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Read the original fairy tales to kids? Maybe, but only with historical context.

Read the original fairy tales to kids? Maybe, but only with historical context.

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 20, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Personally...

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein We need to talk about this quote. By all accounts, Einstein was a smart dude (so much so that his name has...
Happy New Year! Quotes about New Year’s Eve from New Year’s Thieve

Happy New Year! Quotes about New Year’s Eve from New Year’s Thieve

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 30, 2014 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, Uncategorized

New Year’s Thieve is currently free on Amazon until January 1st, 2015 and since this is the very last time I’ll be able to offer the eBook for free, I’m trying to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. To that end, I’ve taken some of...
On the unlikely hero of the author blog: the personal post

On the unlikely hero of the author blog: the personal post

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., Uncategorized

I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts...
Did anyone notice my cameo in Writer’s Digest’s NaNoWriMo issue?

Did anyone notice my cameo in Writer’s Digest’s NaNoWriMo issue?

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 24, 2014 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, Me, but Elsewhere, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

One thing we’ve just got to discuss before NaNoWriMo ends is the fact that Writer’s Digest actually did a whole issue devoted to NaNoWriMo. It was even the cover story! The whole issue was packed with tips about writing a novel in a month and support for...
In which I have not one, but two new books releasing this fall

In which I have not one, but two new books releasing this fall

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 29, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing

Sometimes I make poor life decisions. Sometimes I do dumb things like stay up all night reading when I know perfectly well the baby will be up before dawn. Or I go to the bank without to bringing the check I needed to cash. Or I completely forget that my wedding...
The Green Bird and the specter of Julie Taymor’s Broadway production

The Green Bird and the specter of Julie Taymor’s Broadway production

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 9, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized

I started an adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird* back in 2002 but abandoned it… only to pick the project back up again this year. There are three big reasons why I walked away and ultimately came back to this play and I’m going to devote a...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.

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