by Hillary DePiano | Jan 4, 2016 | Evergreen, New Year's Thieve
I had some experience with a quote from The Love of Three Oranges going somewhat viral a few years ago but it was nothing like what happened with this line from my play, New Year’s Thieve. Shortly after the play was released last year, I was seeing it...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 17, 2015 | Murder Mystery Play, New Year's Thieve
A few years ago, I was obsessed with the question: What would happen if Frosty’s magic hat had been put atop something other than a snowman? What if you put it on a coat rack? Would that come to life? I started writing a play about it with a very clear idea of...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 27, 2015 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Evergreen, New Year's Thieve, Playwriting, Polar Twilight, The Green Bird, The Love of Three Oranges, Three Padded Walls, Weak Days
The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here’s a quick overview of...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2015 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Daddy Issues, eBay Marketing Makeover, New Year's Thieve, Sell Their Stuff, The Author, The Green Bird
Who doesn’t like free books? There’s a 50-100% discount on a bunch of my books and plays going on as part of Smashwords’ big sale and I realized I never publicized it over here. The sale only runs until the end of July so get over there now and take...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 28, 2015 | Daddy Issues, New Year's Thieve, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting, Polar Twilight, The Love of Three Oranges
Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 3, 2015 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Daddy Issues, My Writing, New Year's Thieve, Polar Twilight, Published, Sell Their Stuff, The Author, The Love of Three Oranges, The Seller Ledger
I set up a mailing list a long time ago but I’ve never really pushed it here on the blog for a variety of reasons not worth going into. But exciting thing are happening at Burger King, as they say (OK, fine, no one but me says that but still) and it’s time...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
It's New Year's Eve at the North Pole and Time is not on their side. 
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
Should you write by hand? Handwriting pros and cons
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