New Year's Thieve Archives - Hillary DePiano

“You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.” -Hillary DePiano, New Year’s Thieve

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Jan 4, 2016 in Evergreen, New Year's Thieve | 0 comments

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 everywhere… and if you’re at all familiar with the internet, you know what happened...

A Tale of Two Murder Mysteries

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Nov 17, 2015 in Murder Mystery Play, New Year's Thieve | 0 comments

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 who Frosty the Coat Rack was… but not what he was going to do in the story. I...

School friendly TYA plays by Hillary DePiano, a guide for drama teachers and other theatre educators

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Aug 27, 2015 in 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 | 0 comments

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 everything I have available right now that can work with student actors from middle school to...

Here’s how to get 50-100% off my books & plays (including the pre-order of The Green Bird)

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Jul 30, 2015 in Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Daddy Issues, eBay Marketing Makeover, New Year's Thieve, Sell Their Stuff, The Author, The Green Bird | 0 comments

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 advantage before time runs out! Promo codes and exactly what’s for sale are...

On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Apr 28, 2015 in Daddy Issues, New Year's Thieve, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting, Polar Twilight, The Love of Three Oranges | 8 comments

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 ton of productions and then publishers came to me so I had my pick of offers and that there...

Win eBook copies of all my books and plays in this giveaway!

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Feb 3, 2015 in 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 | 0 comments

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 to get real with a lot of things, building a mailing list being one of them. I would...