drupagliassotti @ February 12, 2012 # No Comment Yet
For some time I’ve been editing old status updates and other people’s comments off my Facebook wall, on the theory that most of them are meaningless after a few days or weeks … and because I’m uneasy about the fact that all that data is being preserved and mined by marketers to refine their consumer [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 18, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Just in case you hadn’t heard, The Harrow Press’s Day Terrors is now available for Kindle! I love ebooks, myself, so I’m delighted that we can offer our own book in this format, and I’m hoping that we might be able to go back and convert our Midnight Lullabies collection to Kindle, as well. The [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 16, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I just finished a mad writing spree to finish up a short story for Corsets & Clockwork, which I set in an alternative Venice because I’ve been so immersed in preparation for next semester’s Imagining Venice art/communication course. It was a lot of fun developing an alternative city that Napoleon hadn’t conquered, and I did [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It was called to my attention by a writer with a religiously oriented book manuscript that there’s been a book called Sons of Light by John Merrill published under a Harrow Press. That’s not us! In fact, I’m not sure who that is, as my subsequent hunt for “Harrow Press” and “The Harrow Press” didn’t [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“The Harrow Press” is now officially a registered trademark. The lawyer wrote: We received the certificate of US trademark registration number 3,311,359 for THE HARROW PRESS used in association with “on-line publication of electronic books and journals; publication of texts, books, magazines and other printed matter; publishing of electronic publications.” We recommend THE HARROW PRESS [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Horror die-hards like Ramage are confident that whatever the whims of the market, the genre will endure. Horror fans, he said, are looking for two things: “B and B: blood and boobs.” — Ventura County Star, 5/19/07. Greeeaaaat. Because, you know, some of the scariest movies I’ve watched have had so many boobs flashing on [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Verily, in Anno Domini 2/19/07 12:25 PM, the most estimable Susan Marie Groppi, editor of Strange Horizons, quoth: Dru– [...] We rely mainly on reader donations, although two-thirds of our budget is still coming from a very small number of private donors. [...] Verily, in Anno Domini 2/19/07 12:53 PM, the most estimable MRC, fiction [...]