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Unleashed

drupagliassotti @ February 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Rent Unleashed if you haven’t seen it already! Jet Li, Bob Hoskins, and Morgan Freeman. I really enjoyed it. Of course, I have a weakness for stories about killers trying to do right….

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Galvanics Rejected

drupagliassotti @ February 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Strange Horizons just turned down my story, “Galvanics”: “This is intelligently written and I like the shape of the story, but I’m afraid the unrelenting grimness flattened it somewhat for me.”

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Personality

drupagliassotti @ February 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Since Jo  posted the link to the personality test, I went ahead and took it and found that this time I scored as a “Mastermind Rational” INTJ personality. In the past I’ve scored as an “Inspector Guardian” ISTJ personality.
Either way, I get labeled as introverted, thinking (which means I’m more tough-minded/cold/reserved than friendly/warm/dramatic), and judging […]

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Reader Donations & Webzines: A Horror Story

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 editor […]

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Lewrie, Prodigal, Greywalker, Working for Devil, Cruel Wind,

drupagliassotti @ February 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Whew, spent a long day Harrowing (as opposed to a harrowingly long day) and now I need a change of pace. So, um, I’ll blog about … uh, fiction…. (and how is that a change of pace?).
I finally finished up the Alan Lewrie naval series; Lewrie isn’t the noble seaman that Horatio Hornblower was and […]

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Pitch Black Folds

drupagliassotti @ February 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Publisher Pitch Black is folding, which is a double whammy, since it means my story “Night Shift,” which I’d submitted to them back in July 2006, is at liberty again, and their anthology Magic and Mechanica, for which and I have been cowriting a story, has collapsed. Oh, well; I’ll send “Night Shift” someplace […]

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Surreal Magazine

drupagliassotti @ February 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet

For more on the Surreal Magazine/Cavern Press scandal, and my decision regarding the story I sent to it, see the Shadow Regions anthology blog.

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The Harrow Press

drupagliassotti @ February 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet

With the help of lawyer Kfir Luzzatto and his U.S. contact Kevin McCarthy of New York’s Roach Brown McCarthy & Gruber, The Harrow has now submitted the application to register The Harrow Press as a trademark, International Class 041.
This is very exciting to me because it’s part of our 2007 push to take The Harrow […]

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