholar, I’ve heard a lot of about this legislation, especially when I was down at the University of Wollongong in 2008 for a conference on Japanese fandoms with an emphasis on BL. A fellow scholar just sent me the link that follows. I’m sympathetic to the desire to wipe out the [...]

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My Writing Space

drupagliassotti @ January 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet

I have no idea why my writing space is so tightly crammed in a corner. Either my little loft-office has freakish feng shui or it’s just me that’s freakish. Hmm. The more I look at this photo, the more I think that it’s probably the latter. But it’s the corner that feels most comfortable…. The [...]

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Steampunk at Romance Divas

drupagliassotti @ January 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Hope to see you there!

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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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Happy New Year!

drupagliassotti @ January 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Happy 2010, everybody! This was the evening (pre-fireworks) view from our balcony at the suite at the Grand Californian, next to Disney’s California Adventures, where I spent New Year’s Eve with some college/gaming friends and their kids. Now I am sitting in bed waiting for said friends to rouse and/or for the Rose Parade to [...]

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