drupagliassotti @ December 14, 2011 # No Comment Yet
In the midst of all my finals grading, a fun project has appeared — writing out the pronunciations for about 54 words, places, and names used in Clockwork Heart, to help in the recording of the Brilliance Audio book, which begins later this month. Yay! This is another first for me, and I’m enjoying the [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 27, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Well, done with the 50,000 words challenge, anyway; Imprimatur itself is still about three to five chapters away from completion, I suspect. I’ll keep working on it, but at least today’s sprint for the finish line will allow me to grade papers tomorrow secure in the knowledge that there’s no imminent deadline hanging over me. [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 24, 2011 # No Comment Yet
A little bit more…. Jay abandoned his search and walked to the end of the row, turning to look up the next. Bishop was standing there, clutching his cane in one hand and his lamp in the other, not moving. He looked up as Jay raised his lamp. His hair was a shock of white [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 18, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Alas, attending a communication conference in New Orleans isn’t very conducive to writing! However, I managed to crank out almost 4,000 words on the airplane ride on the way over, so I’m not feeling completely panicked. That puts me just over 50 percent, which is about right for mid-month. I’d prefer to have more padding, [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 6, 2011 # No Comment Yet
A snippet from today’s work. Rough. Raw. Destined to be revised someday. He didn’t think Whitsun would lie to him [...]; not with the bruises from Harold’s fingers still dark around his neck. Every once in a while, when the textjacker turned just right, Bishop glimpsed a flash of bruised flesh beneath the starched white [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 4, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Another excerpt from the ongoing project. Remember, raw text, first draft! “Got any idea how many there were?” Bishop asked, prodding with his walking stick at a lump of something jammed between the sewer wall and the access ladder. It fell with a wet splat onto the walkway. “It would be easier if we could [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 3, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I ignored the grading I had left over from last week — hey, they were optional midterm design revisions, so there’s no urgency, right, students? — in order to buckle down and get some writing done, and I managed to knock out a few thousand words, which may be one of my best early [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 30, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Because it beats grading….
drupagliassotti @ August 24, 2011 # No Comment Yet
The audiobook version of Clockwork Heart, from Brilliance Audio, is available for preorder on Amazon.Com. It’s scheduled to be released on Thursday, March 15, 2012, according to my trusty sources online….
drupagliassotti @ August 23, 2011 # One Comment
The manuscript for the Clockwork Heart sequel is back in my agent’s hands, after the summer’s revision! I’m also gearing up for National Novel Writing Month, which will be upon us in November. I’ve been tinkering around on Imprimatur, a male/male steampunk romance, for a while now, and I think it’s time to make it [...]