by Hillary DePiano | Jan 18, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I’ve mentioned before how truly awesome it is to be a writer in this digital age and see your fans and readers talking about your book or play in real time. Well, look what I found on Twitter: Talk about a tweet! (I blotted out all the identifying details...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 12, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I don’t have a lot of occasion to look at the Amazon page for The Love of Three Oranges since copies are no longer sold there. When I did happen to glance at it recently (mostly because I was trying to figure out how people get off selling copies for $300+ when...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
I have run into very few celebrities in my life despite the fact that I used to work in entertainment. I’ve actually spoken to still fewer and I can actually think of only a handful that I’ve actually exchanged multiple sentences with. One of these was...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 4, 2012 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, My Writing, Personally...
There’s this weird spam-bot like Twitter account called AdvisorIsIn that just tweets the same messages over and over again (it seems like about once every two days or so it repeats its cycle). I’ve tried writing to “Eve” multiple times but it...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 25, 2012 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 3 of The Love of Three Oranges, the stage directions read: Strike the cauldron. It’s a different part of the forest. Change the lights if you want. Move a log. Go nuts. This is, of course, the least professional stage direction...
by Hillary DePiano | May 8, 2012 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak, best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, passed away today at 83. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that, among his beautiful illustrations and award winning books, he also designed a 1982...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
