drupagliassotti @ August 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Ah, August, when the days grow sultry and professors start to panic….
I’ve spent the last few days copyediting a handful of manuscripts for a conference issue of a journal that I’m guest-editing. I wanted to get that step out of the way before the new semester, so I could concentrate on syllabus-writing and lecture-revising. Today, […]
drupagliassotti @ August 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hooray! Just days after getting the good news that Holy Horrors has been revived and my short story “Waters Dark as a Raven’s Wing, Flames Bright as a Dove’s Breast” may see the light of day after all, I just received an email saying that Hardboiled Horror is finally underway from Notorious Press. Editor Jim […]
drupagliassotti @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sorry for the silence; I was off in Austin visiting some friends last week! And there’s some good news in my emailbox….
I’ve just heard that my short story “Pan de los Muertos” will be reprinted in Electrik Milk Bath Press’s upcoming Dia de los Muertos anthology. It originally appeared in Strange Horizons several years ago. […]
drupagliassotti @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
On Friday I realized I needed to add a more significant scene wherein King’s Monster character Corbin faces up to the changes he’s going through. So after a weekend of grappling with possibilities, I’ve decided to add a chapter between the current chapter 24 & 25. And here I’ve been worrying about how long the […]
drupagliassotti @ July 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Whew. I’ve finished Version 4, Draft 1 of The King’s Monster at last! And I think this version will finally work; it’s much grittier and less fantastic than the earlier versions, but it hangs together better (no pun intended).
However, now it’s time to start scouring out the rough spots, checking for plot holes, and furnishing […]
drupagliassotti @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m working on the end of King’s Monster, and I need some information on raising and lowering chandeliers. Along the way I ran into this video on cleaning a two-ton chandelier in Pittsburgh. I still haven’t found any useful information on medievalesque mechanisms for raising and lowering heavy light fixtures, but I enjoyed taking a […]
drupagliassotti @ July 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ve mentioned my writing whiteboard a couple of times, so I thought I’d go ahead and post an image in case any of you might want to use one.
I live in a one-bedroom apartment, so I write on one side of my dining room table and eat on the other. This is the writing side. […]
drupagliassotti @ June 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ve mentioned King’s Monster (working title) a few times here, but I haven’t talked much about it. I’m now — I deeply, sincerely hope — about two and a half chapters away from its end, so I thought I’d discuss it a little.
KM is a dark political fantasy that I’ve been working on for quite […]
drupagliassotti @ June 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“I have very happy hair. No matter how serene and composed the rest of me is, no matter how grave and formal the situation, my hair is always having a party.”
— Bill Bryson, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, p. 31.
That paragraph is, quite simply, brilliant. I will never in my life write or say […]
drupagliassotti @ June 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I went to an author event at the local library tonight that featured Denise Hamilton and Jim Pascoe discussing the collection Los Angeles Noir (I’ve read most of the [Insert City Here] Noir collections, including that one) and writing in general. Although some of the Noir collections are less compelling than others (Toronto Noir just […]