by Hillary DePiano | Feb 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, a professor told me that The Author was literary fiction and I’ve stubbornly been categorizing it as that even as I’ve become increasingly unsure that’s where it belongs. What genre the novella is and what Amazon category it belongs...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 9, 2012 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
I just wanted to pop in to show you guys this: Playscripts has been featuring Three Oranges in little Featured Title blocks throughout the site. The amount of support they’ve given this play has been absolutely amazing and this is just another way they’ve...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 7, 2012 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
So, last week on The Whine Seller I wrote a post called Giving the people what they want even when you no longer understand why they want it. This post centered around a product I was refusing to sell, despite the fact that people still wanted to buy it, because I...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 26, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized
It’s pretty darn cold out there right now so it’s hard to remember that Spring is right around the corner. For schools, this means you’ll need to start thinking about your next musical. But money is tight everywhere and musicals can be so...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 17, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I usually just pop onto Goodreads to add whatever I’ve read recently and I don’t always remember to look at my own books which is why it took me so long to notice this review from Katie: A big thank you to Katie for taking the time to write all of that up....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2012 | Living the Writing Life, Uncategorized
Over the summer, I took a playwriting class. One week, for our assignment, I handed in a scene from The Muppet Play which happens to take place in a subway car. The instructor praised this scene as being an unusual setting, one you didn’t often see in plays,...