drupagliassotti @ September 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of my friends passed along this link from Fantasy Magazine: Stephen H. Segal’s guest column on “Five Thoughts on the Popularity of Steampunk.” It’s amusing and right on target!
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drupagliassotti @ September 20, 2008 # One Comment
Today I put on a hat I haven’t worn for a while — worldbuilder — and started mapping out the continent in which Clockwork Heart is set. In the first book it didn’t matter too much where all the countries were in relation to each other, but in the second, which I hope to start […]
drupagliassotti @ September 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Marjorie Taylor’s team interviewed fifty fiction writers, ranging from an award-winning novelist to scribblers who had never been published, and found that forty-six had invented characters who had subsequently taken over the job of composing their life stories. Some of them also resisted their creators’ attempts to control the narrative. Some fictional folk wandered around […]
drupagliassotti @ September 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Cry Wolf: A Political Fable is being embraced by some reviewers as the book every conservative must read. It decries immigration, multiculturalism, globalism, and judicial activism, and promotes nationalism and isolationism.
The novel is being compared to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, because both use animals and a farm as their setup. This is an overly simplistic […]
drupagliassotti @ September 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
How much of what you own is kept because you like the idea of owning it? And why do you feel that way?
J.D., over at Get Rich Slowly, has been posting a series of articles describing his reactions to cleaning up his mother’s house for her during and after her serious illness — a series […]
drupagliassotti @ September 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Fantasy author Jim Hines wrote about advances and sales over on his blog — I thought it was a useful post, because people keep asking me how Clockwork Heart is doing, and I can’t answer because I don’t have any access to sales records.
I’ve been mulling over money today because this morning I spent about […]